Tag: Glass
Opposite Arrow Optical Illusion
The Opposite Arrow Optical Illusion.
A very simple but effective optical illusion that anyone can do.
Opposite Arrow Optical Illusion
Anyone can perform this simple optical illusion with a glass tumbler, a sheet of paper and some water. We never realized that when objects are viewed through water in a glass, they are mirrored. You learn something new every day.
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Played On A Wine Glass
Antonio Vivaldi’s Spring performed on a special musical wine glass by running a person’s finger along the top of the glass.
Enjoy!
“The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi was performed on a special musical wine glass by running a person’s finger along the top of the glass and putting together footage of all the different notes into one video. The Major Scale Musical Wine Glasses (set of 2) that were used in the video are available to purchase at Uncommon Goods.
How To Of The Day: How To Pour The Perfect Glass of Water
This is how you do it!
In his ongoing series Bryce Chartwell offers his not inconsiderable advice on how to pour the perfect glass of water. Contrary to popular opinion (something Bryce is never unduly influenced by) this is actually harder than it may first appear. Bryce walks the viewer through the left-handed “De Fluge” technique, first developed in the spas of Europe in the late 19th century.
Jewel of the Universe
49-year-old Chris Chamberlain, an IT worker from London, England, spent the last two years of his life piecing together the “Jewel of the Universe”, a giant mosaic of Earth made with 330,000 hand-cut pieces of stained glass, each smaller than a fingernail. Now, he’s trying to sell his magnificent artwork for £250,000 ($380,000).
Chris Chamberlain has always had a thing for the arts, but he can’t paint or draw to save his life. But what he can do is cut glass into tiny little pieces, so he decided to use this skill to create his very own impressive work of art. The Jewel of the Universe project started over two years ago, in the artist’s garage. Using NASA photos of Earth, he set out to create a unique mosaic of our planet, from glass and precious stones. It took Chamberlain six months just to cut the glass into little pieces, and another 21 months to set them in just the right place on a 3.18m x 2.18m sheet of perspex, using a pair of tweezers. During this long painstaking process, the English computer programmer even had to train himself to become ambidextrous, in order to avoid repetitive strain injury. Practically every hour of his free time was spent on this incredible mosaic, and Chris admits his wife didn’t see very much of him during these last two years.
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