Sistema Alternator is a huge sculpture made out of an aluminum frame and welded circuit boards. The whole piece uses various recycled computer parts, such as keyboards for lips. There's a chair inside for a video presentation. The sculpture was made by Colectivo GIB, an Argentine art collective consisting of Cristina Galera, Pablo Irrgang, and Florencia Botindari.
Wolfgang Matzl selected images from Victorian prints, put them on paper, and presented this rather original stop motion animated summary of Inception. It was his entry in a contest which asked filmmakers to create a movie no more than sixty seconds long.
In the mood for some dark humor? Too bad, you're getting it anyway. In a wonderfully paced short film, Graham Annable tells the tale of a remarkable dog. I won't say anything else, lest I give away the ending. Or, for that matter, the beginning.
To promote its new Chevrolet Orlando, General Motors had artists sculpt a full-size model of its new car. The company then placed it on a street in London:
The company crafted a full-scale Play-Doh model of the MPV and parked it in downtown London. The instillation weighs in at a staggering 1.5 tons and measures 15 feet long by almost six feet wide. If you're trying to work out the connection between Play-Doh and the Orlando, don't stretch your gray matter too hard. As it turns out, the connection has less to do with any correlation between the vehicle and the malleable goo than it does with some research conducted by the minds at Chevrolet.
The automaker pinged 1,000 UK adults in an attempt to discern the most popular toy of yesteryear. Play-Doh handily took that title with 19 percent of the vote.
Ordinary LEGO bricks just aren't heavy enough to hold back a door (although you can wedge them in between the door and the floor). So Instructables user lizzyastro knitted a cover for a brick, using bottle caps to form the knobs.
Chris McMahon calls them "involuntary collaborations". He buys fairly dull landscapes at yardsales and then adds monsters to them. To give credit to the first artist, he just adds his own name in the bottom right corners. You can view two others at the link.
Graham Waspe had been aided by his guide dog Edward for six years. When Edward himself began to lose his sight, Mr. Waspe acquired a new guide dog, Opal, who helps not only him, but Edward as well:
Mr Waspe's new dog is not just aiding his owner to carry out everyday tasks, but also helping Edward to get around.
Mr Waspe, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, received his new dog last November after Edward developed the inoperable problem which resulted in him needing both eyes removed.
And the two-year-old bitch has stepped in where Edward left off as they tour their old haunts together.
Japanese tombstone maker Ishinokoe has begun offering memorials that feature QR codes. Want to know more about the person entombed there? Just whip out your smartphone and scan the code.
http://www.japantrends.com/qr-code-graves-give-a-memorial-window/ via Copyranter | Photo: Jcast
Here's a clever ad that UNICEF put out a few years ago to raise funds for people who have been maimed by landmines. Stickers, camouflaged to look like pavement, were left on sidewalks. When someone steps on one, it sticks to the bottom of his/her shoe. The underside informs the victim that if it had been a landmine, s/he would have been mutilated.
Geothermal energy is plentiful in Iceland, so that nation is considering running an electrical cable under the ocean to Europe to sell its excess electricity. If successful, it'll be the longest undersea electrical cable in the world:
Depending on the destination country, the cable would be between 1,200 and 1,900 kilometres (745-1,180 miles) long, making it "the longest sub-sea cable in the world."
The project aims for the exportation of some five terawatt-hours (or five billion kilowatt-hours) each year, Jonsdottir said.
At current power prices in Europe, that corresponds to between 250 and 320 million euros ($350-448 million) in exports annually, and is enough to cover the average annual consumption of 1.25 million European households.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i8DwT00oi-riUPoOpVqp2NRScSDA?docId=CNG.269669ec3457e631da554fe16c1e45a2.221 via Popular Science | Photo via Flickr user ThinkGeoEnergy used under Creative Commons license
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita creates pen and ink illustrations that are themselves composed of tiny figures inside, from people to anthropomorphic ice cream cones. The level of detail that he provides is really astounding. You can see several other examples at the link.
Link probably goes on so many adventures because he's trying to avoid long, awkward conversations with his mother. This is one of nine hilarious images by Andrew Bridgman.
Jessica Bethune, Aiswarya Kolisetty, Jessica Noglows, and Rob Sobecki are students at the Olin College of Engineering. For a class assignment, they built a machine that can figure out the combination to any Masterlock combination padlock. The LockCracker tries every possible combination, spinning the dial until it's successful.
Pink Tentacle has many pictures of some colorfully decorated gas tanks that can be found in Japan. Watermelon paint schemes are apparently common. You know, the shape would lend itself very well to a Pokémon ball.
An enormous snow sculpture of Batman was spotted in Ludlow, Vermont. As you can see from another photo at the link, it rises up to the second storey of an adjoining building.
http://www.comicsbeat.com/2011/03/09/majestic-snow-batman-towers-over-vermont/ via blastr | Photo: SkiDiva
