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Monday, July 16, 2012

Camp stove generates electricity to charge gadgets

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Camp stove generates electricity to charge gadgets

NewImage The $129 BioLite wood burning campstove converts heat to electricity, so you can charge your mobile phone while you boil up your freeze-dried beef stroganoff.

BioLite

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Sutro Revolution

Look upon these works, ye might, and despair:

All hail our new Sutro GIF overloads, HYPNOSF. Stunning work, along with a bunch more SF rotational and swingback GIFs.

Do you have any idea how much work this was, both pre- and post-processing? I do — one street almost killed me.

Now all I need to is implement my SF-wide network of Sutro-ward webcams to make a live version of this (plus a fog detector).

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Legends of Comics, An Illustrated Portrait Series by Drew Friedman

I love the picture of Harvey Pekar,

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Legends of Comics, An Illustrated Portrait Series by Drew Friedman

Harvey Pekar

Award-winning pop culture illustrator/cartoonist Drew Friedman has a fascinating collection of illustrations depicting a notable group of comics creators in his ongoing series, Legends of Comics Portraits.

The late Comics writer Harvey Pekar is the latest in my series of portraits of legendary comics creators. Pekar, who created American Splendor comics out of Cleveland was perhaps the Dostoevsky of comics, depicting the commonplace, mundane, workaday world, brought to life by many varied artists, including Robert Crumb and myself. Pekar now joins Crumb, as well as my former instructor, creator of MAD Harvey Kurtzman, his longtime collaborator Will Elder, EC Science fiction artist Wally Wood, and the master of the grotesque Basil Wolverton as the latest portrait in my ongoing series of Comics greats.

Wally Wood

Harvey Kurtzman

Trees stained by a toxic spill, with the high-tide line aligned to the horizon

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Trees stained by a toxic spill, with the high-tide line aligned to the horizon

This image comes from The Line, a book of photos by Palíndromo Mészaros, "a Spanish photographer and architecture student whose life jumps between Madrid and Budapest." It shows the high-tide line of an aluminum spill from a chemical factory in Hungary, which flooded out a forest in Ajka. Mészaros lines up the red residue with the horizon, producing an effect that is beautiful and terrible and delightfully disorienting. The book, which is produced on demand through Blurb is €127.92, and is printed on Proline Pearl photo paper - 32'4 x 27'6 cm.

"The Line photobook"

(via Reddit)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Pupanzee

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Pupanzee

This is all the backstory we have on this one, courtesy Reddit user dmonnens: "After a mother chimpanzee who lived in a zoo died, one of the zoo's employees took the baby chimp home to care for it. It never crossed his mind that his dog, who had recently given birth, would adopt the chimp and raise it with her pups."

More cuteness here.