Watch what happens when Adobe Photoshop turns random strangers into ads while they wait for their bus.
they started shipping people
Weird Tube of the Day: Dissection of Annoying Sounds Teenagers Make
The Week’s editor James Harbeck, who happens to be a linguist as well, provides phonetic descriptions of seven annoying sounds that teenagers make.
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Award Winner 2012 - Outdoors
Origami Tea Bag by Natalia Ponomareva
Russian designer Ponomareva created this small origami to drown in her tea. What did paper birds ever do to her? What a way to go, though.
Street Art of the Day: Clever urban interventions by Russian street artist Pavel Puhov. A few more at Street Art Utopia.
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hollow-points shot underwater
They look kind of like flowers. Metal death flowers.
Crowdsourced Project of the Day: “Do Not Touch”
Who knew mouse pointers could be so mind blowing? The Dutch rock band Light Light unveiled a crowdsourced music video for their song “Kilo,” which tracks viewers mouse cursor paths and adds them to the video with each play. Check it out over at DoNotTouch.org!
Life Hack of the Day: Turn an IKEA Stool into a Kid’s Bike
IKEA instructions can be difficult enough to follow as is, but what happens if you didn’t follow them at all and made something else instead? Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhend spent two days reverse-engineering the Swedish furniture company’s FROSTA stool into a kid-sized bike. According to the duo, the handlebars feel “a bit stiff” but the wheels “roll like a dream.” Wanna make your own? Check out Bhend’s step-by-step modification instruction on Instructables!
The Rosetta Disk
Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project have created a miniature archive featuring all of the world languages laser etched onto a small disc that can fit in your hand:
The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.
The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’
… The pages are microscopically etched and then electroformed in solid nickel, a process that raises the text very slightly - about 100 nanometers - off of the surface of the disk. Each page is only 400 microns across - about the width of 5 human hairs - and can be read through a microscope at 650X as clearly as you would from print in a book. Individual pages are visible at a much lower magnification of 100X. The outer ring of text reads “Languages of the World” in eight major world languages.
Here is a video by Scott Oller about the Rosetta Project:
Rosetta from Scott Oller on Vimeo.
You can find out more about the project here
