Dalek wheelchair costume
Check out YouTube user YellowWheels’ channel for another pretty sweet chair costume.
Month: October 2009
Real-time energy monitoring
A few months ago I met Mike Costa at Design Continuum. He had a Chumby on his desk which was set to monitor the energy usage of the building. At the time, he was working out the technical details of the system, and now has posted up some info about the project. Here are some highlights:
Real time power monitoring has been proven to effectively reduce power consumption due to waste. It is intuitive to consider that humans need some sort of feedback in order to recognize the presence of waste. For example if one leaves the faucet open one has sound and sight feedback indicating there is waste. What sort of feedback do we have for electricity? None really, this is why these systems can help with waste reduction
Self by Marc Quinn
Self by Marc Quinn… …a frozen sculpture of the artist’s head made from 4.5 litres of the artist’s own frozen blood taken from his body over a period of five months. This work is repeated every five years and will result in a unique record of the artist aging.
Crochet Version of Easy House Slippers Pattern
Thank you Mommy Knows for coming up with a crochet version of our easy house slipper pattern. The knitting pattern by Liecel Tverli Scully was featured last month in our Cozy Up to Yarn theme.
An Afternoon of Crafts and ‘Staches in Petaluma
Today I’ve been at the Petaluma Whiskerino, an extraordinary contest of beards and mustaches. I made a few felt mustaches, and had to get my photo taken with the winner in the Full Beard category, Jack Passion. Jack is the author of the Facial Hair Handbook, and as his bear clearly shows, a true expert […]
Bullet impacts at 1,000,000 frames per second
I’m not entirely sure who made this video. I have this strange intuition it might be someone named “Werner Mehl,” and that the video might be copyright 2009, and….somehow, that Werner’s website is probably www.kurzzeit.com. Isn’t it weird how sometimes stuff just comes to you?
Nikon’s Small World gallery
1st Place, 2009 – Dr. Heiti Paves, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.