Miniature Living Room Inside A PC October 4, 2009
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I have to admit, this is freakin’ cool!
I’m a MacHead, and the only thing I miss about PCs is building a customized gaming machine.
There’s a painstaking amount of detail inside the scene, including intricate housewares such as a vase, flowers, the newspaper, and a gumball machine (?!). Anyone with this much time on their hands must also spend hours thinking of the perfect way to get away with murder.
It’s Good To Be King August 23, 2009
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Les Paul, R.I.P. August 13, 2009
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A giant in the world of music. We’ll miss him.
Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94.
Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso and inventor who revolutionized music and created rock ‘n’ roll as surely as Elvis Presley and the Beatles by developing the solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording, died Thursday at age 94.
Known for his lightning-fast leads, Paul performed with some of early pop’s biggest names and produced a slew of hits, many with wife Mary Ford. But it was his inventive streak that made him universally revered by guitar gods as their original ancestor and earned his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the most important forces in popular music.
Paul, who died in White Plains, N.Y., of complications from pneumonia, was a tireless tinkerer, whose quest for a particular sound led him to create the first solid-body electric guitar, a departure from the hollow-body guitars of the time. His invention paved the way for modern rock ‘n’ roll and became the standard instrument for legends like Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page.
John Hughes, R.I.P. August 6, 2009
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I’ll miss you, dude!
Brat pack director John Hughes dies of heart attack in New York City at age 59.
Brat pack movie man John Hughes died of an apparent heart attack Thursday while visiting New York, his spokeswoman said.
The 59-year-old filmmaker collapsed on a morning walk in Manhattan. He was in the city seeing family, spokeswoman Michelle Bega said.
Hughes created several coming-of-age films of the ’80s and ’90s including “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” He also wrote and produced the original “Home Alone” and the flick’s two sequels.
Ugliest Yachts Ever Created July 13, 2009
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I can’t bear to post a picture of these… yachts. Small children and animals might be harmed. You’ll just have to visit Wired to see for yourself.
My comment for the “architect” who designed these boats: Ever heard the saying “form follows function”?
Don’t quit your day job.
Spectacular Dream Yachts to Set Sail.
So often we’re teased with amazing renderings of things that could be but never will because they lack a bridge between blue sky and real world. The latest virtual tease, a pair of futuristic yachts rapidly rising in virtual visibility, breaks that convention. Designer Kevin Schöpfer plans to set sail in three years.
Schöpfer Yachts’ first design, Oculus, demonstrated a futuristic melding of boat, spaceship and fish at an impressive 250 feet long. Then came the even larger and more futuristic looking Infinitas, an astonishing 300 feet long. Needless to say we were intrigued.
The founder of Schöpfer Yachts is an accomplished architect who studied at Syracuse and Harvard. His resumé includes the upcoming International UFO Museum in Roswell, N.M. and the Wine Room at Nebula Casino in Macau. Schöpfer has worked with internationally acclaimed urban planning guru Paolo Soleri and is working on the post-Katrina proposal to turn New Orleans into a floating city.
Photography Through Electrocution June 30, 2009
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Robert must have been, uh, smoking something when he took this picture.
Photography Through Electrocution.
Robert Buelteman takes electrifying photographs, but he doesn’t even use a camera. Instead, he places flowers directly onto film and shocks them with 80,000 volts.
His process is a refined, high art version of Kirlian Photography—a photographic technique popularized in the 1930s. Buelteman places a whittled, near translucent flower directly onto color film, then he sandwiches the subject between sheet metal and plexiglass—all of which is submerged in liquid silicone. Using jumper cables, the flower is pumped full of electricity which ionizes the surrounding air and leaves a glowing corona on the film (the blue outline).
Heathers Sequel June 1, 2009
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Loved Heathers. Hope the sequel is good.
Perez Hilton: Winona Confirms Heathers Sequel.
Hollywood’s famous klepto confirms that the 1988 cult classic Heathers is a go for a sequel!
Winona Ryder explains in a new interview that the reason for all the hush-hush about deets is due to the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman. She says they “don’t want to talk about.”
1911 Handgun Assembly, Animated May 30, 2009
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Scary Mary May 28, 2009
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Amazing what a little creative editing can do. Remember that when you watch TV news channels.
Via a twitter from William Gibson.
Creepy Chan Runner-Up For America’s Next Top Model May 16, 2009
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‘Anonymous’ Pin-Up Girl Is Runner-Up For America’s Next Top Model.
New Orleans college student and artist Allison Harvard, 21, survived 11 elimination rounds to reach the show’s season finale, which aired Wednesday. The hands-down favorite with Top Model fans, she nonetheless lost in the competition’s final minutes when host Tyra Banks and a panel of judges anointed rival Teyona Anderson — a contestant with a more conventional look.
Well before Harvard became famous to a national TV audience, she was both appreciated and feared on the “/b/” board on 4chan — the birthplace of the internet’s greatest memes and most felonious pranks. The waifish, wide-eyed blonde’s self-portraits — which she’d posted on the web — circulated in that community in 2005, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica, the canonical record of all things channish.
