Children enjoying ice cream at the Hoot Hoot I Scream hut in Los Angeles, CA - c. 1930s. The head rotated; the eyes, made from Buick headlamps, blinked; the sign: Hoot hoot, I scream, used elements of a theater marquee. For over 50 years, Tillie Hattrup ran this L.A.-area refreshment spot designed and built by her husband, Roy in 1926-27. It was demolished in 1979.(via Cakehead via mothgirlwings)
"All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren't very interesting ... There's around 3000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80.000 in-game screenshots (captured with a script) and the final set of tiles consist of over a million images." Liberty City Map(via kotaku)
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"This home movie was filmed in c. 1956 at the Reseda, California home of Stan Laurel’s daughter, Lois. It features Stan Laurel and his wife Ida Laurel, Oliver Hardy and his wife Virginia Jones, Andy Wade (who shot the film), Stan’s daughter Lois, her husband Rand Brooks and their children Randy and Laurie."
now it’s computers and more computers(via Glaserei)
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them
and so they won’t want to meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like i am now.
This variation on the classic roller skate was patented by Charles A. Nordling of Suisun, California in August 1913. The primary object of Nordling's contraption was "the provision of a roller skate in which the wheels thereof will be rotated on pedal action by the feet of the user, thereby avoiding the necessity of excessive exertion on the part of the skater ..." the Atlantic: Old, Weird Tech: Pedal Skates(via Likecool)
In video art, one technique is datamoshing – mixing two videos so intermediate frames are interpolated from two separate sources, while another technique is exploiting the way different video codecs process motion and color information. The technique was pioneered by artists Sven König, Takeshi Murata and Paul B. Davis in collaboration with Paperrad, and more recently used by David OReilly and within music videos for Chairlift and Kanye West.Die Lyrics nach dem Klick ...
"A mini-album. A study on limited resources. The space between a second. A dedication to one of the most important figures in modern domestic design - Dieter Rams. No more, no less. Less and More ... Every sound on this record, from the melodic sounds to the percussion, the atmospheric effects to the bass lines originates from the Braun AB-30 alarm clock."(via Macelodeon)
"OSTRICH offers a micro environment in which to take a warm and comfortable power nap at ease. It is neither a pillow nor a cushion, nor a bed, nor a garment, but a bit of each at the same time. Its soothing cave-like interior shelters and isolates our head and hands (mind, senses and body) for a few minutes, without needing to leave our desk"(via Core77)
We asked four chefs to turn a Big Mac combo (burger, fries and a Coke, plus lots of condiments) into a five-star dish. To our surprise, they agreed. The only rule: other than oil and water, no extra ingredients allowed. The result is four meals that won’t be seen on a specials board anytime soon.(via ufunk)
"For our project, we had to find three scenes from any movie or TV show and use physics to find out if something was or wasn't possible. I got 100% on it."
When you're tagging now, it's probably just pictures of your escapades - or your kids - on Facebook, but it wasn't always that way. Once upon a time, your weapon of choice was a spray can and not an iPhone. Growing up doesn't have to mean ditching your past if you have a Kaligraffiti pen. The blue and orange splatter design case holds an easy flow pen refill that deploys using spray nozzle click top. The signature on your TPS reports will never be the same.(via The Awesomer)
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"Picturae 2.0 is a tangible way to paint virtually. It is inspired by the techniques of drawing, painting, printing, graffiti, ... and is built upon a digital process that enables an infinity of features and extensions. The cloth painting is the screen, the brush is a specific can. Sometimes mouse, other times brush, the specific can allows the user to paint or to change or select a parameter of the brush, his size or color ...
"The beauty of INSA's GIF-ITI is that it only truly lives when viewed online, where these days most street art ends up being viewed, and exaggerates the ephemeral nature of graffiti as each layer is painted instantly over the last. Mixing retro internet technology and labour intensive painting, INSA creates slices of infinite un-reality, cutting edge art for the tumblr generation."Der Entsehungsprozess im Zeitraffer nach dem Klick ...
"Einer Schätzung der Hauptverbandes des deutschen Einzelhandels (HDE) nach werden pro Jahr etwa 100.000 Einkaufswagen deutschlandweit entwendet. Jeder 20. Einkaufswagen wird bundesweit innerhalb eines Jahres gestohlen. Bei Preisen von 80 bis 130 Euro pro Stück ist der Schaden für die Handelsketten erheblich."
"An array of 138 mousetraps are set off in a chain reaction. Ping-pong balls help visualize both neutrons and the release of energy. Shot in 600 fps and 1000 fps."Ausführliche Beschreibung gibts bei Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations.
"This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is interested"
