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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Flying Money



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Flying Money

Man throws thousands of pounds into the air at a pedestrian crossing... What would be your reaction if you ended up near it?



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People in Aberystwyth were quite shocked when a man showered about £20,000 into the air at a pedestrian crossing, after shouting: "Who wants free money?"
"It caused bedlam - people were on their hands and knees eagerly picking the money up."

The man later said of his motive: "I just wanted to spread a little sunshine around, and to give people a little happiness."

Today's pictures & links:
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Fractal Tables

Furniture design taken to the next (literally impossible to manufacture) level. This is obviously a simplified prototype, conceived by Platform Wertel Oberfell together with Matthias Bär.


(image credit: platform-net)

Another cool piece of furniture:
Gear-crunching "The Executive Desk" (more info and a video here) -



This clockwork epitome of office life was designed by Dale Mathis - see his gallery - who is also responsible for these gorgeous clocks:



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The Latest in Light Painting

Great addition to our "Painting by Light" article, these are works of Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, Lightmark:





The gallery is here, and it is out-of-this-world.

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Phonofone: Retro Speaker for iPod that uses no power!
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Made from ceramic and using only passive amplification, it boosts the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels - being a cool vintage sculpture in the meantime. Designed by Tristan Zimmermann. order it here.



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

500 years old. New Species.

"An Uneasy Eden" is a great underwater photography gallery by Brian Skerry. See it here


(image credit: National Geographic)

Photo by Brian Skerry -
The divers who found it said that from a distance it looked like a flying saucer. On closer examination, ecologist Enric Sala sees a stupendous lobe coral that may be 500 years old. According to reef expert Jim Maragos, the species is likely new to science.

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Mixed fresh links for today:

The City of Ship Breakers - [fascinating]
Amazing Ancient Cities of Color - [architecture]
Strange and Intriguing Shipwrecks - [weird]
New radical way to hop on a train - [urban tech]
Strangest Home Remedies & Treatments - [health]
Ultimate Geek Crop Circle, info - [weird]
New Office Comedy Series (all episodes online) - [fun video]
More Office Rampage - [fun video, nsfw language]
Dragon Skin: New ultra-effective armor - [cool video]

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Map of Tokyo Metro' Shibuya Station

A multi-dimensional puzzle:


(image credit: tokyometro.jp)

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A new word in working out: Submerged Treadmill
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Looking mighty strange - but maybe strange enough to prompt some interest:
Hydro Physio submerged treadmill.



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Spectacular Depths

Mike Roberts takes awesome pictures of underwater life. In cooperation with Photo.net Editor's Picks, here are some samples -




(images credit: Mike Roberts)

Check out his full gallery here. Absolutely fantastic.

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Mortal Coil

A bar in Ukraine - in shape of a coffin. Must be some very subtle commentary hidden in it, somewhere.



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COMMENTS:

6 Comments:

Blogger Emily Veinglory said...

That's the same office freak out you linked to before, from a different angle. makes me wonder if it is staged.

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Anonymous Andyman said...

Booooo! That's an old joke but apparently you didn't know that or cared. ;)

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Blogger Emily Veinglory said...

If I am missing some context someone could drop a link. The internet is a big place and some of us hail from distant corners of it.

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OpenID danvolodar said...

The bar is named "Eternity".

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Anonymous Andyman said...

BTW-MIne was in reference to the "ignorance/apathy" joke at the end there. ;>)

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Andyman - my ignorance AND apathy knows no bounds

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  • The last picture could be from Philippe Ramette, a french photographer. He doesn't use Photoshop, but strange machines to create weird pictures of himself.

    You can see some of them here (fr) :

    http://laboiteaimages.hautetfort.com/archive/2007/02/11/index.html
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  • My link's been broken, sorry, try that short one, please (it's really cool) :

    http://tiny.cc/GBi06
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  • fascinating article.

    off-topic, but a confirmation, that last pic is indeed Philippe Ramette, entitled:

    Rational exploration of the undersea : irrational walk 2006

    (xippas.com/en/artist/philippe_ramette)
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    Many of the people who died in lake Nyos were deprived of oxigen and poisoned by SO2.

    I think that this trend of blaming CO2 for everything that happens is becoming rather fishy...

    Congratulations
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  • Thank you for the image info - credit added.
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  • Wow!
    I posted too the Mario Sánchez gallery o.o

    here:
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    i really love this works :)
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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/gantico/899874474/

    :-)
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    a friend told me about it......
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    http://www.xpress4me.com/news/uae/dubai/20007183.html

    Steve Z
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    http://www.tweak.net.au/pics2/2007/May/rdluxe2/page_1.html
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  • also check these
    http://everypictures.blogspot.com/2008/12/oops-weirdest-accidents.html
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