Things of note for Saturday, May 22, 2010

I learned today that if I were to dig a hole straight through the planet, I would end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Where would you wind up? Find out at the link below. Just for the record, if your located in most places in the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico, you’ll be in the middle of the same ocean with me. Sorry for the spoiler.

http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/

I learned how much of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area could be destroyed by various sizes of nuclear bombs and the big-ass asteroid that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs at the below website. Please make note that the detonations were centered directly over the Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth, Texas. No particular reason why, it just seemed darkly humorous to me. I love that place!

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20 and http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16

I actually preferred the weapon selection device better at node 16 because it is a drop-down menu. The weapon selector at node 20 is a slider bar and seems harder to pick the exact weapon of choice. Node 20 has more goodies, though, like thermal damage, pressure damage, and fallout damage that would occur from the selected weapon of choice. Also, if you click on the map marker in node 20’s map, it tells you the different degrees of damage/pain/effect the explosion would cause. The damage done by a comparable anti-dinosaur meteor is simply frightening. We’d all be screwed in the U.S.

This site had the above Google Mashup map links and actually had some other very cool articles to read and ponder. I spent a good hour or so here and at the suggested links. Finding this site was a result of “Stumbling”, which is a very good way to waste lots of time (and even days) and destroy productivity. I have, however, found several good things that had benefit at a later date from Stumbling….oh yeah…the link to the fun site: http://www.nerdmodo.com/2009/07/10-cool-google-maps-mashups/  I’ve decided to follow this site’s RSS feed. :)

Oh, Hell no….The next site to catch my eye has enough links on the left of the webpage to keep a small army busy for weeks. Utter bliss! :)  I was perusing the article on castles when I happened to look at all the goodies on the right of the article. Unfortunately for me, there was a link to old, obsolete, and novelty maps. Again…pure bliss! I have always loved looking at maps and learning about the areas represented in the maps. I think I was mesmerized for about 45 minutes on that link alone…and there are a disturbingly large number of links to explore. Mans gotta do what a man’s gotta do…http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/10/castles-that-will-inspire-and-haunt-you.html  This will be another site I’ll probably follow. Dammit….

One link I ran across was rather disturbing. http://www.marty.com.au/sci-fi-gallery/art-sculpture/3-clone-alone-sci-fi-alien-art.html This guy has made a sculpture that is disturbingly similar to one of my projects for the Cutting Edge Haunted House.

Martin Dolan’s work above. My work below.

I need to get into the set to take some closer pics, but the comparison between our work is spooky. Some of the things he did to his “blue baby” I could see myself or anybody on our set designing crew doing. It was freakishly close to set design we have done in the past.

Hell, I emailed the artist, Martin Dolan, and complimented him on the work and told him how close it was to my own strange work. I am curious to see if he has any interest in looking at the pictures of my project I had taken during the build. I found the pictures in a 2008 folder, so that’s obviously when I had made mine.

My idea broadly sprang from the “Blue Children” in one of our cemetery sets from the 90’s. I think it was a set we called the “Dep Set” for reasons lost to me. I’m curious about how Martin came up with his idea and the thought process he had while designing the piece.

I think he is in Australia, if my small knowledge of website addresses is correct. There is a .au at what would normally be the end of his web address….yes…It’s called an internet TLD and .au is Australia. Just looked it up on Wiki. Anyhoo, I’m hoping to hear back from him and hoping he won’t try and claim I plagiarized him or some such nonsense. That would be terrible and completely uncool.

You should look at the creations at this website: http://www.llonovoy.com/english.html Most of the artwork made me feel very uneasy since the pieces are rather nightmarish. Very unsettling and spooky work.

Gads….I surfed for almost 10 hours straight today. I only stopped to poop and pee a couple of times. This site was partially to blame:  http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/08/jet-engines-on-trucks-for-fun-and.html   and of course, the other sites I mentioned above. It’s time to quit and let my brain sleep.

This has pretty much been my schedule since I’ve been recuperating from the Achilles tendon blow out on January 28th, 2010. I’ve done a few other oddball things, but not much else. How do I get paid for doing this, I wonder? Hmmmmmm…I could be rich and considered an “over achiever” of sorts. I’m liking that daydream! Later!

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