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Robert Downey, Jr: The Pinup Girl

By prawn1 Thursday September 2, 2010

If you ever dream about seeing a union of Robert Downey, Jr and a vintage pinup, you should probably dream a little better. However, this is the Internet and someone out there will be more than happy to make your dreams come true. For funsies, Tumblr user see-globes has used the power of Photoshop to marry the head of People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (2009) and the bodies of old-fashioned calendar girls. Unsurprisingly, the results are hilarious.

See Robert Downey, Jr, the pinup girl after the jump.

The Most Amazing Street Art

By prawn1 Wednesday September 1, 2010

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Graffiti artist El Mac brings the streets to life with his most amazing murals. From the urban scenes of the USA to Canada, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Amsterdam, Switzerland and recently in far-east places like Vietnam and Singapore, El Mac has made his mark and I’m sure people are happier for it. Like-minded artist Retna sometimes joins El Mac on his adventures. Have a look at some of his and their combined work after the jump.

Here Be Asteroids

By prawn1 Tuesday August 31, 2010

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Douglas Adams once said, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.” We’re discovering new spacey things all the time as seen in this fantastic visualization that captures in time-lapse the asteroid discoveries over the past 30 years. It starts off with slow with less than 10000 discoveries in the early 80s but more waves become visible with technological advances in the decades that follow.

As asteroids are discovered, they are highlighted white and change colour depending on whether their orbit crosses that of Earth (called “earth crossers” and shown in red) or approaches Earth (shown in yellow). All other asteroids are highlighted in green.

See Asteroid Discovery From 1980 – 2010 below.

[via Buzzfeed]

Earthrise, Earthset

By prawn1 Monday August 30, 2010

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In 1968, astronaut William Anders aboard the Apollo 8 mission took a image of the Earth as their spacecraft orbited the moon. Officially known as NASA image AS8-14-2383, the famous image came to be called an earthrise. 40 years later, a Japanese lunar orbit spacecraft called SELENE captured high-definition video of an earthrise. Check out the beautiful scene below.

In 2007, the same orbiter captured an earthset.

If you liked that, you might also enjoy a time-lapse video of a day to night Earth cycle as seen from the International Space Station. See that video after the jump.

High-Speed Bullet Photography

By prawn1 Thursday August 26, 2010

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If you enjoyed the works of Flickr user alan_sailer, you may like shots from 52-year-old amateur Dutch photographer, Lex Augusteijn. He captures the moments frozen in time as real bullets fired from a coil gun come into contact with everyday objects like eggs, light bulbs, balloons, and droplets of water.

Have a look at some of his whizz-bang high-speed bullet shots after the jump.

We are the Robot Rirates

By prawn1 Thursday August 26, 2010

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Pirates are generally reviled but you’d be hard-pressed not to love the Robot Pirates. Created by lawlolawlstudios in collaboration with Songstowearpantsto.com, this humourous little piece is about a bunch of mechanical menaces sailing the high seas of an an 8-bit world. Yo ho ho and a Bottle of RAM.

[via habit47]

AJ Fosik’s Amazing Animal Sculptures

By prawn1 Wednesday August 25, 2010

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AJ Fosik’s animal sculptures are truly striking and remind me of the Sri Lankan devil masks that are used in dances to ward off evil spirits. What initially looked like papercraft to me is in fact wood and Fosik is able to work wonders with the material. He uses wood, paint, nails, and minimal help from his computer to create some very colourful, intricate, and hypnotic 3D pieces. Have a look at them after the jump.

Your Beautiful Eyes

By prawn1 Monday August 23, 2010

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In his series Your Beautiful Eyes, Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan takes a wonderfully close-up look at the human eye. The detail in his photos are quite amazing and the windows to the soul look more like craters with a dark pool of nothingness at their centre. Have a look at his stunning macro shots after the jump.

Top 10 Best Jumps Ever!

By prawn1 Friday August 20, 2010

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Humankind is capable of amazing feats in realms of science, medicine, engineering, technology, and a whole lot of other -logies. This extends to the world of sport which has its fair share of loonies out to perform the biggest, baddest, most extreme stunts. From BASE jumping into the Cave of Swallows
to high flying squirrels to Travis Pastrana to an airforce officer who is crazier than boatload of epileptics, this compilation of awesome jumps is a homage to extreme sports.

Hit the jump to see more footage from the #1 best jump and another one that I think should have been included in the list.

Life’s Funny Lessons

By prawn1 Thursday August 19, 2010

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If you enjoyed Ashleigh Brilliant’s pot-shots, chances are you might like charming art by Spanish illustrator Alex Noriega. On his sketch blog, Stuff No One Told Me (but I have to post it here or aliens will kill me), Noriega takes a humorous look at some of life’s truths.

Check out Noriega’s illustrated life lessons after the jump.