“British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.
Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful
photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.”via scottnot: … maybeitsallok
3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow… Mad Cow disease.
2 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the bird… Avian flu.
This year, Chinese calendar year of the pig… Swine flu.
…Next year is the year of the cock.
Anybody else worried?
Arguably the coolest stop-motion I’ve seen in a while and of my favorite hobby too!
Meet the self-assembling GSX-R
Wedding Invitation of the Day: When computer scientists get married, they naturally hire a designer to create an 8-bit wedding invitation inspired by old-school Atari games.
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alinasmith: Congratulations on your unemployment, Alina. As your prize, we’re going to let you click on any NSFW link you want, at ANY TIME OF THE DAY.
An electromagnetic “black hole” that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light…
Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards.
The life and times of Ice Cube
via zanypickle.com