"The laws between art and engeneering exist only in our minds"

Says Dutch artist Theo Jansen and makes these brilliant wind powered sculptures that move in an incredible way. The millipede-likes skeleton "Strandbeests" are made from plastic tubes, walk independently on their own and roam the beach in herds in this great spot for South African BMW on YouTube: Watch them crawl, it gives me the shivers.

Old news, but too good:

Banksy has collaged up the booklets of Paris Hilton`s CDs and switched them in the stores. As the BBC reports:

Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank

Paris Hilton's album entered the UK chart at number 29 last week
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy.

Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?

He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head... more

wow, get your MA in Rendering:

UCAA Announces Digital Games Design MA
The UK-based University College for the Creative Arts has announced an MA in Digital Games Design now on offer at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, and Rochester and the opportunity to apply for an assisted place with the Business and Digital Media Training Initiative (BDMTI) starting in September 2006....

The MA in Digital Games Design focus is on game design, and students are given the opportunity to develop their own game project from initial proposal to a fully realised game design document, culminating in the production of an advanced playable prototype.

(via Gamasutra)

Krrish is the Bollywood answer to Superman – but he can sing and dance and that`s obviously far more efficient to fight evil. DVD from Rapideyemovies

The Kitler Connection

Cats that look like hitler. Don`t believe it. Actually the one with the Eisernes Kreuz around the neck and the little Offiziers hat is quite cute.

My Pokemon love. If I could only marry him - he`s a bit feisty but keeps me warm in winter. If there is one in Asia except for the Monsun. These long sensual ears, a tongue always protruding and his rosy cheeks convince me: He must be a wild kisser.

What would Jesus download?
As an atheist I don`t care, but no doubt he would embrace the smiling but not always peaceful openness of the Open Source community. More than ever as they released their own Christian version of the Linux desktop Ubuntu.

Hail to the Pope!

(and thanks to you dear Fredericiana)

I want you in my dreams back, says the friendly beaver.




Quicktime-Ad

(thanks, adweek)

Vestaldesign reports:
The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas... more

Word!

"(Research has shown that) if women could choose who they'd like to be impregnated by, they'd choose a rock star. There's something about the rock star's genes that is signaling creativity, flexibility of thinking, flexibility of mind and body, an ability to express and process emotions -- not to mention that (musical talent) signals that if you can waste your time on something that has no immediate impact on food-gathering and shelter, you’ve got your food-gathering and shelter taken care of."

Daniel Levitin in Wired Magazine

Come on, impregnate me, Izzy Stradlin.

real enriching blog showing life as an analogue matter of graphs: Indexed

Google idea #303: This is a test written and exported with writely.com. And hey, it even worked with the spell check.

Japanese doggy style

"Orbit gum will not get you into heaven"

Okay, why not: Snoop Dogg in a Wrigley gum ad
(not an explicit one from The Orphanage)

nice graphics with animation
(they did A Scanner darkly, too)

Archer$Beck

Duran Duran moves to Second Life, will gig there
Duran Duran have bought a virtual island in Second Life, a creative 3D multiplayer world where you can make sophisiticated objects and avatars. The band will perform live shows in-game:
"When the video revolution began we instantly saw the opportunity to experiment and explore a new form of expression to enhance the musical experience. Second Life is the future right now, offering endless possibilities for artists."

Rhodes said he hoped the Duran Duran community would help develop the island into a "fully functional, futuristic utopia".

He said the band was "thrilled to become citizens of Second Life".

(Thanks! boing boing)

new summer blockbuster:

"Das hässliche Entlein & ich
Ab 24 August 2006 im Kino


DAS HÄSSLICHE ENTLEIN & ICH ist eine turbulente CGI Komödie um das hässlichste Entlein der Filmgeschichte und dessen Vater wider Willen, einer gerissenen Ratte (gesprochen von Rick Kavanian). Ein Film für die ganze Familie, mit Witz und coolen Sprüchen. Etwas sehr frei nach dem berühmten Märchen „Das hässliche Entlein“ von Hans Christian Andersen. Ab 24. August 2006 im Kino. Das kann ja ganz schön hässlich werden…


Mit den Stimmen von
Rick Kavanian (Ratso), Gaby Köster (Phyllis), W. G. Ochsenknecht (Ugly Schwan),
Sandro Ianotta (Ugly) und Thomas Hackenberg (Wesley)"

the perfect picture:

Tourist remover erases unwanted pedestrians from your tasty holiday impressions

A Brief History of the Reflectporn Shocker at The Register. Thanks!
and more at theperfectbluesky.

Spruch der Woche:

"Ich habe über uns nachgedacht und mir ist was eingefallen: Wir sollten uns wohl besser eine Zeitlang nicht sehen."

sagt die Fernbeziehung