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Thursday, April 03, 2008

The Ames Room



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The Ames Room

This is a classic optical illusion:



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Here is the room's layout: the walls, floor and ceiling are all angled to create a "forced perspective":



Today's pictures & links:
Click to enlarge images.

Additional Awesome LEGO
(to go with the recent article)

Tentacles, Sea Monsters, Cable bugs - serious (almost) anime zoo, created by Danny Rice:





The Ohm creature, from Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" animation:


(images credit: Danny Rice)

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Prepare for Launch

Russian payload, time-lapse photography:



Adequate security:


(originals unknown)

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Symbols... symbols, everywhere


(image credit: Accuracy & Aesthetics)

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Cool Shot of the Day
(in cooperation with National Geographic magazine)


(photo of Siauliai, Lithuania - by Gianni Oliva)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Frozen in Time: Abandoned huts in Antarctica - [fascinating]
The web is closed for spring cleaning! - [funny]
Fish with a creepy-looking face - [nature]
Cotard delusion of being dead and missing organs - [weird] - via
Strange sound recordings - [article]
Personal Space Invaders - [hilarious]
Here is how a small Tokyo house can feel larger - [cool video]
Don't try this: Avalanche Surfing - [wow video]
Hummer can do this? - [car video]
Over-excitable airport trucks - [video ad]

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Snow-white Cuteness




(original unknown)

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Great hotel inside Cappadocia Caves, Turkey

More info at this site. Seems to be pretty cool location (assuming it's not haunted by specters of the past). We also wrote about Cappadocia Caves at the end of this article.











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Awesome Bird Characters




(image credit: E. J. Peiker)

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Weird Tree Formation

This must be some kind of Photoshop:




(original unknown)

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Suicide Teddy

Goes with our "Suicidal Gadgets" article


(image credit: ffffound)

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Knitting, v2.0



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Blogger racetraitor said...

Broken link for the Antarctic huts.

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

fixed, thank you!

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  • Cool post.

    Re: the custom barcodes on products, the late Rick Tharp, a graphic designer here in the U.S., was also known for that. It caused a bit of a stir at the time. I want to say that he did it first, during the late eighties, but in the absence of solid research, I shouldn't. Who knows ... perhaps he got the idea from the Japanese.

    Hmph. Maybe I shouldn't write rambling comments on others' blogs when I've just woken up.
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  • Back in the early days of bar codes on periodicals, Mad Magazine used to do some quite imaginative things to the bar codes on the front cover. Look at the CollectMad web site collection of covers, starting around the last half of 1979.
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  • Check out the album 'Seed to Sun' by Boom Bip. It is on the Warp/Lex label and has a very beautifully illustrated and combined inner and outer sleeve which when inserted correctly reveals the bar-code through a cutout window.
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  • Two of my favourite things! Barcodes and Japanese stuff.

    Amazing blog :)
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  • I remember seeing one of these on a bottle of Axe in Osaka. I bought one to bring back, but I think it was confiscated by the TSA :)
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  • The EE/CS building at the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities has a barcode on the sidewalk containing the date the building was erected.
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  • Eye-opening post, really like the examples you put together, especially the clock.

    Barcodes carry a lot of information, but one neat thing about them is the permutations of the word:

    abc redo
    coed bar
    rode cab
    bra code
    drab ceo
    bad core
    race bod
    bod care
    brocade

    :)
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  • Cans of Tecate beer have an eagle-shaped UPC code.
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  • i love the one that says "free range human" in the flower pedals
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  • http://blog.yam.com/kiroro9930/article/14450063

    GOOD~~
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  • Wow, those are some interesting designs.

    Congrats on being featured on BoingBoing!
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  • Cool barcode from Slovenia:

    http://shrani.si/?2j/Uo/3nW8zF6t/barcodefructal.jpg
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  • LA based artist Guillermo Bert has a great series of Bar Code pieces.

    http://www.gbert.com/barcod5.htm
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  • My favourite is the barcode building!!
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  • The japanese barcodes were awarded the highest distinction the most coveted Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival gives out to the most breakthrough, groundbreaking, media changing idea.
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  • it's good article, You can make your video more popular to primary Indonesian Social Community site at InfoGue.com. Get more traffic from Indonesian community members by installing INFOGUE widget. your article:

    http://design.infogue.com/barcode_jepang_yang_kreatif_dan_unik
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  • Ok, now I want a screensaver of those dizzying four dimensional cubes.
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  • the check is two-tenths of a cent. E to the i*pi is -1 and the infinite sum is 1 so the total is .002 dollars.
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  • The Verizon check is from the great XKCD. Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic.
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  • Speaking of Rubik's Cubes, I was pissed off recently to discover that in Korea, they are known as "Edison Cubes." Even in death Edison continues to steal the inventions of better inventors.
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  • what is the blue lego-spaceship thingy?
    i kind of have the feeling, that i know it from somewhere. maybe from some computer game?

    and did i recognize the spaceship benaeth the blue one right as the one from the game "Descent"?
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  • I wrote these about 10 years ago, sorry if they're a bit crude: http://byrden.com/puzzles/
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  • René - the bottom one does superficially resemble Descent's Pyro-GX, but with some substantial differences.

    http://www.funbox3d.com/rebirth/3d_images/3D%20-%20Pyro%20GX.jpg
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  • That Blue ship you're talking about is most certainly a Vaygr ship from the Homeworld 2 game.

    Or is it ???

    I could not be less sure.

    Great post, as usual. Keep up the good work Avi !
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  • The German steampunk stuff is not "Nazi", but for a fictional German Empire, doubtless inspired by that of the Kaiser.

    ("Deutsches Reich" just meaning "German Government"; that's why the Nazis were the "Third Reich", because they were the third notional unified German state, after the Holy Roman Empire and the Kaiser's unification of Germany.

    The term has no specific relation to fascism and its repulsive ideology.)
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  • It would be so cool to see a slow motion video of the lego car hitting something head on at a high speed...
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  • I think the "blue lego-spaceship thingy" is the military spaceship from "Aliens" (which carried Ripley and a detatchment of Marines back to the planet where the beastie was found).

    I want to say it was the Scirroco, or Suroko, or something like that.

    Best of the series, IMHO
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  • hey guys the blue one i,m 90% sure is the "Sulaco" first seen in Aliens ;)
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  • don't forget the Touch Rubik's Cube!

    http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/touch-rubiks-cube
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  • Very interesting!! Very cool!!
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  • The blue ship is definitely NOT the Sulaco, it's more inspired by the homeworld ships, and they in turn are inspired by the Sulaco... also, the Predator head is made of Lego!
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  • Now this is a LEGO model! Over 180Kg in weight and over 300.000 pieces used!

    http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/lego-aircraft-carrier.html
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  • Thank you guys for info - post updated
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  • The M.C. Escher model was built by Andrew Lipson, whose page is here. Sadly, that picture has been reposted all over the internet without credit to the builder.

    The life-size Han Solo in Carbonite is by Nathan Sawaya, not Erik Varszegi. This is his post about it on LUGNET.

    The Homeworld-inspired blue spaceship and the gray fighter right below it were built by Danny Rice, whose Flickr page is here.
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  • Oh, and the "geekiest" in the title is meant as a highest compliment :)
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  • The red and white cruiser type Lego ship bears a slight resemblance to HMS Endurance

    Here on wikipedia...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endurance_%28A171%29
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  • The ship is a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser. Not an HMS cruiser. Sorry. Love how it even has the AEGIS array and the SONAR bubble on the bow. Very well done.
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  • This was always my favorite lego sculpture.

    http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
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  • The Escher staircase is really something. I happen to have a print hanging on the wall right here and the lego version is pretty much perfect. ... And look, he's done other Escher's in legos too. (On his site.) Very cool!
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  • Sir:

    I believe that 'crystal Rubik' is originally from

    http://plasmadesign.co.uk/
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  • I loved the Leningrad Cowboys! This is a terrific song and they all looked like they were having a great time. Just shows how music really is the universal language! Watching this gives me hope that someday we could all live together as friends. Totally fun!
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  • I wish you enable yourr site with http://piclens.com, just view ur cool things with cool view
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  • The "vintage arrangement" above is Toto's keyboardist, Steve Porcaro, arranging the wiring on his analog synth system in the studio, probably sometime in 1977-78 or so. I recognize the face, even though I've never seen that actual picture. Back in those days, synths came in "stacks", since they were pretty much analog. Nowadays, just like computers, one digital keyboard system replaces that entire mess...
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  • Oops! I was wrong. That pic was from 1982. More info, and more pictures of studios, here: http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/santuarios6.htm
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  • I reckon the first pipe pictures loop is t prevent an open sewer connection, and so takes care of any smell.
    The blue one seems like a diy radiator.
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  • The first pipe loop looks like a moisture catch...it has a drain tap.
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  • The scary part is when places network older buildings, they look just like the first picures of cables in a crawl space.
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  • The 'unnecessary' bends in the pipes are mostly to allow the pipes to expand and contract (due to thermal changes) without breaking - since a pipe can BEND OK, but they don't COMPRESS (longitudinally) very well at all!
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  • Quelle 2 = http://www.offtop.ru/misi/v20_579528__.php
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  • Quelle2= http://www.offtop.ru/misi/v20_579528__.php
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  • Soundtrack for this post: "La vida es llena de cables" (Life is full of wires), by Los Samplers.

    Los Samplers is one of Uwe Schmidt (Atom-Heart, Señor Coconut) experimental music alter-egos.

    You can hear the track here at the end of the post, there is a player.
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