Timescapes

Timescapes is a series of time lapse films that utilise Kessler technology - http://www.kesslercrane.com/

The Kessler Cranes are mounts for your cameras that run on tracks with motors and do all kinds of crazy things and add a sense of movement in to the time lapse films. Some of the effects that have been achieved are mind blowing! and They have recently introduces a way in which alter focus during the camera movement too!!

Just think of the mental effects you could get when they make them tilt and shift compatible so that you can move the camera on 3 axis as well as the lens!

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.

After the jump there is another video, its a Timescapes making of style video! its also well worth a look!!

Porter Robinson's Capture the Can

Beautiful slow-mo paint-ball war, enjoy as people display their frankly disturbing accuracy with paint-ball gun. Also it would be quite funny to see someone actually try to do half these things in an actual paint-ball game. There's the film its self and the making of, just after the jump. Porter Robinson well done sir.

Water Fountain Printer

The Japanese have created this beauty in Osaka City Station. It's a water fountain that seems to double up as a basic dot-matrix printer. By changing the flow of the water the fountain can create beautiful pictures, messages and even acts like a clock.




It has to be seen to be believed.

The RISD Moonbuggy

For quite a while at the hub, I and a few others have had what could be called, because it is, a D.I.Y. bike obsession. Call it what you will this brilliant group entered NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race, and won. The Rhode Island School of Design or RISD are these aforementioned winners. Please enjoy their exploits.

The web site dedicated to this project among others is www.bryancloyd.com , the statement on the site states "NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race, which is held annually at the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama, challenges students to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered vehicles that can whiz across a simulation of a rugged lunar landscape. Teams are judged by how quickly and easily their vehicles negotiate the twisting curves, treacherous gravel pits and other obstacles of a half-mile course riddled with some of the same challenges faced by Apollo-era astronauts in their lunar rovers. Last year RISD was the first design school to ever enter the competition. RISD "took home third place in their first race appearance, despite having no engineers on their team (all team members are Industrial Design students)," as NASA put it in their press release." to read more and somehead cam footage from the race catch the jump.

Portal : No Escape

Portal : No Escape is a fan flick based on the hit game portal. You will and can only really enjoy this film.

Sandcastles

As it Summer here in the UK, SH thought it would be a good idea to find some of the best sandcastles and sand sculptures from around the world. Here are three for your enjoyment.

Homemade Atomic Reactor

Maybe it's because I have a hangover that feels like a bear is scooping out my brains and aliens are doing intrusive tests on what remains of me but this amuses me somewhat.

A Swedish man, Richard Handl has attempted to create his own nuclear reactor in his own home. He acquired the materials on the internet and said he had hoped he might split an atom. (See one of the images he posted on the web of his efforts below)

The authorities got onto his fiendish plot when he contacted the Swedish radiation authority to check if what he was doing was legal. What is clear is that the police have stopped a supervillain in the making. Holy Macceroni, maybe the police raid was accompanied by some crazy graphics of words like BAM!!! WHAM!!!! SMACK!!!! TWOOOH!!!

We will never know but the whole caper might just as well have involved Roger Moore aggressively seducing the nearest lady whilst making 1970's innuendo to a bald apparently headless man who strokes his bejewlled pussy...cat.

A robot that can fly like a bird

Is this the beginning will razorbeak be here soon?

TED State "Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings."

Schleeh Design

These paper structures are the work of Schleeh Design founded by Colin Schleeh and Rachael Schwarz in 2001. Schleeh was born in Montreal in 1955 and is the son of Sculptor Hans Schleeh.

Schleeh Design create a range of limited edition pieces and accessories as well as making these damn interesting note pads.

Niklas Roy: My Little Piece of Privacy

 

Niklas' workshop is located in an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. In an attempt to create more privacy inside, Niklas decided to install a small but smart curtain.

5 Ton Megatron Sculpture

This sculpture is one dedicated effort from pone Chinese man. Looking like the Bat mobile from hell the whole structure was built from scrap to form a frankly terrifying object. Given time this is what CGI probably will get to and I for one will be disturbed by this. None the less a magnificent effort from one man. Catch more images after the jump, Enjoy.

Interactive Tron Halfpipe

Lets face it Disney did some truly ace advertising for Tron Legacy when it was coming out this is a technique they used in Australia. I've got to say i am convinced.

Bugatti Veyron mod

Floats like a butterfly stings like a walrus. I am not in the habit of reading the Daily Mail I really want to make that clear now, I have no news paper affiliation. However this is just wicked. he has taken his Ford Cougar and put one bespoke body kit on it transforming it into the iconic Veyron. Ridiculous but well done sir. To see the original Daily Mail article visit their site HERE and for more remarkable images catch more after the jump.

RESONANCE

Resonance is a beautiful collaborative project the website statement reads as follows, Enjoy.

Resonance is the vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.

Special thanks to Clear Cut Pictures who did a great job with the audio mastering and also RenderRocket who gave us access to their awesome renderfarm.

SEE || Displace Studios and MoveMakeShake | Esteban Diacono | Heerko Groefsema | Jean-Paul Frenay | Jr.canest | KORB | Kultnation | Mate Steinforth | Matthias Müller | Momentary People | MRK | Murat Pak | Onur Senturk | Physalia studio | Polynoid | SR Partners | Thiago Maia | Tom Waterhouse | Tronic Studio | Spatial Harmonics Group

HEAR || Audionerve | Combustion | CypherAudio | David Kamp | Echolab | Hecq | Michael Fakesch | Mutant Jukebox | Radium Audio | Box Of Toys Audio | Studio Takt | World Gangthe vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios.

Knife & Saw : Bike Shelf

For all of us who don’t have all that much space for storing the wonderful portal to the world that is a bicycle Knife & Saw have provided the perfect answer, the Bike Shelf. An elegant stylish and feature making alter to the bicycle. Not only will this get the offending space grabber out of the way, it will provide a handy shelf for storing whatever you need to and an attractive way to show off your pride and joy. Visit Knife & Saw to check out more images and Buy a shelf if you’d like one.

This post was researched by William Clarke.

The Oomphalapompatronium

Thank the Lord for garden-shed inventors. I invite you to watch this video of the splendidly named "Oomphalapompatronium". It is impossible to watch this without smiling.

BasementArtsProject, Leeds

A word about a venture that has been running in Beeston, Leeds for a couple of months now. The events that have taken place so far include the creation of the longest hand painted film in Britain with Unravel and a performance by Kimbal Quist Bumstead.

Click here to see what else has been happening and what is coming up over the next few months.

Cheap Car Modifications

I was looking for a follow up post to my Hummer post of a few weeks ago and I admit I failed to find anything that I could honestly one up those beasts with.

Therefore I present to you a one downing. There is more chance of winning the Gadget show prize than getting these monsters insured I feel.

Convert your shed to Solar Power

If like me you have a stingy yet inventive streak consider using your own solar power in your garage.

This whole build is made from :

1 X 10w (or above) Photo Voltaic solar panel £33
1 X Solar Charge controller £15
2 meters of 15amp cable ( Already had)
1 X 15ah battery £20
8 X Spade connectors £1
1 X Power Inverter ( Above the wattage of the the equipment you use ) £30
2 X 13amp switched fuseways £4
1 X RCD ( Already had)
2 X 13amp wall sockets £ 4
5 meters of 23amp mains cable ( Already had)
1 X Energy saving lightbulb and Brakcet ( Already had)
Wire connectors (I used like 20!) £1
Other Items £5

Total £110

This post came via Instructables to read the full tutorial of how to kit out your shed or garage for solar power read the full tutorial here. Personally I have now mains power to my garage and whilst there’s no way to get said power I think I will be trying something like this at some point as I don't have any lights. If anyone does have a crack at anything like this or for that matter already has done please share any advice you have on the concept. Enjoy

The BHPC : The British Human Power Club

Not to be confused with the Beverly Hills Polo Club The BHPC (The British Human Power Club) is a community in Britain devoted to the humble recumbent. The online site of this publication headlines all racing and also some design processes that are going on. To visit their web-page got to www.bhpc.org.uk. Also for more images some of the construction continue reading after the jump.



Their online statement says "There is a wealth of Human Power related information on the Internet. Much of this information is produced by the BHPC and on these pages we will attempt to bring together as much of that as possible in one place."

"The BHPC organise a series of races each year, and in turn with other members of the IHPVA, organise a world championship event. Links to the results of these can be found in the panel on the right."

"The BHPC Magazine is a quarterly publication and available either by joining the club, or individually using the shop. Thanks to Dave Larrington, we have been able to make available scanned copies of many of the older issues for download."