Showing posts with label boingboing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boingboing. Show all posts
Friday, June 12, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Frog eats Christmas light, gets illuminated
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James Snyder took this striking photo of a frog that ate a small light bulb. It was featured in National Geographic's "Daily Dozen."
James Snyder took this striking photo of a frog that ate a small light bulb. It was featured in National Geographic's "Daily Dozen." This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.
(Via bangocibumbumpuluj)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Anatomical drawing on a cast
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Heather Tomkins drew this lovely anatomical illustration on the casted arm of her friend, the illustrator Taylor White: "I was thusly wrangled into making this old school plaster cast (they do things funky in Norway apparently) into an awesome work of art."
Heather Tomkins drew this lovely anatomical illustration on the casted arm of her friend, the illustrator Taylor White: "I was thusly wrangled into making this old school plaster cast (they do things funky in Norway apparently) into an awesome work of art."
Monday, April 13, 2009
Vicodin Ring
|Crafter Becky Stern says: "To go along with my Vicodin earrings, I made this Vicodin ring from sterling silver. I sanded one side of the pill flat (while wearing a dusk mask, of course!), and bezel set it.
US Postal Service to Release "Simpsons" Stamps
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Scott Beale blogs,
Scott Beale blogs, ¡Ay, caramba! On May 7th the US Postal Service will be releasing a series of postage stamps commemorating The Simpsons. As part of the pre-release preview you can vote on your favorite Simpsons character and pre-order sets of the stamps.Sneak peek at the images over at Laughing Squid. (Congrats, Boing Boing pals Matt Groening + David Silverman!)
Zipper Dress
|Designer Sebastian Errazuriz created this dress out of 120 zippers. I dig the idea of reconfigurable clothing that isn't ugly. Zipper Dress (Britannica.com, thanks Alex Pang!)
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Women Meat Pioneers, 1943
|The new "Pioneer Woman" in MEAT. It sounds like the name of a Damien Hirst work, but it's an advertisement from the 1 November 1943 issue of LIFE magazine. John Ptak says: "This ad is innocent enough: it was simply encouraging the modern housewife to go adventuring into cuts of meat that had been deemed unacceptable before rationing and the war, which brought about a meat drought." Women Meat Pioneers, 1943
Dubai Metropolis
(Image: "Dubai Metropolis," The Business Bay Executive Towers in Dubai. From the CC-licensed Flickr stream of "twocentsworth." )
Friday, March 27, 2009
Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA
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Artist Justine Lai's new project is a set of oil paintings of her having sex with every president of the USA, in order.
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated. I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Super Mario 3 mosaic table
|Ivan covered this found coffee-table with a pushpin Super Mario mosaic (protected by plexiglass) and painted and decorated the legs to match. Apparently pushpin mosaics are unexpectedly hard on the thumbs. Super Mario Coffee Table
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Clark Little's wave photography
Clark Little takes photos of "The Most Beautiful Waves... Ever." Pitted... so pitted. (Thanks, Shawn Connally!)
Page about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951)
|Here's a nice homage to the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, from the early 1950s.
This was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced, but it was only only available from 1951 to 1952. Its relatively high price for the time ($50.00) and its sophistication were the explanation Gilbert gave for the set's short lifespan. Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price.The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."
Secret Lives of AT-AT's
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FIickr's NickIsConfused has a great set showing the secret lives of Star Wars AT-ATs, reminding us that these adorable little critters aren't just for Xmas.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Jade tooth decorations in Mayan skull
|David Dennis took this photo of a Mayan skull with jade tooth decorations.
From TYWKIWDBI:
At the height of Mayan civilization, body modification included a variety of alterations of the teeth....
Holes in the teeth were created by spinning a drill with a bow (as in firestarting), and using powdered quartz as an abrasive.
Brian Dettmer's book sculptures
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Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago's Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work. Click the images to see them larger. (Thanks, Dominic Paul Moore!)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Freak group photo
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Joel spotted this terrific freak family photo. Click to see it larger. It's labeled "Truman State University," perhaps from their archives. Anyone know more about it?
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for sharing great info in the comments. The photo, titled "Congress of Freaks, Ringling Brothers Circus," can be seen in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Eugenics Archive.
World's longest sausage
Seen above is a small section of a 6.643 foot sausage made in Turija, Serbia. From National Geographic (click image for full photo by Srdjan Ilic/AP):
Turija already holds the Guinness Book record for longest sausage. Each year, the town breaks its own record by a centimeter...
Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
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An incredible archive of US Army medical photos and illustrations is being made available free under a Creative Commons Attribution license on Flickr by the National Museum of Health and Medicine:This previously unreported archive at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., contains 500,000 scans of unique images so far, with another 225,000 set to be digitized this year.
Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist, is working to make tens of thousands of those images, which have been buried in the museum's archive, available on Flickr. Working after hours, his team has posted a curated selection of almost 800 photos on the service already, without the express permission of the Army.
"You pay taxes. These are your pictures," Rhode said. "You should be able to see them."
Medical Museum's Flickr stream
Portraits of US Presidents' mistresses
|Annie Kevans has painted a lovely series of oil portraits of the girlfriends of U.S. Presidents.
Shown above: Kay Summersby (Dwight D Eisenhower), Monica Lewinsky (Bill Clinton), Maria Halpin (Grover Cleveland), Pam Turnure (John F Kennedy), Jill Cowan (John F Kennedy), Blaze Starr (John F Kennedy), Marilyn Monroe (John F Kennedy), Madeleine Brown (Lyndon B Johnson). All the Presidents' Girls (Via Presurfer)
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