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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Epic House Move



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Epic House Move

House move in Providence, RI by Gary Sylvester's Building Movers.


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Here is a similarly interesting move of German Church Emmaus-Kirche (read more here)



Today's pictures & links:
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Cold Shower!





(image credit: Helene Desplechin)



Elephant Ride-in

UPDATE: Curtis sent in this info: "This "Elephant Ride-In" took place in June 2006 in Ayutthaya, Thailand. The elephants and their mahouts, who work the tourism trade in the historical former Siamese capital city, were being treated to a free screening of the Thai computer-animated feature "Khan Kluay", which is the story of a young elephant that eventually grows up to be the war elephant of King Naresuan. This link has a bit more."


(original unknown)


Soviet TV receiver PC case mod

Peteris Tenisons sent us pictures of the case mod, made from a Soviet TV receiver REKORD, 1961.







Two computer specialists constructed the basics -

AMD Athlon(tm) 64x2 Dual Core Processor3800+
Kingston 1024MB RAM
400GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 6100nForce
Creative Audigy Soundblaster 7.1
Behold TV M6
Samsung DualHinge 17" TFT LCD monitor
LiteON DVDRW
wireless keyboard&mouse


A sound engineer from Netherlands installed a custom-built sub-woofer and speakers with motion sensitive cream-coloured LEDs to imitate the flickering of TV lamps. And a jeweler was invited to polish up on exterior details and create a power switch in front of the monitor by using the REKORD metal logo.


Mixed fresh links for today:

Akryls: fantastic animation - [movie]
Backstreets of Tokyo & Osaka at night - [pictorial]
Disaster in a Little Land - [pictures]
Gigantic Eiffel Tower cable car system - [fascinating] - via
Interesting Hoverwing concept - [tech] - via
Air-conditinioning for the brain - [weird]
Battle of the cat with... - [fun video]
Wood gas truck from WWII - [car video]
Best Horse Stunt you'll see all day - [fun video]


How to turn yourself into a vending machine:
(addition to our article)
There is the whole "Urban Camouflage" trend, as shown in this article.
WebUrbanist has more info. Artist: Aya Tsukioka.








(image credit: Aya Tsukioka)

Speaking of vending machines and kiosks, some do not have very original graphics:



Road-Rail Vehicles update

Our article just got updated with this cool dual-purpose bus:

In the 50s and 50s in Germany, a bus was shuttling between stations Montabaur and Siershahn:










(image credit: mibaone.de)


WEIRD SPHERES!!






(original unknown)

Hungry Bird

Visit this site - Human Descent - for more inpired Photoshop work.


(image credit: Human Descent)

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  • lol at the school girls and their unique sleeping places!
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  • Excellents shots and very funny

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudiolara/
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  • I found that fantastic photo of the Korean sleep schoolgirls on the metro and want very much to include it in my art exam concentration. where can I ask for the permission?
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  • image came from email, so original is unknown...
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  • Per the M&M's/Army ad, I think the uniform on the right is supposed to be one that would fit one of the anthropomorphic M&M characters.
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  • the critters in the last photo (around the Doritos bag) are giant isopods.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod
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  • and the StarBucks one is a beach in India, not Pakistan.
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  • If the ClearChannel sign under the Smart ForFour car ad is correct then it's: American Advertising and Marketing
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  • The "bugs" around the doritos bag area kind of sea crab, actually called Moreton Bay Bugs, found in Coastal Aussie restaurants and upmarket fish and chip shops.....oh, and in the supermarket too at xmas.
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  • M&M's were developed to give soldiers a way to have chocolate without it melting. That's where the old slogan came from. Bars were also inconvenient to carry. Away went the bar, in came "pan coated chocolates", M&M's.
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  • Schizophrenia can be treated. Seek help! - Best of the bunch imo. That'd be awsome to see that in a restroom.
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  • I love these scenes. These colors are more then beautiful!
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  • The Vader money comoes from http://diablo2003.deviantart.com/art/Starbuck-67549133
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  • your website is awesome.
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  • 76% at freakout :P
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  • Woah, lolicon office equipment? That's really pushing it here.
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  • good stuff.
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  • whoohaa
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  • On your Copper Canyon photo, when my family came down from Alaska in June of 1965, we drove from Anchorage to White Horse, Yukon then put our Volks camper on a flatbed railcar of the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad to Skagway, AK. It followed the GoldRush Trail of 1898 through the mountains and in place you could still see the steps worn into the rocks. The RR is running again but only to the Canada border from Skagway.
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  • Your 1961 Ford Fairlane Hy-Rail is actually a Checker Marathon, of indeterminate age because they never bother to change the styling.
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  • Back in the '70s I discovered that my '49 Ford pickup could ride the rails by slightly deflating the bias ply tires. Her creeper gear allowed us to leisurely cruise abandoned rail lines at 5 to 10 mph. The great thing was that it required only minimal attention from the driver.I only wish there was a system in place allowing us to similarly travel the highways. I would gladly give up some control of my vehicle in exchange for being able to pay attention to the scenery, or the newspaper, or my co-passengers.
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  • Don't forget the "Rail Scooter"
    http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2006/07/wtf-scooter-of-month-4-wheeled-rail.html

    or

    http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2007/01/return-of-rail-scooter.html
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  • And the RailBike: http://www.toerismevlaanderen.nl/tvl/download/nl/2260653/hoofdimage/railbike.jpg

    Sorry for the small pic, there are bigger ones available, but this exact pic is the only one around where I live.
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  • Thank you, i added some more info.
    Terrapin, you don't have a picture of this, by chance?
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  • This is an old bus-train combination, used in Germany in the sixties:
    http://www.mibaone.de/bahn/ssbus1.htm
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  • To your "Truly a Light Rail Vehicle" i can say that the first and third are Simson Schwalbe KR51/1 (aka Simson Swallow) build in the German Demokratic Republic. The second is a Simson Star, also build in GDR.

    greetz
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  • About that Volkswagen Bus: This is not some sort of "homegrown" conversion, they were produced in series equipped this way. The German railway company Deutsche Bundesbahn ordered some dozens of these (about 60 units, iirc). Some of them still roam around at several transportation museums or historic railways.
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  • Don't forget de Back to the Future
    Delorean Rail edition

    http://www.jpustoys.it/JPS/images/delorean_rail.jpg
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  • Where's polish car "Mitor" vel. "twin Żuk"?

    one pic: http://www.ssb.strefa.pl/mitor/galeria/mitor02.jpg

    more: http://www.ssb.strefa.pl/mitor/mitor.html
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  • The german so-called "Schi-Stra-Bus", the red bus shown on the pictures courtesy of mibaone.de, was not only used between the towns of Siershahn and Montabaur. 15 of these were brought into use in 1953 and 1954. They were used on several routes, partly on rails and partly on roads, e. g. between Passau and Cham. However, most of the connections were cancelled by the late 50ies, early 60ies, since the conversion between road and rail was rather time-consuming (10-15 Min.) and improvements to the road-network made all-road connections more competitive. The last "Schi-Stra-Bus"-route, Betzdorf - Koblenz trough the Westerwald-mountains, lasted till 1967. One bus, the one shown above, is preserved.

    More information (in German) on site linked to my name above.
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  • nb the photo just after the "willys jeep 4x4" is ALSO a Willlys jeep 4x4. It's a "forward control" jeep.
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  • The William Glover photo of the 1951 Chevrolet track inspection car is actually from the Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway in Arkansas, though it is pretty close to Missouri.
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  • A spruce goose is an airplane, the D&RGW #2 pictured is the combination of a Pierce Arrow car body with a box car, and is known to the railroaders as a "Motor". This is evident by the 2 foot tall letters on the side that say "Motor"

    To rail fans and the people of Colorado these marvels of necessity are called a "Galloping Goose"
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  • rather nice ones, couple of slovak here as well :) http://vlaky.net/zeleznice/spravy/003153-Vyhra-zeleznica-Piestany-Vrbove-svoj-boj-o-prezitie.asp
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  • It's really tell about the very old mariage of religion with war. Always walked hand in hand for thousand of years.
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  • And they are still walking hand in hand richard.
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  • The Land Raider is from the "Warhammer 40000" Sci-Fi gaming system (or WH40K for short). "Warhammer" is a fantasy gaming system.
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  • The theme song for this page should be "Onward Christian Soldiers".
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  • Thanks for sharing :)
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