Wheelsurfing

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Wheelsurfing Strange mono-wheel transportation created in Holland (company's site) url Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. The View From 140 Floor of Burj Dubai (click to enlarge) Read more about this "highest tower in the world" here: (image credit: Burj Dubai Skyscraper via Pete McPherson) ------------ Socialist Realism in Art A definitive piece: UPDATE: This was actually made for an ad campaign promoting a cyber-market: (caption "You had to be brave, then"), and the sculpture was made by Plastic Studio (thank you, Baronne Samedi, for the tip) ------------ Don't Believe Your Eyes (original unknown) ------------ Tesseract Rotation - via Try to wrap your brains around this little animation: Hypercube, or a Tesseract is "the four-dimensional analog of the cube, just as the cube is the three dimensional analog of the square." Now the same model performing a double rotation about two orthogonal planes: And then there is "24-cell convex regular 4-polytope performing a double rotation about two orthogonal planes." Ready? Here it comes (don't stare at it too much): For the science fiction treatment of Hypercube, read a classic story "And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A. Heinlein - click here. ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: City Farm Skyscrapers - [architecture] Jeff VanderMeer to edit "SquidPunk" - [books] All April Fools on the web - [collection] Gallery of great magazine fold-ins - [weird art] The Sphere Chair - [design] Try this headline: Black Hole Eats Earth - [science] Synchronized Fish Swimming! - [wow video] Jeff Goldbum pitches iMac (drunk) - [fun video] Top Gear: Best Race in History - [car video] ------------ Radical Art from POVevolving POVevolving is a groovy limited edition gallery from LA. - site. "Core" by Kiel Johnson: "Journeyman" by Stephen Rothwell: ------------ Mysterious Mini-Sub in Russia Getting more information... stay tuned. ------------ A couple of hand-written masterpieces You might have seen them before, but they are priceless: "God made it that way" - "How to tell when you've ticked off an engineer" - (click to enlarge) (image credit: Randall Munroe, xkcd) The amount is $533.80 (perhaps). ------------ Another shot of World's Most Dangerous Road Bolivia - see a bunch of them here. Shudder... This time there is a traffic jam, caused by some construction machinery (they do construction there??) - ------------ When Furniture is Against You The item above is called "Defendius" by Artem Lebedev. ------------ Wild, Wild Fashion Japanese Shoes - the latest rage: what do you think? ugly, dangerous, comfortable? - via Very strange t-shirt: (original unknown, thanks Lisa K.) ------------ Just Shadows Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: