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photo via Form & Reform
The Electrobite Olenoides is a wonderful metal trilobite vehicle that you can ride around on, build from an electric wheelchair . It was created for Burning Man 2009 by our friends Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate of Form & Reform, the same guys who made the SS Alpha Fox and Golden Mean Snail Car.
The Electrobite is featured on latest episode of Boing Boing Video, which was shot in September during Dorkbot SF #47 at TCHO in San Francisco.
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If you ever find yourself on the street with a bottle of wine and you don’t have a corkscrew, this simple instructional video will help show you how to remove the cork using just your shoe and the wall of a building.
via The Daily What
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For Halloween Sarah McPherson pixelated herself and went as “Low Resolution”.
via Make
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photo by Eric Testroete
Eric Testroete created an amazing papercraft self portrait as a Halloween costume, wearing his surreal big head over his real head.
It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.
Here’s Eric’s documentation of the project.
via Adam Savage
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The current issue of Make Magazine (Volume 20) has a great cover illustrated by Adam Koford featuring Adam Savage of MythBusters as an astronaut.
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“Fly In A Bottle”, a documentary about the avant-garde jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood directed by their drummer Billy Martin, is scheduled for release on November 24th as part of the Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set, now available for pre-order.
As an amazing finale to the entire box set, Billy Martin directed the first feature film in Medeski Martin & Wood’s history entitled Fly in a Bottle. Tirelessly working through footage of MMW in the studio and on the road, the film provides an extremely intimate portrait of the band. It highlights the trio’s intricate relationships with each other and with the music they have worked to create over their past 19 years as a band.
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photos by Todd Freeman
Printmakers Todd Freeman and Meg Perec of Freeman & Perec recently created “Sixty Foot Ghost”, a site specific art installation that recreates a 60′ giant squid. The project was created for ArtPrize 2009 and is currently on display at 47 Commerce SW in Grand Rapids, MI.
Large animals captivate like few other beings can. They are deified, hunted, consumed and catalogued. While our culture has seemingly amassed a working knowledge of all living species on the planet, one of the world’s giants has successfully eluded the scientific community for centuries. Save for a few partially decomposed specimens virtually nothing is known of Architeuthis dux, the Giant Squid. Architeuthis is a 60 foot ghost, moving unnoticed through deep and dark.
Our representation of the giant squid was conceived out of a need to see the animal for ourselves, beyond pale museum subjects or small renderings in books. At life size, the true scale of Architeuthis becomes clear, a massive, unfamiliar animal deserving of the same fascination and wonder owed to any whale, elephant or dinosaur. Our intent is to bring the myth into a gratifying real space, and give the viewer a chance to be confronted with one of the largest and most secretive animals to ever live.
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“The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu” by Zachary Murray, a wonderful way to explain H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu to children, maybe even a few adults too.
Want a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult? Meet little Cthulhu, who lives in the magic city of R’lyeh with all his friends, as you and your child embark on a fun and educational journey through the world of the Great Old Ones, meeting all kinds of new buddies from the Necronomicon along the way, from Azathoth to Yog-Sothoth! This series has won multiple awards and has been enthusiastically approved by the department of child-developmental psychology at Miskatonic University.
via Burstein! & I Heart Chaos
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Art of Bleeding has just launched their new video series “Gory Details”, featuring recreations of real-life medical emergency stories. Episode #1 features a gruesome story by Ed Buhr about Mango Flies and their maggot offspring.
Abram the Safety Ape, RT the Robot Teacher, and the wise old hand-puppet Dr. Moody discuss a nasty larval infestation picked up by a student traveling in Africa. With the assistance of the alluring nurses of the Magic Ambulance and a pinch of Magic Safety Dust this true-life story is recreated in all its grisly splendor.
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Last month Jason Laskodi and I took a trip to Dallas/Fort Worth to visit Barry Abrahamson. While there we organized a Laughing Squid Drinkup which started off at Cohabitat, an awesome coworking space located in a huge house in Uptown Dallas. Our friend Blake Burris graciously offered to host us there and gave us a grand tour of the space. Here are a few photos of Cohabitat from our visit.
Later that evening we made our way over to the Ginger Man where the Beatles cover band a A Hard Night’s Day was playing. Here are a few photos of Ginger Man Dallas.
photos by Scott Beale
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The Oatmeal has created an illustrated guide on “How To Use An Apostrophe”.
via Matthew Inman
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In the comments on mikl-em’s post about comics first appearances on The Tonight Show, Doctor Popular tips us off to a 1968 episode of The Dating Game featuring Steve Martin as one of the competing bachelors.
Of course there’s the infamous 1978 episode where Andy Kaufman was a contestant playing a character similar to his Latka Gravas role from the TV show Taxi.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was a bachelor asking the questions on 1973 episode.
In 1972 a 14 year-old Michael Jackson was the guest on a special teenage episode.
Over the years many other celebrities made appearances as well.
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Introducing the new Weezer Snuggie. Order now and they’ll throw in the new Weezer album “Raditude” for free.
via Nerdist
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“We Are Douchebags”, part of the emerging Douchebag Solidarity movement.
From Wikipedia: A reclaimed word is a word in a language that was at one time a pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage—usually starting within the communities that experienced oppression under that word, but often also among the general populace as well.
via Ed Hunsinger
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Put This On, a new web series about dressing like a grownup, hosted by Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, has just launched with Episode 1: Denim. Great job guys!
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After 13 years of near continuous broadcasting, San Francisco micro radio station Pirate Cat Radio (87.9 FM), operating out of Pirate Cat Café, has been ordered off the air and fined $10,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
In a notice dated August 31, 2009 the FCC asserted that Monkey, the founder of Pirate Cat Radio, “willfully and repeatedly violated Section 301 of the Communications Act of 1934” and proposed to fine him $10,000 for the infraction.
By bringing to bear the full weight of the Federal government against continued broadcast operations, the FCC’s order effectively ends Pirate Cat Radio’s thirteen-year run as one of the Bay Area’s most consistent voices of protest against corporate-run media monopolies and monocultural programming.
Here’s the full statement from Pirate Cat Radio founder Monkey.
SF Gate’s “Off The Record” and SFAppeal have more on the story.
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photo by Plomo Media
San Francisco Citizen directs our attention to Plomo Media’s awesome photo of a raccoons queuing up for a bus on the MUNI #18 46 Ave line at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
via Troy Holden
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