For the months of July & August I helped put together “The Big Build – THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE” one of my favorite (living) artists… Theo Kamecke was for many years a film maker of award-winning documentaries whose subjects ranged from astronauts to coal miners, rodeo cowboys to nuclear scientists. He was in mission […]
Grand Central’s multimillion-dollar secrets @ Geek Gestalt – CNET News… When FDR was president in the 1930s, the White House put a simple demand on the owners of Grand Central: protect the secrecy of Roosevelt’s polio. They weren’t being vague: They had a plan, and that involved the construction of a secret, fully functional train […]
World’s largest skateboard! via Laughing Squid. Presenting the World’s Largest Skateboard built by Joe Ciaglia and the team at California Skateparks. The skateboard stands 3 feet 7 1/2 inches tall, 8 feet 8 inches wide and 36 feet 7 inches long and has been certified by the Guinness Book Of World Records as the World’s […]
Cory “I can spell squidgey however I want” Doctorow points us at Nick Turvey’s Venus, currently on display outside the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It’s carved urethane foam, coated in rubber, over a stainless steel skeleton, and yields nauseatingly and/or delightfully to the touch. [via Boing Boing]
Reinventing the wheel – and then some via NOTCOT. In the quest for alternative energy, thereรขโฌโขs a source many may have overlooked. Not Narberth resident Bill McHugh, though. Heรขโฌโขs been exploring it ever since he built and moved into his Sabine Avenue home 46 years ago. You could call it รขโฌลsquirrel power.รขโฌย
“My Homemade Stargate” via HaD. Mango writes – I’ve had a few pms from people asking about the stargate that my dad and I have been building out in our backyard, asking for an update to how its going. The truth is, we havent touched it in months. I said i would have an update […]
Jack Hall from Brighton, England, couldn’t pick, strum, or draw a bow, but when it came to building stringed instruments, he had an amazing talent. You see, every inch of the instruments he built is made entirely with used matchsticks. Yes, dead matches.
