Remember the Chinese artist Li Wei who did all those seemingly impossible art - hanging in mid-air or with his head buried in the ground? Over at the crazy dude's website, you can view photos of all his performances from 1999 to present and watch videos too. Also, check out some photos that revealed how he did it.
If men edited the Cosmopolitan magazine, then their style manual on how much cleavage should women show off when they are at work, on a first date or on other occasions would be something like this. Ahem. More cleavage please.
We already have websites that pirate movies and music and now there's one that pirates magazines. Mygazines is a site where you can browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles. Popular titles such as Popular Science, Business Week and TIME are all there, uploaded by users. Let's see how long Mygazines can stay online before the magazines shut them down. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the May 2008 issue of Popular Science. Yay!
If you are a student in NUS, NTU, SMU or one of the polytechnics in Singapore and are looking to buy a laptop under the campus purchase scheme, do check out Cnet's excellent tertiary campus notebook deals coverage and see how much you can save compared to buying at retail stores.
The organisers of the first ever Youth Olympic Games in 2010 to held in Singapore are inviting everyone to submit a design for the Singapore 2010 logo. Prizes include a chance to be one of the Torchbearers during the torch relay and tickets to the opening and closing ceremony of the games.
• For users from 15-24 years old, Friendster is 2.2 times larger than Facebook and over 8 times larger than MySpace. Friendster has 313,000 unique visitors while Facebook has 141,000 and MySpace has 38,000.If you look at the 25-34 yrs old and the 35-44 yrs old categories (the demographics highly attractive to most advertisers), Friendster is only leading by a small margin and I think the results may not be that significant. We all know that the age group of Facebook users is a lot more mature than those using Friendster and this shows in the figures above. And judging from the increasing number of Friendster users migrating to Facebook, I think it's just a matter of time before Facebook takes the number 1 spot away from Friendster in Singapore. In fact, I won't be surprised that it already has.
• For users from 25-34 years old, Friendster is 1.5 times larger than Facebook and over 8 times larger than MySpace. Friendster has 248,000 unique visitors while Facebook has 164,000 and MySpace has 30,000.
• For users from 35-44 years old, Friendster is 1.6 times larger than Facebook and 5 times larger than MySpace. Friendster has 149,000 unique visitors while Facebook has 92,000 and MySpace has 30,000.
• For users from 45-54 years old, Friendster is 37% larger than Facebook and over 6 times larger than MySpace. Friendster has 100,000 unique visitors while Facebook has 73,000 and MySpace has 15,000.
Guy Robots are robot sculptures handmade from industrial parts that are destined for final disposal. Each Guy Robot is mixed and matched with different parts until each has its own unique character.
It's the good old 1975 and this man is about to show you the future. More of the 1975 IBM slides here.
Advertlets is offering 80 sponsored post opportunities to Singapore bloggers to write about ST701, the Singapore e-marketplace for jobs, property, cars, products and services. Bloggers must be with Advertlets and have at least 30 unique visitors a day. More here.
Crazy Japanese DVD from Avex called Just Looking, features various models/idols doing nothing but staring expressionlessly into the camera. The DVD hopes to cure those afflicted with shyness so that they may rejoin society.
I never thought I would see a steampunked version of Yoda to look something like this. Silof, the dude behind the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Steampunk figurines writes, "Yoda was the most challenging figure in this line. He had to be Yoda-esque but not too much. I did not want to do robes, as the line is more urban European then ancient Asian."
J. Perthold mounts a little camera around the neck of his cat, Mr Lee. The cam takes a picture every few minutes and will show what Mr Lee does each day.
Museum of Notebooks is an ongoing project to collect the best and brightest notebooks in the world. This one was found at some market in southwest China.
Why would people want to get stuck with staid, stolid government careers when they think other people can offer them more challenging, more exciting, better-paid jobs? The proletariat classes have found job security to be based on nothing more than empty promises. Six years of indentured labor is not an asset, it is a fatal liability, a sign that they don’t trust their recipients to do the right thing. Is it any surprise that the recipients chafe under this paternalistic, supercilious arrogance?
The government agencies handing out scholarships have the power to tilt the balance. They set the rates, they set the agenda. They can make better deals than the ones that have served our country so well in the twentieth century. The government makes a big deal about maintaining Singapore’s competitiveness, and not being complacent. Yet it seems to turn its blind spot on its immense complacence regarding Singapore’s competitiveness in the top-echelon labor markets.
The Creature Discomforts commercials were specially commissioned by Leonard Cheshire Disability from award-winning studio Aardman Animations to change the way people think about and respond to disability. The commercials feature cute animal characters voiced by real people with disabilities. Watch all the ads here.
I've added Cake Wrecks to my bookmarks. It is a cool blog featuring photos and commentary of professional cakes go horribly and hilariously wrong such as this one made for a new mummy.
Hitoki is an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide. The site is currently looking for short narratives describing pivotal moments of elation, confusion, absurdity, love or grief — or anything in between — inseparably tied to a specific place in Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, Paris, London, New York or Sofia.
This art installation (bigger pic here) featuring a very helpless Winnie the Pooh stuffed bear attacked by small figurines of Mario, Charlie Brown, Bart Simpson and friends, is part of It's always six o'clock, an exhibition where ordinary things become mysterious by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG.
Minute one: In a darkened bedroom, Axl Rose, lead singer of the enormous Guns N' Roses, is taking tablets.
Sleeping tablets, we imagine, but we don't know how many. We could therefore assume that everything following this is either a drug-induced dream or a memory of events that might have led up to a sleepless/possibly suicidal state. We cut to a large G N' R concert filled with screaming fans, and then, in contrast, to Axl playing the piano alone in a deserted chapel and, for some reason, a desert.
Minute two: Axl tosses and turns in the large lonely bed. We cut to a cathedral, with cute flowergirls throwing rose petals and a statue of the crucified Christ that appears to be weeping blood. Down the aisle walks a beautiful bride who, though she has remembered her corset and train, seems to have succumbed to general memory failure when it came to the lower half of her dress.
The Los Angeles Premiere of The X-Files: I Want to Believe will be broadcast live online from 8.55 am Singapore time today! Watch the Q&A with fans at the premiere and X-Files stars Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and others as they walk the Red Carpet.
This creepy looking Mickey Mouse is drawn by illustrator Mike Mitchell who has a deep affection and utter hate for the world's famous mouse. Ah no wonder. Check out his other illustrations here including his versions of Mario and dinosaur from Super Mario World and Batman!
Just give Cyndi your front and side profile photos and she will immortalize you in a doll! Cyndi is a doll artist and she hand sculptures each doll head from photos. The head is then sculpted onto a vinyl doll or action figure and dressed in the clothing of your choice. I want an I.Z. action figure!
10,000 Pages is a colouring book of abstract line art by Pixohammer. All 10,000 pages of the book will be made available at the 10,000 Pages blog. It's at page 9,367 now. Even if you're not into colouring, just looking at the abstract line drawings is fascinating.
Remember the He-Man minisodes that I blogged last week? Well, here's another YouTube channel called RetroHeroes that has all your favorite cartoons from the 60s, 70s and 80s in minisode format. Enjoy.
A script has now been completed and one sneak preview of the screenplay has called it a "fanboy masterpiece" in which "Lord of the Rings meets Matrix and a little Batman Begins thrown in for good measure."Update: Here's the Grayskull: Masters Of The Universe script review. (Thanks GeekGod)
Marks also co-wrote the screenplay for the exciting superhero movie project Green Arrow: Escape from Supermax. His live-action adaptation of He-Man is titled Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe.
Information on Marks' first draft came out from movie site Latino Review but has gone largely under the radar, perhaps because it is at such an early stage with no director or actors attached to the project.
In the story, Prince Adam of Eternia is able to transform into the superstrong He-Man by raising his sword; at the same time, his cowardly tiger Cringer becomes Battle Cat. They and several companions defend Castle Grayskull from the evil sorcerer Skeletor.
Western newspapers, NGOs and human rights groups like the IBA's Human Rights Institute prescribe Western norms as the way for other countries to "join the ranks of modern democracies." But not every Western norm is suitable to all countries in the world. Singapore cannot allow those who carry no responsibility for Singapore's future to dictate its political and legal systems. Singaporeans know that they have a noncorrupt government and an independent judiciary. They live in one of the top five most transparent countries in the world, with the freedom to express their views, oppose the government and take part in free and fair elections. Singaporeans will choose for themselves the shape and norms for their society.Previously: Press Secretary to MM Lee responds to Wall Street Journal
The folks at Gizmodo (those lucky b@st@rds!) visited the Lego Factory recently and filmed every step in the creation of the Lego brick including the most guarded secret of the company. Go watch all the 3 videos.
Couple decided that for their wedding, they will have a Super Mario Kart wedding cake! The groom says, "We were looking for ideas to make our wedding different and our own. My wife suggested the idea of having a video game cake after we saw one online. Coincidentally, the latest Mario Kart game was released on the same weekend of our wedding. This cake was designed with elements from multiple Mario Kart games, as well as a few aspects from other Super Mario Bros. games." Here's a preliminary sketch of the cake.
Some of the popular classic Chinese tales such as Monkey King, Three Kingdoms, Red Chamber and Golden Lotus in easy to read comic form.We take naming objects in the solar system very carefully. We’ve picked out the names for Quaoar (creation force of the Tongva tribe who live in Los Angeles), Orcus (the earlier Etruscan counterpart to Pluto, for an object that appears much like a twin of Pluto), Sedna (the Inuit goddess of the sea, for the coldest most distant Kuiper belt object at the time), and Eris (the greek goddess of discord and strife, for the object that finally led to the demotion of Pluto). Each of these names came after considerable thought and debate, and each of them fit some characteristic of the body that made us feel that it was appropriate.
Coming up with a new permanent name for Easterbunny was the hardest of all of these. Orcus and Sedna fit the character of the orbit of the body. Eris was so appropriate it is enough to make me almost start believing in astrology. Quaoar was, we felt, a nice tribute to the fact that all mythological deities are not Greek or Roman.
But what for Easterbuuny? It’s orbit is not particularly strange, but it is big. Probably about 2/3 the size of Pluto. And it is bright. It is the brightest object in the Kuiper belt other than Pluto itself. Unlike, say 2003 EL61, which has so many interesting characteristics that it was hard choosing from so many different appropriate name (more on this later), Easterbunny has no obvious hook. Its surface is covered with large amounts of almost pure methane ice, which is scientifically fascinating, but really not easily relatable to terrestrial mythology. (For a while I was working on coming up with a name related to the oracles at Delphi: some people interpret the reported trance-like state of the oracles to be related to natural gas [methane] seeping out of the earth there. After some thought I decided this theme was just dumb.) Strike one.
I've just downloaded a mashup of Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name vs The Hives' Main Offender by Divide & Kreate. Surprising, it's really good. Divide & Kreate - yup, that's really his name - has a few interesting tracks that you can download here. All mashups and remixes.
Those of you with pet birds can now bring your flying friends out for a walk in the park or even the shopping mall thanks to the PetPocket Bird Carrier. It is a vest-style pet carrier that keeps your bird close and hands free. Durable mesh fabric allows good airflow and visibility for your bird. Zippered opening at top and bottom allows access. Your bird will love it, I think and so will you.
Ann Smith makes little robotic like figurines from broken electronics and machine parts. Her robot sculptures are sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in magazines and brochures. Her clients include Chevron which commissioned her to do a T-Rex robot! Some of her sculptures are for sale on her Etsy site.
I love the Looks Like A Robot Flickr group. It has a collection of pics of everyday objects that look like robots. I think I may have a few photos to contribute.
Amoebaboy recently just finished making this beautiful steampunk R2-D2. Its head is made of brass and it has a steel tube boiler body with wooden lagging, brass and copper gauges and front panel and lots of other steampunk goodies! More of the making process here, here and here.
IGN is now showing the He-Man minisode, The Shaping Staff. The new He-Man minisodes are a part of a series of minisodes produced by Sony's The Minisode Network which takes classic TV shows and pack a whole lot of story and action into just a few minutes. Unfortunately only those in the US can watch the minisodes on The Minisode Network's YouTube channel. The unlucky ones like me have to resort to using sites like Zamzar to download and convert the YouTube videos in order to watch them.
Over at Nokia Singapore's Dark Knight website, you can watch all four parts of an original Batman motion comic produced exclusively by DC Comics for Nokia. Just click on "Motion Comic" once you enter the flash website. You can also download it!
I'm beginning to think that people in China really have a lot of free time. There's the dude who makes and flies his homemade helicopter. Then there's the Chinese farmer who builds his own airplane. And now, a Chinese labourer makes his own submarine at home using mainly metal barrels. What's next? A Chinese homemade spaceship?
Jillian McDonald gets to kiss Daniel Day Lewis, Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp and even Angelina Jolie in her video project called Screen Kiss. Using clever video editing, she inserts herself into existing film scenes as stand-in for the actresses (or actor) being kissed by these stars.
Henry says of his Tell a Lie project, "The most controversial lies told with photography today are those told by news photographers who manipulate their work photographs to tell a different story. Working with my friend Ed Cornish, we decided to flip this lie on its head and use a camera to mimic common Photoshop effects."
Some crazy dude has created an online game based on the arcade game Defender. He calls it Defender of the Favicon. The game resides in the 16×16 pixels of the favicon that is displayed on the top left of your Firefox browser! Damn, I need a magnifying glass.A flying ghost at Changi Hospital, a playful tree spirit at Bedok Reservoir and the ghost of a girl who died at the famous Yellow Tower at...
