After more than a month of holiday and time-out, I’m getting ready to start blogging about shit again. So here we go, a small post to kick off the new season.

You are aweing at the latest piece by Maxwell Lord, the man behind 86era.org, called “Vital Consciousness”. It’s been featured as a Daily Deviation on Deviantart today, so that is kinda where I found it. On his blog, Maxwell discloses more information about it, and I quote:

“Here’s some background information on the whole thing. Drawn on A4-sized craft paper sheet, using 0.20 & 0.25 mm Sakura Micron ink pens and two white Crown gel pens. Took me about three weeks to finish it — go figure how intricate it actually is… And no, I didn’t know how it’s gonna end up looking — I still kick it freestyle most of the times, although this time it was more or less symmetrical.”

He also notes that he’d love to hear feedback and how you’ve interpreted the drawing, so if you like you can always go there and drop this guy a bone. Moreover, the o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l piece is for sale, so if you like it a lot, please check out his blog again because it has a hyperlink to email him on it.

Amaaaazing! A brilliant scene wonderfully composed by Claire Morgan. Resptetc! Hundreds, maybe thousands of strawberries and one crow make up such an interesting and beautiful picture. Two images after the jump…

I was chatting away with a friend about driverless cars (or robot cars, w/e) the other day, and I just now stumbled upon an article on Baekdal.com that comes with a few pictures of one of those concept cars and a nice layout of the improvements in society it would bring. It said nothing about the downside of robot cars, but aside from the violent revolution it must have in order to establish itself among “manual” cars, I can’t think of very much. And all that somewhere around the year 2040.

Although I don’t find the whole image that it’s been given very attractive, I support the concept by attacking a very more pictures and a cool video demonstrating the severity of a shockwave traffic jam, by the University of Nagoya, after the jump!

I copy and pasted this list because it’s a really nice summary, basically.

• It will never crash (in theory), which is going to be great news for the 40,000+ people who die in car crashes each year. And that is in the US alone.
• Because it never crashes you can make much better use of the interior. Today every seat, and every function is focused on you looking out of the front window while driving.
• It will be far more economical and give you a smoother ride.
• The many problems with congestions and traffic jams will be a thing of the past, because driverless cars are not subject to human reactions. Here is the video linked to by Baekdal in their post:

  

• It can park itself, and pick you up later.
• It can introduce a completely new form of transport. (Hey, I will just send my car to pick up the package)

I would also very much like to take this opportunity to remember Mary Ward, the first fatal motor vehicle accident victim, one hundred and fourty years ago :)

This photoseries by Dave Hill is so awesome I just have to post all six of them. More amazing photography available to awe at on his website!

A really cool rocking “horse” by Felix Götze :) And according to the site where I found it, the story behind it is as follows.

Otto Komei is three years old. Frequently he is sitting next to the window while watching the chopper gang on the other side of the street customizing and repairing their bikes. Just yesterday the one with the colored arm drove his chopper on the rear wheel down the street. Just as this rat bike Otto is dreaming of. Because hes got no drivers license and because of his own room being the only safe district, he needs a hybrid of chopper and rocking horse. With this machine he could learn to keep his balance and most of all to sit on it in easy position. So he closes his eyes and his arms broad. Oldschool-bikes he likes the most with a high handlebar and classic parts like lights and seats with old style. Furthermore he wants an one-cylinder two-stroke engine with 150 ccm for getting a really nice sound with a short and empty exhaust without muffler and skewed ending. Because everybody rides V2 four-stroke. Moreover it is so bad when everybody rides the same. The frame should be cantilever and the engine holding well hidden for giving the ride a clean look. At last he definitely wants a pinstripe from German airbrush-artist Thomas Weber as final detail.

Awesome! Made by Martijn Bodde, a young genius from Holland people! But no seriously, he’s a good friend but I never expected him to be so good at making sculptures. This really wowed me and you have to admit those eerie metal skeletonish soldiers combined with a strong historic image (which is also quite applicable to the piece) are indeed quite photogenetic.Find these photos, more of em, a youtube recording and the man himself (Laughingman) in the topic where he posted his sh… stuff. Another image after the jump.

My compliments to the beautiful lady Emma Watson for sharing her grace and physique with an audience that has devoured many. Behold, Emma Watsons most recent “pantyflash” at the movie premiere for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood something, manifested by mother’s forces of nature while fulfilling her good and generous duty as a public figure. She is sexy in an advertising kind of way, even at that weather. Plus the photos are more then enough to figure out what she would look like naked.

6 Friggin more photos after the jump!!!!11“