An interesting video effect which displaces the video frame on each horizontal line, creating these wonderful bendy effects.
Would love to see some taichi using this technique, I think it would be very interesting.
[via BoingBoing]
Archive for the 'Unusual' Category
This is a pretty cool project, a chap in Germany attached a small digital camera to his cat’s collar.
My experience of adding anything to cats collars is that it causes the cat to spend the following several hours awkwardly trying to remove the foreign item, but somehow this guy convinced his cat to become a pioneer in cat photography.
His site shows some of the adventures the cat went on while wearing the catcam, fascinating! I am surprised no one has actually turned this into a product yet, imagine a cat/dog collar with a wireless camera and small memory card which just syncs the images with your network when in range.
I guess there would probably be quite a bit of resistance from the animal privacy advocates.
[via LaughingSquid]
UPDATE 3/1/08 - also check out the Fritz Catcam for more photographic cat adventures.
I’ve never been a great fan of performance art, perhaps because I hadn’t seen any thing like this before.
[via Geekologie]
My, how advertising has changed…check out the rest of these camel adverts from the 40’s.
[via Cynical-C]
They probably aren’t too comfortable to wear, but Nike has put together a pair of Transformers (Megatron and Optimus Prime) which for some reason transform into trainers.
Highly collectable, ultra pointless!
[via BoingBoing]
A Gallery of albino African-American people. This one has been languishing in my blogging queue for sometime.
[via EatLiver]
A group of deaf Chinese woman from the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe perform the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva Dance.
Stunning!
[via Cynical-C]
These are some truly messed with photographs. Whereas most people use photoshop to touch up,
pallalink uses it to completly distort and reproduce a really interesting, not-quite kaleidoscopic effect.
[via BoingBoing]
These are some really cool steampunk style ‘maschinenleuchten’ (light-machines) by Frank Buchwald, gotta love the old-timey industrial design. See the rest of the gallery for the other unique light-machines.
[via Gizmodo]
Wow, what a combination…meat extract and Irish beer!
Its flavour is described as less salty and less meaty than the original savoury spread. Guinness Marmite is made with a strain of yeast used to make the Irish drink. The spread is traditionally made using a blend of different brewer’s yeasts. Some 300,000 jars of the black-coloured Guinness Marmite will go on sale from this weekend.
[via CoolHunting]
Has been a really busy week so I havent really had chance to post much…so to make up for it I bring you the haunting tunes of Nora, the piano playing cat.
The pattern design on buses and trains is something of an art form. It is about creating a pattern which doesn’t show the copious quantity of stains, marks or rips, rather than making something aesthetically pleasing.
This interesting flickr set is a collection of many patterns from public transport around the world.
[via Kottke]
Gesundheit!
[via Natures Mighty Pictures]
btw, the title is reference to the obscure Studio Ghibli movie; Panda kopanda.
Why? I have no idea…
[via Joystiq]