Remi Gaillard is a very good footballer (judging from these clips), but is first and foremost known as a silly French sod who occationally makes people laugh. Me, I find many of his pranks to be a bit over-the-top, and sometimes too dangerous for a good laugh. But the astronaut? Got to admire stuff like that. Also, this, this, this and this.
Award-winning short film “Nuit Blanche”
2010 -
03.06
This beautiful little thing was made by Arev Manukian, and won a $100.000 prize at LG Life’s Good Filmfest.
Make sure to choose full HD and fullscreen it The film is 1080p HD quality, but be sure to fullscreen it.
via DarkRoastedBlend
Discworld in LEGOs
2010 -
03.02
An awesome MOC (My Own Creation) series showing famous and unforgettable characters from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. Made me smile quite a bit, and made me want to read more Pratchett.
Creator is Flickr user captainsmog. Well done, captain!
Complete set here.
The Ankh-Morpork City Watch.
Thanks, herrTevik!
CodeOrgan creates webmusic
2010 -
02.20
Enter a website address, and CodeOrgan plays the html body as music. Not my kind of music, perhaps, but interesting still. Makes me wonder what a website would look like if it was built to sound like something recognisable – like Lennon’s Imagine. Something to consider for the numerous fan sites online!
via Geekologie
Lightning reveals its power in slow motion
2010 -
02.11
Hit this link for more awesome videos of lightnings in slow motion.
Thanks, Ronin @ Kybernesis!
Nine lives featuring Wood, Slater, Arquette
2010 -
02.04
Concept Nokia cellphone runs on Coke
2010 -
01.25
23-year old Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has come up with a rather intriguing idea. What she’s presenting is a cellphone powered by carbohydrates! Utilising enzymes as a catalyst, the “green Nokia” would draw energy from liquid form sugar, like Coca Cola (though any brand soda, even sugar water, would do the trick). The technology is already available: back in 2007, Sony presented their bio-battery which works the exact same way.
From Daizi Zheng’s website: This is a client project aimed at designing an eco-friendly phone for Nokia. As a result of my research, I discovered that conventional phone batteries are: expensive, harmful to the environment and difficult to dispose of. In addition, the conventional battery manufacturing process consumes many valuable resources. The concept is based on the idea to create a pollution free environment by using bio-batteries as an alternative to conventional batteries. A bio-battery is an ecologically friendly, energy supply system which uses enzymes as a catalyst to generate electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar). In order to use the bio-battery as a power source for the phone all that is required is a small supply of a sugary drink. Once the battery dies only oxygen and water remains. Bio-batteries are fully biodegradable and have, on a single charge, a potential life-span three to four times longer than conventional lithium batteries. Meanwhile, bio-batteries are a whole new way of looking at batteries and afternoon tea.
via Dezeen
Dreaming of Miapolis
2010 -
01.25
With the Burj Khalifa (previously known as the Burj Dubai) rising 828 meters in the air as the tallest building on Earth, it stands as a challenge to every new tower planned. I’ve seen a good few plans for taller towers, but the prospect of Miapolis is one of the more interesting. Sure, it looks monstrous, but it’s American after all. It would demand hovercars though.
Plans drawn by architectural design firm Kobi Karp, the Miapolis is to be a 975 meter high tower, built on Watson Island in the port of of Miami (hence the name). If realised, the giant set of tweezers will hold an amusement park, an observatory, a good few restaurants, shops, apartments, offices and a 792-room hotel. What, no spaceport? I blame the financial crisis.
via TheDesignBlog
Colour picker pen
2010 -
01.25
This is kind of cool, although I’m not sure I see the use for it. Place the top side of the pen against any object, press the scan button, and the pen automatically mixes its three RGB colours to give you the colour you scanned. Or something close in range at least.
The colour given would depend a great deal on lighting, and although you’d get a blue colour pointing at something blue, I think it could be more useful if it came with a colour chart that the pen was calibrated to. Of course, now you could argue that it would be easier with a menu system inside the pen, saving you from carrying the chart around, but… Argh. It’s a nice idea. Clever and cool.
Even if it looks like a pregnancy test.
Designer: Jinsun Park
via BitsAndPieces
360° video view of Haiti
2010 -
01.23
CNN made this fascinating video January 18th, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Hit the link and use your mouse to control the camera.
CNN via BoingBoing
Rodney Mullen, skateboard legend
2010 -
01.21
I used to skate as a teenager. We didn’t know Tony Hawk, his name came up later on. Instead, we had idols like Natas, Gonzales and Mullen. But I can’t say I’ve seen any of them actually skate, and we probably picked up the names from magazine articles. Of course, if you had a Gonzales board, like I did, you automatically held him as the world’s best skater ever. Until the board broke or you bought a new one. I don’t think any of us owned anything with Mullen’s name on it, but everyone still knew the name. Rodney Mullen.
Here’s Rodney Mullen showing off in Japan in 1984. Enjoy.
via Woosk
