The Lumbering Contraption — Front Car
Here are some of the latest shots of the hot-rod hamster-wheel of death (a.k.a – The Lumbering Contraption). Let me ask you … does this look like something you would want picking your nose? There were a bunch of people shooting video tonight as we gave it a test run […]
The Internet Tells Lies
My last post on the Lumbering Contraption was featured on the Make blog where they noted that our Railcar was much like The Disgusting Spectacle ( a gloriously absurd work of art built by friends at NIMBY ). While it is true that they are both human powered and both […]
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LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams
Here are some live webcams from the LHC. A touch on the dull side (high energy physics is just not that exciting) but worth watching:
NIMBY Update 2
Bad. Here is a photo of the core damage. See the burned out container with the door open and another container collapsed into it? Well right below that was my workspace: The NIMBY webpage has been updated with the offical (and true) story: Five years of good times, art, shows, […]
The Best Steampunk Photoshop Contest EVAH!!
The Best Steampunk Photoshop Contest EVAH!!
NIMBY Update
So it’s a good thing that I moved out of NIMBY when I did. The fire was in the container directly above mine and it apparently damaged allot of the space I occupied only a week or so ago. The word on the street is that NIMBY is dead. The […]
Thisissand
This Is Sand (click the box)
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I love the wind in the background. “Beyond this nothing is visible … for the moment.”
Paris … New York … Shanghai … What’s the diffrence?
Paris … New York … Shanghai … What’s the difference?
Of Man and Metal
Fantastic. Beautiful. From the Bldgblog post Library of Dust. Go and read the whole thing and see more fantastic images. Also check out the photographers site with additional photos. In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were […]
Inflatable faeces raises a stink
Inflatable faeces raises a stink A giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line after being blown away from a Swiss museum. The artwork, entitled Complex Shit, was carried 200 metres on the night of 31 July, reportedly breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again. The sculpture, by […]
The App is a work of Art …
I’m just catching up on this story about the I Am Rich app for the iPhone. I first came across this post on Webmonkey and got some more details form the LA times. Have you hear about this? So Armin Heinrich of Germany wrote a application for the iphone that […]
Kinetic Steam Works and The Swimmin Cities of Switchback Sea
Over the past few months my good friends and collaborators in KSW have been restoring a beautiful, steam-powered paddle boat that they are going to piolt down the Hudson river in NY as part of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project:. Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla […]
Edgar Mitchell (aka Moonwalker) elaborates and I pontificate
The other day I did a quick post about Edgar Mitchell’s radio interview in which he claimed to have direct knowledge about UFO cover ups. Well, he’s elaborated, clarified and expanded on his initial statements in this interview with the Discovery channel. Now, while I am fairly sure that life […]