Stalking Venus

This has got to be the best rush you could ever get, drugs notwithstanding. Check it out. Especially some of the acrobatics! Wow!

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
(Via BoingBoing)

Everyone’s bound to have seen some of these ‘light paintings’ floating around on the net. It’s basically long-exposure digital photographs with people using LED lights, light arrays and laser pointers to create interesting effects.
French blog, Fubiz has some of the best ones I’ve seen so far, created by light-artists Jan Wöllert and Jörd Miedza. From [...]

Interesting interview with the artist here, via NOTCOT.

Finally someone has made inroads into slightly more comfortable aeroplane seating.
Thompson Solutions, a U.S. based company has created seats that give you an extra 2 inches of leg room, as well as a wall to lean against for each seat. By the looks of it, you won’t be fighting for the armrest either (although the [...]

I’ve been working my ass off today, so no time for anything except…
Pic of the day 17/04/2008

Johnny Lee has probably changed the face of the video gaming industry. It won’t be very long before we see some amazing commercial applications of his ideas.
Taking a $40 Wii remote control and a few bits and pieces bought for under $10 from Radio Shack, Lee turns his Wii-mote into a fancy 3D headtracking [...]

 
I think that a lot of people who rate eXistenZ as a bad movie, haven’t noticed its subtleties. I’ve found that it’s an incredibly layered and detailed film, that poses as budget sci-fi. A post at io9 made me decide to write some of my thoughts on this down. I’ve been meaning to set down [...]