The Knife, A Giant Bloody Cardboard Knife Art Project by Maria Luján
German-based artist Maria Luján created The Knife, a street art project that creates the illusion of being stabbed with a giant bloody cardboard knife.
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November 2013
Apr 4, 2012
Animating funny/scary effects into historic black-and-white photos
Kevin Weir's Flux Machine project creates surprising, Python-esque animations out of public domain photos of the olde worlde. The effects are horror-comedy at its finest
why so cereal?
Joker cereal
Sean Hartter has designed this notional Joker-brand cereal box. He notes that his FB friends quipped, "Why So Cereal", "You wanna see a Trix?" and "Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you eat more delicious cereal"! Spend some times poking around on Hartter's site. He's very good at this sort of thing.
wtf is up w/t arizona?
The Daily Show Mocks Tucson Mexican-American Studies Ban (VIDEO)
Madrigal spoke with local proponents of the law which has outlawed the Mexican-American study program in K-12 public schools. School board member Michael Hicks gave justifications for the ban which were... err, underwhelming.
School board member Michael Hicks says he's never sat in on a Mexican-American studies class, but based on "hearsay" he presumes that they teach a violent anti-"gringo" message.
"I chose not to go to any of their classes. Why even go? Why even go? I base my thoughts off of hearsay of others," Hicks said to Madrigal.
Documentary about 1970s northern California Star Trek conventions
Apropos yesterday's post about 1970s science fiction convention costumes, Strephon Taylor sez, "I just saw your post on the 1970's science fiction costumes. I made a documentary on the early northern California Star Trek conventions called "Back to Space-Con", it has a ton of costume footage, I think you will dig it. We have some of the earliest full sound film on the subject. We got contacted by the producers of Trek Nation for our convention footage! "
Apr 3, 2012
WTF???? But I dig it....
Video: David Lynch’s ‘Crazy Clown Time’ Is 7 Minutes of NSFW Insanity
David Lynch’s new video for his song “Crazy Clown Time” hits you squarely between the eyes with seven minutes of madness. It’s like the director set out to create a perfect visual representation of “WTF” and actually succeeded.
Mar 30, 2012
Spiders made from TSA-confiscated scissors
Sculptor Christopher Locke makes the most amazing spiders out of scissors -- but not just any scissors. Scissors that the TSA confiscated and auctioned off
rock on brother
Drunkard's serenade: "Bohemian Rhapsody" from the back of a police car
Here is a man who has apparently been arrested for intoxication in an unknown jurisdiction, disputing the charge from the back of a police cruiser by belting out a genuinely soulful rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." Skip to 3:40 for "Scaramouche! Scaramouche
Mar 29, 2012
need this too.....
Sentry gun controller
Thanks to Bob's open-source Sentry Gun controller, now anyong can build a gun that "autonomously tracks, aims, and shoots at targets using a webcam."
need it.....
Open source "tricorders": handheld sensor packages for everyone
For the past five years, Peter Jansen, a Canadian scientist whose PhD is in neural computation and cognitive modelling, has been developing a series of open source hardware "tricorders" -- handheld sensor packages running GNU/Linux that can be used by everyday people to make and record observations about the world around them. There are several versions of the tricorder, some with sensors attached (atmospheric, electromagnetic, spatial), others that are "blank," with places to mount your own sensors. The latest version, the Mark IV, is still in development, and is intended to be mass-produced at low cost.
The Tricorder project emphasizes accessibility. The devices we build are meant to be as inexpensive as possible, so folks might have access to them without having to worry about the cost, or their difficulty of use. My hope is that someday every household — and every child who wants one — might have access to a small device that can easily be kept close in a pocket or bag, and quickly pulled out when curiosity strikes. By turning a walk home through the park into a nature walk, and Dad's spring time home repairs into a lesson about heat flow, it's my hope that everyday experiences will become opportunities to learn and develop an intuitive understanding and deep fluency with the science of our everyday world.
It is my deep belief that knowledge brings about positive change. It's possible that the same instrument that can show a child how much chlorophyll is in a leaf could also show how them much pollution is in the air around us, or given off by one's car. As an educator and a researcher, I feel that if people could easily discover things about their worlds that were also important social topics, that they would then make positive social choices, like reducing their emissions, or petitioning for cleaner industry in their communities. By having access to general tools, people can learn about leaves, or air, or clouds, or houses — or light, or magnetism, or temperature — or anything the Tricorder can help them see.
Most of all, the Tricorder is designed to discover things that we don't already know. I'm excited about what you can discover with it. And that's what it's about. Little discoveries, everywhere.
The Surreal Gravity-Defying Photographs of Philippe Ramette
Rush Limbaugh’s Fourth Wife Threatens To Walk Away Over “Slut” Controversy
Many women on the left and right have gone on the offensive against ultra-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh over his Sandra Fluke “slut ” comment and one of those women is alleged to be his fourth wife
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