✪ Chinese Elephant Man

Mr Huang Chuncai aged 31 from China.

✪ Root-man.

✪ Reprap the home-made 3-d printer.

More on rapid prototyping in this article I wrote earlier.
This is the result so far with our Reprap 3-d printer at [foAm] (Pics).
You may notice that it even has some wooden parts!



Before this I went to the fablab that is set up in Mediamatic. Here's some images from the workshop there:

✪ Swiss army bunker-chalets.

Ojode Pez a wonderful documentary-photography magazine, recently featured a collection of photographs of some strange architecture, taken by Christian Schwager.

Certainly this highlight from the history of military architecture deserves a closer look, for some of its features can be found in more recent large scale housing-projects and mass-urban-planning, where homes can look as fake as these bunkers do.

What looks warm and comfortable from afar, becomes chilling and lifeless under closer inspection.



And some more can be found on flickr:

✪ Satellite sees CME tear comet tail off.

NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail.

✪ The dignity that comes with manual labor.

For a hundred years the villiage of Oeschberg near Bern has featured an old-folks-home for Knechte und Mägde: farmhands and maids, who served on farms all their lives. Now they are spending their latter years working for themselves at the home. Photographer Andreas Reeg made some impressive pictures of them.





I don't want to romanticize old-fashioned ways of living, but obviously any snotty little rapper driving his tribal tattoos around in some pimped-up Hummer, will in his hart of harts know that these people have a dignity and strength of character that he will never have.



And crafts are technology too!!!

✪ Tomytronic, gaming technology from 1980.

In case you're wondering if in the future there will ever be a handheld game with 3-D visuals and 3-D sound, you will be surprised to hear that this game of the future has already been made, in the early eighties.


This is the handheld game. Really wonderful to play, and an experience beyond anything that that your playstation can throw up.



✪Shark Attack ✪Planet Zeon ✪Skyattack

The best of all is the 1983 Skyfighters game, when your airplane flies out-off the left side of the picture, and the sound passes behind your head, all-around, until the plane shows-up again on the right of the screen. Now that is what I call VR.


More on Tomy in the handheldmuseum.