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Where did 2009 go? I’m not really sure, but it feels like I’ve blinked and another decade has passed. The wife and I packed up everything and visited the family on the east coast. For the first time in years, there was snow on the ground, and not just a light powdering either. [...] Martial arts primates in defiance of their master? Oh yes, and the spot does thicken. Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China’s Hubei province. But the money-spinning primates turned the tables on their trainer when he slipped during a show, with one quick-thinking monkey [...] Skunks have faces that look like they are pushed to the end of their head, so I drew one. He can open canned food with his head in a pinch, jackhammer style. Don’t let this fellow raid your kitchen pantry, you will be left with nothing. Nothing, I tell you. To see more [...]  December 11th, 2009 | Category: paranormalUp in the frigid skies of northern Norway, residents witnessed a unique light show, one that had never before displayed in their evening skies. The official story has been confirmed as a Russian missile gone awry when tested fired from the Dmitry Donskoy submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday, failing at the [...] Silent films are something I’ve always enjoyed. The exaggerated acting and poses are what appeal to me the most. So that leaves one to question, “How would a contemporary sci-fi picture translate into this medium?” An acting troupe from Asia has replied humorously, Russian subtitles included. That Charlie guy sure knows [...] St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech Republic, is honored with many statues around the country. But the sculpture of St. Wenceslas Riding a Dead Horse in Prague turns those monuments — literally — upside down. Hanging in the gallery of a shopping and entertainment complex, it was created in 1999 as a parody [...] November 7th, 2009 | Category: websiteBack in 2003 I humbly started version 1 of this website using frontpage and html. If you look at the dates on the right hand toolbar of the blog, you’ll see that I’ve started migrating old posts from the html days into the new website format. By the end of this weekend I’ll [...] October 28th, 2009 | Category: technologyHere’s an interesting piece of technology developed by a group of scientists. It’s able to fetch information from the internet to dynamically composite images. All it takes for it to happen is your ideas communicated in the form of sketching. Below are storyboards from the proposed technology, showing how input equals output. To get [...] October 25th, 2009 | Category: animal kingdomWouldn’t it be rad to sit on one of these while you played your favorite games or watched a fantastic movie? Better yet, don’t tell you family about it and invite them over for dinner. “Hey dad, check out the majestic mammal hibernating near the footstool. It keeps the robbers away.” You are looking [...] There’s a science museum close that the wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting several times. We are both geeks and love going to these places. That’s why it was totally awesome to hear about this world touring BBC dinosaur show, “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular“, that was going [...] October 13th, 2009 | Category: technologyMost everything in the natural world takes on a new personality when slowed to frame rate that allows us to focus on the nuances of the moment. Metallic objects appear as heated butter, shearing at imbalanced angles. I wonder how they were able to hit the moving bullets with other projectiles. Germany’s Werner Mehl [...] September 30th, 2009 | Category: animal kingdomSay hello to the piglet squid, a curious critter of the sea. Mr. piglet undergoes a transformation when it fills itself with surrounding water. The Banded Piglet Squid (Helicocranchia pfefferi) is a small squid of the genus Helicocranchia. Adults of [...] I’ve always wondered where sounds were engineered / manufactured from. Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory footage. Fig. 1: Technical description. Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination. August 15th, 2009 | Category: my workHere’s some character designs I did for an unamed creative project a little while back. July 26th, 2009 | Category: animal kingdomThis steady shot of an aquarium features small schools of fish, giant stingrays, and massive whale sharks swimming together. The main tank called the “Kuroshio Sea” holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks [...] |
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