My playing style really grew from the fact that I couldn’t afford a distortion pedal. I had to try to squeeze those sounds out of my guitar. The first real work I did was in my bedroom. I added pickups, because I didn’t like the sound of the originals. I couldn’t afford a router — I didn’t even know what a router was — so I started hammering away with a screwdriver. That didn’t work at all. Chunks of wood flew off and there was sawdust flying all over the place. But I was on a mission. I knew what I wanted and I just kept at it until I finally got there — via Popular Mechanics
Residential Tower Construction originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Don’t tell me you don’t remember it. Because it sure as heckfire remembers you. The B and B? From Groundhog Day? Bing. The house that weatherman Phil Connors keeps waking up in without hot water, to his consternation? Bing again. The house is on the market. Yes, you too can sleep in the master suite and set your clock radio to déjà vu for the price of $785,000.
The house, located in the northwest Chicago suburb of Woodstock, is a 540.23m² Victorian with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Currently, the property is an actual bed and breakfast called the Royal Victorian Manor — via Neatorama
Bench Go Round from George Zisiadis on Vimeo
The Bench Go Round is interactive social furniture that creates playful connection between strangers.
Commissioned by the Market Street Prototyping Festival, San Francisco, CA. April 2015.
Design + Fabrication by Rachel McConnell
It may be summer in the northern hemisphere, but in New Zealand, it’s almost winter — the perfect time for a pair of Red Panda cubs to debut at the Hamilton Zoo — via ZooBorns
If you can’t afford a mid-century house for yourself, why not treat some of our animal friends to a stay in one with these Bug and Bird motels from the Thoughtful Gardener.
As you may know bug hotels
are a way of encouraging all the pollinator and decomposer insects you want in a healthy garden. It’s a sign of its retro style that this one has been named a bug motel
. And, as well as doing good, it’s hard not to admire the wooden slanted roof and door
of the motel echoing the forms of mid-century architecture.
In addition to the motel, you can also buy a slightly more conventional — but no less stylish — bird box. It’s also made from wood, with a slanted roof, and using the same bright colours.
You can order the bird box for £28.99, while the bug motel is £33.99. Order them from Flamingo Gifts — via Retro To Go
Turns from Breakwater Studios Ltd. on Vimeo
Turns is a portrait of master woodturner Steven Kennard
Touch Pianist is a web toy that let’s you play famous piano pieces on your computer keyboard. No musical skill needed! The notes are there in visual form; all you have to do is hit any keys to make them play. It’s a little like Guitar Hero, except the controls don’t matter, you set the tempo, and you can’t lose
. The only skill you need is to keep the tempo going in a way that makes it sound pleasant to you. The default screen is Moonlight Sonata
, but you can pull down other choices — via Neatorama
Taronga Western Plains Zoo is thrilled to announce the arrival of a male Black Rhino calf, born in the very early hours of Monday, 20 April — via ZooBorns
#189 — Charged Up
Posted on May 5th because there are no rules. I’m an adult.
Find me everywhere else: Instagram Twitter Reddit — via Ryan Selvy
Mowgli, a 6-week-old endangered clouded leopard cub, enjoys his lunch outside before meeting some of his adoring fans. Mowgli has been receiving round-the-clock care from the veterinary team at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo since his birth on 7 March — via Youtube
Furniture designer Judson Beaumont (Straight Line Design) has created a series of shelves was inspired by the iconic butterfly roofs seen on desert homes in Palm Springs. The whimsical shelves have an equally whimsical name: Walled Estates
These miniature 1960s-style dioramas hang neatly on your wall to give your personal objects their very own home — literally.
Featuring sweet little details like faux wood wall panelling and stone fireplaces, the wall shelves play with your sense of scale. When you place your human-sized accessories inside, they quickly become part of the little houses’ interiors. A phone in the little living room becomes a big-screen TV for imaginary occupants. Sunglasses on the roof become a bizarre, futuristic architectural detail — via Dornob
Fears from Nata Metlukh on Vimeo
Are fears our friends or do they just worsen people’s existence?
A graduation film made at Vancouver Film School (2015), 108 days of production. Directed and animated by Nata Metlukh
Red Hot Poker Aloe (Aloe aculeata) originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Weekdays and difficulties bear filmings — via Igor Shpilenok
The Labyrinth Table was created to show how a well-known object like a table can be given an extra dimension by creating a small universe inside of it. The labyrinth consist of several walls under a sheet of diamond glass, and inside of it there are six characteristic figures that can be moved around by handles underneath it.
Most people possibly remember from their childhood how they used to play with miniature figures in small universe similar to the real world. And these nostalgic feelings are the ones that the table should generate in people minds and encourage them to explore and go deeper into the story of the labyrinth. The table was built up with a main core in steel to make it strong enough to last for decades and was later on covered up with 5 mm. of massive maple wood. A nice thing about this detail is that the handles stick to all the surfaces on the table because of the magnetism — via Youtube
The mystery behind radio signals that have baffled scientists at Australia’s most famous radio telescope for 17 years has finally been solved.
The signals’ source? A microwave oven in the kitchen at the Parkes observatory used by staff members to heat up their lunch.
Simon Johnston, head of astrophysics at the CSIRO, the national science agency, said astronomers first detected the signals, called perytons, in 1998. The signals were reasonably local, say within 5km of the telescope
.
Originally researchers assumed the signals — which appeared only once or twice a year — were coming from the atmosphere, possibly linked to lightning strikes.
Then on 1 January this year they installed a new receiver which monitored interference, and detected strong signals at 2.4 GHz, the signature of a microwave oven.
Immediate testing of the facility microwave oven did not show up with perytons. Until, that is, they opened the oven door before it had finished heating. If you set it to heat and pull it open to have a look, it generates interference,
Johnston said.
Astronomers generally operate the telescope remotely and do not reside at Parkes. There were, however, a number of operational staff members who maintained the facility and used the microwave oven to heat their coffee or lunch.
Johnston said the suspicious perytons
were only detected during the daytime and as they now knew, not during the evening when all the staff had finished their shift.
The signals were rare because the interference only occurred when the telescope was pointed in the direction of the microwave oven. And “when you only find a few it’s hard to pin them down”, Johnston said.
The findings have been reported in a scientific paper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Youtube
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