Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Red lectroid John O’Connor has crossed over the dimensional barrier for the last time… Actor Vincent Schiavelli passed away of lung cancer in his home in Italy on Monday. Schiavelli was a character actor in over 150 films in his carerebut for me his best role was that of John O’Connor in the cult classic movie, "Buckaroo Banzai".
"They’re only monkey-boys. We can crush them here on earth, Lord Whorfin"
Neat! This gets me thinking that there could be a market for a generic puzzle cookie cutter set. Not just the simple four way one seen here but a more complex 9 part cutter. With the duplication of the center row and column you could make your puzzle any size you wanted.
Yow! Tech Drool is right, these are the kits that LEGO should be selling. These are some of the best (more accurate) real world devices rendered in the hackers favorite plastic brick that I have ever seen.
[via TechDrool]
Lego Construction Site – Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark
There’s a new Lomo camera in town and it looks stranger than the old ones. Kind of a strange ‘bridge’ camera if anyone remembers those. This one has a motor drive so you don’t have to wear your thumb out. It also sports a waist level finder for easier shots when you need to be way down low or above the crowd. Here are a list of the specs:
- Lens: Aspherical, 50mm/4.5
- Aperture: f/4.5, f/6.8, f/15 Exposure: Charming weather-symbol guided
- Flash: Built-in electronic flash or standard hotshoe mount
- Focus: fixed and focus free
- Standard tripod thread, integrated nylon wriststrap
- Motor drive with special rewind feature for multi exposures
I’m starting on my next camera project, not quite sure if it will be another pinhole or a simple lens camera but I do know it’s going to be 120 format. You just can’t beat the amount of information that such a large hunk of film can offer.
This is quite amazing. By using the leaf from a geranium as a photographic plate it is possible to create an image on it. Could the Romans of old been capable of doing this? Who knows, but this might shed new light on how the shroud of Turin might have been created.