Eigentlich kann ich mich für Autos nur schwer bis gar nicht begeistern, aber so ein Automodule von Jean-Pierre Ponthieu würde ich schon nehmen falls mir zufällig eins über ...
(via Likecool)

Der Skizzenblog wird zwar nicht weitergeführt, hat aber an anderer Stelle ein eigenes Archiv bekommen.Zur Einstimmung drei weitere Einbildwitze nach dem Klick.
"Made from a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds, "seedbombs" are becoming an increasingly popular means combating the many forgotten grey spaces we encounter everyday-from sidewalk cracks to vacant lots and parking medians. They can be thrown anonymously into these derelict urban sites to temporarily reclaim and transform them into places worth looking at and caring for. The Greenaid dispensary simply makes these guerilla gardening efforts more accessible to all by appropriating the existing distribution system of the quarter operated candy machine." COMMONStudio: Greenaid (inkl. Video)(via Nerdcore via rebel:art)
Joao Lauro Fonte: The Shining Finger(via gamefreaks)
"Since Doctor Kelly worked on me, I've got a new job, a new boy friend and I travelled to Canada. Coincidence? I don't think so."(via Glaserei)
Blog: Little People – A tiny street art project(via rebel:art)
Amazon: Little People in the City – The Street Art of Slinkachu
"Miguelín is a 6.5 meters tall baby, electronically animated. It breaths, blinks and dreams with the cities that we will leave to future generations will smiling visitors as they walk into “Sons”, the last of rooms that integrate the pavilion […] The baby’s “Mother” is film director Isabel Coixet who has pointed out that with this collaboration she has wanted to stay accurate to the Expo Shanghai’s Theme, “Better city, better life”. Also that Miguelín is a reminder that tells us that “all our actions have direct consequences on our children’s future and that we have to react to this”, said the filmmaker."Ich finde das Ding ja etwas gruselig – liegt vielleicht daran, dass das selbe Special-Effects-Team schon die Finger bei Starship Troopers und Alien vs. Predator im Spiel hatte.
Spain Pavilion unvelis the contents of the exhibit (Beschreibung und Video)
The Big Picture: Shanghai's Expo nearly ready (u.a. Foto vom Riesenbaby)
"In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the "Domestic Transformer."(via beyond the beyond)
"What do you get when you combine Jurassic Park with Toy Story?"(via Unique Daily)
Tokyobling’s Blog: Toysaurus – Hiroshi Fuji (Fotos)
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN: Hiroshi Fuji (Video: "Toy Sculptures" anklicken)
“I’m busting the fumes of cars with my special vacuum cleaner!”(via rebel:art)
Everybodys Darlehen: No Future Car
1. Metro. Doors are about to close. A civilized person - in a tie, indispensable detail - wants to get in, the doors are closing and his head is already in the subway car and stuck in the doors and the rest of the body is still on the platform. He looks sadly at those who are in and says in the fallen silence - "That’s great! F*** underground!"
10. Radar vehicles driving about the streets and checking videocassette recorders concerning prohibited cassettes.
17. Chinese carpets were glowing in the darkness with a silhouette of Mao Tse-tung lying in a coffin weaved with a special phosphoric thread, … invisible in a daylight.
English Russia: Soviet Urban Legends
"This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. (March 8, 2004)" NASA Goddard Photo and Video: Earth from Mars(Details am Rande: Mister Honk weist völlig zu recht darauf hin, dass das Foto in der Tradition des Pale Blue Dot steht.)
Laser Pointer Forums: Tutorial: 12X Star Trek Phaser Mod!
YouTube: 12X Blu-ray Star Trek Phaser - Beam, Flash Paper, Balloon...
YouTube: 12X Blu-Ray Star Trek Phaser - Featured on HacknMod.com
"Stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples. These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours." Peter Root: Ephemicropolis (Fotos und ein Zeitraffer-Video vom Aufbau)Wer eher auf organischen Städtebau steht, kann sich alternativ auch Wasteland anschauen:
"Potatoes are good for building free standing structures as the starchy moisture acts as a type of glue helping to stick the units together. As the potato begins to dry the units bond together [...] As the potatoes dry, harden and sometimes go mouldy this also adds an element of life to the work, meaning that the structures evolve, change shape and colour." Peter Root: Wasteland(via designboom)
Micky Hulse liest Landkarten ein klein wenig anders als andere:"I've always thought parts of Europe resembled a profile view of Marge... So, here ya go." Micky Hulse: The "European" Marge Simpson (Google Maps)"(via Popped Culture)
"I am a photographer based in Yorkshire who has built an online reputation on Roundographs: full 360° views displayed in a circle [...] I am currently working on a book called Roundography. In it I will discuss the way I work and how to make a Roundograph, as well as collecting all my favourite and most popular images with notes on locations." Lucy Martin: Flickr-Set Planeten / Flickr-Set: Wurmlöcher, dort die Wurmlöcher und Planeten auf ihrer Webseite und hier noch ihr Blog.(via How to be a Retronaut)
"A team of 30 Spanish doctors say they have successfully performed the world's first full face transplant." BBC News: Full face transplant 'a success'
"AIA caught this beautiful prominence eruption only a few days after its doors were opened. Soon after the instruments opened their doors, the Sun began performing for SDO with this beautiful prominence eruption. This AIA data is from March 30, 2010 [...] This extreme ultraviolet emission line is from singly ionized Helium, or He II, and corresponds to a temperature of approx. 50,000 degrees Celsius."
"This movie [...] shows the Sun's magnetic field followed by only four of SDO's 12 imaging wavebands. You'll see an eruption, flare, and dimming (dark regions evacuated by the eruption) by observing the event in several different layers of the atmosphere."
"This movie starts with a magnetogram from HMI and moves on to 7 different wavebands observed by AIA's telescopes. AIA covers a wide range of temperatures and will answer important questions about the temperature and energy structure of the Sun's atmosphere."(via Space Gizmo)
"Landscapes for the People is an ongoing series that looks at the use of romanticized wallpaper landscape photographs found in everyday environments. These wall sized photographic murals seem to serve a psychological function, given their potentially intimidating or banal locations, like dental rooms and laundromats [...] The resulting photographs of these locations document the strange play of the functional environment and the idealized psychological landscape." Mark Lyon: Landscapes for the People (nicht direkt verlinkbar weil Flash: In der Navi unter "Images" zu finden)(via STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL THINGS)
"Mit dem Bionischen Handling-Assistenten haben die Ingenieure von Festo eine Durchbruchsinnovation geschaffen, welche die Handhabungstechnik bis hin zur Mensch-Technik-Kooperation (r)evolutionieren wird."Und dann auch noch ein Video mit schwäbelndem Oettinger-Englisch ...
"BarRectum, Arsch Bar, Asshole Bar, Bar Anus. While the translations sound different, the form is universally recognizable. The bar takes its shape from the human digestive system: starting with the tongue, continuing to the stomach, moving through the small and the large intestines and exiting through the anus. While BarRectum is anatomically correct, the last part of the large intestine has been inflated to a humongous size to hold as many drinking customers at the bar as possible. The anus itself is part of a large door that doubles as an emergency exit." BarRectum, 2005
"hab gestern Abend mal schnell was für unseren
Vater zum Jubiläum gebastelt ... ,-)"
"Pork fat is one of the most popular food in Ukraine. It is eaten raw, fried, salted, boiled and smoked. Pork fat is used to lard any other meat but pork. Eggs fried on pork fat are a popular fast food ..." Flickr-Set: Ukrainian Cuisine (mit radebrechender Orginal-Beschreibung)
Von den leider nur sechs Fotos sind zwei schon etwas älter, die anderen aber erst vor ein paar Tagen hochgeladen worden: ich habe mir jedenfalls den Album-Feed abonniert und hoffe auf mehr."I work at a museum. We have an XRay machine. I had to test it. These are the results." XRays of Toys
"Gezeigt werden unzusammenhängende Szenen aus aller Welt, die den Zuschauer schockieren, aber auch unterhalten sollen. Bei vielen Szenen geht es um den brutalen Umgang mit Tieren, Schlachtungen und Rituale. Es werden aber auch Bilder mit befremdlichen menschlichen Bräuchen gezeigt, so z. B. stark alkoholisierte Männer auf der Hamburger Reeperbahn."(Neulich beim Kraftfuttermischwerk gesehen, aber vergessen zu bloggen und jetzt vom Cartoonist nochmal erinnert worden)
"In stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project .. The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!!" HofmanDujardin:Urban Charity for Cape Town (Bildergalerie, Beschreibung, Booklet)
"Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his “Manga Farming” technique — which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables — by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya." Manga farming(Und ja, mir ist klar, dass die Manga-Industrie in Japan jährlich mehr Papier verarbeitet, als die dortigen Klopapierfabriken.)
"The other day some colleagues and I [...] went to recall the good old days to 8bit cafe, a very special cafeteria plenty of stuff related to 90’s video games. Soon after entering the cafeteria we saw shelves plenty of video game consoles [...], accessories, video game boxes and tons of really cool stuff capable of evoking nostalgic feelings to a whole generation of gamers from the 90’s ... " kirai – A geek in Japan: 8bit cafe ⎪ 8bit cafe bei Flickr(via I.Z. Reloaded)
"[...] But to come to the conclusion that McQueen’s success was simply the result of a handsome, athletic and naturally suave guy playing too-cool-for-school characters is to miss McQueen’s true cinematic gift: He was devastating in a close-up." The Cooler: Steve McQueen – King of the Close-Up(via F5)
"I was in LA and this guy shows up in a suit from head to toe made of glass. I thought it was pretty cool. I asked him if I could take a picture from below. So this is me laying on the ground with a broken mirror above my head pointing. Pretty Cool!" Flickr-Set von SiLver sKY: Griffith ObservatoryLeider sind das alle Infos, die ich über den Spiegelmann habe. Falls jemand mehr weiß: In die Kommentare!
"My research interests lie at the intersection of DIY technology cultures, grassroots community practices and innovative methodologies. I am particularly interested in bike making cultures and wireless networking groups. Although their technologies differ, these groups are united by a hands-on engagement with a diverse assemblage of materials and improvised methods in ordinary suburban locations." About MeDenjenigen, die sich für einen fundierten, aber trotzdem kurzweiligen und unterhaltsamen Vortrag zur Kulturgeschichte des Klebebands interessieren, empfehle ich Jungnickels Vortrag "Stickytape!", den sie im Pecha Kucha-Stil im Science Museum’s Dana Centre zum Thema "Technology You Can’t Live Without" gehalten hat.
"Nomadic Plants is a metaphor for the alienated human condition and the impact its activity has on nature [...] The work includes a small automaton robot (nomadic plant) that moves towards water when its bacteria require nourishment. It contains vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside the body of the machine. The robot draws water from a contaminated river, decomposes its elements, helps to create energy to feed its brain circuits and the surplus is then used to create life, maintaining plants that, at once, fulfil their own life cycle." Giberto Esparza. Plantas NómadasFotos vom Pflanzen-Cyborg gibts auf der Projekt-Webseite (leider Flash).
"New Idols is about the icons of the 80's, from JFK, ET to Batman and King Kong" The Don Gallery: New Idols by Francesco de MolfettaDie Fotos sind leider Flashgefange und laufen dort zudem unter "Current Show" (könnten also schon bald verschwunden sein).
"Nick Rayburn is an artist who works with an assortment of materials including wood, marble and brass to silver, coral and shimmering beetles [...] his latest creation, The Waiting Hand, which is a limited edition of 20." The Waiting Hand by Nick RayburnJetzt muss nur noch eine Gadget-Klitsche eine Däumchendrehmaschine rausbringen und ich habe alles zusammen, was ich für einen erfüllten Arbeitstag benötige.
"The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine's mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box." Blake Fall-Conroy: Minimum Wage Machine(via Likecool)
"Best steampunk sculpture EVER. Yes, ever. Including all the great stuff at Burning Man [...] It's also the biggest scrap-metal sculpture in the world, so he wins the stuff-recycled-into-art prize, too [...] The Forevertron includes many parts from 1920's power plants, as well as an original 1880's Edison dynamo and a decontamination chamber from the Apollo project." Reimagining Scrap Metal: Dr. Evermor's Forevertron
"Sea Dave has made this wonderful, melancholic pixely game about exploring. It really is a thing of great beauty and you should totally play it. It won the cgdc6 competition, which means Sea Dave is the most awesome person on the planet."Und wo ich schon auf rathergood.com bin (einer meiner longtime favorites im Web), klicke ich mich nachher noch in der Sidebar (links) durch die ganzen Smash Hits der letzten Jahre.
"Prypjat [wurde] infolge des Reaktorunglücks von 1986 geräumt [...] Zum Zeitpunkt der Katastrophe [...] wohnten hier etwa 48.000 Menschen, die meisten von ihnen Arbeiter im Kernkraftwerk und ihre Familien [...] Aufgrund des schleppenden Informations- und Notfallmanagements wurde Prypjat erst 36 Stunden nach dem Reaktorunfall evakuiert [...] Da die Bewohner in dem Glauben gelassen wurden, bald wieder nach Hause zurückkehren zu können, sind auch heute noch viele Häuser im Originalzustand [...] Im Rahmen geführter Touren durch das Kernkraftwerk kann heute auch Prypjat besichtigt werden, da die Hauptstraßen dekontaminiert wurden. Die übrigen Gebiete der Stadt sollten jedoch nicht betreten werden. "
"Using salvaged or re-appropriated materials, NYC street artists are both piggybacking their pieces onto existing street furniture and brazenly installing work of their own. There are highly skilled carpenters and iron workers amongst the ranks of artists — the sole unifying factor in an otherwise diverse group is the placement of their work on the street. Some pieces last but a few hours, but you’d be surprised how many fly under the radar and run for years." Taking it into the Third Dimension: New York’s Sculptural Street Art(via Good)
"David Hahn is a man known for his attempt to build a breeder nuclear reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed in Commerce Township, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at age 17. Hahn spent years tinkering with basement chemistry which sometimes resulted in small explosions and other mishaps. He diligently amassed this radioactive material by collecting small amounts from household products, such as americium from smoke detectors, thorium from camping lantern mantles, radium from clocks and tritium from gunsights. His "reactor" was a large, bored-out block of lead, and he used lithium from $1,000 worth of purchased, batteries to purify the thorium ash using a Bunsen burner. Although his homemade reactor never achieved critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radioactivity, likely well over 1,000 times normal background radiation."Das Video stammt aus der 20-minütigen Dokumentation "Nuclear Boy Scout". Als Sachbuch ist Hahns Geschichte unter dem Titel "The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor" erschienen.
"This piece gives people the opportunity to once again experience having tail, which is one component discarded by humans during the evolutionary process ... The tail features a multi-jointed structure that consists of numerous servo motors and it moves based on the hip movement of the person wearing it."Achja, bester Kommentar auf YouTube: "good for cat cosplay"
“Swing Bop”, das Rework zu “Hale Bopp” von Der Dritte Raum [...] ist Techno im Soundgewand der 1920er. Das fetzt wie die Sau. Auch dann noch, wenn es das Radio endeckt hat. Weil: gut."
weetstraw's photostream auf Flickr(via Facebook)
Webseite: weetstraw.com/
"I'll start something new within a few weeks. All I can say is it will involve new characters (TK455 and TK479 are having a long rest), and it won't be another 365 series."
"Many representatives of Soviet generation still remember the time of their youth falling into nostalgia for those days. They used to smell like warm pastry. Here is a list of top ten of the most popular and favorite Soviet cakes" Top 10 Soviet CakesIch habe keine Ahnung, nach welchen Kriterien die Liste zusammengestellt worden ist und glaube auch nicht, dass die ansatzweise repräsentativ ist – aber egal, ich verlinke die sowieso nur wegen der Optik ...
"On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar in Kingston, NY, by five men who beat him literally to death. [...] After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, Mark decided to create his own. In his backyard, he built Marwencol, a 1/6th scale World War II-era town that he populated with dolls representing his friends, family and even his attackers. He used the small dolls and props to redevelop his hand-eye coordination, while he dealt with the psychic wounds from his attack through the town’s many battles and dramas. After a few years, Mark started documenting his miniature dramas with his camera. Through Mark’s lens, these were no longer dolls – they were living, breathing characters in an epic WWII story full of violence, jealousy, longing and revenge. And he (or rather his alter ego, Captain Hogancamp) was the hero." Marg Hogancamp: Marwencol (Gallery anschauen!)Über Mark Hogancamp und sein Marwencol gibt es eine Doku von Jeff Malmberg, die in einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren entstanden ist. Sieht nur leider so aus, als ob die nicht ganz einfach zu bekommen ist. Ich glaube ich probiere es trotzdem mal.
"Stuart Freeborn, the make-up supervisor for the original Star Wars trilogy modeled Yoda after his own face. He added a bit of Einstein's eyes and wrinkles for that "wise look" of the Jedi master." Gengis 72: Prof. Yodstein(via Likecool)
Wer noch für die Feiertage einkaufen muss: bei Think Geek gibts billiges Einhornfleisch aus der Dose:"As the unicorn ages, its meat becomes fatty and marbled and the living bone in the horn loses density in a process much like osteoporosis. The horn's outer layer of keratin begins to develop a flavor very similar to candied almonds. Blending the crushed unicorn horn into the meat adds delightful, crispy flavor notes in each bite." Canned Unicorn Meat(via rainbowzombies ate my unicorn)