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Take one old globe and an easy wiring job and what do you get? Awesomeness. I’m trying to figure out where I can put these in my house… and if I’m smart enough to make them. Any time I try to make something, it never turns out the way it was in my head.
Craftster user slone2601 is a genius.
(image credit: Luiza)
Photo: Carlo Rossi’s JugSimple
That’s the Cabernet Couch, made from 33 empty Cabernet jugs and vintage corduroy futon mattress for the winemaker Carlo Rossi.
In what can only be called a strange yet utterly fascinating effort to turn the image of wine jugs from being associated with drunk winos into haute couture, Carlo Rossi also has the Chardonnay Chandelier ("jug count: 33"), Burgundy Bookshelf (jug count: 28), Paisano Plasma TV Stand, and more.
Link: Cabernet Couch – via Chair Blog (which btw, is ALL about chairs!)
Some of the funnest Flash games are the simplest – and this game Switch is no different: all you have to do is collect the balls of the same color, then switch over (by clicking your mouse) to collect balls of the other color.
Sounds easy, right? Well, it is … for a while: Link – via FAZED
Photo: icarus-arts.com
I Lol’d heartily at these series of cute pics of the Guinea Pig Olympics (Olympigs?). From The Guinea Pig Games Calendar 2009 by Icarus Arts:
renowned ‘ard-man, Squeakers "Knockout" Thompson, caused outrage four years ago when he not only bit the ear off of his competitor, Jimmy Nibbles, but ate his babies too
The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim.
- Vice Admiral William "Spike" Blandy
That’s "Atomic Playboy" Vice Admiral William "Spike" Blandy, his wife (in the matching hat!), and Rear Admiral F.J. Lowry, celebrating the end of Operation Crossroads in 1946 with an ominously shaped cake. The photograph, titled "Atomic Age Angel Food" drew heavy criticism from around the world, presumably not because it wasn’t delicious.
Operation Crossroads [wiki] was a series of nuclear weapon tests, conducted by the United States in the Bikini Atoll, to study the effects of thermonuclear
explosion on warships.
Two weeks later, French fashion designer Louis Réard trademarked the name "bikini" for his latest swimwear collection. Bikini became famous shortly afterwards, because "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating" and the realization that "atom bombs reduce everybody to primitive costume."
Photo spotted at Ectoplasmosis
Larger image at Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research: Link
How did Disney (during the Walt Disney era) make movies? This organization chart from a 1943 booklet The Ropes At Disney showed that everything started with Walt himself, who focused on story and direction, and let others deal with the details …
Links: Disney Organizational Chart 1943 | The Ropes at Disney at Cartoon Brew
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects to create audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’ using the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation.
This series of videos is inspired by the concept of synesthesia, the syndrome where a person experiences one sense as another, for example, a synesthete may “hear” or “taste” colors. See more videos from the project at Colour Lovers. Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!
BibliOdyssey has a neat post about all sort of satirical maps of the First World War. This one above is the Satyrische Europa Karte Weltkrieg 1914 (Satirical Map of Europe in the World War 1914) by E. Zimmerman:
The Russian bear sprays insect repellant on the Russians and holds out his empty wallet while roaring “hunger.” Finland, chained to Russia, tries to cut itself free. The Russian is under fire from Austria and Germany. His (chamber)pot is full of victories. His uniform shows a tear in East Prussia and Lithuania.
The Austrian duly scratches the Serbs.
Rumania is at the ready.
Bulgaria is still wounded from the Balkan War.
The Turk awakes, he looks at his harem woman.
Norway and Sweden are neutral, Denmark supplies butter.Italy has both feet in one boot and remains neutral.
The German pushes Belgium out of the way with the elbow and is at Franzi’s head.
Bordeaux becomes an asylum for the homeless.
The victories of the English and French are false, like the snakes that proclaim them. The Englishman will also soon know what 42ers are, etc. etc.
Photos: Robert Bradford
Artist Robert Bradford sculpts with fire: first he creates large sculptures out of wood, and then set them on fire to get the final (and transient) effect – this one is (was, I suppose) "Man with Something in Mind."
I think that that "something" is the realization that it’s going to be set on fire! Link (www.robertbradford.co.uk)
Previously on Neatorama: Fire Sculpture by Dave Umlas
Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo’s artwork is cool … literally! In this art installation, Nele created hundreds of sitting figures out of ice – the installation lasted till the last one melted in the heat of the day:
Photos: Nele Azevedo
Photo: Lemoox [Flickr]
Link – via Stuff
That Is Relevant
Do you think you’re the only one that skipped great works of English classic literature? Well, here’s a little secret: even respectable authors didn’t read ‘em!
At the literary festival Ways With Words 2008, The Daily Telegraph asks established authors which books they are most embarrassed to admit they’ve never read:
During this year’s Ways With Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon, we would collar our guests and ask: what’s the book you’re most ashamed of never having read?
Would the eminent Cambridge classicist admit to The Iliad? Would V S Naipaul’s old editor cop to A Bend In The River?
Or would the former schoolmate of a fellow guest confess – with apparent relish – to never having read a word his old friend has written?
Link – via Chasing the Southern Cross
So – ‘fess up: what works of literature are you ashamed of never having read?
Why send your kids to school with a boring lunch pail when you can make awesomely cute bento boxes like this one? (it’s a PB and J, by the way, and it took just 4 minutes to make)
The Cooking for Monkeys blog by Pam is all about making meal times for her toddler healthier and more interesting by creating some really cute bento meals: Link
That, my friend, is an air-conditioned bus stop (presumably near Burj Al Arab hotel, where one night stay costs about US$ 1,000). Must be nice to be rich! (though why would they take the bus, then?)
Found at Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
