Peter Bristol’s “Cut Chair” is an optical illusion sculpture that uses a hidden steel plate beneath the unsevered leg to provide a stable base for a seemingly sawn-through chair.
(via Neatorama)
Two lovely photo-essays at English Russia today.
The Base Of Human Exterminators shows a missile complex that’s been turned into a museum.
The fuel filler’s suit. The rocket fuel is one of the strongest poisons: a drop of it on the skin entails the death.
The Place That Stalkers Would Love To Visit illustrates a half-built and abandoned Missile Division command post.
The sphere was designed to enable survival during a nuclear war. A hollow metal ball was built inside a large mine. Then a huge 4-story module block was suspended on huge shock absorbers inside of it. It contained control and communications equipment, life support systems and rest rooms.
This unsourced photo depicts a thermochromic communinal urinal that allows gentlemen (and suitably trained ladies) to paint psychedelic rainbows on its surface using only the steaming fury of their piss-streams.
(via Neatorama)
Time-lapse macro video: ferrous particles in liquid suspension, drawn to magnet: “
Kim Pimmel shares the video above, and explains:
Ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by a magnet and align to the invisible magnetic field around them. The patterns and motions that result are strangely ordered and organized. Time-lapse sequences were created from individual photos shot with a Nikon D90, DIY macro lens and DIY intervalometer.
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Spider attacks an ant (with surprise ending): “
[Video Link] Watch until the end. The verite soundtrack is nice.
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Amazing sculpted toys by Gabriels: “
New Toys for Melancholics is a solo show by ‘Pop Surrealist sculptor and philosopher’ Gabriels. The toys are made from ‘polished hand-crafted bronze, life-like glass eyes, and scores of tiny internal intricate elements and organs.’ It’s opening May 6 at the Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Let it be clear: these are not sculptures, but toys and more precisely prototypes of Toys for Melancholics. They aspire to the industrial production on a large scale and to the indefinite propagation, in proportion to the planetary diffusion of the anguishastic-desperative Weltanschauung and of the consequent — very legitimate, although not absolutely incontrovertible — propensity to suicideness. In this sense, our Toys for Melancholics scrupulously respect all the standards of global melancholy quality in a petrified primeval landscape, addressing courageously to a public of adults, kiddies and lithopaedia.’
—-Gabriels
See more images after the jump.
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Sculpture embodies lossy copying using much-copied house-key: “
Artist Daniel Bejar had a key copied and then a new key copied from it, and so on, until the information embodied in the original key had been lost. He calls the resulting piece ‘The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap’: ‘A copy was made from my original apartment key, then a copy was made from
that copy. This process was repeated until the original keys information was
destroyed, resulting in the topography of a generation.’
‘The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap'(#2, Brooklyn, NY)
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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Bay Area ‘yarn bomber’ Streetcolor improved boring bike racks outside the Berkeley Public Library with 80 feet of knitted fun. ‘Yarnbombing the Berkeley Public Library‘ (Thanks, Greg Long!)
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Even before President Obama went on live TV last night to officially announce that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a US military operation, animated gifs and jpeg shoops commemorating the death of the world’s most wanted bad guy were already proliferating. Above, via randomguy on BB Submitterator.
More below, and your selections welcome in the comments. As crass and off-color as these may be, they are a snapshot of pop culture history, and they reveal more about our collective consciousness than might be apparent at first glance, on the first day.
Related: No word yet on Evil Bert‘s whereabouts since the raid.
(special thanks to Dean Putney for additional research, and many of these links were from canv.as or Reddit.).
Energy-efficient sensors can now communicate via TCP/IP, eliminating the need for wired devices to control energy usage inside buildings.
