Look! I'm world famous!

A while back, a guy on Flickr asked me if he could use one of my photos for a Jazz Festival they were holding, called The Upton Blues Festival which they are holding in the UK. The guy wasn't the first to ask me about, this, and I said the same thing that I always say when people ask: Sure, go ahead as long as I get attribution and a copy of the final product. While the guy wasn't the first to ask, he is the first to actually return a finished product to me, which you can see here:



This is the original photo, taken from my Flickr photostream:



The guy chose this photo because last year the area that the festival was held was devastated by flooding, and this is their comeback year, which made the broken piano appropriate. Thanks to the Upton Blues Festival for appreciating my work, and for actually returning something to me!

Rock On

At first, this image seems impossible, and screams of someone with photoshop skills pulling a fast one on the internet.



Of course, if that were the case, then it really wouldn't have much of a place here on my blog. Rather this is the art of a man named Bill Dan, who goes around balancing rocks on each other. Be sure to check out his videos too -- they will make a believer out of you!

Thor Music

A solid-state Tesla coil with a primary running at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range. That is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones. The high voltage sparks make the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics.

This Tesla coil was built and is owned by Steve Ward, who is an EE student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Hand Music

And much more here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gunecologist

Achy Breaky Heart

It is the voice of Life that calls us

To thine own self be true...

Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

Digg - Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

A great card

Justen Ladda's The Thing

and from a side view which shows that it is really a 2D not 3D image:




Check out the rest of his art installations, etc. as well.

In the "There has to be a better way" category

How Not To Roll Cable Up Stairs - Watch more free videos

Travel Posters

A site of old travel posters.

E.J. Peiker, Nature Photographer

This and other great photos of a cougar and its cubs by E.J. Peiker.

Eaten by Trees

A bike and other items that have been swallowed up by trees.

Houseboats

The Trilobus


The neptus


and other houseboats
http://weburbanist.com/2008/02/20/17-extreme-houseboats-and-houseboat-designs-luxury-marine-habitats-to-humble-floating-homes/

Glass Harmonium

A guy with very dexterous fingers...

Musical Crystal Glasses Like Never Before

Home Made Drones

From Wired Magazine, comes this video on home made drones.



Thanks to P. Reid for the link.

Vegetal Alien

Using 12 digital vegetable models in 3ds max using photographic references, Till Nowak channeled H.R. Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo to come up with the work "Salad":




More on the making of, here.

Thanks to P. Reid for the link.

A Laser Harp

Thanks to P. Reid for the link.

The Caecilian Brunch

What nourishes baby caecilians? Apparently, their mother's skin, as shown in the video.