Heart Gears

Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Heart Gears An interesting take on gears and idiosyncrasies of human relationship, by Japanese "Paper Engineer" Kamikara... Want to see a cube do the same thing? Click here. Link If you're interested in inner workings of unusual gears, you should also watch this video. Today's pictures & links: The Land of Giants: Design Proposal For Electricity Pilons This seems to be such a natural idea - why nobody thought about it before? More info and images. ("Land of Giants™", © 2008-2010 Choi+Shine Architects, LLC. All rights reserved - via) ------------ Falling Up (image credit: Niki Jane) This picture goes very well with a story by C. Ceres Merry. ------------ Spikes! This Alaskan king crab is the size of a nickel right now, but... "After a dozen years, the crustacean will grow to the size of a tractor tire." Hmm... (image credit: Brian Skerry, National Geographic) See the whole "3 Degrees of Japan's Seas" gallery by Brian Skerry - click here. ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Mind-boggling Port Landslide Video - [extreme] A Do-It Yourself Brain Surgery Game! - [weird site] Our Sun... Mesmerizing - [wow space] Absolutely Amazing Vintage Pipes - [art, some nsfw] Is he crazy enough to be a tyrant? - [hilarious article] Imaginative Bike Designs From Korea - [design] Do this when you are bored at the office? Staples art - [weird art] Aircraft Maker in Kenya - is it going to fly? - [wow video] Hamster Kung-Fu Master - [fun video] Movement of Jellyfish Controls the Music - [strange videos] Fantastic 3D Light Projection Special Effects - [wow video] Perfect Catch! Food Preparation in India - [wow video] Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Reality Show! - [weird] ------------ An Octopus's Garden Artists sometime struggle for years to find exactly the right environment for their art. But all Jason de Caires had to do was look out to sea. For a Mexican underwater museum, Jason submerged over 400 concrete sculptures in several feet of lovely blue water. You can see them anytime you like – just hold your breath! (photos by Jason de Caires) ------------ Rockefeller Center, New York: in all its blazing glory! This photograph from the 1930s issue of LIFE truly jumps from the page: (image via, more info) ------------ Literally Tall Ships! Here is a vintage poster that shows how passenger ships can seemingly stretch in height - just like that Troll "A" oil platform "on legs" in our recent article: (image via) ------------ Naked Lunch: A Typewriter Beetle! Naked lunch is the only film in which a typewriter beetle kills another typewriter... enough said: ------------ Careful with that hammer!... (image via) ------------ No Smoking Please Talk about irony: a Hindenburg ashtray! - more info. (image via) ------------ Beauty - spoiled Nice girl on the left is transformed into a strange being - seen in an obscure Russian movie "Vpered Gvardeitsy!" (1971): Another weirdest vehicle from an obscure Russian movie - "Humorous/Mechanical Adventures of Tarapunka & Shtepsel" (1970): ------------ Monorail Cat is.. Unperturbed (image credit: CrazyIvory) READ THE PREVIOUS ISSUE -> Share Tweet Share->

Post-Halloween Eclectic Image Mix

"QUANTUM SHOT" #18(rev) Link - by Avi Abrams Philosophy, fear of birds, and movie monsters Well, Halloween has come and gone, and for those of you who's still trembling a little from encountered (and probably imbibed) spirits, here is a very eclectic image mix... Apparently, imaginary disasters can help sell cars: Dressed up in costume all year long - or in this beautiful armour, dreamed up by Ruslan Svobodin: (image credit: Ruslan Svobodin) Philosophy and Alfred Hitchcock's fear of birds co-exist in surreal photographs by Sarolta Ban, from Budapest, Hungary - (art by Sarolta Ban, via) Mesmerizing illustrations by Jean-Daniel Lorieux to the famous novel "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov: (images credit: Jean-Daniel Lorieux) Meet some TV monsters: furry robots... big black spiders (looking ugly next to the "Incredible Shrinking Man")... a giant moth from Japan ("Mothra")... "Ultra-Q" (1966) Japanese TV series - more info. These are the monster's eyes peeking in a window: (image via) ...or vicious molecules bombarding an exploring couple from "The Fantastic Voyage" (featuring weird landscapes inside a human body): Some more vintage movie posters with LARGER-THAN-LIFE monster! - Watch these movies inside this monster movie bus! - (featured in the Modern Mechanix magazine, 1936, via) Monsters from the Planet Photoshop are mostly passe nowadays, but these are especially endearing: a furry frog, and a cat-mouse - (images via Worth1000) Some long-faced individuals: (images via Worth1000 and Fred Bastide, CG Society) Cutting out your own confetti Some stores are already thinking about Christmas - you can start preparing for your next party by buying this prefabricated cut sheet. Instructions for use: 1. Print out this image. 2. Cut out the circles. 3. Keep cutting out the circles. Also, if you have nothing else to do, try imitating various internet smiley faces - (image credit: Dan Wade) Most of all, be afraid, BE VERY AFRAID of your cat: (this would make an awesome t-shirt design; originals unknown) Good Night! (image credit: "Sleep" by Sofia Ajram) CONTINUE TO "THRILLING MOVIE POSTERS"! -> Share Tweet Share

Archive: October 2010

	Siberian "Ghost" Cities Scare Near-abandoned and frightening towns in Siberia
	The Ultimate Moving: Troll-A Gas Platform Immense Troll Tower to Move & Conquer!
	Extreme Parenting & Wild, Wild Kids! The pictures are hilarious, but the parents are nuts
	Hansen's Writing Ball & Other Unusual Typewriters Linear, Ball & Other Gorgeous Writing Machines
	The Rubik's Fix! Rubik Cubes, Spheres, Warps...
	Most Sensuous Car Shapes Ever Designed Cast your vote for the most gorgeous car body!
	The Most Shapely Car Ever Built? Beautiful Pininfarina-Alfa Romeo concept car (1969)
	Jaw-Dropping Concepts from Alfa-Romeo, 1953-1955 A set of Batmobiles that never was...

	October 23, 2010 - Biscotti Bits Mixed Links & Images Incl. "Paper Parkour"
	October 8, 2010 - Biscotti Bits Mixed Links & Images Incl. "Our Little Robot Buddies"

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