Art You Might Hate: Pinkroad by Limee Young + U Joo

Many thanks to Colossal for pointing me in the direction of this power couple. Husband and wife duo, Limee Young and U Joo are a pretty cool team. I've been studying a lot on kinetic art, and sculpture specifically, Limee Young's name kept popping up.

Imagine my surprise when I ventured to their site and noticed some pretty amazing paintings, illustrations and video of their meticulous works.

I've always been interested in the construction of kinetic sculpture. I use to build robots for crying out loud! But this? This is a little over my head. The whole idea of kinetic sculpture is reliant on either wind energy, a standalone electricity source, or an artist having an active hand in how the kinetic energy is stored. Like being on a seesaw, but an amazingly beautiful and complex machine is on the other end of the plank.

So in these videos, you are seeing machines function because of liquid, weight and equal amounts of pushing and pulling on joints. Depending on how far a joint moves a microprocessor on a circuit board uses the energy generated to tell another joint to move. Or in the above video's case, a processor is telling a joint to move back, while the kinetic energy stored in the joints are telling it to move forward. This is as best as I can describe the very little I understand.

I thought I was getting closer to understanding kinetic art, but this work is proof I'm no where near comprehension. It's truly amazing work. After the jump is more stills, illustrations and videos. Thanks for the inspiration U_Joo and Lim!

 

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Scientist Build An Artificial Brain That Is The Size Of A Cat's

Although the hype around my pet fandom project, the LHC, may have died down. There are plenty of cool things happening in science.

Earlier today, I explained [to the best of my abilities] to my coworkers that scientists were able to build the largest artificial brain which happens to be the size of a cat's brain. Naturally we joked about how artificial cat brains could eventually enslave us all and relegate all of our puny shopping needs to Fancy Feast and Catnip.

Now that I have had time to sit down and think about the ramifications of such a feat, you really have to wonder, "Is it worth it?"

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EnglishRussia - Soviet Trade System

Hmm...how odd.

It really is amazing isn't it?  Well...this photo probably doesn't do it much justice.  Click the linky and be amazed by the photos of a time that should never be forgotten.

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NSFW? - Shenis

There was a part of me that wanted to NOT post this. There was a part of me that was so intriguged as to why [and how] such an invention would come about. Guess which part won?

Remember, if you can't watch fake penis moldings being used as an outdoors urination device for women, then you probably should not open this at your place of work.

Not unless your work place is cool then by all means tell your coworkers to gather 'round.