Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
A guy named Nat Gertler discovered that the images on Amazon could be manipulated by feeding their servers parameters in the images URL. He’s put together a nice little FAQ on what does what. This is definitely going to go into the ‘to be used for evil’ category.
[via presurfer]
This is just a wacky item. As many people may know, scattered around the planet are tile mosaics depicting the aliens from the classic video game ‘Space Invaders‘. Well this is one made up of not the usual ceramic tiles but of Rublik cubes. Neat. I’m waiting for someone to build a massive sculpture out of Merlin games.
[via Core77]
Two years after their theft from an Oslo museum, Edvard Munch’s famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" have been recovered. The police aren’t saying how they got the paintings back but both are in pretty good shape. Good work!
Cool, I’ll be in New York when they start putting this up.
London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor, famous for Chicago’s 125-ton stainless steel "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Millenium Park (looks like a trippy mirrored jellybean), will install his 3-story tall "Cloud Mirror" in NYC from Sept. 19 to Oct. 27. To be situated at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the dish-like sculpture’s concave side will show an inverted reflection of the skyscraper.
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These creations are just too sweet.
Issuing forth from the fetid and possibly incriminating imagination of Weta Workshop designer Greg Broadmore come RAYGUNS: Dr, Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators! … Bespangled in fine detail and with various (most likely quite dangerous) moving parts, these wave weapons of yesteryear are the perfect ornament for a gentleman’s study or a deterring centerpiece for a lady’s powder room or chiffonier…
Seeing these works of art makes me want to pick up my razor knife and tube bender and have a go at making something like this. I used to make toy guns along time ago. They were never as sophisticated as these but they were fun to build.
[via boingboing]
Wow, this is quite a device. Each screen is connected to a camera at the opposite side. 215 camera/screen combos give the impression that you can look directly through the sphere.
[via Neatorama]