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 July 26, 2009 | category: animal kingdom This 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 [...] July 23, 2009 | category: personal What it was, I’m not entirely sure, but starting about two weeks ago I heard some horrid coughs at work. “Holy crap..”, I thought. “Someone is hacking up a black lung in the other room.” By that evening I had light coughs, but I still thought nothing of it. By the next morning [...] Are you a fan of Gundam? I sure am, and wish I could see this guy in real-life. Standing at 59 feet tall at a scale of 1:1, this is an actual sculpture that will be on display in Tokyo through July. Check out video of the installation [...] July 8, 2009 | category: science In case you missed it, today’s date can read from 1 to 9, if displayed a certain way. Like this, for example. Neato. July 5, 2009 | category: architecture / sculpture Yes. You heard me right. This amazing artist Willard Wigan literally makes sculptures that fit into the eye of a needle. It’s still a huge mystery to me how he controls his shaping tools on such a minuscule level and paints the characters. He describes losing a past work in progress by accidentally breathing [...] For a while now I’ve been meaning to do a whole revision on the website. This will be the 8th major version. After getting back from the studio on friday, I had a quick dinner, then proceeded to put a good night’s work into getting it done. By 5am on Saturday I was at [...] |
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