Tonight, while rummaging through some of my flickr photos, it dawned on me that I snapped these photos 10 years ago! All were taken on a very early Sony digital camera. Each image, at full resolution, is a whopping 72dpi and 1024 x 768. Very primitive compared to today’s cameras. The photos were taken in and around Miami, Florida.

There is a grainy dull quality that I just love. To see all the photos from this set, click here.

Imaging cruising the outback in this killer all terrain camper custom built by Unicat. It’s not really a garbage truck but it sure does resemble one. The windows are only visible when the camper is parked. Once parked the roof raises to reveal windows and to give the much needed headroom for the kitchen and loft bedroom. This is also a built in security feature. More photos are available here.

This is what is sounds like when a nightingale sings the word "mindtoss." Words can also be translated to in R2D2 language. That’s helpful!
Try it for yourself at nightingale-song.com

Here’s another cartoon that I created over stripgenerator.com. I haven’t visited the site in awhile and thought I should check back in. Stripgenerator.com makes it very easy to create your own comic strip with their pre-built cast of characters and bubbles. Click the image to see a larger version.

Also see:
Strip generator is addictive
Why the long face?

Now I know what to do with all my old vinyl record albums. See more at rabatjoie.com

This kid is good. Really, really, good. I could watch Beardy Man all day!

These flags charts are the striking work of Brazillian artist Icaro Doria. Each flag is amazing and overwhelming at the same time. Although the representation may not be 100% accurate, they certainly make a point.

Click the link below to see larger versions of the flag

Via brazilianartists.net

Would you post your secrets online? Even if it you would remain anonymous? These folks did over at postsecret.blogspot.com. It’s interesting that you have to write on a postcard and actually mail it in via snail mail. Now that takes effort!

This is an amazing video of stop frame light photography. You’ve seen this before but it’s great to see “how” it’s done.

These are truly urban collectibles. Featured above is the “Petrol Bombed Jeep.”

What says urban better than a burned out car. The graffiti backgrounds really add a touch of realism. You can almost smell the molten metal. It sort of reminds me of when I lived in Detroit. I haven’t lived there for over 15 years but I can only imagine that it hasn’t gotten any better.

See the rest here at Chinnychinchin There are five cars total in the set.

After spending five and a half hours on the tarmac in Austin Texas late last year, It was interesting to read that 2007 was one of the worst travel years on record.

Here are a few of my favorites from a USAtoday article:

• A passenger in first class on a British Airways Delhi-London flight in March awoke to discover that a corpse, upgraded from coach, had been propped in a seat in his row.”She kept slipping under the seat belt and moving about with the motion of the plane,” Paul Trinder told Britain’s Sunday Times. “When I asked what was going on, I was shocked to hear she was dead.”
• A 64-year-old man was hospitalized earlier this month after chugging a liter of vodka rather than surrendering it at a checkpoint in Germany’s Nuremberg airport.
• SkyWest airlines apologized to a passenger who said he was forced to urinate in an airsickness bag during a short flight in March because the only restroom was closed due to a malfunctioning light. The man told the Salt Lake Tribune he’d had two “really big beers. It was like I had no choice.” The pilot called police upon landing in Salt Lake, but the airline later gave the passenger a travel voucher in addition to the apology.
• In July, a flight from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Turkey turned back after the crew was unable to break up a fight involving three inebriated men. It started, said the Russian News and Information Agency, when one of the men was “given the cold shoulder” by a woman he was chatting up and hit her in the face.
• Toilets overflowed on an Amsterdam-Newark flight on Continental Airlines in June, causing passenger Collin Brock to tell a Seattle television station King 5 News, “I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours.”
• Passengers weren’t the only ones guilty of bad behavior in 2007. In April, a Northwest Airlines pilot locked himself in an airline restroom, where he had a loud, obscenity-laced conversation on his cellphone as passengers boarded his flight in Las Vegas. When confronted by a passenger, the pilot cussed at him. The flight was canceled as a result of “inappropriate language by a crewmember,” the airline said.
• A stowaway squirrel on an American Airlines flight from Tokyo to Dallas in February caused the plane to land in Honolulu. An airline spokesman told the Associated Press the pilots were worried the “varmint” might damage the plane’s wiring.
• Nepal Airlines personnel sacrificed two goats on the runway in front of a malfunctioning Boeing 757 to appease the “Hindu god of sky protection,” Reuters wire service reported in September. After the goat sacrifice, the plane took off for Hong Kong.
• Not even Vatican-backed Mistral Air was willing to appeal to a higher power when authorities confiscated holy water from pilgrims returning from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes, France. The airline’s president cited rules that ban carry-on containers holding more than 3 ounces of liquid, telling the Associated Press, “These (regulations) have to be respected.”

[Thanks JC]

I received this limited edition “Gingerman Dunny” from my wife for Christmas. It’s my favorite Dunny from Kid Robot.