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Friday, October 31, 2008

Archive: October 2008




Wicked Wearable Sculptures

Halloween costumes gone deliciously wrong
Caves: The World Beneath the World

Fairyland Cave Formations
Creative Ads, Issue 11

No need to keep up with Joneses any more...
Ultra Rigs of the World

Majestic Rigs and Custom Truck Interiors
Dolls and Toys That Creep us Out

The Doll Purgatory
Castles That Will Inspire And Haunt You

When fairy tale jumps from a landscape and hits you between the eyes
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Platypus & Echidna Babies

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Strange Knits & Yarn Monsters

When Art and Knitting Needles Collide
Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun

NASA's most radical killer asteroid defense
Weird Inventions by Guys, Part 10

Awesome innovations... hilarious ideas.
Grand Old Times... In the Future

Overview of the Pulp SciFi Art
Beauty in Decay: Photography of Urban Exploration

Desolate places with a soul
Lebanon: Switzerland of the Middle East

A troubled, but beautiful place



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October 29, 2008 - Biscotti Bits
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incl. "The Solar Furnace"
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incl. "Working LEGO V8 Engine"
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  • Perhaps I have a dirty mind but...

    http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/SQqmkPOAfZI/AAAAAAAAjYA/9VXANSXms5U/s640/456746uryjghh.jpg

    that looks like a penis to me!
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  • Yay... The pink angry bunny is animator Amy Winfrey's (of "Making Fiends" fame) "Big Bunny". Go to www.amywinfrey.com and you will find out why Big Bunny is such an appropriate Halloween costume.
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  • The boy's costume with a head being cut off is scary.
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  • Rebecca Horn also does wearable sculptures.
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  • These are some great pictures, but that snake with the bird in its mouth is really cool.
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  • The plane, i believe its a training plane for something like a terrorist attack or even just emergency. So the military and emergency services can practice their responce.

    There is one of these at an air force base in my part of the world.

    (Perth, Western Australia)
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  • Looks like some sort of emergency and anti terrorist training, cut off wings and only two engines are probably to make it easier to store. Might also be the reason why they took the tail or perhaps it was used on another airplane?
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  • I think the plane was made for a movie....
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  • and by "vintage" voting machines, you mean the type we STILL use in NYC.
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  • That strange plane... it says "EMU Airlines". I found an "EMU Airways" on Google, but said nothing about antiterrorist tours.
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  • Aircraft looks to be a 747 SP with its wings clipped.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747SP
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  • Maybe it's the plane from the last James Bond "Casino Royale" - it looked something like this.
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  • It's a model!
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  • The donkey photo has to be photoshopped, either that or its got broken knees.
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  • This Airplane was given to the Australian governemt so they could train Hostage Rescue CQC.
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  • Counter terrorism training mix between 747 and DC9. Linky: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=modEarthMilitary&Number=40933&page=34&fpart=6
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  • Anonymous, I think you missed the point of the donkey. He is holding a cell phone. :-) Of course it is photoshopped.
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  • Yeah New York State still uses those decidedly low-tech voting machines -- I feel better with them than with any computer you can hack in 10 minutes!
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  • Love this post,fantastic images!
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  • Caves: intense wonder and beauty in a package!
    Thank you Avi, fantastic images, I would love to visit all of those caves!
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  • The Stockholm Metro station, Solna Centrum, is not built inside a natural cave. The station were blasted into the primary rocks, then liquid concrete were flushed to the walls. This technique were new and quite popular during the 70's.
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  • There is actually quite a number of subway stations like that in Stockholm city. I havent really encountered the similar use of the natural rock covered in concrete in the subway design anywhere else than here at home actually. Though none of them are natural caves, but tunneled/blasted. Most of them feature some sort of painting on the "cave" walls. Though there is "Kungsträdgården"(featured here before i think) that is totally crazy in its decoration, really cool. Its a pity its on a line i rarely ride :(. If i was intereseted in photography and did own a decent camera maybe i would have tried submitting some pics of the different stations.

    I am quite sure the cool approach in our subway layout is not intentional though but just something considered to be a practical way of doing it at the time.
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  • Hmm...the author must be rather easily impressed...
    These aren't even mediocre photos of these cave structures....
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  • Mato Grosso do Sul is a province, not a town. By the way, very nice places! I live in Brazil and I intent to visit some of the brazilian caves this year.
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  • FYI, the computer case is from

    http://mashie.org/casemods/asteroid1.html
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  • Super Awesome post. I've always loved caves. But in a way they always creeped me out too. I would like to see more posts on caves please:)
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  • Neat info all, post updated. Thank you!
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  • Wow. I have a real urge to go into a cave right now! That one that went really deep is crazy. I would love to scale down that one.
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  • Fantastic caves, fantastic pictures. I want recomended you a spanish cave named "El Soplao" and over all his excentrics stalagmites.
    http://www.elsoplao.es/itinerario.htm
    Thank you for the blog.
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  • If you notice on the Cueva del Fantasma pic, you'll see two tiny things in the bottom, near the lake. Those are the actual helicopters. I live in Venezuela and have been there. It is really breathtaking.
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  • You made me had a "Total Recall" on that last pic.
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  • There is no words to express. simpppppply suuuuuperb
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  • You should find pictures of The Choranche cave in France (Vercors Dept : 38) you'll can see very rare and the thinest stalagmites in Europe !!
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  • Don't miss this cave if you are ever in southern Arizona!!! http://www.explorethecaverns.com/cave.html
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  • other great cave pictures here:
    http://www.picturestoryblog.com/2008/12/high-water-sub-solomon-cave-tennessee.html
    and look for Earth from Below
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  • wow very cool
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  • Loved this post, great photos. Thanks
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  • Extremely inspiring and amazing work. You are amazingly creative!! Thanks for sharing.
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  • Great photos. Where did you get this idea? good work.
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  • Nice collection. I believe that one pic is badly identified, tho. This one seems to be of Poco Encantado in Chapada Diamantina, Brazil (northeast): http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SQde_tocAkI/AAAAAAAAi00/3H-tDGkaWuU/s1600-h/10053456456ethgf.jpg
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  • Love this series of posts--I always find something I enjoy!
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  • really kool, but some ads make you sicks
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  • The beer tram is really good. I often travel with it to the school. There is another one beer tram in Pilsen. For more on both see this site: http://www.plzensketramvaje.cz/?page=kt8d5-rn2p.htm . The only thing I can add is that you get really thirsty during traveling by this tram :-))
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  • very interesting designs. thanks for featuring such inventive and creative ads.
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  • Amazing, awesome, thank you so much!!
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  • The funny thing about the tram:

    There are sensors in seats and they count how much people is siting in two halfs of tram.

    http://www.plzensketramvaje.cz/plzen/293skorep.jpg

    There is a display which displays the numbers. "Domácí" means the home team and "Hosté" means the visiting team. It is like football score, because Gambrinus sponsors the footbal league.
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  • So what's up with calling a robot "Russian"? What, all Russians are communists? Really?
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  • About the Solar Furnace, the first one in the Modern Age was set operating in Lisbon, Portugal, in that distant year of 1904. The inventor was a jesuit priest, Father Manuel Gomes Himalaya and the demonstration was in the presence of the King of Portugal. The invention, called «Pyrheliophero» (literally «solar fire furnace») was later presented in the United States, at the Universal Exibition of St. Louis in 1904. There, it received the Grand Prix.

    The enourmous machine was capable of fusing steel and stone at a staggering 3500ºC.

    After the Exibition, it was destroyed in a misterious warehouse fire, still in St. Louis.

    Returning to Portugal, Father Himalaya received support from the King, but short afterwards - in 1908 - the King and his Heir were assassinated and everithing went down the drain with the following (1910) republican revolution.
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  • The artistic Periodic Table...

    While it’s a fun idea and some of the artwork is very good, it really does show the difference between (the bulk of) artists and scientists.
    Take, for example, the text that goes with caesium.

    [caesium]…can be produced solely by nuclear reactions.

    Not true, it’s a naturally occuring element, though there’s noticeable amounts of radioactive caesium in the environment that /has/ come from man made nuclear sources.

    [caesium]…is strong enough to etch glass, flesh and bone.

    No, its hydroxide is.

    …it is one of the most biologically hazardous components of radioactive waste and nuclear fallout,

    No, it’s not as readily absorbed as many other radiopollutants.

    Really, I despair of the standard of scientific education that leads to someone being unable to glean even basic information about something without reading some sentences out of context and getting the wrong end of the stick.
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  • Lavoisier used a solar furnace in the 1770s to burn a diamond so he could prove it was made of carbon.
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  • Quite right, Skipweasle. But I mentioned the priest's furnace because it was the first to produce temperatures in excess of 3000ºC, which are similar, although far superior to those produced by the modern contraption depicted in the movie.

    Lavoisier's furnace was unable to produce temperatures higher than 1800ºC - which is remarkable in 1770 - and was a relatively small furnace, compared to the gigantic Pyrheliophoro, capable of melting a huge block of basalt.
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  • Regarding the picture of the bent propeller ...

    It is an actual photo. Most cameras with a slit shutter or a two curtain shutter as in SLR cameras will show this effect.

    The exposure of the photo begins at the top and the shutter moves down in the shape of a small horizontal slit whose width is dependent on the exposure time. The propeller turns during this time. Therefore the propeller will look bent, because the blades will move and change position during the exposure of each fractional part of the whole image.
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  • Great info on solar furnace, and this "bent propeller" bit was unexpected... Thank you.
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  • Solar furnaces have been around long before the 1930s - in the 1770s
    Lavoisier used one to burn a diamond to prove it was made of carbon.

    Link
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  • @skipweasel:
    I despair of (sic) the English writing skills of people who post comments on blogs…
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  • Vá lá!...Dêem um desconto a quem não tem o inglês como sendo a sua língua nativa. Ou acham preferível todos nós começarmos a escrever posts em 'estrangeiro'?
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  • That is a "Letournea company artic transport from the 50's
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  • The last one is LeTourneau LCC-1.
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  • The last truck is the truck that the wheels for Bigfoot V were removed from.
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  • Really great stuff, but where are those giant tow trucks that out trick these.
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  • http://warisboring.com/?p=434

    “The Overland Train Mark II was delivered in 1962 and immediatly declared obsolete”
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  • Someone should tell those japs that they have no sense of taste!
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  • Or rather I'd say it's to have so much lighting in one place and not go blind :p
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  • The last two pics are of the so-called "Snow Train", built to transport equipment to arctic radar stations.
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  • This guy's website is amazing!
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  • too bad international harvester went out of business.
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  • @Gilipollas

    You should be informed that "jap" is a derogatory and racist term stemming from World War II.
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  • I love it! An american, waxing lyrical over a garish truck, suggests that the "japs" (SIC) have no taste! c'mon !?!? :)
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  • Gilipollas said...

    "Someone should tell those japs that they have no sense of taste!"

    They have taste idiot, it just doesn't match yours. Just because someone likes different things than you do doesn't mean you are right and they are wrong.

    Using the term "jap" indicates that you have no class. Me thinks your opinion of yourself is a little too high.
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  • the Japanese trucks are just plain stupid. why in the HELL would any person want to drive a truck that has THAT much chrome all over it, when all it would do is TOTALLY distract the driver from driving? the other ones are really nice and classy, however.
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  • Amazing truck photo collection.
    I like the trailer truck best,
    because of all the wood and
    feel of home.

    thanks from tony
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  • @Anonymous: American taste is weird as well... Why the hell anyone needs 5L or 6L engine in a family car? It doesn't make sense...
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  • funny how the first "anonymous" that wanted to trash galipollas for using the term "jap" automatically labelled him an American, Because to him, obviously all Americans are bad in one way or another...too bad the guy writing the original comment was from Spain. Ever hear of a little thing called "the pot calling the kettle black"?
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  • Loved the "Death & Taxes" poster!
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  • The ice bullets are on pre-order
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  • Great pictures.
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  • the stacked cups are available on perpetualkid.com
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  • What was Sebastian Bourdais doing in a Subaru Rally car in Australia when he's driving for Torro Rosso about a week before the race in Brazil? Are you sure you have the driver's name right?
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  • This is what Gazzetta says
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  • Great pictures.
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  • The cooling tower being demolished appears to be that of the Trojan Nuclear plant in Portland, Oregon which was recently dynamited.
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  • Actually, I'd love one of those Hitler dolls. As a target, on my BB gun shooting range...
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  • Oh my God! where did you found these pictures. They are really creepy. I like them.
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  • Wow, I like those mini nukes.
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  • Uncanny valley for that fake baby.

    I once walked by a remote abandoned house, and in the bushes, in the rain, was a collection of naked dolls like those first pictures up here, missing eyes, limbs, heads... Creepiest thing I ever saw.
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  • Oh lord, that "baby laugh-a-lot" ad is pure evil. Is it for real?
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  • Don't know why, but I've always been creeped out by dolls.

    I put together a slide show of your pics with some music (hope you don't mind). I added a few other creepy dolls I found on the web.

    http://heylookhear.com/Image/creepy
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  • There is a small island in mexico City where the ownwer tried to protect himself from evil ghosts with creepy dolls.
    Have a look:
    http://nimraithkar.blogspot.com/2005/06/un-lugar-de-misterio-dentro-de-un.html

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mexad/2148018278/
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  • My godfather-in-law outfits his Kentucky home with an astounding display of macabre baby doll folk art.

    That link just gives a glimpse. You can Google the guy for more - but you really have to visit the property to get the full impression.
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  • How wonderfully horrifying
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  • I'm glad you touched upon those realistic "Reborn" dolls -- the whole psychology behind those things is fucked up.
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  • Hey! You've got one of my dolls pictured here (the toothy baby). I make lots of scary dolls and display them at halloween. You can see some here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagrotesquerie/sets/72157606203236996/
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  • Karenw - credit is added, we will feature your work more in Part 2, with more info from these comments. Thank you!
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  • DRB is great, I love weird stuff like that,Keep it up :o)

    Here are a couple more "Alien" and "Clone" sci-fi art babies to add to the collection...

    A clone: http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/art-sculpture/3-clone-alone.html

    and a Womb with a view: http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/art-sculpture/6-womb.html

    (Found on mArty Gallery)
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  • Hey, I read with interest the discussion of our beloved art of reborning (the creation of reborn babies, reborn dolls, fake babies or whatever you want to call them!) and just want to point out that the ladies taking part are very normal, gifted and talented individuals. A forum for discussion of this subject without prejudice can be found at Reborn Babies UK, there you will find very nice ladies - friendly, and definitely not wierd. PS. None of us make Hitler dolls!
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