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Thursday, February 26, 2009

The World’s Largest Mirror

The world’s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni in Southwestern Bolivia, is one of the most exotic place sceneries on earth. Due to its large size, smooth surface, high surface reflectivity when covered with shallow water, and minimal elevation deviation, Salar de Uyuni makes an ideal target for the testing and calibration of remote sensing instruments on orbiting satellites used to study the Earth. In addition to providing an excellent target surface the skies above Salar de Uyuni are so clear, and the air so dry, that the surface works up to five times better for satellite calibration than using the surface of the ocean.

There is an estimated 10 billion tons of salt in the flats, 25 times the amount in the Bonneville Salt flats in Utah in the United States. The Salar de Uyuni, a sea of salt, a salt desert, was once an inland sea, or giantsalt water lake, but the water vanished into the thin dry air of Andean altitude. All that remains is the salt, tens of meters thick, lying stark beneath bright sky: a sun-bleached skeleton of a dead sea.

Dog Vs. Mirror

He keeps trying to fake the mirror out but can't seem to lose him.

Bowling For Dominos

“After 2 build attempts, this project has been edited to look like it almost worked. Approximately 4,800 dominos used.”

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cave House for Sale on Ebay

A Cave House is for sale on Ebay. It's starting bid is $300,000. It is located in Festus, Missouri, United States and was initially purchased by the Sleeper family in 2003 on ebay. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and is 2.80 acres. If you want to live in a cave house then start bidding now. I have not seen any bids at the moment though. You can see more about this home for sale through the pictures below.

Man claims world record by smashing melons with his head

A man has broken a world record by smashing 47 watermelons with his head in 60 seconds.

John Allwood, 29, a melon picker, from Queensland, Australia, broke his own world record which he set during the 2007 festival, smashing 40 melons in a minute.

Strange Fish With See Through Head

A very bizarre looking deep-water fish called a Barreleye that has a transparent head and tubular eyes. LiveScience has an article about the fish which explains that even though the two spots above the fish's mouth look like eyes they are not.

Karborn Show In London

'Unknown Master'

A forward look at identity within ideas of space and time. Using a striking stand on what and where technology harmonises with more traditional mark making techniques... This isn't toy story... This is Charles Dickens and Andy Warhol watching Blade Runner in The Garden of Eden... beautiful and thoughtful and mysteriously English.
Unique artworks and print editions available, beautifully framed signed artists proofs. Hope to see you down there...

'Karborn I-I-I'

Twenty-three-year old Karborn is an anomaly on the London streets, an urban dreamer with feet riding the bassline and head in the clouds. The son of John Foxx (with whom he often collaborates on audio and visuals), Karborn’s work marries the organic to the technological, creating post-post-modern computer-meets-paper-meets-sound collages that are hard to decipher. Are they dystopian or utopian?

'Dream Mirror Portal'

'Birth Of Venus'

'Outerspace'

KARBORN - 'Time & Face'
Exhibition Gallery.
33 Marshall St, near carnaby st, london. W1.
open 11:30 - 6:30 pm everyday, including sat & sun.
19th February - 5th March 2009.

www.karborn.com

Icons of Italian Horror to Invade New Jersey

My apologies for two posts in a row on spaghetti horror, but this is a big one. And as a long-time Chiller Theatre patron, I personally couldn't be more excited.

Long-running northeastern genre expo Chiller Theatre, in association with Paura Productions, has announced that this April's Chiller convention will feature the largest collection of Italian horror luminaries ever assembled, including a 30th anniversary reunion of the cast and crew of Lucio Fulci's Zombie (a.k.a. Zombi 2).

"It will be a historic occasion," says Paura founder Mike Baronas, the evil mastermind behind the whole shebang. "It will be a surreal experience to stand in one place surrounded by all these folks I grew up adoring, and I'm certain I won't be alone in that respect."

Scheduled to appear are:

From ZOMBIE…

Ian McCulloch (Dr. Butcher M.D., Contamination)
Richard Johnson (The Haunting, Beyond the Door, Screamers)
Al Cliver (The Beyond, Cannibals, Endgame, Demonia, Devil Hunter)
Ottaviano Dell’Acqua (Rats: Night of Terror, Cut & Run, Zombi 3)
Giannetto De Rossi (SPFX maestro of High Tension, Dune, The Beyond)
Mirella De Rossi (Hair Stylist of Dragonheart, Conan the Destroyer)

The Children from THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY…

Giovanni Frezza (Demons, Manhattan Baby, A Blade In The Dark)
Silvia Collatina (Murderock, Big Alligator River)

Also Featuring…

Luigi Cozzi (Director of Contamination, Starcrash, The Killer Must Kill Again)
Zora Kerova (Cannibal Ferox, Anthropophagus, The New York Ripper)
Malisa Longo (A Cat in the Brain, Fraulein Kitty, Miranda, Way of the Dragon)
Beatrice Ring (Zombi 3, Graveyard Disturbance, Interzone)
Michael Sopkiw (2019: After the Fall of New York, Devil Fish, Blastfighter)

Quite a bunch. I'm particularly psyched about 82-year-old Richard Johnson, a true horror legend going all the way back to The Haunting in 1963. And the creepy kids from The House by the Cemetery--need I say more?

Chiller Theatre happens in scenic Parsippany, New Jersey the weekend of April 17-19.

The Bear Bag

This is a weirdest sleeping bag. This bear-shaped sleeping bag designed by Eiko Ishizawa is, let’s face it, odd. But if you’re forced to curl into a sleeping bag and catch some Z’s in the great outdoors, why not masquerade as one of nature’s cutest predators? I’m sure it’s warm enough, and you can use it to frighten your friends. Plus, if a bear does attack your camp and maul your friends, you can rest easy knowing you’ll be safe. Because a bear would never maul one of its own, right? Quick warning, though, if that’s the case and Attacking Bear thinks Sleeping Bag Bear is cute, you may wish you were amongst the mauled.