Domino Clock (video)

The Domino Clock takes a simple, iconic object and transforms it into a new way to tell time. The concept is simple. Three larger-than-life dominoes are equipped with articulating "dots" that flip back-and-forth between black and white to keep time. They hang on the wall or stand free, communicating wirelessly as they quietly mark the passing hours and minutes.
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St. Petersburg in miniature (tilt-shift video)

St. Petersburg Strikes Back: Yota advertisement using tilt-shift technology.
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Aleksandr Orlov - the world's most popular fictional meerkat

Meerkat. Photo by Itshears

Aleksandr Orlov (Russian: Александр Орлов) is a fictional CGI anthropomorphic Russian meerkat. He is portrayed as being of aristocratic stock, and the founder of www.comparethemeerkat.com. The character is central to an advertising campaign on British commercial television for the comparethemarket.com price comparison website. It launched in January 2009 and centres on his frustration that people keep coming to his website looking for car insurance not meerkats, because 'Market' sounds similar to 'Meerkat' when spoken in a Russian accent. Orlov's catchphrase is 'Simples', pronounced 'Seem-pels'.

Official Compare the Meerkat Jingle Advert by Aleksandr Orlov

"It seem some people still visit this site for cheap car insurance deal, so this time I have make absolute clear difference. Only mongoose could not understand!"

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Woodland Hobbit Home

You are looking at pictures of a wooden house built by Simon Dale for him and his family. It’s located in Wales somewhere in the middle of the forest, and it looks like a little Hobbit house from the Lord of the Rings. It’s all built out of natural materials, and the main tools used were a chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel.

Via simondale.net, planetoddity

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Amazing bursting baloons photography by Edward Horsford

London based photographer Edward Horsford photographs balloons in a very unique way. He freezes them as they leave his hands to explode.

The pictures are taken with a "high tech" DIYed sound trigger, Strobes, and one rusty stick.

             via diyphotography.net

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Periodic Table Building Blocks for Geek Kids

Periodic Table Building Blocks Set

Parents who think their little geniuses are too smart to play with common ABC's may rejoice at this solution. The Periodic Table Building Blocks set comes with 20 multi-sided blocks featuring all of the elements on the periodic table printed in bright colors. This set is exclusive to ThinkGeek and costs $39.99. "Great for wee geeks, chemistry geeks and science teachers. In fact, we betcha that your favorite chemistry nerd would love these, even if they're 36 years, not 36 months."

Element Bacon

Learn while you build

[ Periodic Table Building Blocks ]

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Lipstick Enigma

This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising.

The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, contolled by 60 circuit boards.

via janetzweig

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Giant Wooden Clip - Urban Art in Belgium

Giant wooden clip art installation designed by Mehmet Ali Uysal, displayed in Belgium, in the Chaudfontaine park, as part of a contemporary art exhibition.

Гигантская деревянная прищепка - часть выставки современного искусства, которая проходит в парке Chaudfontaine в Бельгии. Автор работы -  Ali Uysal.

Photos © Mmarsupilami

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Father and Son Send iPhone Into Outer Space

Ever wondered how high a balloon can fly and what our earth would look like from above? Here are the answers! Check out this video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space.



In August 2010 Brooklyn-based cinematographer Luke Geissbuhler and his son set out to send a camera to space. They attached a HD video camera to a weather balloon and sent it up beyond our earth.

[Brooklyn Space Program]

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Who You Gonna Call?

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
For one of their latest missions, they brought the movie Ghostbusters to life in the reading room of The New York Public Library at 42 Street. The 1984 movie begins with a scene in the very same room, so they figured it was time for the Ghostbusters to make an encore appearance. 

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Creative Miscellany

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Painting on Water

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Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table

Obscura Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table. Featured at the Esquire Houses Ultimate Bachelor Pad in NYC, the limited Edition Obscura CueLight projection system turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. Obscuras projection, sensor and tracking system reveals images and animations that follow the movements of the pool balls as players hit them around the table.

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Map of the "Lost" world

This map is created by cartographer Jonah M. Adkins. "The Geography of LOST: Retrospective is the result of a four year geographic study of the fictious ISLAND from the TV show LOST."

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World Cup Ball: Evolution

The NY Times created this interactive diagram to show the evolution of the world cup ball throughout the years.

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