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Posted on 01.28.09 by John @ 7:02 pm
I don’t see a serious problem with this but then again I’m not Japanese. I don’t have conformity drilled into my brain since birth. Renowned manga artist Kazuo Umezu (official web site) decided to go against the flow of his countrymen and painted red and white stripes on his new home. Rather fetching I say. His neighbors were not amused by his artistic antics and did what pissy neighbors do best, took him to court. After the case was reviewed by a judge the house was deemed to attract attention but not to destroy the view.
Court turns down neighbors’ plea for cartoonist to remove stripes from house Popularity: 6% [?] Filed under: Artistic and Cool and Japan Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 01.20.09 by John @ 7:33 am
Mechanical TV has been an interest of mine for years now. The very idea that in the primordial age of television the best solution was a big spinning disk and a flickering neon lamp. I have a model of a Baird Televisior that I built from a kit. It benefits from modern electronic timing and low voltage parts (LEDS not neon bulbs). It clearly works but only produces the most rudimentry of moving images. I have transcoded a few video clips to play on it (it comes with an audio CD of video sequences) and for what it is I’m impressed. I still want to build a camera that I can use to display live motion on it. Perhaps I’ll design it with a Steampunk theme. SteamTV Part 1 — first looks at my newest project Popularity: 9% [?] Filed under: Artistic and Cool and DIY and Historic and Technology Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 01.01.09 by John @ 8:56 pm
Popularity: 13% [?] Filed under: Cool and DIY and Dumb and Hacked and Mad Science and Mods and Technology Comments: 3 Comments |
I had a toy helicopter that had lost it’s tail rotor in an unfortunate accident. I didn’t want to part with it because the main rotor still spun and heck it’s a remote control helicopter. I proceeded to turn the once state of the art in toy chopper technology (OK, once of state of the art) into a regular airplane. This is a photset of my ‘proof of concept’ adventure.
