Weird Universe Archive

November 2013

November 30, 2013

Double Robotics

I think all WUvies need to get these to communicate with each other.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 30, 2013 - Comments (0)
Category: Robots

Everything’s Coming Up Profits





This looks like the perfect Xmas gift to make any WU-vie happy.


Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 30, 2013 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Music, Twentieth Century

November 29, 2013

Tiny People

The Johansens are a father-son team of photographers who specialize in using the figurines from a model railroad set to create bizarre scenes. Their website is tinypeoplebiglaughs.com.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 29, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Photography and Photographers

By Chevy From Cuba to USA

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With the recent migrant tragedies at sea around the globe, we must always recall one of the great refugee success stories: turning an old Detroit truck into an ocean-going vessel.

More photos here.

Full story here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 29, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Engineering and Construction, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, North America, Twenty-first Century, Trucks

November 28, 2013

Metro the Painting Horse

Read more about Metro at NPR.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 28, 2013 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Art

November 27, 2013

The Odon Device

Jorge Odon was an Argentinian car mechanic who, one day, watched a video on YouTube that showed a trick for removing a cork that's stuck inside a wine bottle. Even though he had no medical training at all, the video inspired him to create a device to help deliver babies who are stuck inside the birth canal. And apparently the device (he's called it the Odon Device) actually works — enough so that an American medical technology firm has agreed to manufacture it. [Yahoo!]

I can't seem to remember the last brilliant idea I had while watching YouTube videos.



Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 27, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Inventions, Medicine

Happy Thanksgiving

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The tables are turned, as carnivorous turkeys get ready to chow down on an Indian child.

Have a swell holiday!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2013 - Comments (7)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Holidays, Native Americans

November 26, 2013

WHO R8X

WHO R8X, how would you read that on a license plate? One Missouri woman felt it was degrading to drive around with the plate which she read as 'whore times eight'. She found it even more insulting with the state motto above it 'The show me state'. Miossouri DMV disagreed and said she would have to pay for a replacement plate until a local TV station got involved. I wonder what her new plate says.

Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2013 - Comments (11)
Category: Goofs and Screw-ups

It felt like i knew you

I'll let artist George Ferrandi describe her ongoing "project" in her own words:

I ride the NYC subway trains, usually in the evening when the seats are full. I focus on the shape of the space between the person sitting next to me and myself. I attempt to mentally and emotionally re-sculpt that space. In my mind, I reshape it — from the stiff and guarded space between strangers to the soft and yielding space between friends. I direct all my energy to this space between us. When the space palpably changes, and I completely feel like the stranger sitting next to me is my friend, I rest my head on that person's shoulder...

I'm guessing that guys who grope women's buttocks on crowded trains probably go through the same kind of mental wind-up.

Anyway, Ferrandi has a friend sitting opposite record the results of her space re-shaping.



Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2013 - Comments (5)
Category: Art

Something





Cyriak usually offers a new video at Xmas. Till then, a couple of his less famous older ones.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 26, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Body Modifications, Horror, Surrealism

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