Mondo Spider
Written by TheNark admin on April 22nd, 2009 | 1 CommentHow it all started
The Mondo Spider Project was founded by five Vancouverites: Charlie Brinson, Dillard Brinson, Alex Mossman, Leigh Christie and Jonathan Tippett.
Junkyard Wars
Inspired by the famous TV shows Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars USA, Alex Mossman, Brian Wells and several other brilliant local Vancouver Engineers started a competition known as The Vancouver Junkyard Wars [...]
How To Cook A Hot Dog Russian Style
Written by TheNark admin on March 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsThis is how some system administrator in Russia prepares himself a quick meal during those long nights at the office — with a 220-volt hotdog. He stabs a fork in each end, connects the clips, plugs in the plug, and presto: death by electrocution just waiting to happen. The guy even sticks LEDs in the [...]
Best Programmer T-Shirts signs
Written by TheNark admin on March 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsFront: How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
Back: You’re still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so all you’d have to do is send a light bulb change message.
Front: I manage programmers freakin’ [...]
Pyramids of the future
Written by TheNark admin on March 31st, 2009 | 0 CommentsDubai’s latest offering is a carbon-neutral ‘pyramid’ city
“Ziggurat” is the name of the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley with the characteristic form of a terraced pyramid with successively receding stories. Now the name is about to enter a new phase. Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe a [...]
Noriko Ambe
Written by TheNark admin on March 31st, 2009 | 3 CommentsArtist about self:
“After getting aware of the viewpoint of an “empty self,” I started in 1999 a series of works using paper, titled “Linear-Actions Projects by Drawing and Cutting.” It looks like annual rings of a tree or topographical map or waive, but it isn’t. It is absolutely the traces of actions of a person, [...]
Great photos by Clark Little
Written by TheNark admin on March 3rd, 2009 | 5 CommentsClark Little grew up on the North Shore of Oahu and made his name as the pioneer of surfing at the Waimea Bay shorebreak. Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeouts. He would get launched, pull into, and survive in perhaps the nastiest shorebreak in the world.
After Clark stepped away [...]
Napkin PC Concept by Avery Holleman
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 1 CommentAvery Holleman has developed a PC design that can turn out to be a very useful tool on your conference tables. Named as Napkin PC, the design resembles a Napkin holder, which combines multiple touch screen devices within a collaborative network. The digital pens which are a part of the device allow the users to [...]
Strongest Laser Ever
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 1 CommentWeighing in at a mere 20 billion trillion watts per square
centimeter and containing a measly 300 terawatts of power, the
University of Michigan has broken a record with a 1.3-micron speck wide
laser. It’s about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser
in the world and can perform for 30 femtoseconds once every ten seconds
— some [...]
Typography IF by Rudyard Kipling
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 3 CommentsIf you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And [...]
Bernard Katz glass designer
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 1 CommentBernard Katz artist and designer in hot glass for 20 years, graduated from Temple
University’s Tyler School of Art specializing in Glass Blowing and Sculpture.
Following graduation, Bernard began working around the United States with well known
glass artists such as Leon Applebaum, David Garcia and Samuel Bloom before setting
out on his own.
Since 1993, Bernard Katz moved [...]
Psychedelic bouncing fish discovered in Indonesia
Written by TheNark admin on February 28th, 2009 | 0 CommentsA psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species.
The frogfish — which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail — was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour operator a [...]
3D MAPPING VIDEO PROJECTED
Written by TheNark admin on February 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments3D Projections on Buildings; Looks pretty awesome, I’m supprised at the ammount of image/light/whatever you want to call it on the building, i’m sure these were recorded under optimal conditions, but that makes this no less impressive..
NEW TECHNOLOGY – EVENT COMMUNICATIONS
Innovator and spectacular, 3D Mapping Video projected is intergrated perfectly into a strategy of global [...]
Julius Popp
Written by TheNark admin on February 21st, 2009 | 5 CommentsJulius Popp is very innovative artis. He was born in 1973 in Nürnberg. He graduateted at “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst“ in Leipzig (Meisterschüler Astrid Klein). Julius Popp recived numerous international awards including the Künstföderpreis der Stadtwerke Halle und Leipzig 2002, the Robot Choice Award 2003, and he was nominated for the Inspire-award 2004. He [...]
First probabilistic CPU 30x more power-efficient
Written by TheNark admin on February 17th, 2009 | 0 CommentsRice University today used the International Solid-State Circuits Conference to reveal that it has tested a real-world example of a processor founded on probability math. Called a PCMOS (probability-based complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), the chip abandons the either/or Boolean logic of all current processors in favor of calculations that rely on the most likely answer in [...]
Earth Friendly Home
Written by TheNark admin on February 17th, 2009 | 2 CommentsIt’s the house that love built – Woodland Home was done by a man with the help of his father-in-law, a few good friends and some passersby who couldn’t help their curiosity at this spectacular sustainable design. “Being your own architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which [...]
Free Hugs
Written by TheNark admin on February 17th, 2009 | 0 CommentsSometimes, a hug is all what we need.
Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.
In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.
As [...]
The Troll
Written by TheNark admin on February 14th, 2009 | 31 CommentsKim and her volunteers built a huge 12-foot tall troll with completely non-toxic materials.
As Kim says, the most important aspect of this sculpture is that it si truly interactive. The best way that people can interact with public art is by having their picture taken somewhere around, or in front of them. It is really [...]
Porphyria – a disease of vampires
Written by TheNark admin on February 10th, 2009 | 7 CommentsPorphyria is not one disease, but a group of at least eight different diseases that are significantly different. The common feature for all porphyria is accumulation of porphyria. We can find porphyria in our body, but it is not good when porphyria start to accumulation in body. Treatment and symptoms of different types [...]
