How to Build a Low-Budget Replica of Maui's Hook From Disney's 'Moana'
Posted in: UncategorizedHendo takes you through steps to build your very own Maui’s hook from Moana!..(Read…)
Hendo takes you through steps to build your very own Maui’s hook from Moana!..(Read…)
“Another lesser-known member of the brain zoo is Procrastination Salmon. He rarely makes an appearance.”..(Read…)
This week, John shares some explosive facts all about volcanoes!..(Read…)
This is the Dino Case Lunchbox designed and sold by SUCK UK.It costs $35 and looks like a t-rex head. “Just gobble up your goods and get a mouthful of crayons, food, or fossils! The strong dino case is an ideal storage solution for stomping around with, and its gripping carry handle saves all your essentials from extinction! So don’t be afraid to venture into the wild, just remember to take a bite with you!”..(Read…)
This apparatus creates stroboscopic patterns on an egg covered in photochromic paint. Such paint temporarily changes the color (from white to purple in this case) when illuminated by UV light. Here we use violet laser cannibalized from blu-ray drive and a scanning unit cannibalized from a laser printer. In the laser printer, this unit projects the printing image line by line on a rotating photoconductive drum, but here it projects various pattern line by line on the rotating egg.Those patterns are carefully designed and calculated to create an illusion of animation when captured by a camera (or illuminated using stroboscopic light). You see exactly what the camera captures—no aftereffects were used. This device is a kind of zoetrope (an old device used for animation), but it allows to change the pattern dynamically…(Read…)
Smarter Every Day – Prince Rupert’s Drops are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail. These droplets are characterized internally by very high residual stresses, which give rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer or a bullet on the bulbous end without breaking, while exhibiting explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged…(Read…)
Why Credit Cards Are A Scam..(Read…)
Go behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live’s visual effects department…(Read…)
The Simpsons, Donald Trump reviews his accomplishments from his first 100 days in office…(Read…)