Silkscreening has gone the way of the acetate record… We have more technologicaly advanced ways of printing, but we are still making screens. Everyone can burn a CD now-a-days, but the allure of the needle on the record keeps pulling. How to Screen Print a Poster. Start to Finish! is a great way of seeing how it’s done. Cool. (via Screenhead)
Talk about compressing you bits! theprodukkt a group from the demoscene put together this FPS game called .kkrieger thats just a 96k download! And to think that I have more than 600 gigs of HD memory…
Keery Skarbakka takes these sublime pictures recording that fleeting moment in during fall. Reminds me of this Yves Klein photo.
Can’t find a gift for your favorite vegetarian? These fabulous mortadella and salame rugs will do the job!
Remember the IceHotel I told you about a while back? Well, the Absolut Ice Bar Milano has the same atmosphere… Hmmm 5 degrees below to be exact. I’ll be going this week, and will let you know how it goes with pictures and all.
The Soviet Exploration of Venus has all the details of these amazing missions.
Golf? is a simple golf game where the object of the game is to push the ball to the hole. You were expecting that, right? Well, the nice part about it is the graphics… It’s as if you were playing inside a Radiohead song. Too cool for words, download the demo, forgive the beta clunkiness, and enjoy the ball traces after that hard drive.
View this at any level you want:
Aesthetic… beautiful craftsmanship, old mysterious look.
Funny… has a life of its own.
Mathematical… an On/Off machine.
DIY … hard to build.
Long story short:
The Judica-Cordiglia brothers would listen to American and Russian radio communication from satellites and spacecraft in the early sixties. Weeks before Gagarin’s first flight they heard someone dying in space…
This is the story of The Lost Cosmonauts.
Throw away that shoebox and show some style with the Dirkon pinhole camera!
DIY instructions from a 70’s Czechoslovakian magazine…
(thanks Sam!)
This is like inventing perpetual motion! Attach a pump to a kids roundabout, and have them pump water while they play games. Cool or what?
I dare say this is the best video I’ll see this year. Ministry Messiah by Gints Apsits.
Wow! Isn’t the Glory Hole beautiful? I feel an attraction not unlike a bug towards light. I know I’ll die, but I just want to float down one. (via MeFi)
Think you know your fonts? Can you tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica?
Now you’ll have time to do everything you left out this year… We’ll be getting a leap second on New Year’s!
