"In all of my photographs I play the characters because I relate easy and it's much more interesting like this. The 8 bit objects that I've created are made from polyester and painted on with acrylic" LOW - REz LIFE (part 1)(via who killed bambi?)
"Boilerplate is a fictional robot of the Victorian era and early 20th century ... Boilerplate originally featured on a website created by Paul Guinan in 2000 as an online pitch for a graphic novel. The Boilerplate site details the history of a remarkable robot built in the late 19th century, and features photoshopped "archival images" in which Boilerplate (actually a 12-inch articulated model) is seen interacting with historical figures, such as Teddy Roosevelt and Pancho Villa. Becoming aware that some visitors to the site were taken in by its contents, making it an unintentional hoax, Guinan resolved to see how authentic he could make the character seem, working to ensure the descriptions of non-fictional events were accurate ..."Graphic Novel bei Amazon: Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel
(via we make money not art)"Tardigotchi is an artwork featuring two pets: a living organism and an alife avatar. These two disparate beings find themselves the unlikely denizens of a portable computing enclosure. The main body for this enclosure is a brass sphere, housing the alife avatar in an LED screen and the tardigrade within a prepared slide. A tardigrade is a common microorganism measuring half a millimeter in length. The alife avatar is a caricature of this tardigrade, its behaviour is partially autonomous, but it also reflects a considerable amount of expression directly from the tardigrade’s activities (like eating) ... By pushing a button, the virtual pet is fed, which in turn will feed the tardigrade. Tardigotchi has a social web presence: sending an email to the virtual character triggers a heating lamp, relaying a momentary signal of warmth to the tardigrade, while prompting the pixelated tardigrade to recline and soak up animated sun rays ... It also serves as a reminder for the special place humans have in communing with other animals, perhaps equally for artificial ones ..." Tardigotschi (inkl. Tardigotschi-Video, das leider erst ab Minute 3:30 halbwegs interessant wird)
"We have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia) ... Our classic airplane, nestled on the edge of the National Park in our Costa Verde II area, is perched on a 50-foot pedestal. At this height, you will enjoy scenic ocean and jungle views from the hard wood deck built atop the plane's former right wing ..." 727 Fuselage Home (viele Fotos, die es auch in groß gibt)(via Fubiz)
"These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations ..." Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943(via MeFi)
It is now a museum run by the nonprofit Arizona Aerospace Foundation which includes a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile still in its silo as well as the original launch facilities. It is very spectacular and impressive. And it seems like if you to push the red button the third world war would begin! A nuclear silo in the United States (33 pics)Neulich hatte ich das russische Gegenstück gepostet – und jedesmal wenn ich mir solche Fotos anschaue, kann ich den Irrsinn kaum fassen ...
"The irony is that James Dean was considered anything but stylish by many of his Hollywood peers of the day. He turned heads and created a legend, not by dressing up– but by dressing down. Established style icon Humphrey Bogart looked down his nose at Dean, considering him a punk and a slob. On Jimmy’s passing, Bogart had this to say– “Dean died at just the right time. He left behind a legend. If he’d lived, he’d never have been able to live up to the publicity.” ... James Dean cemented the rebel uniform for his generation of youth, and for many to come, through his very personal portrayal of Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause. Immortalized onscreen in Technicolor wearing the now iconic red jacket, white tee, Lee 101 Jeans, and engineer boots, Dean seemed to hold the world breathless, and became the first actor to speak for the silent anguished teen– he gave them a voice they had been lacking ..." JAMES DEAN CULTURAL GIANT OF THE REBEL SETFilmfreunde erfahren in dem Artikel nicht unbedingt was Neues, aber es geht ja sowie mehr um die Fotos ...
