Not Over `Till Its Over
Vacations almost over!!!
Be back blogging full speed on thursday next week…
Little Green Monster
Today we are in Ubatuba…This morning it was cloudy and walking around the beach we found this amazing…hmmm insect. I felt like a National Geographic photographer!
Where The Sun Shines
Mitla and I will be going on vacation to Brazil (2 weeks), so posting will be a bit sporadic. Go through the archives, they are full of nice links.
Thank you very much for reading…
Take a nice little image I did yesterday…100% digital. Click for HiRes.
Tiling the Plane
Ever wondered how to tile a surface? Have you been amazed at how M.C. Escher tiled his complex drawings? Tessellations.org has excellent step by step tutorials on the subject, and features a gallery where you can see David Annal’s (designer of the site) and Escher’s work.
Grey Matter
Dj Danger Mouse came up with a great idea….Mix vocals from Jay-Z’s Black Album with breaks ripped from The Beatles’ White Album…and you get the Grey Album. It sounds amazingly fresh…a completely new way to listen to The Beatles…and Jay-Z! Download it from Illegal Art while you can! (You’ll never find this in stores). Encore is my favorite…it rocks.
Warm Milk
I just love Boring3D’s daily picture. Everything looks soft and real, like Play-Doh. A whole universe inside every image. Go through the archive and dream.
Cuckoo Cuckoo
A brief but thorough history of time keeping, with excellent graphics and animations. From sundials to the atomic second…
The Blob
Zero G water balloon popping videos. Isn’t that a nice job? (via BoingBoing)
Full View
Cinema Redux explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Nice…I only hope he gets to do my favorites!
Organic Housing
The Mushroom House conceived and constructed by Zube is a masterpiece of creative architecture. It makes me think of what Gaudi would have designed if he hadn’t lived in a city. Take the tour and admire the detail…I bet you could spend a month there, and still find something new everyday!
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
It’s a Small World
The engineers that design computer chip masks sometimes hide images within the circuits of the chip. They can be anything…think of it as chip easter eggs. Silicon Zoo has a big collection of images, with explanations of how they’re done. Don’t forget to see the rest of the website as it has a huge amount of microscope photos ranging from antibiotics to wine!
We Are The World
My World 66 has put together a nifty utility:
A map that shows which countries you have visited. I have to travel more, as you can see from my example. There is still to much land for me to see!
Drive My Car
Read the story behind one of the most fascinating icons of the 20th century: John Lennon’s Rolls Royce.
1/2 and 1/2
A child’s photo torn in half merged with adult photo of same person: Age Maps. Life is creepy…
Squint Your Eyes
When is pr0n not pr0n?
When it is a painting by Adam Connelly. Low Res oil pixels become what your imagination lets them be!
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Are you quite sure that something will happen? Why not bet on it. Long Bets is a foundation dedicated to long term thinking. Every bet has money at stake which will become philanthropic gifts. Big ideas, settled the old fashion way. Wanna bet?
Two Ears and a Head
Hidden Mickeys started out as inside jokes among the Walt Disney Imagineers. A Hidden Mickey is an image of Mickey Mouse concealed in the design of a Disney attraction (ride, resort, etc…)…the shape of a head and ears silhouette.
So find out where they are and go hunting for them on your next trip! I know I will…!
S, M, L, XL, XXL
It’s always difficult to relate how scales compare to one another. A Sense of Scale shows you graphically measurements from one fermi to the distance to the farthest known object.
She’s Dead
Cinemorgue is a thorough listing of performers’ names and the movies in which they died, with a brief description of the death scene. They should also give a rating as to how the acting was, a lot of them don’t even look real! As if I know…
