Gah! These are huge! All made of balloons like you would normally see being twisted up into weird shapes by odd fellows in chain restaurants.
[via Maddvill]
Airigami – The largest non-round balloon sculpture in the world
Category: Cool
Storm Photos in Kansas
Some places don’t have much in the way of weather. Yeah, it may rain sometimes or get a little windy but for the most part nature takes a break and just chills. Kansas is not one of those places. In Kansas nature saves it up and goes for broke whenever there is a change in the weather. From the picture it may look like a volcano just blew it’s top and is hard at filling the bread basket of the country with ash but it’s not. This is an advancing thunder storm that swept through the area on May 26th of 2006. The photos are very impressive, and it’s amazing that people are willing to put themselves are quite a bit of risk to get these shot.
[via cnet]
Puzzle Floor
This is prety cool, inter locking hardwood flooring in the shape of puzzle peices.
[via Boingboing and Wonderland]
Premium quality hardwood floor – product, design ideas and installation
Open Source Flash – fc64
Now that Macromedia Adobe has released a new version of Flash (9 beta 3), you can do some pretty amazing things. What has to be the best could be this Commodore 64 emulator. I say could be because the live demo site is down and I it looks like some of the downloads are missing. It should be fun to play with, I hope you will be able to save programs that you write on it one day. I’m also hoping that this version of Flash will be a better team player with Firefox than the last version was.
[via Darron Schall and Waxy]
Getting The Most Out Of A Pinhole Camera
It all started on a long plane flight in the beginning of 2006. I was doodling in my Moleskine notebook and musing about pinhole cameras when and idea struck me. What if I made a camera that was panoramic and high capacity at the same time. I had been shooting with my 6×9 medium format pinhole (120 film) for a few weeks and was happy with the images but wished I could get more than eight shots a roll and have a wider field of view.
What I thought was if I moved the pinhole closer to the film plane and rotated to aspect 90 degrees I could get dozens of images on a single roll of film and still get a pretty good sized negative. Turns out I can get about 30 images on a roll and even a quickly made pinhole will produce a satisfactory sharpness.
Check out my build notes of this fun and rewarding project.
Celestia
I love the night sky, I used to spend hours looking at stars and planets with my 4-1/2" reflecting telescope when I was young. Now days, I rarely have the time to do that any more because of work and other things (like this blog). However, I did run across a very cool program that makes it easy to have a look around the sky. Its Celestia. This free multi platform open space exploration program is great. With it you can zoom in on where the International Space Station is, or check out the moons of Jupiter, or even see how our solar system looks from thousands of light years away.