Friday Ephemera
8-metre section of wall rotates for art, causes terrible draught. A snip at £450,000. // Repairing brickwork with Lego. // Jeff Koons’ topiary puppy. // Robot wildlife. I like the owl. // Robotic legs help paralysed walk. // Wrapping asteroids in space. (h/t, The Thin Man.) // How to get rid of things. Stains, smells, mental problems. // Market research for panhandlers. (h/t, Clazy.) // Signs from the Tokyo metro. (h/t, Coudal.) // Sixties’ Batman, rendered in typography. // Build your own Batmobile. // Al Dente. A short film about eating children. // Augmenting video with photographs. // The Touch of Evil opening. (h/t, Anna.) // Bathing suits of the 1900s. // What the Olympic diver saw. // Turntime. // Steve Reich: Sextet, 5th movement. // User interfaces of note. (h/t, Things.) // More musical toys. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Ms Julie London.
£450,000? For that?!
I think the, er, sculpture was the result of public and private funding. But for that kind of cash, taxpayers should be allowed to hunt the artist with air rifles and a pack of ill-tempered lions.
Hell, I’d pay to see that.
Lol. Can I bring my own lions?
Just be grateful the rotating wall wasn’t judged a traffic hazard, or that £450,000 would be down the drain:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3628769.Scary_spiders_banished_from_A27_roundabout/
The view from the diving platform is amazing.