Thursday, November 1, 2012

NYC post-storm

by photographer Randy Slavin:

New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, light from apartments and car headlights merge to light every corner of the city streets, even on the darkest nights. It is the night after NYC was decimated by Hurricane Sandy, downtown NYC is in the midst of a power outage that has plunged it into complete darkness.






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Ghostbuster backflips over a cop


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Birdfeeder for the fast food generation


"Fly Thou" is equipped with solar panels to give light to the sign at night and light inside the building during open hours.


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How to grow a moustache, by Nick Offerman



In a video for Made Man, Offerman offered tips for how to embrace all that glorious facial hair all November long. 


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Pumpktris, the playable Tetris jack-o-lantern


What do you get when you combine a pumpkin with the classic video game Tetris? Pumpktris! Fully playable, embedded in a pumpkin, and with the stem serving as a controller. 



  • 128 LEDs
  • 256 pieces of heat-shrink tubing
  • 313 solder joints
  • around twelve hours of work over a week and a half

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