“Loved the eyes popping out! Very funny!” — ethaneveraldo
Robot’s New Set Of Emotions
07/28/11 -- Pretty Cool
250 Flashing Cameras
07/28/11 -- Pretty Cool
“When we listened to the ‘Bright Siren’, we envisioned bright lights flickering in the darkness, and the lyrics ‘not to make it a memory’ has stuck in our minds. From these inspirations, we came up with the idea of using camera strobos as pixels to create an animation out of light. We actually lined up 250 cameras and controlled each strobos through a computer program. All the lights in the film are real, and no CG were used.”
Top 10 Spider Powers
07/28/11 -- Top Lists
“Spiders are among the most diverse, widespread and successful predators in the animal kingdom, due in part to the versatile powers at their disposal; their feet can scale any surface, their fangs pack corrosive venom and they secrete a highly adhesive substance more powerful than steel. You might think there isn’t much else a spider needs to survive, but many spiders exhibit even more unusual specialization.” w/ photos
World’s Most Tattooed Couple
07/28/11 -- Odd Articles
“A mother-of-two has celebrated her divorce by getting a full-body tattoo – from her new boyfriend. Jacqui Moore, 41, has had 85 per cent of her flesh inked with a continuous black and grey ‘full body-suit’ tattoo, a process which has taken eight years. Just her left armpit, half her right leg and most of her face has been left uncovered. But she hopes to complete the tattoo by getting the final 15 per cent of her body daubed next Spring. Jacqui, a gardener at a private school in Oxford, fell for tattooist Andreas Moore, nicknamed ‘Curly’, 45, after divorcing from her husband Martin in March 2003 after a seven-year marriage. She said: ‘I went to get a new tattoo to symbolise my freedom and the new chapter in my life. When I got to the parlour I met Curly and we fell in love and he has been tattooing me since.” w/ photos
Hug-Yourself Vest In Action
07/28/11 -- Only In Japan
Orchestra Plays On Island Pool Stage
07/28/11 -- Wacky News
“Swimmers at a historic baths in Leeds had an unusual accompaniment to their breaststroke and front-crawl recently… when an orchestra played a concert from an island stage. The event at Edwardian Bramley Baths, was held as part of the I Love West Leeds arts festival and saw members of the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra take to the specially constructed stage. Workers had spent several hours diving into the pool to construct the stage which needed to be strong enough to support the 20 musicians along with their violins, flutes, and even cellos.” w/ photo + video
Girls Basketball Dunk FAIL
07/28/11 -- Hilarious
Situationist Drawing Device
07/28/11 -- Ridiculous
“The Situationist Drawing Device is a backpack-sized mechanism for recording the experience of landscape. Designed by Ji Soo Han and Paul Ornsby, and operating by way of mirrors, the Device “records a journey taken in an altered state of perception through drawing.” It is an ‘intermediary and interpretative tool,’ the designers add, one that stands between the human body and the landscape it exists within and explores. It is spatial equipment — an optical exoskeleton. Navigational clothing.” w/ photos + video
