Escher’s Waterfall – The Video
Nice forced perspective illusion from YouTube user mcwolles. [via Boing Boing]
Month: February 2011
How-To: Photorealistic Gadget Pouches
The fun folks over at Photojojo have a great new tutorial for making photorealistic gadget pouches that will amaze and amuse your friends. See the full how-to over on Photojojo.
How-To: Sprocket Hole Photos
With digital photography as the most prevalent method of capturing pictures these days, nothing says nostalgia like these 35mm panoramas that are captured over the entire height of the negative. In this excellent Instructable by Darin Barry, you’ll learn how to hack a cheap medium format camera to expose your image so that it bleeds […]
Evil CO2inator (CO2 injector for fruit)
Our lab-coated compadres at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have taken on a guest contributor for extra evil, more madness, and bonus science! Rich Faulhaber’s nifty project is a CO2 injector for whole fruit. And who doesn’t want to inject a little carbon dioxide fun into their daily fruit requirements? In an effort to make fruit […]
$75 Sous Vide Immersion Cooker
Sous vide cooking, immersing vacuum-sealed foods in temperature-controlled hot water, is all the rage in culinary circles, touting incomparable results achieving optimal doneness. But the price tag on most commercially produced machines is a bit steep, with $300 being the bare minimum, on upward to the thousands. Seattle Food Geek Scott Heimendinger was intrigued, but […]
Mineral Outgrowths
These intriguing objects are copper canisters that contain human cremated remains. The images are from a book called Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel. In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into […]
DIY Snow Stick
Mitten crafter Chris Gorski went on snow patrol this month with the snow storms that hit Michigan not too long ago. He made his own life-size snow stick to track the progress and was happy to report that all projected snow falls were definitely OFF. For all you snow-state residents out there, do you make […]