Are you a bubblewrap junky like me?

Then this is a must-have for you!
Try 'manic mode'.
http://fun.from.hell.pl/2003-11-24/bubblewrap.swf
"Must have more"

BA Carnivorous Plant Society

An active group of plant enthusiasts.

http://bacps.org/

If a choir made the sound of a car...

it would sound like this...

Dominos are "in" apparently

There seems to be a motif Dominos in advertising and film lately.

Champion Sound - Fatboy Slim
House hold items as dominos makes for a somewhat interesting video experience.
http://www.nothing-to-see-here.com/champion-sound.php

Miller Beer Ad - People as Dominos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKIp-wLyV2k

Bravia Commercials

Fabulous new Bravia commercial:

http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/

http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/braviaextcommhigh.html

How movies should have ended...

Sometimes films to end how we think the should have... This site sets out to correct them. Some of them are pretty funny!
http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/index.html

Totally 80s Album Covers

http://motionographer.com/media/battle_adbands-w.mov

Looking for Trailer Trash Accessories?

http://www.trailertrashdoll.com/

Image Labeler Game

As a clever way to improve the image search function Google made the following game:

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

You and someone else on the internet and randomly paired and are given the same image. You enter as many different words to describe that image as you can. If your words and a word from your partner match then you "win" and move on. In the process they'll use all the winning words as keywords for the images when using the search function.

Spa-tini!

http://www.cureanailspa.com/

Lil' Superstar

Um... wow!

Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu

Yuko Shimizu is a New York-based Japanese illustrator. Though she initially honed her artistic chops in the PR field while living in Tokyo, Shimizu soon felt the creative pull and enrolled in New York's School of Visual Arts' MFA programme in illustration to pursue her dream to become an artist. She has been freelancing and teaching at SVA since graduation.

Check out her work : http://www.yukoart.com/

Illustrator: Jason Levesque

Featured on the SF Flavor Pill : Jason Levesque is a self-taught illustrator living in Norfolk, Virginia. His texture-rich portraits focus on the many facets of the female personality: boldness, nonchalance, sexiness, and beauty. Among his works you'll also find illustrations depicting his many creature creations ranging from vicious toothy bunny monsters to alluring lady octopuses.

Check out Jason's work at: http://www.stuntkid.com/

Watch Surgery Live On The Internet

Now you can watch the latest surgical procedures via the powers of the internet.

http://or-live.com/

Papercraft food printed with edible inks at Chicago's Moto restaurant

Found on Boing Boing, linked from http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/ARTICLES/food.asp

Homaro Cantu, the chef at Chicago's Moto restaurant, makes dishes by printing flavored inks onto edible sheets of "paper" and combining this papercraft food with elements cooked from the inside out with lasers. He also plans to levitate meals "using superconductors and handheld ion particle guns."

Perhaps Cantu's greatest innovation at Moto is a modified Canon i560 inkjet printer (which he calls the "food replicator" in homage to Star Trek) that prints flavoured images onto edible paper. The print cartridges are filled with food-based "inks", including juiced carrots, tomatoes and purple potatoes, and the paper tray contains sheets of soybean and potato starch. The printouts are flavoured by dipping them in a powder of dehydrated soy sauce, squash, sugar, vegetables or sour cream, and then they are frozen, baked or fried.

The most common printed dish at Moto is the menu. It can literally whet your appetite by providing a taste test of what's on the menu: tear off and eat a picture of a cow and it will taste like filet mignon. Once you are done with your sampling, the menu can be torn up and thrown into a bowl of soup - but only once you've ordered your two-dimensional sushi which consists of photos of maki rolls sprinkled on the back with soy and seaweed flavouring.

Link (via Oh Gizmo) (Image thumbnail taken from a larger picture on FirstScience, credited to Stephen Orlick and Homaro Cantu)

See also: When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet (NYT)

Update: Joel sez, "Here is a photo-essay of a 17-course menu at Moto, from LTHForum, The Chicago Culinary Chat site."

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Artists' Television Access

Artists' Television Access is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly cable access television program.

http://www.atasite.org/

Darth Vader Is A Jerk-Pants

Burning Man / Animal Control on Current.tv

Great segments on what Burning Man is all about. Found here...

Current.tv and Burning Man

To find out more about Animal Control, click on the link with the date 8/30

New Interface Tool! Awesome

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.

Guinness - Evolution Grand Prix - Cannes 2006

http://www.llamamelola.com Category: Alcoholic Drinks Title: NOITULOVE Advertiser: GUINNESS Product or Service: GUINNESS Entrant Company, City: ABBOTT MEAD VICKERS.BBDO, London Country: UNITED KINGDOM Advertising Agency, City: ABBOTT MEAD VICKERS.BBDO, London Country: UNITED KINGDOM Creative Director: Paul Brazier Copywriter: Ian Heartfield Art Director: Matt Doman Agency Producer: Yvonne Chalkley Production Company, City: KLEINMAN PRODUCTIONS, London Country: UNITED KINGDOM Director: Danny Kleinman Producer: Jonnie Frankel Music: Peter Raeburn/Adam Bushell/Tom Kenyatta/Nick Foster Sound Design/Arrangement: Johnnie Burn (wave)/Peter Raeburn (soundtree)