Month: August 2007

David Alvarez, 19, of Leavenworth, Washington used more than 2,000 Post-it Notes to create a 10-foot image of Ray Charles. Alvarez, and art student at Washington’s Wenatchee Valley College, says the idea came to him while playing with a mosaic effect in Photoshop. The finished piece took three months. From CNN:

“It’s something so simple. You can still see the flaps sticking out on some of them,” he said. “Naturally the Post-it Note just sort of flaps out…”

Originally, the Post-it Notes stayed in this unique format only by virtue of their manufactured stickiness, which does not hold up as well as glue, Alvarez found. When he displayed his work at (an area art) show, he monitored the project for 14 hours, continuously replacing notes that were falling off.

The aspiring art teacher now uses glue to hold the notes in place.

Link (via Neatorama)

Previously on BB:
• Jaguar covered in stickie notes Link

Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

Auburn University researchers analyzed a slew of carbonated soft drink brands to measure the actual caffeine content. They report their data on more than 100 beverages in the current issue of the Journal of Food Science. The table below is excerpted from a summary of the research published by Science News.

From the Science News article:

Although colas have a reputation for their nerve-jolting caffeine, citrus-flavored drinks actually offered substantially more of the stimulant. Diet and regular colas typically delivered 30 to 34 milligrams of caffeine per 12-ounce (0.35-liter) serving, whereas regular and diet citrus drinks provided an average of 50 and 55 mg, respectively. The soft drinks richest in caffeine in the entire survey were both citrus beverages: Vault Zero at 74 mg per serving and Diet SunDrop at 71.5 mg…

Because few soft drink labels report how much caffeine a beverage contains, the researchers recommend that manufacturers start reporting — and posting — these values prominently so that consumers can look for drinks that will offer the amount of caffeine they seek.

Link

Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

Mark Frauenfelder:
Miss South Carolina from the Miss Teen USA on the subject of maps.

(Via Mt. Holly Mayor’s Office)

Originally posted by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing

David Pescovitz:
Ulysse Nardin’s Tellurium J. Kepler watch rotates the Earth as it would be seen above the North Pole. The timepiece was named in honor of Johannes Kepler, a 17th century astronomer who formulated the Laws of Planetary Motion. Only 99 of the timepieces were made and they are priced at more than $100,000. From the Ulysse Nardin product page:

A flexible spring bends from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn to reveal the part of the Earth lit by the Sun and to indicate the time and place of sunrise and sunset. The moon rotates around the Earth.

The dragon hand indicates the eclipses of the sun and the moon. The perpetual calendar completes one turn each year.

Link (via Thoughts From The Sidelines)

Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

David Pescovitz:

On Flickr, a scan of a an Apple-1 print ad from July 1976. (Click the image for the entire ad.) From the description:

A fast (1 kilobaud) cassette interface is available and includes a tape of Apple Basic. And … Yes, Folks. Apple Basic is Free!

Link

Previously on BB:

• Steve Wozniak interviewed by Pesco Link

• Apple I clones for sale Link
• Apple I replicas built to order Link
• Woz on the Apple ][ Link

Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing