Archive for September, 2005

Giant Pink Bunny.

The Viennese art group Gelatin designed a 200-foot-long toy rabbit on the side of the Colletto Fava mountain in Italy. From the website: "Gelatin members say the bunny is not just for walking around – they are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly." Link

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Rock Climbing Robot.

Lemur IIb is a rock-climbing robot developed by NASA for martian mountains. It climbs by gripping with three legs and feeling for a place to grip with the fourth. Link (via The Raw Feed)

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Cheese Drum.

Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of real cheese. Link

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Walking Sticks Kung Fu.

E.W. Barton-Wright took a martial arts system of fighting with walking sticks developed by a Swiss professor of arms, M. Vigny, and assimilated it into a his own system called "Bartitsu". For real! It was published in the Journal of Non-Lethal Combatives. Link

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Keyboard Bag.

João Sabino is a young designer from Portugal who made this wonderful keyboard bag. Link (via Core77)

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Robot Arm Controlled by Thought Alone.

University of Pittsburgh scientists have developed a robotic arm that can be controlled by thought alone. Human trials to begin soon. Link

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Water Sculpture.

Liquid sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, then photographing these forms, which last only a few thousands of a second. Very cool photos. Link

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Puppy Swallowed 13-in. Knife, Survived.

Vetenarian Jon-Paul Carew successfully removed a 13-inch serrated knife from the belly of Elsie, a 6-month old Saint Bernard puppy who swallowed it. Link (via Attu Sees All)

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Zombie Dogs Brought Back to Life.

Pittsburth’s Safar Center for Resuscitation Research (huh?) scientists have successfully revived dogs after clinical death (i.e. no heartbeat, no brain activity). The scientsts developed technique that drained the dogs veins of blood and filled with ice-cold salt solution. Three hours later, they replaced the blood and the zombie dogs are brought back to life by an electric shock. The scientists hope to develop the technique further for use in humans. Link

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Scar is the New Tattoo.

Blair is a world renowned branding a scarification (apparently there is such a word) artist. For more of his works, see Link

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Stefnisson’s Northern Lights.

Sigurdur Stefnisson of Iceland took amazing photos of northern lights or auroras.

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Fun with Post-It Notes.

Mark Sinclair draws on Post-It notes and then scans the work for your viewing pleasure. The result? The Post It Theater.

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Mark Ryden’s Art.

Mark Ryden’s wonderful artworks are not to be missed. See some of his works here:Wondertoonel

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Lynch’s Irreverent, Funny Songs.

Stephen Lynch plays his guitar and sings hilarious songs a lá Adam Sandler. Link Not to be missed: What If That Guy from Smashing Pumkins Lost His Car Keys? Love Song

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Lord of the Rings Furniture.

If you’re a diehard fan of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, then you’d want Ross Howard and Jon Broberg’s amazingly crafted Middle Earth Furnitures. Link

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A New McHottie.

From the website: "The McMarketing campaign in Japan replaces the traditional baggy-pants male clown with a sexy, bikini-clad woman." Weird… Link

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Hidden Da Vinci Images: A New Code?

Maurizio Seracini has been working for 4 years to uncover hidden images in The Adoration of the Magi, painted by Da Vinci in the late 1400s. Link (via Aberrant News)

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How Does This Work Again?

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Aya Kato’s Art.

Aya Kato is a freelance illustrator in Japan, who draws wonderfully complex and intricate artworks. Link

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Minchi’s Psychedelic Art.

Minchi’s a japanese artist who draws – as you can already see – interesting artwork. Link

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Paper Taj Mahal.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love constructed in the 1600s in Agra, India. It’s actually a mausoleum for Mumtaz Mahal, the favorite wife of Shah Jahan. The real Taj was built with white marble and inlaid with semi-precious stone and mosaic work. You can, however, make your own paper Taj Mahal (and other cool things) at Harold Gregg Jr’s PaperToys site.

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Why Women Live Longer.

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Kung Fu Robot.

"Huitong", a Chinese-made martial arts robot can see, talk, feel force, and also has a sense of balance. It can perform tai chi and saberplay, and of course, kick all of our sorry butts. Link

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Now This is Balloon Art.

For more balloon creations, see Balloon HQ.

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Waiter, There’s a Fly in My Urinal.

In the men’s room in Amsterdam’s Schiphol International Airport, every urinals have a fly in it – It turns out that the "fly" is not real, it’s etched into the porcelain. Why? Because men automatically use it as a target and this reduces spillage by 80%! They even positioned the fly perfectly to minimize splashback.

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Panoramas.

Scott Haefner does kite aerial photography. He suspended a camera from a kite and took images shot with a circular fisheye lens. The result? Amazing 360 panoramas you have to see. Scott’s Panoramas If you like that, also checkout: Panoramas by Denis Gliksman | Steve Morton | Panoramas.dk (especially the Eiffel tower) | Panoguide Gallery

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Beetle Sex.

It’s a mating orgy of Japanese Beetle. Notice the voyeur on the left For amazing bug collection, or if you ever found a weird bug in your yard: Link

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Not Your Mom’s Romance Novels.

For more funny re-imagined romance novel covers, see: Mark Longmire Does Romance Novels.

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Where Do You Work Again?

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Silberberg’s Air Sickness Bag Museum.

It’s formally called the "Emesis Bag", but we call it the Space Shuttle Barf Bag. It’s part of a giant collection by Steven Silberberg, the curator of the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum. For other great vomit bag designs, see Virgin Atlantic’s Designed for Chunks competition:

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