Insanely Life-Like Sculptures Of Giants And More Amazing Images From This Week
By Colin Lecher and Shaunacy Ferro, Popular Science, 1 March 2013.
By Colin Lecher and Shaunacy Ferro, Popular Science, 1 March 2013.
Plus a water-purifying billboard, landscape photos made from landfills, the most twee-tastic gadget ever, and more.
1. Clean Water-Generating Billboard
Credit: Mayo DraftFCB Peru via Co.Exist
The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, commissioned this billboard, which uses reverse osmosis to transform Lima's humid air into drinkable water. It's already made thousands of litres in three months of operation. Refreshing! [More at Co.Exist] [Related Post]
2. Pretty Painted Neurons
Credit: Greg Dunn via Wired
Artist Greg Dunn paints vivid pictures inspired by neurons. Dunn has a Ph.D in neuroscience, and often sells the paintings to hospitals and scientists. They could probably pass for surreal forests, too, though. [More at Wired]
3. Sculptures Of Giants
Credit: Ron Mueck via designboom
Artist Ron Mueck created amazing sculptures like this for the Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, an exhibition in Paris. Fun and a little creepy. Kinda hard not to imagine them walking around when no one is looking. [More at designboom]
4. The Scenic Gowanus Canal
Credit: Bill Miller via Co.Design
New York's Gowanus Canal is gross. Really gross. But also kinda pretty, if you look at it the right way? That's the thesis behind a series by photographer Bill Miller, who snapped beautiful photos like this of the canal. (But seriously just stay away from there, guys. Gross.) [More at Co.Design]
5. 320 Gigapixels Of London
Credit: British Telecommunications via Discovery
This is a still from the largest panorama ever. The panorama shows London during the Olympics as seen from the 29th floor of the British Telecommunications tower, and it's made from 320 gigapixels. (The same studio that made it, 360Cities, also made this incredible photo of the Burj Khalifa.) You can check out the interactive version here.
6. Scrap Metal Hummingbird
Credit: Vik Muniz via Colossal
Artist Vik Muniz creates beautiful works out of garbage. He takes pieces of gold scrap metal and makes animals, like this hummingbird. [More at Colossal]
7. Snow Plough
Credit: Collections Canada via Retronaut
Retronaut unearthed this early design for a "centrifugal" snow plough. Looks effective, but also a little scary?
8. Landscapes/Landfills
Credit: Yao Lu via Colossal
Beautiful, huh? Artist Yao Lu takes these picturesque photos of Chinese landscapes. Well, "takes" these photos is misleading: they're actually composed of several photos of landfills and other urban sights. Surprise! [More at Colossal]
9. Cardboard Plotter
Credit: Niklas Roy
This is the most twee-tastic invention ever. Made from cardboard connected with super glue, adhesive tape, and tie wraps, it plots geometric shapes along x and y axes, so a user can look at a set of instructions and draw something from the coordinates. [More at Niklas Roy]
10. Cave Painting Visitors Centre
Architecture and design firms Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis, and Casson Mann made this winning proposal for a visitors centre at the cave paintings in Lascaux, France. It's a little cave-like itself (a good thing!).
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