Seriously awesome Lego replicas of M.C. Escher’s gravity defying drawings. The above is a Lego depiction of his 1953 work “Relativity”. A few more are on the Daily Mail article linked below. How cool is this?!?
Water Balloon Filler
Crush the competition in your next water balloon fight with this Water Balloon Filler. Put the gadget on the end of your hose and quickly fill the balloon and tie its knot up to 10x faster than the “analog” method.
Star Wars: The Blueprints
For all of you hobbyists out there in the mood to build the Death Star or a life sized replica of R2-D2, the Star Wars: The Blueprints book.
Now, its going to take a hell of a lot of man power to build yourself a Death Star. Something to think about.
The City Never Sleeps
Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.
Amazing time-lapse video of NYC from various vantage points. Apparently, the author took the videos from several different hotels around and across Manhattan. Worth a view!
Via Buzzfeed
Muppet Cupcakes
Awesome cupcakes decorated as the main characters from The Muppets show.
Beaker and Statler & Waldorf are awesommme!!
Mad Men Office Floor Plan
From, Kratkocasnik, a 2D and 3D visual floor plan of Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Office Floor Plan. In the original post, the author stated that Bert Cooper didn’t have his own office, which is not something I can verify. Also, Ken Cosgrove is not represented in the plan and I’d have to figure he is somewhere near the “whiskey closet” represented in the above plan. A cool way to close out another great season of MM. I won’t give any spoilers but I think Don was using his wrong head to make the big decision in the finale.
Geek Decor
A list of several home decorating items for absolute geeks including the above Han Solo frozen in carbon desk (not sure if I’d want him staring up at me every day). Some other neat items include ASCII decorated shades, pixelated sofas and rugs, and another personal favorite, the waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles.
Star Wars Uncut
Star Wars: Uncut is an online project where the original Star Wars movie has been broken down into :15 increments. From there, folks from around the Web and world then submit their own video depicting that scene. The final product is a mash up of all the best submissions for each scene edited together to create the full length depiction of the movie. Just brilliant and awesome!! Here is a clip of a preview of the movie, which will be premiered at a film festival in Copenhagen.
Super Heros as Mr Men
A great collection of super heroes and villains drawn as Mr. Men. I was always partial to Mr. Happy, although Mr. Persnickity was always a good read.
Pretty Baseball Stats
I came across a great site today called Flip Flop Fly Ball. The site’s author Craig Robinson essentially takes run of the mill baseball statistics and information and turns them into graphic works of art. For example, the chart below displays the direction that the batters face within each of the MLB stadiums (click to see the full sized image).
There is a great visual of the price variance of MLB tickets (with the Yankees leading the way), the types of MLB stadiums, and my personal favorite, the monetary value of MLB’s stolen bases if they were actually stolen.
Headshots from the WSJ
Here is an interesting exhibit from the Smithsonian that profiles the unique Headcuts from the Wall St. Journal and how they are created. Surprisingly, even in today’s digital world, these images are hand drawn by artists commissioned by the WSJ. What would be really cool would be an online application where you could submit an image of yourself, and it would be rendered in the same manner as the WSJ headshots.