Do you know what the Golden Ratio is? How about the Golden Angle?
I’ll let you click the links to find out more; or you could watch the following video to see how John Edmark uses these wonderful mathematical phenomena to create remarkable objects and animations:
Via Colossal
This Friday the Slo Mo Guys are doing what the Slo Mo Guys do.
This time they are firing pellets from an air rifle through deodorant and filming it in ultra-slow-motion.
Have you ever been to a swimming pool with diving boards?
Perhaps you’ve been to one with a full sized, 10 metre tower?
I have and I’ve sat there and wondered what it would be like to be all that way up. How would I respond? Would I have the courage to go for it?
This fascinating film watches as people do just that:
The Improv Everywhere team have been out on the streets again. This time they hosted a surprise press conference where the celebrity was anyone brave enough to stand behind the microphone.
Enjoy:
If you’ve done any cooking you’ve probably experienced a glass bowl exploding.
The Slow Mo Guys create some great footage of this happening – it happens amazingly fast:
The Ordnance Survey has analysed over 500,000 routes recorded via it’s current “digital products” and put together a fabulous set of visualisations.
They’ve also assessed the data for the most popular routes. Not surprisingly Lake District routes dominate the league table of 1km grids squares. Scafell Pike Summit (OSGB GridRef: NY2107) is at the top of the list and another 18 Lake District grids in the top 20.
On the overall map it’s also interesting to see longer routes visualised such as the Coast-to-Coast, the West Highland Way, the Pennine Way and Hadrian’s Wall (click on the image below to view the high-resolution image on Flickr)
One of the things I remember about my father-in-law was a little obsession with door bells.
He would spend much of his time in the workshop and occasionally would miss people. There were a number of contraptions created from the various parts available in the workshop. Colin Furze takes this to a whole new level:
It’s been a while for both Because it’s Friday and the Action Movie Kid, but this made me smile:
Colin Furze, in a particularly manic mood for Christmas, makes a centrifugal cooking machine for a turkey:
A TED talk as you head into the weekend. For those of you who are going to be having a weekend off, what are you going to do that will improve your emotional hygiene?
“How is it that we spend more time taking care of our teeth than we do our minds. Why is it that our physical health is so much more important to us than our psychological health?”
When my kids were younger they would take Frubes with them in their lunchboxes. Having stood on a few misplaced Frubes in my time I was quite intrigued when I saw that the Slow Mo Guys had the fun of crushing a load of Go-Gurt (which is what Frubes are known at in the USA).
The results are wonderfully messy:
In the long list of things not to try at home, the Slow Mo Guys create and film and Match Head Bomb.
It’s a smaller version of the one produced by the Mythbuster team who used 1,000,000 match heads.
Graham Chastney 