Love someone’s sense of humour!

Saw this the other day and just laughed, aloud, alot. Not sure why. Giggling as I type this, actually.

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Ah, SmartRider - my nemesis. I found this one on the ground and in the spirit of scientific enquiry, cracked that sucker open.

Actually, I plan to try and embed this into a nifty resin bangle - or ring? - and I didn’t really ‘crack’ it open, I used acetone to dissolve the plastic card (and most of the chip too - see last photo).

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A friend pointed this out to me. I’m very into lightbulbs.. (Clicky Enlargey)

They are, apparently, repurposed lightbulbs, salvaged from bins (whatever…) and the set above costs in the order of US$650. I asked how they’re fixed to the base - apparently, using neodymium magnets (’scary’ magnets) which is quite clever. He might try and make one, so we thought about perhaps using a dense liquid (or even pouring in a molten metal like lead) to keep them stable - because you don’t really want them rolling away from you…
While the concept is great (though I’m not sure where I’d put it..) I’m not sure if I like the execution - I know from experience (pulling apart lightbulbs myself, okay?) how fragile and thin the glass is, and how difficult it is to separate from the base. I also can’t see any mechanism to pull the wick through. Should it be classified as art? Do you like it?
By the way, there’s 64 left (out of 70) so get buying.

Edit : Oh look :) (They don’t seem to realise I’m being gently critical)

The best way to stay updated with the Design Encyclopedia is through their ass? Obviously, I now realise it says ‘RSS’.

Somone called Jay attached a disposable camera to a public bench to just see what the hell happened.

From the site :

“I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read:

Good afternoon,
I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.
Love, Jay / The Plug

When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been shot. Below are the photos that were taken.”

There’s something beautifully poetic in all of this. I’d like to try it - I wonder what sorts of pictures Australians would take..?

Via Digg

Aviary - Creation on the fly / blog / How to draw anything in 1 step

Extremely useful. The thing that I can’t - sorry, couldnt - draw, by the way, is noses.

The arrangement and configuration of this passenger’s dormant head results in emission of a pleasurable release of laughter, initiated by the contextual irony implicit in the juxtaposition of said head and the positioning of the advertising material (see diagram) on which it rests.

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This was on the 28 bus going into Perth the other day. For most of the journey I sat reading it, and silently questioning its existence. Who wrote those words? Are they are real motherfucker? If they catch you, what exactly will they do to you?

I also questioned its effectiveness because as I stared I began to feel irresistebly compelled to scribble something juvenile in cheeky response - like “okay”. Or “Thanks for saving my soul TransPerth”, but I didn’t - If I had it might have raised some crazy chicken-and-egg conundrum. The tone of the writing seems to fluctuate between an exasperated, tired, “we’ve had enough” sort of feel, to sombre, “It doesn’t even, like, really matter” to a slightly aggressive and quietly hilarious “so do you hate the world, or just yourself?” to your standard high-school leaflet “your life, your choice” sort of ultimatum.

It thoroughly entertained me for 20 minutes so I took this photo.

I don’t know how effective it will be on the ‘graffidiots’ - because I think they’ve 1) fundamentally overestimated their audience - that article is wayyyy to long and who can be bothered reading that? and 2) graffiti-ists don’t really do it for the ‘guts’, I think, they do it for the same reason dogs piss on trees or people start useless blogs - they’re trying to make themselves visible. My solution would be to use shatter-proof glass which can’t easily be scratched, or to install some sort of microphonic scratch-sensor on the window that alarms when it’s triggered.

As for it costing loads of money, well, I don’t know. A plexiglas panel has only gotta cost about a hundred bucks or so. I think they real waste of money is probably the riduclously retarded and utterly stupid smartrider system, the actual expense being to great a number to fit on the internet, not to mention the cost of 20 train ‘cops’ to slouch all day at the Perth station and harass me because my Student Card with Photo is not sufficient to demonstrate that I am a student.

That’s all…

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OK, so I didn’t see it coming this time..

I lol’d.

Weburbanist has this cool feature on Transforming Furniture!

Haha. Still funny. Click for large version.

OK - Lewis showed me this today..
It’s (obviously!) a skeleton made out of cassette tapes.
The artist is Brian Dettmer and the skeleton the beast is/was on display at the Museum of Surgical Science. Apparently it was made by heating the tapes and - I imagine - pressing them into molds. Pretty similar to making Vinyl Record bowls.. which Lewis also made..

(Via IconicResult.com)

Dancing Liquid

(It’s corn starch, by the way - on a subwoofer. Just thought it was pretty freaky. Via Neatorama.

Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahaha.

Zombie of Montclaire Moors Sculpture

From BoingBoing..

Dimitri the stud

The youtube description :

Okay guys here is the info on this voicemail. One of my friend’s from work and her friend were out one night in the SF Marina district and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girl’s, Olga ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they talk for at the most 2 minutes. She hands him her business card and says call me.

From Here.