Big Chonky Glitter Grinning Ornament

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Smells like a phone call that should have been an email

Archive of Lost Objects:

  • They are life-sized replicas of old electronics.

  • They aren't funny, except in the sense that it is funny to decorate your home with obsolete electronics, while also underscoring their impermanence by setting them on fire.

  • They are unscented, even though it would have been funny if we had made them smell like melting plastic.

From the people who brought you the NFT-scented candle.

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Designs for a creature that can walk down a pipe.

rich_lord:

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Deep Nightmares

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Animatronics That Didn't Make It Into The Thing Remake

Many people were frustrated with the special effects being largely CG on the final cut. What a lot of people don't know is that practical versions for almost all the effects were made and many even shot first! However, many were replaced entirely by CG for the release.



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Lunar escape velocity

Panicked staff chase after giant moon as it escapes from festival

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Feedback Attract Mode

I added an Attract Mode to the Feedback TV. When it was just sitting there idle with no one standing in front of it, it would tend to just go solid blue or purple with no motion. So I stuck an LED strip on the bottom running a chase pattern to keep stirring the pot.

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The Light Herder

This is glorious:

The unique thing about this is that it uses HD video, and not one, but two monitors, plus a sheet of beam splitter glass to create a reflection that gets folded back in to the image.

It's a delicate art to operate the device, an interplay between the camera and monitors, the position of the monitors, and the monitor control dials (hue, saturation, brightness and contrast). Doing controlled feedback like this requires these control dials, but most HD TVs and monitors don't have analog knobs like old CRT TVs did, making it difficult to create controlled feedback in HD. [...]

All the images in this video are created by video feedback only - no computers are involved. The upper and lower monitors both display the same thing - the image from the camera, which is looking at the upper monitor. This creates a video feedback loop (much like a microphone next to a speaker creates an audio feedback loop).


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Ferrofluid Speaker

This is glorious. I once had a jar of ferrofluid in Lavaite form-factor, but it was difficult to get it to do anything interesting, and completely static without hands-on.

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Abandoned Butt Box

"What's the weirdest thing you've found in an abandoned building? I'll go first, I found a box with a butt in it."

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