The Battle of Midway happened six months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, and resulted in heavy losses for Imperial Japanese Navy, which wanted to lure American aircraft carriers into a trap and occupy Midway Atoll, but failed miserably. Hollywood director John Ford took this footage, which became part of the color documentary (see the whole film here)
The "Alligator Head" shown above was captured in June, 2005, in Hill City and Stockton, Kansas. Watch for updates on that site, as the 2009 tornado season unfolds.
The surviving elephants of Hamburg Zoo (Hagenbeck's Tierpark) helped clean up the rubble in the destroyed city after WW2. Don't know whether this picture shows Hamburg, but it's not implausible.
I think that the mistery pic is from Berlin, not Hamburg, after the downfall of the German Reich, in 1945. Immediate post-war. Sad, sad times, those, even for the poor animals...
This is utterly brilliant! I am very fond of gadgets myself and wrote a fiction blog for two years about a boy who was very keen on them and he went to the James Bond exhibition at the Science Museum. Addy
This is amazing! Have you checked out the Spy Museum in DC? It's full of things like this ranging from the beginning of spying all the way up to what they're doing today and things that may be available in the future. Well worth the money.
There's a spy shop near where I live. I went in there recently expecting to see awesome gadgets like this but all they carried were nanny cams and the hidden safe versions of a bunch of household items. Thanks for giving me my spy gear fix!
Anything by Tim Powers is a worthwhile read, he is my favorite author by far. Anubis Gate does stand out, as does Earthquake Weather and Expiration Date.
Again in Saigon, what is it about Vietnam and extreme wiring?Seismic activity plus lack of planning. In Japan you have also a lot of wires, but they are at least better planned.
The keep teasing us with the e-ink watch but the only one that ever went into general production was a half inch thick and all it could do was make the dial color either white or black.
Fantastic clocks, especially the one thats half missing(the second one) I will have to make one like that!
There are two more sci-fi sculpture clocks here: http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/art-sculpture/7-countdown.html which is a self destruct mechanism out of a space ship coveted into a clock and http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/art-sculpture/11-sci-fi-clock-is-a-time-travellers-best-friend.html which is designed or time travellers.
That SEIKO watch is amazing! It doesn't seem to be an actual product, however. It seems like plausible technology, however. A roll-up flat-screen monitor, in full color, was shown off at SIGGRAPH last year...
Superbe, especially the vintage ones made by Haruo Suekichi, they remembered me about the movies La cite des enfants perdus (1995), seemed like stuff made out of Jules Verne books.
And then the alarm clock that you could smack to stop the alarm, I became nostalgic remembering Pink Panther, how she broke her alarm clock in the morning and orTom si Jerry cartoons:-) So long time ago.
Spendid design. Hard to find them though on the market.
Here are more cool clocks and techie gifts from TEcoArt. The variety is more extensive than we have seen anywhere else. TEcoArt loves to rescue computers from e-scrap centers and landfills. It takes you to keep them there!
Nice Blog!!! Thanks For Great Information . That SEIKO watch is amazing! It doesn't seem to be an actual product, however. It seems like plausible technology, however. A roll-up flat-screen monitor, in full color, was shown off at SIGGRAPH last year...
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The two top ones in the "street art" paragraph are from the studio Ghibli museum in Mitaka outside Tokyo in japan: http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/
Spock-Obama is from the New York Times, I belive. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/05/10/opinion/10dowd_ready.html
that Elephant picture is from WW2
i thinking from Germany
where zoo or circus elephants are used as working animals
Michel Van
The watch with evolution is an old SWATCH.
The surviving elephants of Hamburg Zoo (Hagenbeck's Tierpark) helped clean up the rubble in the destroyed city after WW2. Don't know whether this picture shows Hamburg, but it's not implausible.
Yup, here are my own photos of the same places at the Ghibli museum:
"Manhole" coverSoot sprites in a windowThe entire museum is itself a work of art.
Oops, should have used preview. Oh well, each link is still clickable.
I think that the mistery pic is from Berlin, not Hamburg, after the downfall of the German Reich, in 1945. Immediate post-war. Sad, sad times, those, even for the poor animals...
The elephant picture definately shows one of two elephants who helped cleaned up the destroyed city of Hamburg. http://orchifant.de/50.html
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