This site features the most wonderful Optical Illusions made, like this tree with branches like faces. See more on darkroastedblend.com: Optical Illusions Part 3
Cool Flickr toy, where you browse the pics in a symmetry world. Some really amazing results can be seen with such a simple effect, click to see more: Symmetry World FlickR Browser
If this is real, it’s really scary… and probably the place is the most awful beach ever, if from time to time a plane has to land like that. Would have scared the heck out of me if I was there...:
Evie, a stunning white-tailed sea eagle, has taken a liking to tennis and enjoys nothing more than flying after balls thrown by her proud owner George Hedges. Read More: Eagle Chases Tennis Ball
Me is going on vacation for a few seconds, so no posts 'till friday. In the meantime don't go outside! Just check out Ninjavideo, Likwit_Snake's Dailymotion Channel, my Deviantart, and you wouldn't even noticed that i'm probably already back!
100,000 toothpicks, 35 years, one really really patient man… these are needed things to make this copy of San Francisco with element of Rude Goldberg thing inside. The nine-foot-tall creation is called “Rolling Through the Bay” and is currently on display at the Sonoma County Fair in Northern California. OMG someone seriously needs a job:
Na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN. That is what your neighbors will say when you pull into the driveway. How many people do you know that have a Ferrari, a Mercedes, a Lamborghini, or a Corvette? My guess would be there is at least one of these in your neighborhood. Now how many Batmobiles are in your neighborhood? None, because there were only a total of 5 of these cars made. Now on Ebay you can buy the Batmobile,
Usually i don't like theater, musicals and all that stuff... But this is just wonderful; Cool story of New York made with shadows by the Pilobus Dance Theater:
This is Emily. And she isn't real... But made in 3D!!! Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology:
The menu: Grenade and Kalashnikov (burger and fries), Magnum sandwiches (chicken) and lots of other guerilla weaponary like RPGs, M16s and tactical combos. And guess where is this?...
...In the heart of the Hizbolah-controlled section of Beirut:
Cool technique, developed by researchers from University of Washington, to improve video quality (static scenes) by using high-res still photos. Click to read more and watch the video demonstration. How soon we will have such a technique implemented in the consumers’cams?...:
Mygazines is a cool site that let users upload and read magazines online. A lot of fresh magazines are available, absolutely free, and if you register (for free) and confirm your age, you can access other contents also.
In this clip you will see frontman Chris Martin walking trough the town of The Hague, in the Netherlands. This video is an ode to the clip "Enjoy the silence" by Depeche mode. Both clips were directed by Anton Corbijn. You can watch enjoy the silence here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxOUe...
High speed photography is an engineering tool, much as is an oscilloscope or a computer. It is a photographic technique that enables us to visualize and analyze motion. Especially motions that are too fast for the human eye or conventional cameras to perceive.
Snuffed Candle: Schlierne optics and a Phantom v7 at 1000 fps, 400 us exposure show the heat plum and turbulance of a candle being snuffed out.
Backyard Hummingbird: This shot was taken with a Miro 4 at 640x480 at just under 2000 fps. In "real time" the movie was taken for 1 second during which the bird flaps its wings approximately 72 times.
Another kinectic sculpture to promote BMW, besides of the amazing Theo Jansen’s ones. This installation of 714 metal balls on strings is located at the BMW Museum and developed by Art+Com Company. Just amazing:
Earlier on we aleady said it: In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows", no cameras or lights were used. Just data.
Learn more how the cool 3D video clip is made without any camera or lights and watch the video clip again, this time interactively. Also you can download the data for visualization and try to create your own version of the video:
In the beautiful scenery of Bignasco/Cavergno in Switzerland, where the river flows among enormous stones rubbed and rounded by time, you can find the best European athletes performing breathtaking dives and perfect flying stunts. Spectacular competition for men and women, divided in different categories in an exciting program.
Enjoy this wonderfull HD video from the last championship:
Only a year after taking control of Sony's robotics business, Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter (or personal transporter, in future-speak) intended to help people move about in public areas.
Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the celebrated, and often mocked, navigation system of Dean Kamen's Segway Transporter: self-balancing through gyroscopic sensors detecting the gentle directional tilts of a rider.
Beautiful fractals by Gusti Boucher, click to see more from his gallery. Be sure to browse around for more artworks of him, and also check the available prints: