With content pouring in from cameras and smartphones all around the world, it’s not surprising that Flickr gains over a million new photos every single day. It’s a fact you probably wouldn’t give much thought to, until you see photographer Erik Kessels’ latest exhibit where he printed and filled a gallery with a day’s worth of Flickr uploads.
The installation, which fills multiple rooms at the Foam gallery in Amsterdam, illustrates how digital photography, and sites like Flickr and Facebook, have literally flooded the internet with photos. To the point where we’re “drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences” according to Kessels. Like doing a photo search on Google, the mountains of photos in the gallery are overwhelming, making it almost impossible to take them all in. But, like with Scrooge McDuck and his money bin, I like the idea of being able to dive and swim around in a room filled with photos. Paper cuts be damned!
Blame it on our Rust Belt sensibilities, but we can’t think of anything cooler than rally cars racing full-bore around a steel mill. The video after the jump is about as heavy metal as it gets, and the gritty action is coming to your television in a new Speed TV series called Battle Cross. The steel mill pilot shown here – airs on November 17 at 10 pm Eastern. That’s this Thursday, kids, so set your DVR now, or ask your parents for permission to stay up late.
This first episode features 2011 Rally America Champion David Higgins driving against Subaru Rally Team USA teammate Dave Mirra. The competition is a two-round affair, the first a standard fastest-time-wins, autocross-style challenge, while the second is a judged “freestyle session.” Think: figure skating – but with sequins and feathers replaced by popping wastegates and two-foot wings.
A whole host of other names are attached to the series. Rally driver Andrew Comrie-Picard and Stacy Keibler, she of WWE and girlfriend of George Clooney fame, will co-host the show. Drifting star Samuel Hubinette and rally driver Stephan Verdier will serve as judges. Battle Cross is produced by The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen, so if nothing else, we can at least expect it to look great.
If you miss the premiere, Battle Cross will be rebroadcast on Nov. 18 at 1:00 am EST and 10:00 am EST, and Nov. 20 at 2:30 pm EST. Click through the jump to see the trailer.
It’s unclear whether Illinois moron Michael Alan Skopec was drunk beyond belief or had just returned home from a lobotomy, but either way, he was angry! Why? IPHONE NO WORK. So, naturally, he called 911. Repeatedly. Here are the tapes.
Possibly fueled by the same geeky instinct that pushes our kind to build SD card readers for ancient game consoles and port Doom to just about everything, YouTube user Napabar recently bridged the 27 year gap between the Macintosh 512k and the iPhone 4S. That’s right, Siri and the Fat Mac are talking. Sort of. Most of the heavy lifting is being done by a pair of intermediary machines, an iMac that’s been configured to run an AppleScript upon receipt of a Siri dictated email, and a bridge computer that passes on the resulting text file to the Mac 512K’s floppy drive. Result? Dictate an email to Siri, get a text file with its contents on the Mac 512k. Old and new technology, talking like old pen-pals. And to think, all it took was two middlemen.
Take a good look at this image. In fact, stare at it, dead center. There’s no trick to it; just look straight ahead, relax, and watch as something you know is there vanishes into nothingness.
Got it? Good. Here’s how it works.
What you just experienced is what’s known as Troxler’s Fading, which simply holds that when you stare at a fixed point for long enough, everything in your peripheral vision eventually disappears. That’s why our eyes are constantly, imperceptibly moving. In the same way you feel your t-shirt when you put it on but don’t notice it after several minutes of sitting still, neurons in your visual system tend to ignore an unvarying stimulus. Ergo: fade to white.
And if you’re wondering why all the soft colors and blurriness? A more defined image presents your eye with too much stimulus; it’s too hard to keep them locked into one spot long enough (about 20 seconds) for the effect to take place. Still can’t get it to work? You may be missing M or L cones, according to one informed Redditor, who had also provides alternatives that might work for you.
This is what Magic Eye should have been all along: not the creation of mermaids, but the blurry evaporation of cable bills and ex-girlfriends and runny grits.
We’ve all been in those boring meetings where you just want to let rip on marketing with a laser blaster. And now you can… kinda. Best of all, you don’t even need to leave your La-Z-Boy. House4Hack, a Johannesburg based hackerspace knocked up a dual-servo, Arduino-controlled webcam for its entry into the 2011 Google+ hackathon. Deciding that this wasn’t nearly awesome enough, they made the logical improvement of adding a splendiferous laser attachment for the perfect Google+ Hangout accessory. Now, colleagues can ‘show-up’ remotely when they can’t be present in person, and register their disapproval in the way nature intended — radiation amplified light. To see it in action, tap the video after the jump.
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