![]() Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. A Giant Snail If Chernobyl-grade mutant animals creep you out, don't watch this... url This is a giant snail, all right - an African Land Snail. They can grow nearly a foot long and live for almost a decade.... Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. Great Light Painting Photography Good addition to our Painting with Light article, the work of c33h33y33 is pretty luminous and fun: ![]() ![]() (image credit: c33h33y33) ------------ This seems to be a sort of a trap: ![]() Not sure if this would work either: ![]() (original unknown) ------------ Robot Creations by Mark Ho Good addition to our Robot Art Series. See pretty neat Top 10 list of artists working in this sub-genre here. Mark Ho from Netherlands documents on his site the process of sculpting very quaint metal humanoids. ![]() This composition is probably the most profound: two robot creations examine the tool by which they were created... ![]() (image credit: Mark Ho) ------------ Toxic Nudibranchs (in cooperation with National Geographic magazine) Fantastic, alien forms and colors - perhaps the most fanciful of all sea creatures. Read the article and see the full gallery. Nembrotha kubaryana: ![]() Flabellina exoptata: ![]() Even though they are poisonous, the smile is still cute: ![]() (photos by David Doubilet, National Geographic) ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Incredible Stop-Motion Urban Graffiti Animation - [weird] More crazy Nazi UFOs myths - [vintage tech] Infamous Top Secret Bases & Compounds - [exploring] How to make thermite - [careful with that!] Strange Origins of Velcro - [interesting] Defecation target practice for chickens - [weird sport] Graphic Novels review spotlight: every Friday - [cool site] Bay of Fundi, Nova Scotia: highest tides - [cool video] Give this thing room on a highway - [car video] ------------ Erlend Mork's new dark art Great surreal artist Erlend Mork just came up with another deeply troubling print: The Good Seed ![]() ------------ Seascapes Art by Neil Taylor Neil Taylor is exhibiting several new paintings in a group show called "Greetings From Coogee", at Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, starting from 14th May. ![]() ![]() (art by Neil Taylor) ------------ Sergei Frolov's Soviet Calculators Vintage collection, a part of a wonderful "weird collections" roundup at Neatorama: ![]() Among other strange collections there are: toilet seat art, AOL CDs and asphalt museum. And that's not the weirdest, or the most disgusting. Check out this "Weird Fortune Cookie Collection" example: The Greatest Danger could be Your Stupidity ------------ "Tough as Nails" Loving ![]() (original unknown) ------------ Russian President Facts New president D. Medvedev in his youth: ![]() ... and being morphed into the last Russian tzar Nikolas II: ![]() ------------ Great designers think alike? Steve M. pointed out an interesting coincidence (or is it?) In our article about Retro-Future Transportation we featured a picture of Soviet flying car: ![]() Amazingly, this illustration seems to be a copy of another model: ![]() Photo taken at the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana. This design study hasn't been displayed for some time... The display signage didn't disclose much, either -- only that the restoration had been paid for by the Studebaker Drivers Club. The flying cars are pretty much identical. ------------ Going green: ![]() Permanent Link... ![]() ![]() ![]() Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: |
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I think the giant snail is fake? just decent CGI.
And I think tthat it's this.
There's a similar (same?) Studebaker on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The card there indicates this was to be a nuclear-powered vehicle that balanced gyroscopically on one centered wheel, and was also to have a energy force field--hence no need for windows. All courtesy our friend the atom.
The snail isn't fake. have you never watched a nature documentry before?
The giant snail is definitely NOT a fake. They're not safe to handle though, because they can carry a disease (I forget which) that they can pass on to humans.
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