Valentine Makhouleen — interactive art director » Awesome

Earth and Moon from 114 million miles away

Valentine — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:51:17 +0000

In the lower left portion of this image, the Earth can be seen, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth’s right. When MESSENGER took this image, a distance of 183 million kilometers (114 million miles) separated the spacecraft and Earth. To provide context for this distance, the average separation between the Earth and the Sun is about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).

Via Messenger, NASA

Making trash collection fun

Valentine — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:24:13 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw

Algae photosynthesis lamp

Valentine — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:19:30 +0000

Mike Thompson, the arts graduate from Design Academy in Eindhoven now introduces a seemingly unheard of algae powered lamp, which he names Latro Algae Lamp. He takes inspiration from the findings of a research conducted by Yansei and Stanford University scientists that concluded that algal cells can draw electrical current through photosynthesis. The lamp, basically, draws its energy from a glass chamber of algae.

Via Green Diary

Fascination car

Valentine — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:01:16 +0000

The Highway Aircraft Corporation’s “Tomorrow’s Car Today” definitely catches the eye. Rolled out in the late ’60s, the Fascination’s streamlined shape rang out echoes all the way back to the Dymaxion car (Small wonder. It started life in the 1930s as the “Airomobile”), but what really makes it really interesting isn’t the all-aluminium engine it originally had, but what was claimed would be in the newer models: the Nobel Gas Plasma Engine.

What’s that? Apparently, this:

This engine is a closed two-cycle reciprocating engine that has no intake, uses no air, emitting no exhaust at all! The fuel is self-contained and hermetically sealed in the cylinders which are initially charged at the time of manufacturing, carrying their own power supply that will last approximately 60 to 75 thousand miles with no fall of efficiency.

Needless to say, only five were built very little was heard of the Fascination or the Nobel Gas Plasma Engine again.

Info via Future Car

Push Chair with Deadly Gatling Guns

Valentine — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:54:24 +0000

Push Chair with Deadly Gatling Guns – a stainless steel sculpture by Chinese artist Shi Jin Sung.

Via Telegraph

Pieces of Liberty

Valentine — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:46:22 +0000

Paris, 1883

Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876

President’s Choice wants you to beef up

Valentine — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:56 +0000

Found this awful pun on the President’s Choice website.

“Our hidden charges get porked.”
“Our low mortgage rates butchered your landlord.”
“Let us meat your banking needs.”
“Don’t settle for the wurst interest rates.”

What an odd choice of a line.

Bio-concrete

Valentine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:49:30 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBR3PDPa-c

Dirty car art

Valentine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:39:01 +0000

Beautiful dirty car art by an American artist, Scott Wade.

See the rest

Lumiskin

Valentine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:19:42 +0000

Cameras co-located adjacent to projectors scan the scene and detect movement. Custom software inscribes an enclosure around the moving body, feeding it to the projector , whose luminous emissions of points and lines stretch into vectors and surfaces as they move through the light fog, conjuring an ever-shifting series of territories around the visitors.

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