Another tabula rasa:

Metamorphosis fractal: a colourful animation.

More downloadable paper toys!

Dennis Oppenheim makes interesting sculptures.

Sandy Skogland creates art out of cheetos.

43 foot high 'Puppy' topiary.

Jeff Koon's 'Puppy' has traveled to New York, Sydney and now resides outside of Bilboa's Guggenheim Museum.

The human flipbook.

Marcel Marceau: RIP

Pangea Day: Can films change our world?

"So ask yourself this. If you had the entire world's attention for just a few minutes, what story would you tell? Perhaps you think the world looks at you, your country and your culture... and just doesn't understand. Then do something about it. Make a film and upload it here http://www.youtube.com/group/pangeaday. You never know. It could end up bringing millions of people that bit closer together."

Grumf sings Louis Armstrong

Create your own art!

Thanks to mod7 for showing this cool new link! Greybishop's art is on top! Sawsee's is below.

And now... introducing a new 'Tabula rasa'!

Ugly Doll sells ugly dolls?

I'm not sure I would call them ugly; maybe quirky or funky...

'Vincent' constructed in Second Life

Bots attack Estonia.

This is a very scary post about hackers harnessing third-party computers to launch a sytematic attack on an information infrastructure.

Sawsee2 is one year old!

One year of blogs; 430 posts.

Thanks to everybody that visits, even if it is for a quick peek, or a quick peak.

I appreciate your support and your friendship!

Computer simulations give insight into our world, and beyond...

Natalie Jeremijenko and her pigeon paradise.

Interesting, quirky experiments in an urban setting.

BloggerPlay is a continous slideshow of images, currently being uploaded.

Salmir Strati builds 'painting' out of nails.

Graffiti artist gets little respect!

Google offers $30 million Lunar prize.

A Tale of Rock: an animation

Electric cars just got a lot cooler!

Check out this 300 horsepower 'Electric' Spyder! Thanks JDH!

Explore with type.

This link is to a number of short movies, exploring type and letterforms built out-of-the-ordinary.

Fast Food: promotional vs actual

This link shows photos used in the promotion of various fast food restaurants, compared to what the food actually looked like at time of purchase. Thanks to Tone for telling me about this story.

Picasso, Miro... or maggot?

Texas schools are melding art with science with the introduction of live maggots and (non-toxic) paint! Thanks Lady for mentioning this interesting topic!

Keyboard furniture.

I wonder if they sell a 'return' couch?

Ant city: form & function.

This is an amazing discovery of the function, formation and shapes of a giant ant colony; unfortunately many ants did not survive.

Container City!

Container City showcases a number of projects converting shipping containers into accommodation. I love this! Thanks to JDH for this link!

How to camouflage an airport

"During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a(n)... air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air."

New mini-series has cool intro.

The Accordian house!

Expand your house! Thanks JDH for letting me know about this cool home and website!

A new musical instrument: The Tenori!

Big Rig debuts at festival.

"The sculpture re-purposes massive big rig trucks to create a work of art. It will debut in late August at Burning Man, where attendees will be encouraged to climb through the tankers, and explore a rich jungle-like interior."


http://duggmirror.com/design/The_Coolest_Art_You_Missed_This_Year_at_Burning_Man_PICS/

Coffee schematics

I really like examples of simple solutions to aid education. This link has used this technique to make one feel like a pro when walking into a coffee shop.

The amazing properties of Ferrofluid.

Thanks to JDH for telling me about this amazing substance.

Here is another cool link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SKVHv63SlM&mode=related&search=

Build a Hobbit house!

Interesting maps, including a cat map!

From Strangemaps.com: "For at least 10.000 years, the animal known to taxonomists as Felis silvestris catus has been among the dearest friends of Homo sapiens sapiens. Their tendency to hunt rats, mice and other vermin earned them the most-favoured pet status.
Contributing to their popularity with early farmers is the fact that cats are strict meat-eaters, passing over the precious harvest of grain and other vegetables. Cats are known to hunt over 1.000 different animal species for food. The Egyptians venerated the mythical cat Bast as goddess of the home and protector of the fields and home from vermin.
Nowadays, for many people, cats are even more familiar than gods: they’re full members of the household. Through thousands of years of domestication, cats have grown accustomed to people, and demonstrate certain pseudo-human traits. They’re pretty fussy eaters, for starters, sometimes starving themselves rather than eating food they don’t like. And they can appear rather lazy, sleeping on average 13 to 14 hours a day – sometimes even up to 20 hours. Not really a ‘cat nap’, is it?
Anybody who’s ever had a cat can testify to the fact that cats, while at times very friendly, cuddly and agreeable to people, in essence are solitary animals with an agenda of their own. To some exasperated owners, returning home after a hard day’s work to find the cat still curled up in the same place as when they left for the office, the question may arise: who is who’s pet? That’s sort of the attitude expressed in this cartoon map, which shows what cats really make of the bed of their ‘owners’. The map came from here.
To conclude this ‘Cat’s Map of the Bed’, here are 10 things you didn’t know about cats (unless you’re a cat fancier):
1. Cats don’t have a clavicle bone, allowing them to pass through any space no bigger than their head.
2. Cats move both legs on one side, and then both leg on the other, a trait they share with camels, giraffes and a select few other mammals. Nobody knows what the connection is, if any.
3. Typically, cat’s claws are sharper on the forefeet are sharper than on the hind feet.
4. Most cats have five claws on their front paws and four or five on their rear paws, but cats are prone to polydactyly. Famously, the cats hanging around Hemingway’s house in Key West are six-toed.
5. Cat’s night vision is superior to humans, but their day vision is inferior.
6. The official name for cat’s whiskers is vibrissae.
7. Due to an ancient mutation, cats can’t taste sweetness.
8. Blue-eyed cats with white fur have a higher incidence of genetic deafness.
9. Cats expend nearly as much fluid grooming as they do urinating.
10. Cats will almost never meow at other cats; that sound is reserved mostly for communication with humans.
And because you didn’t know this either, here are 10 famous cats from history:
1. Boche: cat found by Anne Frank’s family while hiding in the attic in Amsterdam (name is a derogatory French term for German, comparable with ‘Kraut’). Would always pick (and lose) fights with another cat, aptly named Tommy.
2. CopyCat: the first cloned cat.
3. Kaspar: wooden cat used to round out unlucky parties of 13 at the Savoy Hotel in London.
4. Oscar: hospice cat with uncanny ability to predict which patients will die by curling up with them hours before their death. Recorded in the New England Journal of Medicine in mid-2007, when he had been right 25 times.
5. Sir Isaac Newton’s cat: its incessant desire to be let in and out allegedly drove Newton to invent the cat flap.
6. Siam: a gift from the American consul in Bangkok to US president Rutherford B. Hayes, the first Siamese cat in the US (1878).
7. The Master’s Cat: belonged to Charles Dickens, and would snuff his reading candle to get attention.
8. Muezza: the Prophet Mohammed’s cat. He once cut off the sleeve of his robe when called out to prayer rather than disturb the sleeping cat upon it, or so it’s related.
9. Sizi: Albert Schweitzer’s cat when he lived in Africa; although he was a left-hander, he would write with his right when Sizi slept on his left arm.
10. Taki: black female Persian cat of Raymond Chandler, who considered her his ‘feline secretary’ – he would read out the first drafts of his murder mysteries to her."

City: Michael Heizer's 35 year project is almost completed!

"City, Michael Heizer's life-long project, is quite possibly the largest piece of contemporary art ever attempted. Because the artist is a very private individual, little is known about City, except that he has been working on it since 1972 (he claims 1970). Located in the remote desert of Nevada, City comprises five phases, each consisting of a number of structures referred to as complexes."

Transformers transforming the living room.

Thanks JDH for helping transform the headline!