Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Incredibox

 

Incredibox let's you take control of a group of human beatbox and it's awesome. Created by So Far So Good their site was launched in 2009 and soon won them a FWA, attracting 9 million visitors in 2012 there's a good chance you have already seen it, if not check it out here.

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Lofoten

Photo:Ximonic

This is Lofoten an archipelagos in the country of Nordland, Norway.

Photo: Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia.

Even though it lies within the arctic circle temperatures are very mild even in winter, due to the Gulf stream.

Photo: Ximonic

It's sea is teaming with life containing the world's largest deep water coral reef.

Photo: Per 

The sky's are also filled with life with a high density of Sea Eagles and Cormorants and millions of others.

Photo: Ximonic

Otters are common and you can find moose on the largest islands.

Photo: Øystein Bjørke

It's not all great, the sun never sets from 25 May to 17 July and the sun doesn't even rise from 9 December to 4 January.

 Photo: Ximonic

It's stunningly beautiful though.

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

The Dark Nut


I probably shouldn't find this as funny as i do, Ice Age: Continental Drift is out now.

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Flowering Bamboo

Bamboo flowering is an impressive sight but it doesn't happen often, in fact many bamboo can take from 65 years all the way to 130 years to flower and then they all flower at the same time regardless of geographic locations or climatic conditions, then it all dies and we still don't know why this is.

 

There are two main theories about why this happens. Firstly, the predator satiation hypothesis, the idea is that by flooding the area with fruit even if large amounts are eaten there will still be seeds left, by having a flowering cycle longer than the lifespan of the rodents, bamboos can control animal populations by causing starvation during the period between flowering events. The death of the adult is due to lack of resources, as it would be better for the parents to pour all there resources in to creating a larger seed crop than to keep energy for their own regrowth.


The second theory is the fire cycle hypothesis, this hypothesis thinks that the dead bamboo create a large fuel load, a fine target for lightning strikes, increasing the chance of wildfire, hopefully clearing the way for  new bamboo.

Photo:  Casey Yee

But both theories have been disputed, the predator satiation theory does not account for the flowering cycle being 10 times longer than the life of the rodents. The fire cycle theory is considered to be wrong by some scientists because of a lack of precedent for anything using something unpredictable like lightning to increase its chance of survival.

Source: Flowering Bamboo

Friday, 6 July 2012

Lego Forest

It's not photoshop these are all real


The locals of Broken Hill woke up to this amazing site


There are 15 sets of  ‘pine’ trees and flowers


 They have been recreated to a 1:1 ratio of the original pieces, but made to be 66 times bigger


 Surreal isn't it?


It's all part of Lego's Festival of play celebrating 50 years of Lego in Australia


More about Broken Hill, Source Lego Festival

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Firework colour

Ever wondered what gives a firework it's colour? well now you can find out


The Works has posted this chart on there Facebook page to help you identify what makes it that colour.
More about The Works

Saturday, 30 June 2012

Fruit and Vegtable Skulls.

Dimitri Tsykalov makes these Awesome carved skulls out of fruit and vegtables


Luckly nobody ever told him not to play with his food


I can't think of a better use for cabbage


This one sort of reminds me of a soldier's hat


 Anyone else want water melon now?
 

You can find a few more of his skulls and work here.