More on the Phoenix Lander
I think I’ve got a crush on the Phoenix Lander — I can’t stop looking at it. The New York Times has a write up and a slide show about the upcoming 7 mintues of terror I posted about yesterday. Some cool tid-bits from the article: After traveling 422 million […]
Why Shop Anywhere Else?
ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors (“Buddy’s Bug Hunt/1935”) to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence. For the first […]
Open Source Monsters
Stefan Bucher has been making a series of illustrations of joyous monster by laying down a blob of black ink, streaking it with compressed air and sketching over it. He posts nifty time lapse videos of each creation that expose the tricks of his style. What’s really cool is he […]
The Work of Greg Brotherton
I just came across Greg Brothertons web site and found some great figures done entirely in sheet metal. If I had made these figure I’d want to complete all the welds and grind them smooth. But he resists that temptation and incorporates the tack-welds (all the small dots you see […]
A New Way To Dispose Of A Corpse
Found this on Slate: It uses lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy bodies in big stainless-steel cylinders that are similar to pressure cookers. … In addition to the liquid, the process leaves a dry bone residue similar in appearance and volume to cremated […]
7 Minutes of Terror on Mars
No it’s not the latest trailer for another martian zombie movie — wait, has anyone ever made a martian zombie movie? and if not, why not? — it’s a quick video from the geek-bosses at JPL about the upcoming landing of the Phoenix on the polar regions of Mars The […]
DYI Shrinky-Dinks
Because some times you really just need to shirnk a dink. DYI Shirnky-Dinks
Cartoon Animal Map of Asia and Europe
I love China as the nerdly pig and Spain as the angry puppy. For more info head over to BibliOdyssy.
Virtual Tour of the Steampunk Treehouse
This is really cool. Here is a full on virtual view of the inside of the Steampunk Treehouse when it was installed at Coachella. Use the mouse to pan left, right, up and down. You can see the other virtual tours from Coachella here. [QUICKTIME https://www.almostscientific.com/TREE.mov 640 480]
The Searchers Flicker Stream
I just came across a fantastic flicker photo stream belonging to an artist calling himself The Searcher (Derek Chatwood). He has a series of “pop comic inspired artwork” called Color in which each image is pared with a short story/blurb. Go check them out. Here are some of my picks: […]
Iron Sky
Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side […]
3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot
 Kids today with their corpse bongs. I blame it all on video games, negative political adds and Facebook. I wonder exactly how they went about smoking from a decaying head. What to use as the bowl … did the inhale from the mouth? Is a rotting head even air tight […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella Install Photos
I know it’s a bit late but I finally got around to going through my photos from our recent instillation of the Steampunk Treehouse at Coachella. I tried to document all the various stages that goes into setting it. You can also see the spreader bar I designed and fabricated […]
Another Mention of Almost Scientific and The Dihemishperic Chronaether Agitator in Wired!
Hey all — I just got back from taking apart the Steampunk Treehouse in LA and found a note in my inbox from some good friends directing me to this cool photo and blurb in Wired. The blurb is similar to the other write up they did of the the […]
Mad Labber Scientist Tinkers With Time: Almost Scientific in Wired!
Wow. I just got back from Maker Faire and had a fantastic time. So many cool projects and brilliant people walking around. A glorious geek fest! Check out the write up of Almost Scientific and the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator in Wired: Mad Labber Scientist Tinkers With Time Stanford grad […]
The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator To Appear At Maker Faire This Weekend
It’s true, my most recently complete work, The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator, will be showing all this weekend at the Maker Faire in San Mateo. I just spent the evening in the shop shining it up and tweaking the gears. I don’t think I’ll run it on steam power but I’ll […]