Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Graphic designer Anthony Herrera took his Star Wars-loving daughter to Sequoia National Park (which looks a bit like the forest moon of Endor) telling her to keep an eye out for Ewoks.

Sadly, she didn’t see any. Later though, when dad showed her the photos, it was clear that the Ewoks had spotted her.

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The boffins at CERN are being ‘very cautious’ about all this, but it appears they’ve observed a subatomic particle traveling faster than the speed of light.

Faster than the speed of light.

‘Einstein, come up here to the front of the class where I can keep an eye on you, you fool,’ intoned Mr Neutrino.

Headline © Stephen Wright

Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern (BBC News)

Neutrino experiment sees them apparently moving faster than light (Ars Technica)

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Argentine professional surfer Aritz Aranburu with one of the four Pukas LED surfboards currently in existence.

Poor guy. He’ll never pick up chicks now.

Night Surfing With LEDs Is Even Cooler Than It Sounds (Gizmodo)

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Alphabet 2 – an intensely squeeful two and a half minutes of animated Helvetica.

If you’ve been having a less than pleasant day, prepare to be cheered up no end.

Directed by Alessandro Novelli for Italian creative firm n9ve.

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Morskoiboy, who created this wonderful hydraulic boozamajig sez:

So, if you’re interested, let me explain this contraption and the mechanism that makes it work. At the top of the machine there is a slot into which a bottle with alcohol, water, or even milk can be screwed. The essence of the art here lies in the ability of the syrups or liqueurs to tint the neutral color of the liquid. In the picture below you can see the connector itself and the regulator (which is actually an IV Rate Flow Regulator I picked up in a drugstore), which opens or closes off the air flow into the bottle and thus acts as an on/off switch.  Once it enters the machine, the liquid spreads across the fourteen tubules.

Now I Can Literally Taste The Flavour Of My Words (Morskoiboy)

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A film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason that explores that moment of uncertainty and magic that happens when you emerge from the depths of the subway system.

“Three years ago in Paris I got out of a “metro” train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face… I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion.” – Ezra Pound

Part of a continuing series. Here’s Sub City New York.

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