Archive for July 7th, 2007
Disappearing Act.
The fun things you can do with video these days… Push play or go to YouTube. -via Old Horsetail Snake
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"Walking Family" of Tables by Alessandro Loschiavo.
Designer Alessandro Loschiavo created this awesome set of "walking" tables, called "Walking Family": Link – via Elmanco
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NEL's Dog Bookshelf.
Design group NEL created this cute dog bookshelf:
… these pieces are based roughly on the shape of a dog, in different sizes and positions. These characters, named after famous Mexican wrestlers (Dos caras Jr, Aguayo, Superastro, El Santo, Alushe and Mistico) follow you around your house or office, and may work as a side table, stool, bench, bookshelf, magazine rack, newspaper holder, bookends, etc. By the way each piece is used, and the objects that interact with it, a different story is told.
Link – via Think.BigChief
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Nina Katchadourian's Mended Spiderwebs.
In her series "Mended Spiderweb," Artist Nina Katchadourian used red sewing thread to "fix" broken spider webs!
Previously on Neatorama: Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books
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Animated, Musical Resume.
When he was looking for a new job, Alexandre Guéniot decided to "sing" his animated resume.
Link [Flash]- Thanks Chris!
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"Women in Art" ID'd.
Remember that beautiful morphing video called Women in Art? Here’s a website that identifies all the faces.
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Toba Schmoba!
As Nature reports, these guys were tough:
A stash of ancient tools in India hints that life carried on as usual for humans living in the fall-out of a massive volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. Michael Petraglia, from the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues found the stone tools at a site called Jwalapuram, in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, above and below a thick layer of ash from the eruption of the Toba volcano in Indonesia — an event known as the Youngest Toba Tuff eruption. The tools from each layer were remarkably similar, and Petraglia says that this shows that the huge dust clouds from the eruption didn’t wipe out the population of tool-using people. "Whoever was there seems to have persisted through the eruption," he says. This is the first archaeological evidence associated with the Toba super eruption, says Petraglia, and it contradicts theories that the eruption had a catastrophic effect on the area that its ash blanketed.
The image, from the Cambridge Geography department, shows the massive white layer of ash from the super eruption.
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Four-Year-Old Calls 911: It's a Math Emergency!
Four-year-old Johnny decided to call 911 when he needed help with his math homework! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via VideoSift and AQFL
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Staring Down Supercow's Butt.
Yesterday, Anita put up a post on Wendy, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of whippets, which got that way because of a rare genetic mutation.
Here’s a similar phenomenon in cows, in a breed called the Belgian Blue. The photo above is from Yann Arthus-Bertrand (who was actually featured in Neatorama before).
More Supercow photos: Link
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The Human Footprint.
The documentary Human Footprint compiled hundreds of statistics of what an average human being in the Western world will consume/do in his lifetime:
The array of statistics, which includes how much the average person will eat, spend, love, shop, travel and waste, was the brainchild of Nick Watts, the programme’s producer, who came up with the idea three years ago while having a pint of beer in a pub.
He said: "I was thinking to myself how full a swimming pool would become if I tipped into it all the beer I drank in a lifetime."
Mr Watts and his team spent the next two years compiling hundreds of statistics and then came up with ways of visualising them, including a Hansel and Gretel house built with 10,000 bars of chocolate and more than 15,000 pints of "milk" (water and powder paint) left on a doorstep. [...]
He said the statistic that surprised him the most was that each person smokes, on average, 77,000 cigarettes.
The show takes viewers on a journey from babyhood, when we get through 3,796 nappies and produce 254 litres of urine, through to old age and death, by which time we will have eaten 10,866 carrots, taken 7,163 baths and passed wind an average of 15 times a day.
To promote the show, Watts laid out 74,802 cups of tea, the amount an average person drinks in a lifetime, in Traflagar square:
Link: The Human Footprint | Story from Telegraph | Cups of tea from the Daily Mail
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Geek Quotes.
The Board of Wisdom has a neat collection of geek quotes and sayings, for example:
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0
Microsoft: "You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips."
I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code
The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it’s twice as big as it needs to be.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Link – via Dion’s Random Ramblings (Image from Kaosb [Flickr])
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Metric Schmetric: We Will Resist!
What do USA, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common? They’re the only three countries in the whole world that do not use the metric system [wiki] – via Found on the Web!
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Mona Lisa When She Thinks No One is Watching.
What do you think all those paintings in the Louvre do when the tourists go home?
It’s quite surprising to see what Mona Lisa does when she thinks no one is watching!
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Live Earth Concerts.
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms – TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.
Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.
To watch Live Earth performances from New York, London, Johannesburg, Rio, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, and Hamburg, click here. I hope you have better luck with it than I did; I only have a very old version of Internet Explorer, which is required for live viewing. Other browsers can choose videos by city. You can also watch various venues on TV. Link
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Hello Kitty Luxury Doghouse.
Sanrio has come up with a Hello Kitty doghouse which will be on sale in Japan later this month at 3.9 million yen ($31,660).
The one-of-a-kind fancy residence, large enough for a lapdog like a Chihuahua or terrier, is decorated with 7,600 crystal beads and has a pillow in the shape of Hello Kitty’s face, Sanrio Co., the company behind the feline character, said in a statement Friday.
The luxury product was created especially for a sales event at a Tokyo department store and designed in collaboration with a maker of high-end pet goods, it said.
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Des chatons s'amusent avec du papier toilette.
These kittens know an opportunity for fun when they see it! -via Arbroath
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Human Pixels.
Yesterday’s post Samsung Dance featured people as pixel art, but this “art form†is by no means new. Dark Roasted Blend has a retrospective gallery of human pixel art going back to 1918. Some photos contain frontal nudity from a distance. Link -via Dump Trumpet
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Ready, Set, Bumbo!
A stop-motion video of a baby and her magic teleporting chair! Push play or go to YouTube. This is the second video in a trilogy; the previous episode is here. The third part is yet to come. -via Everlasting Blort
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