Extreme Roof Riding

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Extreme Roof Riding Those suffering from fear of heights look away now... This roof top bike stunt was performed by a daredevil in Santos, Brazil. url Today's pictures & links: I want this car in my garage This is "Fastlane" - a futuristic shape designed for Universal Pictures by concept car maker Trans FX (more info). (images via) ------------ Sad ------------ A Blue-Eyed Beauty With a crabby disposition. Photo by Tim Laman, National Geographic A blue-eyed crab nestles in antler coral off Namenalala island in the Fiji Islands. But here is something even weirder: a blue ribbon eel that can abruptly change its sex: Photo by Tim Laman, National Geographic "The expanded nostrils end with fanlike flourishes, and the tip of the eel's lower jaw terminates with three tentacles." A convenient way to usher the food into his (or her?) toothy mouth. ------------ Music Frozen in Time This wonderful sculpture is located in Helsinki - a monument to Sibelius. More than a hundred steel cylinders make soft sounds in the wind. Nearby stands a steel sculpture of the composer's disembodied head. (image credit: Alisa) ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: The Roar From Outer Space - [space] 12 Moving Building Facades - [architecture, videos] Retrospective: Video Games Graphics - [gaming] January's Little Secret - [interesting] Stonehedge beneath the waters of Lake Michigan - [weird] Fishing boat (almost) gets airborne - [wow video] Voice-controlled Blender - [neat video] This glass cleaning is gonna take some time... - [fun video] Epic Video About World War III - [wow video] ------------ Exciting technology Russian peasant makes a phone call, ca. 1910 - ------------ Great Retro-Future Woodwork Johnna Y. Klukas has very smooth items to add to your decorum (sophisticated interior). She also makes wooden boxes; each looks like a fortress, defending its contents. (images credit: Johnna Y. Klukas) Even more retro-future crafts... this time made out of blown glass. Rik Allen says: "The futuristic antiquity of this series was inspired by my life-long fascination with the design of technology - especially the purposefully “futuristic” technology of the mid-20th Century... I’ve been drawing rockets for as long as I can remember, and the power of their image is expressed in the work you see today – vessels of cinematic grace and movement that travel the black seas of our creative infinity." (images credit: Rik Allen) "Inside these interplanetary vessels, made of glass and metal, are spheres of power, perhaps harnessing the plasma of a red giant or the molecular thermodynamics of an electrochemical cell, but more likely harnessing that even more powerful and elusive force of our imagination" ------------ Bad Dog! Don't get too upset, though. It could be a bad dog, but at least it's not a cooked dog (a sign in Cambodia) (image via) Brave Indonesian army dogs - ------------ The Stronghold of Knowledge Library images projected on a fortress, on a grand scale. Does anybody know where it took place? UPDATE: Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night", staged by a group called Skertzo on October 7, 2008.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) See more illuminations on this page. ------------ Walcott's Instant Pain Annihilator Some kind of incredible spiritual warfare happens here, in this fantastic ad, ca. 1863: (images via) Download bigger version here. Demons of Weak Nerves and Demons of Toothache, BE GONE! ------------ Toy Fail The dog gets decapitated when you blow this balloon: (image via) ------------ Snowmen on a Rampage Perhaps sacked by Santa, unemployed and hungry, they take to the streets and countryside - and hook up with their big brothers from the void: ------------ Mental Health is to the Left Liberals rejoice. (image credit: Elizabeth Penney) READ THE PREVIOUS ISSUE -> Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook