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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Link Latte 66



#66 - Week of June 22, 2008

Is Internet Rewiring Our Brains? - [thought-provoking]
We will print (or create) any receipt for you - [strange site]
The Weirdest Alphabet: The Rotor Script - [weird]
Waiting for the Bus (2-hour wait in Russia, 1993) - [neat video]
More Abandoned & Awesome Hotels - [urban exploring]
When geeks and graffiti combine - [funny pics]
Beautiful & Original Product Design - [design]
Most Interesting Swimming Pools - [architecture]
Drug-smuggling Submarines - [boats]
Coffee tables can be fantastic - [design]
Save a Wet Cell Phone using Rice - [how-to]
Good site for day-dreaming - [boats]
Miniature Device Teaches Skill in an Instant - [gadgets]
Music industry lawsuit as part of the marketing strategy! - [geek]
What Manhattan Island looked like in 1609 - [vintage]
Train vs. BMW - [weird accident]
This is not a cat! Be careful. - [pics]
Unusual Computer Mouse - [tech]
Old Photos in 3D - [illusion, cool site]
Mammoth Hairball - [image]
How-to: "hack" sites using only Google - [don't take it seriously]
Flying RC trucks - [weird]
Stamps with weirdest aromas - [collecting]
Test yourself: too much caffeine? - [quiz]
"Trunk Monkey" cute video ads - [cool ads]
Space Elevator Detonation - [scifi video]
Great Office War - [fun video]
Ride a motorbike thru the house - [wow video]

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  • You must admit, that is some pretty cool stuff.

    JT
    http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
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  • definitely
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  • "My art is made totally freehand"? indeed!
    then wtf is the suv with the armature and all that business?
    He walked 100 miles then drove, SLOWLY 100 miles. I think the impact on the environment is a little more visible from outer space now.
    Why not make a better point and etch an image in antartcica with the same equipment
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  • @ Anonymous (ofcourse...)

    I think it's a crane to lift the artist much higher to take pictures of his artwork.

    btw: if he did actually drive the 100 miles driving... yes that is indeed a MASSIVE load on the CO2 contribution... because OMG 100 miles is disastrous. thats like a 2hr drive!! What a monster.
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  • @Anonymous

    Yes, bringing sand painting equipment to etch ice in Antarctica would be quite a challenge!

    Like eating soup with a fork.
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  • Here is an other example of massive art figures created between 200 BC and 600 AD : the Nazca Lines

    http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html
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  • woowww, impresionante

    saludos desde españa
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  • Just pure Awesomeness!
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  • I say commission this artist to make a 21st-century analog of the Nazca artwork for the people of the future to puzzle over. Why not? The Incas did it. Why shouldn't we?
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  • This is SO BEAUTIFUL but my heart can't help but question. Why? Aesthetic showmanship? Could the resources have been put to better use? This question does not imply an answer. I just struggle between beauty and function and I see millions of souls just struggling to survive while others have the resources to do something like this, as incredible as it is.

    What is the price and reward of art.
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  • reminds me of andy goldsworthy stuff. my favorite form of art... fleeting, temporary, made of natural materials. just like us humans.

    i find it ironic... this is the same location as burningman. and i'm happy he didn't do it during BM, because this kicks ass over anything ever created there.
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  • ps @ anonymous:

    why? there doesn't need to be a why, does there? if everything was done based on a why, i think beauty and magic would disappear from our lives. well, at least when it comes to art.

    *just because* is enough for me in this case.
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  • "btw: if he did actually drive the 100 miles driving... yes that is indeed a MASSIVE load on the CO2 contribution... because OMG 100 miles is disastrous. thats like a 2hr drive!! What a monster"

    I just cant believe it. That someone would drive a hundred miles, its just too hard to believe! Hes destroying the planet!
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  • "I think it's a crane to lift the artist much higher to take pictures of his artwork."

    He used a cherry picker and a plane to get the shots.
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  • Hey, if you guys are interested in jims art check out this video i made on youtube, more videos will be coming. The video has more shots from the desert. I made the music on garageband.

    Worlds Largest Human Made Drawing+ other art by jim denevan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6tWXU1dA7s
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  • Nice video... thank you
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  • Definetly better than sticking those umbrellas up and down interstate 5 in California about 10 years or so ago very nice indeed carbon foot print or not.
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  • I just put out a new version of the youtube video that is much improved with new shots. check it out and feel free to leave feedback, it is much appreciated!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdD3jmyPbGo
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  • Very Impressive, but not the largest, I would argue. Have you had a look at the Nazca Plains near Peru recently?
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  • Nazca lines are smaller, look it up.
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  • Seems everyone is comparing these sand figures with those on Nazca desert. They remind much more to me the (ex-)'misterious' crop circles in UK and other places...
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  • Check out my newest video that has interesting footage from jim denevan's trip to Greenland.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVgFXaB6-E
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  • 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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  • Booooo! That's an old joke but apparently you didn't know that or cared. ;)
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  • 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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  • The bar is named "Eternity".
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  • BTW-MIne was in reference to the "ignorance/apathy" joke at the end there. ;>)
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  • Andyman - my ignorance AND apathy knows no bounds
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  • Very nice post, never heard of exploding lakes before. The image with the pump in the center of the lake is not visible...
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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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  • Just to clarify, while CO2 is toxic in sufficient concentration, the deaths at Lake Nyos were due more to it simply displacing all the oxygen and causing immediate asphyxiation, than to any toxic effect.
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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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  • Sigivald, you are absolutely right. Moreover, the main toxic gas expelled by a volcanic lake - or a smoking crater or crevice - is the poisonous SO2, or Sulphur Dioxide.

    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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  • i heard about the lakes, it was in one of arthur clarkes' books. can't remember which one, though.
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  • Wow!
    I posted too the Mario Sánchez gallery o.o

    here:
    http://hardergeneration.hu/2008/06/11/aegis-strifes-digital-hell/

    i really love this works :)
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  • The fountain in the middle of lake Nyos only used a pump to get it started. Now it is a self-sustaining fountain of fizzy-water, shooting 100 feet into the air.
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  • wow I love the pens. reminds me of the viagra pen my friend stole from one of our teachers (her husband worked in pharmacuticals)
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  • I'm pretty sure the car jump went exactly as planned. You'll notice there was no down ramp on the other side, and the guy's extensive safety gear.
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  • The squirrel with the Canon rangefinder is Spottina; she's a member of ACORN (American Camera Organized Rodent Network). The members are mostly squirrels, with a few chipmunks. Scott Alan Johnson, the only human member of the group, is also the only one of them who can operate a computer, so he puts their photos up on the net for them. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosquirrels/sets/72057594128554742/

    (He'd appreciate a courtesy e-mail if you use his pics; his address is on that Flickr page.)
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  • Thank you so much, great info - credit included.
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  • i really want to see what was on the other end of some of those camera angles....
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  • The large Canon lens is a 1200mm - produced in amazingly small numbers, I believe that Getty and National Geographic have one a piece.

    Having lugged around a 600mm F4 more times than is good for me I'd hate to take that on a shoot!

    The really little one was produced to celebrate 30 years of Canon EOS equipment.
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  • Great collection, I might add this picture of underwear photography:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/gantico/899874474/

    :-)
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  • That GINA BMW's really cool, although it's far from revolutionary... these babies've been roaming the streets of eastern europe for decades. Comes with real leather too :o)
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  • Some crazy random chit as usual.
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  • I don't think those aliens look cuddly. I think they look like the government squad guys in Brazil.

    If you want them to look cuddly, paint them in pastels.
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  • Let me introduce your blog on my blog.
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  • Bambee... thank you for the link
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  • The manga-aircrafts are from Ace Combat 6 ;)
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  • Wow. This is a cool collection. I love creative stuff.
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  • Ace Combat indeed.. No photoshop needed.
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  • The photo of the eggs with faces that says 'original unknown is by Elise Marie. Here's the photo in her deviantART gallery: http://nocturnalmoth.deviantart.com/art/Enjoy-your-breakfast-77445089
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  • Thank you Jam Master Ghislaine - credit added.
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  • About creativity with chinese characters: You might be amused by webcomic "Sinfest" by Tatsuya Ishida. In his case he sometimes makes his cartoon characters turn into kanji characters. Granted, you have to dig deep into archives, but for those of you with enough free time it might prove rewarding. I for one find this webcomic very original and having, ahem, character...
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  • I still have my
    weapon of choice
    from The Gulf War,
    a blue flyswatter made in Oman.

    Got a lot of use, it did!
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  • The food section made me think of this:
    http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/05/30/incredible-sushi-art/
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  • I don´t think the guns are papir mache but insted orgami.
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  • you implied that the japanese had a military by saying "the japanese military may have something like this"

    the japanese havent had a military since ww2.
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  • ''the japanese havent had a military since ww2''


    LOL and elvis lives XD
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  • Those trees look like something out of the Codex Seraphinianus.
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  • Amazing blog. Fun blog. Great.
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  • DRB is the best jigga!
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