joi, 24 martie 2011

Damn Cool Pics

Damn Cool Pics


Rebecca Black's "Friday" as Radical Text

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:58 PM PDT

If you think that 13-year old Rebecca Black's song "Friday" is an insipid, bubblegum pop expression of the teenage mind, you'd be wrong. Dana Vachon argues that it's actually a complex rebuttal to the artificiality of modern life.


Awesome Stereographic Projection

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:46 PM PDT

A great set of images using a technique called stereographic projection that takes a panoramic image and projects it onto a sphere. The results are surreal. More images.


Meet Boo the Cutest Pomeranian Dog

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:21 PM PDT

I wanted to share Boo with everyone… A Pomeranian puppy who undoubtedly takes the cake as being the cutest puppy on the face of the planet.

What's even more noteworthy is that Boo has almost one million friends on Facebook.


































































































Collection of Famous Retro Photos

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:06 PM PDT

A great collection of pictures that will take you down memory lane and have you think about those happy golden days of yesteryear.














































































































































25 Movie Tattoos

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:50 PM PDT

Tattoos are not just for literary enthusiasts. movie buffs, too, are anxious to immortalize their cinema favorites. Take a look at tattoo artwork that runs the gamut from awesome to outright insane.


















































Giant Ukrainian Airplane Antonov An-225

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:40 PM PDT

The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, designed in the USSR in the 1980s. It is the world's heaviest aircraft. The design, built to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan.










































Malawi Boy Builds Windmill Out of Junk

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:06 PM PDT

William Kamkwamba of Malawi was expelled from his high school for non-payment. At 14 years old he went to the library and started reading an American textbook called 'Using Energy.' People thought the kid was nuts. Turns out he was just a genius. For full story click here.