Make a Room Sized Camera Obscura

Posted by Queuebot in Science & Tech on February 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm

This web page by Giorgio Carboni explains how to easily and inexpensively project the view outside your window onto your wall by turning your room into a camera obscura.  All you need is some duct tape, posterboard, and a lens.

…it’s best if the window faces a view with some activity, it can be entertaining to see cars moving and people jogging upside down across your wall.

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One 344 sq foot Room with 24 Possible Layouts

Posted by Queuebot in Architecture on January 28, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Thinking of downsizing?  How small you could you go?

How about a 344 square foot (about 32 m2) apartment?  With the possiblitity of 24 distinct rooms.

This photo gallery says it all. Here's the remarkably adaptable apartment of one Gary Chang of Hong Kong:

In Mr. Chang’s solution, a kind of human-size briefcase, everything can be folded away so that the space feels expansive, like a yoga studio.

The wall units, which are suspended from steel tracks bolted into the ceiling, seem to float an inch above the reflective black granite floor. As they are shifted around, the apartment becomes all manner of spaces — kitchen, library, laundry room, dressing room, a lounge with a hammock, an enclosed dining area and a wet bar.

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Super Mario Bros. Room

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures, Toy & Video Games on December 11, 2008 at 2:04 am

Antoinette J. Citizen created this art installation straight out of Super Mario Bros, complete with working question mark boxes with sound effects: Link – via Chunnel

 
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