Flying People!

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane.

It’s an RC plane designed to look like a human being! Up close it’s obvious that these are very simple RC planes, but from a distance they look like people flying through the sky. They were flown over New York City to promote the movie Chronicle.

How awesome!

 

Geeky Paintovers using Victorian Portraits

Up-cycling at its geeky finest!

Artist Alex Gross creates geek-tastic portraits!

Gross takes old Victorian portraits and paints over them, transforming them into characters from comic books and Sci-Fi movies like Batman, Wolverine, and Darth Vader.

At first it seems a bit disrespectful to take what is most likely someone’s only surviving portrait from like 100 years ago and turn it into a kooky character, but the truth is that it’s an honor.

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The Internet as a Physical Being

I was browsing in the RSS feeds of the blogs I read and came across a short documentary by Ben Mendelsohn titled Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors.

With so much of our lives taking place online, it’s easy to think of the Internet as some abstract, ethereal gathering of information with no physical presence. After all, most of us never see the physical infrastructure that is required to shift all of that data around – and we rarely have reason to even think about it until something goes wrong.

But Ben Mendelsohn thinks about it. He sought out some of America’s largest physical information hubs, the unassuming buildings which facilitate the shuffling of mind-boggling amounts of data every day. In his short documentary, Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, Mendelsohn takes a close look at a nondescript building in lower Manhattan that just happens to act as one of the world’s largest Internet nodes.

This fascinating documentary takes the viewer inside the types of facilities that most of us simply never stop to think about. The staggering arrays of cables all bundled together and the massive machines taking up entire rooms are the physical representations of a realm that we tend to think of as entirely virtual. Who would have thought that the Internet would have such a palpable physical presence right there on Hudson Street?