8/30/10
Art by Victoria Frances
Victoria Frances is famous Spanish artist who works in the Gothic style. Her paintings depict young women suffering from love to obsession of vampires. Artist has a collection from Venetian carnival scene.
8/29/10
Underwater Fort
This is a clip of the short journey from the shore to a oxygen-filled underwater fort, named the bubble room. SaltySamaritan and his family has built it at the bottom of a Nevada mountain lake.
"The Bubble Room is an amazing, clear, underwater dome about 15 feet below the surface of an alpine lake. My brother and I designed and built the Bubble Room. When in the Bubble Room you stand in the sand 20 feet under water, looking out through the clear dome into the lake above you"
Where did this idea come from?
Jordan(brother and co-creator of the bubble room): I was in the shower, one day about four years ago, and I was just thinking about how cool it would be to have an underwater "fort" I wasn't sure how to make it happen at the time, but that's when the brainstorming started. So I called my brother Logan and we started talking about ways to do it.
Our original version was just a net stretched tight and secured to four rocks—one at each corner—and then a piece of plastic pulled under the net and an air bubble released into it from a scuba tank. Because the air is displacing water, the upward force of the bubble is equivalent to the downward force of the same volume of water on shore. So a bubble 10 cubic feet in volume would be basically 74.8 "gallons" of air at 8.35 lbs per gallon, which means a 10 cu. ft. bubble has 624.58 pounds of upward force! Pretty substantial.
Needless to say, by the time the bubble under the net was about the size of an average ice chest it had stretched almost 20 feet up to the surface then the net broke. via
8/25/10
Robin Charlotte’s wearable art
Descriptions like ‘snake vertebrate earrings’ and ‘goldfish necklaces’ may not sound that appealing, but Los Angeles-based artist Robin Charlotte has managed to take the creepy and make it dreamy. Her pro-nature line of wearable art is remarkably creative and anyone can be a pretty goth-fairy-mermaid just by wearing one of her creations.
Where to plant - EasyBloom helps
At first glance the device strikes you as an ugly flower: contrived, artificial and man-made. A quick perusal of the official literature suggests the contrary however, revealing how it serves nature’s ends in a way never before imagined.
What does it do? Stick it to the ground, leave it for a number of hours and receive data on your PC about soil conditions. It basically tells you where and where not to cultivate the green stuff.
How does it work such magic? Not magic, of course. EasyBloom has super-classified sensors and an internet connection. After studying the soil using botanical algorithms, it transmits the data and helps you strategize the arrangement of your garden.
According to the official site, EasyBloom and the company that manufactures it was inspired by founder Matt Glenn’s experience while getting a haircut.
After noticing a dead potted plant on the window of his hairdresser’s, he began coking up solutions for improving plant survivability. He took his ideas to venture capitalists, developed the product and has now partnered with Black & Decker to get this to a garden near you.
What does it do? Stick it to the ground, leave it for a number of hours and receive data on your PC about soil conditions. It basically tells you where and where not to cultivate the green stuff.
How does it work such magic? Not magic, of course. EasyBloom has super-classified sensors and an internet connection. After studying the soil using botanical algorithms, it transmits the data and helps you strategize the arrangement of your garden.
According to the official site, EasyBloom and the company that manufactures it was inspired by founder Matt Glenn’s experience while getting a haircut.
After noticing a dead potted plant on the window of his hairdresser’s, he began coking up solutions for improving plant survivability. He took his ideas to venture capitalists, developed the product and has now partnered with Black & Decker to get this to a garden near you.
Price $50. Buy
Chinese man get patent for Earthquake-Proof Bed
A Chinese man named Wang Wenxi has designed an earthquake-proof bed. This high-tech bed can automatically turn into a strongbox to help people survive an earthquake. And the bed’s thick frame can support a roof and the extra space inside its thick boards can store essential foodstuffs like canned goods and life sustaining water. They can help people survive for several days before being rescued, Wang said. "I experienced the Xingtai and Tangshan earthquakes giving me more understanding of such natural disasters," the retired 66-year-old said.
8/22/10
Celebrity Lamp
Ah, celebrities. They’ve inspired something cool… a lamp. Those stars are always wearing those giant mirrored sunglasses, even when they’re inside. At night. During a power outage. The designers behind the celebrity lamp found this amusing, and re-appropriated those familiar too-cool shades into a very clever lamp. When on, the lamp shines through the 40 pairs of Aviator sunglasses that comprise its shade. When off, those 80 lenses reflect everything, including your own beautiful visage, which really completes the whole “celebrity” idea. via
Zipper boat
Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki has built a motorboat shaped like a zipper pull. The boat, the sea and the long wake conspire together to create the effect of a gigantic zipper extending across the water.
8/18/10
The Seattle Gum Wall – A Sticky Attraction
Located in Post Alley, under Pike Place Market, the Gum Wall had its beginning in the early 1990s when people, irritated that they had to wait in line to get tickets to the theater, stuck chewing gum on the wall.
At first they would use the gum to stick small coins to the wall but in time the coins disappeared and the gum remained.
Now it is covered with thousands of pieces of chewing gum of any color imaginable. And as the wall grows, the chewing gum art becomes more sophisticated.
The Seattle Gum Wall is also one of the germiest tourist destinations on Earth. In a ranking made by Trip Advisor, it came in second place, after Ireland’s Blarney Stone.
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