Italians upset over Crucified Frog Sculpture

May 28, 2008 By - Leave a Comment

Frog

I wish I could make this up, but this shows us how crazy the art world can be.  The green guy is about 3 feet tall and has really pissed off an Italian town where its on exhibit. What’s art without critics.  However I’m shocked that the animal rights organizations aren’t upset and I haven’t heard from Kermit the Frog either.  What I find very amazing is that this piece was done in the early 90′s and the artist, Martin Kippenberg, has been deceased since 1997. For more info read the Australian ABC news article I found this via – NY ARTS Magazine.

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Women in Painting…

January 22, 2008 By - Leave a Comment

I love art, all forms and types. After seeing this video I realized why. Its amazing that just one little painting can capture a moment in time or in this case bring us through history with a changing world through a stroke of a brush. I enjoyed this video, I hope you have if you haven’t seen it yet. I will never be able to tell you all the wonderful names or artists who’s work is in this video but I know many friends and family who can. In all this video is for all those artists who were Technically Foreign to the ones around them due to there creative genius and timeless canvases.

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How many bottles of Sake does it take to fuel your car?

May 15, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

With bio-fuel becoming more popular every country is looking into how they can produce their own fuel. While Brazil is the biggest export of ethanol due to their large crop of Sugar Cane other countries may be able to produce bio-fuel crops to help with the current direction of green based energy. Every country produces their own alcohol and with that it seems the trend is starting. Sake is a rice based alcohol that is Japan’s home brewed moonshine. Brazil has its Mojito a sugar cane alcoholic drink. Does this mean that in the future, Poland will run cars off of Vodka and Ireland off of whiskey and one day down the road will my fellow Americans pack an extra six pack of Budweiser to feed the car on the way back from the Football game? This could mean the car getting the DWI instead of the driver.

Whatever the future has in store for us, I’m glad that bio-fuel has started to take off but I wonder what this may have in store for my alcoholic preference in the future. Will the switch over to bio-fuel sky rocket the price of my Irish Whiskey or Japanese Sake? Or do I choose to have another shot instead of filling her up!

Sites: Cnet News – Sake May Power Japan Cars

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Fire in the Hole – Oil Lamp Grenade

March 13, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

Attention! At ease solider. Lighting up your night life has become a military exercise with these Grenade Oil lamps. They are surplus US Army Hand Grenade shells modified for civilian use to spread a unique glow in your nocturnal life.

Grenade

via: ELSEWARES.COM

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Exoskeleton suites closer then ever?

January 25, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

sci-fi exoskeletonFor years, well as far as I can see dating back to the cave men time man has always looked on creating something to protect and make himself stronger. This is of course more the story when your talking about military needs. Any sci-fi writer or reader knows what an Exoskeleton is and does. In the world of science fiction they come in many different sizes and functions from just skin tight shirts to Battle-Tech hundred ton machines that mimic your every move.

This science fiction meets reality has been picking up a lot of news lately and well it should since we are currently at war with thousands of US soliders dead and thousands of others wounded. First Sci-Fi Tech has a nice blog post about 9 Military Technologies we want – Exoskeleton is number 2 on that list and they point out the recerational uses this could have. On the Scince Fiction tv show Dark Angle the male lead – Logan – was wheel chair bound until he came across some fancy Exoskeleton legs making him able to walk again which leads to another interesting concept of this technology.

However before the medical and recreational use of this technology the military will have the first run. In this article at spiegel.de they talk about Robo-Soldiers and how the Pentagon is developing such a thing. This past October New Scientist posted a similar article on their blog and also reflected the length at which these projects have been worked on which is the reason why exoskeletons are popular in Science Fiction. Science fiction writers tend to use things that are possible but limited with todays technology and knowledge, they ask the “what if” and “why not” questions then answer them.

With the advancement in technology and the how computers and electronics are shrinking in size it is only a matter of time we wear our computers. Wearing a computer may mean an entire exoskeleton suite that maybe called a smart suite as well. The future of this technology is as open as the books, cartoons and movies have showed us. Reading about the development of these suites puts a smile on my face that once again technology is caching up to our imaginations.

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The New DWI – Driving With Internet?

January 4, 2007 By - 1 Comment

AutoNet Mobile RouterWith a new year comes new technologies, discoveries and as always questions. Do I really need always-on internet access in my car? Well, of course you do. Their is a new product that has this feature and its coverage is as the website states “95% of the United states.” AutoNet Mobile (http://www.goautonet.com) will be launching the product in the spring with what seems to be the next Internet frontier – America’s second home- our cars. They do this by placing a mobile router inside your car, which then creates a wireless hot spot. The coverage map resembles the wireless cell phone coverage maps we see when shopping around for the best wireless service which brings me to the conclusion this will not be the only company that will offer this service.

Many people will still question if we need internet access in our cars and the answer is still yes. Everything should be connected, the world needs to be connected and this will some day allow us to turn on our lights from our car four miles away. This will also spark on-board computers in our dashboard that will do more then just give us directions. The possibilities are endless but if you have kids in the back seat watching a movie, one day they can be also be online doing their homework. Well, that might of went too far, however, bridging the gap of the Internet in the car will change the meaning of DWI to Driving With Internet and maybe like other technologies the law may catch-up.

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