The Living Bridge

These beautiful living bridges are made over time (10-15 yrs) by guiding the roots and vines of the Ficus elastica tree into stretching across rivers to form bridges.
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Mars From Above

Martian landscape photos are so surreal. See em all here »

Kid-Drawn Santa's

These unique santa drawings drawn by children were posted all over the SF / Larkspur ferry "Mendocino".

X-Mas 2009

Wooden Wave Door

Beautiful door.

Created by Matharoo Associates for a diamond merchant in India. It's 17 feet tall, five and a half feet wide, and is made up of 40 sections of Burmese teak. The door uses a counterweight, 80 ball bearings and 160 pulleys to create the effect of reconfiguring into a sinusoidal curve when you push on any one section.

[via Gizmodo]

Patent for Gerbil Shirt

The Gerbil Shirt wraps your torso in plastic tube passageways, making your bod a super highway of fun for Binky and Bart. The interior surfaces are textured for traction and have air vents for easy breathing.

[via Patently Absurd]

Burj skyscraper is really really really tall

This video shows the Burj skyscraper in Dubai. Looking down from the top makes the already tall skyscrapers at it's feet look insignificant. Insane at over half a mile high.

Papercraft 3D Head Costume

This guy Eric Testroete modeled his own head in 3ds Max and used a few other tools to finish it so it could be printed and glued together. See his website for instructions or his flickr page for photos.

It's not the most complicated thing to execute, but it sure has impact. Because the light is hitting the polygons in such a natural way, It looks like it's walking the line between physical reality and digital.

Genius!

Kate Perry vs Zooey Deschanel [look-a-likes]

I cannot tell these two apart for the life of me. If it weren't for a few photos that they appear together in, I would doubt that they are two different people.

Snowflake Crystals [electron microscope]

Nudibranch [sea slugs]

I was searching for Nudibranch's today for making a nice wallpaper and found this gem called "Glaucus Atlanticus".

Convert photos to a 3D bump map

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This site turns sets of 2D images into 3D bump maps. To do this, you will need five to fifteen photos of your object that overlap at least 80 to 90 percent. Frames from a video could work well.

Awkward Family Photos

A site dedicated to awkward family photos.
Site: www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com
RSS Feed: www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com/?feed=rss2

Star Trek Facial Recognition Graph

This software analyzes video to display the amount each face appears in a video. [via Face Mining]

Light Paintings [Brian Hart]

This must have taken a while to complete. Looks like fun.
» See em all at PSFK

I am very impressed with this machine. It literally digests food and poops! It's called the Cloacoa and it was designed by Wim Delvoye.
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[via Gizmodo]

Newborn Gorilla

Baby Gorilla

Odd land formation [Russia]

My friend Aaron Shinn of mine came across this Google satellite image. It looks like a glacial land slide. It's somewhere near Belovo in Russia.

Easier to pick up coins

Coins haven’t really changed their function or core design since their inception. For the most part, they’re all flat and round - two characteristics that make it difficult to pick up. This coin by designer Hyun Woo Kim has a beveled edge. Apparently it’s angled just enough for easy pick ups. Hey, anything to shave a few seconds off from bending over to pick a coin up is aces in my book.

Designer: Hyun-Woo Kim [Yanko Design]

Earth From Above [Photo Exibit]

Learn about the exhibit and see all the photos »

DJ Rocket Car [Awesome]

This car looks so cool. [rent it now]