Techotic

Anonymous doing a recreation of the famous Iwo Jima picture. Flickr

This ‘how to make an Indy bull whip using duct tape’ is welcomed by all Indiana Jones fan boys everywhere.

Cindy of Skiptomylove said:

If you have come looking to make TRULY dangerous toys for boys you are at the right spot! Or maybe you have finally succumbed to the constant whining about “needing” a bullwhip since the release of the new Indiana Jones movie.

Luke Russert, the son of the late Tim Russert who passed away on June 14, was on the Today Show yesterday talking about what a loving father his dad was.

Artist and Lego enthusiast Jan Vormann belongs to a group called “‘20 Eventi’ “. They go around a little town of Bocchignano, Italy patching up decrepit walls with Lego pieces.

It seems that anyone can call themselves an artist these days. The Lego bricks do not blend in with the walls, but they sure brighten up the place. A for effort, and F for concept.

Pillsbury a small town in the Barnes County, southeastern North Dakota, which has a population of 11 inhabitants was supposed to have a Mayoral election on June 10, but no one showed up. Not even those on the ballot.

The current Mayor of Pillsbury, Darrel Brudevold, said voter turnout in the city’s primary election usually is fairly high.

The South China Mall in Dongguan is the biggest mall in the world. A seven-million-square-foot retail-and-entertainment giant in the heart of China’s southern Pearl River Delta, that could house 1,500 stores, but instead it has only a few dozen stores, making it the world’s emptiest mall.

If you have time to kill, here’s an advanced R2-D2 papercraft project that you can try to make, it is one of the best papercrafts of R2-D2 around. The instructions are in Japanese, but if you’re an advanced papercrafter, then it should be of no problem.

Link

Tartan Overture

These paintings by Australian artist Ghostpatrol currently working in a studio in Melbourne called Mitten Fortress are quite clever. I particularly like the Tartan Overture painting out of all his paintings, the sanded down pencils with paintings of large headed kid are like little ambiguous windows into a mystical world.