Dumb Construction - Neatorama

I hope whoever was responsible for this carousel installed under a wall was fired, but they should have been forced to remove it first. In a collection of weird construction failures, you know some of them were the result of working around an addition, like cutting a hole in an existing door because moving a door is really hard. Some are due to laziness. Others are just incomprehensible.

At least this one is easily fixed, although it's probably in a hotel, in which case it's a scheme to save on toilet paper. You can see 21 weird construction results at Pleated-Jeans.

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In a rented apartment there was an in the wall soap dish mounted upside down. Sometimes workers would do things like that to see if inspectors were really looking.

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Yup---something just like that one.

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There's one just like that in the linked list!

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The toilet one reminds me of when we moved into our old house back in 1973. The previous owners had a new toilet installed. When the plumbers did it they left the bathroom door, which opened to the inside, so that you couldn't close it. Had to take the door off the hinges to correct the situation.

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This technique is also know as Slit Scan photography. Makes for some pretty trippy images/video.

http://s12336.gridserver.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

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That was pretty neat, even though it's probably not the best thing in the world to watch with a hangover.

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That technique is called 'slit scanning' and it dates back to optical printers, animation stands, Douglas Trumbull, and the 1960's

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may not be good for a hangover but if you're still on it could be "kindacool!"

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Good point, yayo. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have been able to find my computer last night if I had wanted to. ;)

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It is a good effect. I think ultra subtle use could give an almost subconscious trip effect. The lines are distracting. It would be nice to see with a rendering that gave half values and smoothing to the break points so they were not obvious.
Overall very cool. :)

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yes... it's homemade, a bit more of postproduction could make it better...

Anyway, the goin'through the door effect is really cool ^^

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Whoa...trippy. @_@

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Effin awesome.

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Woah. Thats just awesome.

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While it's true that Slit Scan photography was invented by Douglas Trumbull, this technique of Slit Scan time displacement on 3d objects was first done by Zbigniew Rybczynski.

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That guy knows how to move hehe

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Cool. That kid can dance.

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This video did a darn good job of showing what vertigo feels/looks like to e when i've had it. You know things aren't moving like they look like they are...but you see it anyway. though this has more the trippy effect than the nausea of vertigo.

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This is like Muse's "Unintended" video!

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marginalia project has a new experiment on the following link:
http://www.vimeo.com/4205136
thanks for posting chronotopic here, btw

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