English Russia has a sampling of the photography of Pavel Bezrukov, featuring Russian villagers. Link. More photos here. -via Metafilter

A list of 19 great movie projects that were proposed, or even started, but never made it to theaters, with explanations for most and links for more information on each. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. With his or her body weight the chair is slowly deflated and forms back to the original flat dress. Self-Sustainable chair is a conceptual garment that motivates users to consistently switch between walking and sitting as a loop behavior on the street. The balance between exercise and rest would be maintained by wearing this suit. The purpose of this project is to transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance.

It’s an art project by Joo Youn. Push play or go to Google Video. Link to project. -via Arbroath

Earvolution ranks ten bands that only existed in the media, but don’t you wish they were real? You may be surprised at how Spinal Tap ranked. Link -via the Presurfer

Normally, I am opposed to combovers, because bald guys can be hot. But this is the best combover I’ve ever seen. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath

A look at the future, as predicted in the past. Or maybe, a look at what the present would have been like if the predictions of the past came to pass. Anyway way you look at it, the future ain’t what it used to be!

Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo. The fact is, science fiction and popular science had set the bar so high that only the Second Coming with ray guns would have satisfied.

Link via the Presurfer

The advertising company Star Dust has compiled a mesmerizing video montage of samples from their work over the past year. Set to the music of Gimme Shelter, its a treat for the eyes! Link -via YesButNoButYes

Now that music cassette is going the way of LPs and Betamax videos, we should recycle those tapes. Designboom has a roundup of ways cassettes have been recycled, including this belt buckle. Link -via Everlasting Blort

What would make a watch worth £75,000? These are made from a very rare substance -metal from the hull of the Titanic. You can get one for as low as £4,500, without the diamonds and gold in the top-of-the-line model. Only 2,012 Titanic-DNA watches will be sold. Link -via Arbroath

Blur Studio presents A Gentlemen’s Duel. Two men vying for the attentions of a lady. A love story? Hardly. Just wait til they pull out the giant steampunk robots! Push play or go to Daily Motion.

Got a calendar? Circle this date: Sunday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "all night" and "Meteors!" Attach the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2007 Perseid meteor shower.

"It's going to be a great show," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The Moon is new on August 12th--which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors." How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower's peak.

The annual Perseid meteor shower is caused by the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle intersecting Earth’s orbit. For the best view, go somewhere away from city lights. And if you stay up late enough, you’ll get a good view of Mars rising the same night! Link -via J-Walk Blog

A plane crashed and caught on fire near the Ft. Lauderdale airport. The three occupants walked away uninjured, but two squirrels on the ground suffered burns and broken bones. They were taken to the local Wildlife Care Center for treatment, and are expected to make a full recovery. http://keyetv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_215231718.html (with video) -via Fark

A fuel truck delivered 397 gallons of oil to the home of Nyoka Young in New Windsor, New York. The problem was that Young did not order the oil, and in fact has no oil tank. She was not home at the time, so the delivery man pumped the oil into a nonworking fill pipe from a previous tank, flooding the basement. It was an address mistake. Young and her son are staying in a hotel while the oil company pays for a cleanup. Young has been trying to sell the house, which may be difficult now. Link -via Arbroath

This Japanese animation is cute and sappy, and it made me cry. Link -via the Presurfer

Twin tiger cubs were born May 31st at the Tianjin Zoo in China. Because of a very rare genetic occurance, one tiger cub is yellow and the other is white! Link -via Fark