Cool shit

The Hot Dog Launcher

A video about the effort it takes to design the Phillies’ air cannon that shoots hot dogs at games. This is scientific stuff - they go through small trial runs and even position people in an otherwise empty stadium to gauge how far they can launch and figure out the angles. But you can see that they have a lot of fun with it.

for the video, click here

the video is long - so skip up to about 3 minutes to see the launcher in action.

The Global Warming Swimming Pool: Swimming Above a Submerged City

No, New York is not underwater (yet, anyhow) - that’s a clever ad for HSBC by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai ad agency in India. The bank wanted to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming, so the clever ad guys glued an aerial photo of a city’s skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool … the effect of a submerged cityscape is fantastic!

One month till Christmas!!! Time to get into the spirit.

quarries

Edward Burtynsky - canadian photographer who, among others things, takes really nice pictures of quarries, oil fields and rubbish dumps. Link here.

Be jesus that's cute!!

For your mo-vember mo

Ads.

1. Lifebuoy handwash - 'you eat what you touch' . 

2 campaign for Intensive cleansing cream - 'For very dirty hand'. 

3. Fruit flavoured Condoms - 'tastes like real fruit'.

MTV Climate Change Campaign for Amsterdam Canals

Switch is MTV Networks International’s Global Climate Change Campaign. They are always looking for ways to get people involved in the global warming issue and drive them to the the MTV Switch website, without necessarily using expensive media. To make people aware of the rising sea level because of global warming, they confronted them in an amusing way with a serious message using a floating board in the Amsterdam canals. This board seemed to be held by a submerged man with just his hands sticking out of the water. In reality it was two arms mounted on a small remote control submarine. The copy said: Global Warming. What’s all the fuss about? Find out for yourself www.mtvswitch.org. Because of the massive positive feedback. MTV is not only looking to extend the promotion to other Dutch cities, but also to air it on TV.

click here for more on campaign

so you know...

stuff

bacon briefcase

apartment transformed with blue copper sulphate crystals

Link here

80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow. The remaining liquid was pumped back out.

Guinea Pig Festival In Peru

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the biggest sideways scroll ever

link to the big scrolling image here

(It'll take a while to load - this is just a tiny tiny bit)

'Along the River During the Qingming Festival' 
18th century remake of a 12th century scroll painting by Zhang Zeduan.
This Chinese panorama painting "captures the daily life of people from the Song period at the capital Bianjing, today's Kaifeng. The theme celebrates the festive spirit and worldly commotion on the Qingming Festival, rather than the holiday's ceremonial aspects such as tomb sweeping and prayers. The entire piece was painted in handscroll format, and the content reveals the lifestyle of all levels of the society from rich to poor as well as different economic activities in rural areas and the city."

Field of Light by Bruce Munro

Lighting designer Bruce Munro has completed his Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The installation is situated on the grass roof of the visitors’ centre, and consists of 6,000 acrylic tubes capped with glass spheres and containing optical fibres.

click here to read the article.

Hmmm.... unsure what to say.

Mixed bag of goodness

Get into the christmas spirit - cool asian pop LP covers

recruitment campaign: selling homosexuality to the straight community.

Right-wing conservative groups have often accused gay people of having an agenda to promote homosexuality. In response to this, the UK’s Gay Times decided to run an interesting recruitment campaign: selling homosexuality to the straight community. Editor Joseph Galliano explains why he asked five ad agencies to help promote the gay cause…

click here

Ad for the Gay Times’ Homo Promo campaign by Leo Burnett, Chicago

it moves! it spins! it looks like a heart!

youtube link here - starts kinda slow so be patient