From Gizmodo:
"After six long years of planning, talking and hard work, the world finally got its first look at the 100% solar-powered Solar Impulse HB-SIA on June 26th. This remarkable feat of engineering, with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 but only the weight of an average family car, has over 12,000 solar cells powering four electric motors with a maximum power of 10HP. The aircraft prototype is expected to take its first flights before the end of the year."
CMYK PRINT dane by Louise Naunton Morgan
Louise Naunton Morgan is a designer and illustrator who just graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design.
From the artist's web site:
"Technology is an integral aspect of modern day life, so much so that without it we may not be able to function. We have constructed these machines to aid our lives, making simple productions/tasks easier to accomplish. Though these development were intiated to benefit us they have also constricted and restrained not only the outcome of our productions but also the process we take to obtain the final result. Our environment is now scattered with machine made artefacts, computer developed images and autonomous interactions – which are all constructed under a set of rules and standards. We are losing the essence of human production and craft to the machine, resulting in a souless utilitarianism.
Alice in Wonderland - Image: Disney Enterprises, Inc
Here is some concept art from the upcoming Alice in Wonderland film by Tim Burton, based on the novel by Lewis Carroll. The movie should hit theaters on March 5, 2010. Time will tell whether Burton can do justice to the storytelling in Lewis Carroll's classic book, but one thing is virtually certain- it's going to be an absolute feast for the eyes.
The Tweedles - Image: Disney Enterprises, Inc
The White Rabbit - Image: Disney Enterprises, Inc
Email scammers get a taste of their own medicine when they get conned into videotaping a re-enactment of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" skit, courtesy of a group named 419 Eater. Talk about karmic retribution.
Stunning super slow motion video of surfer Dylan Longbottom gliding through a 12 foot barrel wave. The scene was shot with a special HD camera that can film at 20 times the normal speed. This clip is taken from a BBC documentary that looks at the islands of the South Pacific.
From the BBC site:
"I really wanted to slow the wave down, so it was like being there, immersed in that environment," says the BBC's Huw Cordey, series producer of South Pacific.
"I wanted to capture the scale of the event."
Doing so took special skills and equipment. Australian cameraman Bali Strickland, renowned for filming expert surfers at some of the best surfing sites in the world, had to float in the water as the wave passed over him.
He filmed the wave using a £66,000 ($100,000) high-speed camera that captures the action at 20 times slower than normal speed, and in high definition.
The kit required a special housing unit designed and built by German specialist high-speed cameraman and technician Rudi Diesel.
Until this film, no one had ever tried using this type of camera underwater before.
A nifty little time lapse video shot on board a large ship.
Photo: SA_Steve
If doctors everywhere are puffing on tobacco that is "naturally mild", "toasted" and contains "smoke scrubbers", there is no way cigarette smoking can do you harm. Here is a collection of lovely, utterly deceptive cigarette ads.
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