| Life Art is an Australian company with a very, very special niche: it designs and makes custom, designer coffins! Link (via Acland Brierty) |
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Le Livre Sans Titre ("The Book With No title"), published in 1844, depicted the worst sin that you could ever commit. Check out the last line in the image to find out what it is:
Eric Feng's Fevolution is a whimsical combination of illustration and animation. Link |
| I love Marion Peck's painting called (surprise, surprise) "Cow". http://www.marionpeck.com/paintings/previous/11.html |
| Want to build your own medieval, modern, or snow village? Try Denise Wilton & Cal Henderson's City Creator. Link |
Jared Tarbell's a programmer who loves art, or an artist who can program. Either way, his creations (algorithm?) are very cool. Link This one above is titled the "Node Garden". From the website: Nodes are instantiated on irregular curving lines. When connected together, they form a Node Garden. The lines can be considered the substrate from which the nodes grow." |
Eric Grohe is an amazing muralist - see how he transformed Mount Carmel School of Nursing's building and Miller Beer's Brewing Room. Simply awesome! http://stressbuster1.net/mural/ |
| Now you can make your own warning labels with Warning Label Generator: http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/ |
Meet the US government's new laser rifle called the "Personnel Halting and Stimulation Respone (PHASR)", designed to dazzle (yes, dazzle) the enemy without permanent harm. Link |
Check out R. Todd King's interesting travelogue and neat photos of China. This one is of Harbin's Snow and Ice Festival. Link |
Taisa, a rare Japanese white stork, broke his beak last November. Since then, he's had difficulty catching fish and couldn't get along with his girlfriend due to stress. Dentist Toshiaki Chiba fitted Taisa with an artificial beak made from plastic resin and dental adhesive. He's as good as new now! http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/11/18/stork.prostheticbeak.ap/index.html |
Since pollinating insects like bees can see in the ultraviolet spectrum, flowers actually look different to them (as compared to you and me). Some flowers even guide these insects to their nectar by painting an ultraviolet "bull's eye". Link |
| Eric Harsbarger built a solid globe of the earth, made entirely out of thousands of bricks of Lego. Link |
| Peter Vukusic and Ian Hooper at the University of Exeter, UK discovered that the fluorescent patches of butterfly wings work like light emiting diodes (LEDs). From the website: "When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn't realised butterflies have been using the same method for 30 million years." Link |
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