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Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Comments Off on Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Red Bull’s annual Creation event involved 16 teams from across the country who came together for three days of high stakes innovation with the city as their playground. A secret warehouse in Brooklyn full of tools, materials and hardware hackers were given the task of building a creation designed to move the weight of a person (100lbs) from point A to point B without using any fossil fuels. They had 3 days. The winning team is named 1.21 Jigawatts, and they are from Minneapolis.

They created a massive hamster wheel, wired into a mobile network, given its own phone number that could somehow receive up to 60,000 one-word text messages at a time. Once it received the text message, the hamster wheel would actually roll and perfectly print the word out along the ground. Grand prize – $5k. Pretty cool huh?

Thanks for the great pictures CoolThings.com and MaximumTech.

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This image is NOT a painting

Posted on May 17, 2011 | 2 comments

This image is NOT a painting. Nor is it a Photoshop job or an artist’s rendering. It’s a photograph, taken by National Geographic’s Frans Lanting. The photograph is of some camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Parkin the Namib Desert in Africa (considered the world’s oldest desert).

The trees and sand look real when viewed closely. The orange backdrop? That’s a dune reflecting Namibia’s rising sun. The white bits are plants growing on the dune, and the orange is the sand itself. If you go to the site and look at the larger version, it’s a lot more obvious.

It is hard to believe this has not been manipulated. The image is simply stunning.

Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia

Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic

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Muppet Theatre Backstage Playset

Posted on March 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Muppet Theatre Backstage Playset

Lance Cardinal is a big Muppet fan. He is also a student at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, and a freelance set designer.

Nine years ago, Palisades Toys started releasing high-quality Muppet Show action figures. Lance bought 82 characters and all the playsets, including Swedish Chef’s kitchen and the Electric Mayhem concert stage.  But before Palisades could release a Muppet Theatre Backstage Playset to hold all the characters, the company went out of business.

Sad about not having this last set piece, he decided to make his own. The result is stunning and beautiful. You can view it here on his website.

Muppet Set

Muppet Set

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Make the logo bigger

Posted on April 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Make the logo bigger

Make the LOGO BIGGER

If you work in the advertising or design world, then you may have had the opportunity to work clients that insist that bigger is better, or that a print ad can be designed in Word, or that their image are hi-res.  A song called “Make the logo bigger“ is a metal song by Burn Back has been written for you. It will melt your face and your designer soul.

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