NYC’s Vincent Laforet managed to get his hands on the canon Canon 5D Mark II
and shot a stunning video. If you get excited by camera equipment, check it out. There’s also a behind the scenes video that you shouldn’t miss.

Custom Lasercut Sunglasses, originally uploaded by bre pettis.

Sometimes I have to make something, ANYTHING. So I dug out some Optik Acrylic and lasercut it into a shape I like. Then I held it over a flaming torch until it became flexible and I bent it just right.

Want a piece of the action? If you’ve got a lasercutter, here is the svg file to make your own. (Released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.)

If you don’t have a lasercutter and you want to buy a pair off me, I’ll make you a pair. Just give me a shout and I’ll hook you up.

Besides photos of the moon, the Natural History Museum has a lot of dioramas filled with animals that have been taxidermied.

Check out this slideshow of photos from my Natural History Museum Adventure or go browse the set on flickr and tell me which photos you like and which ones creep you out.

At one point, looking at a herd of taxidermied elephants from Asia, I realized that around 1920, a group of guys had gone to China, shot a bunch of elephants and transported them back to the states. Elephants are not small and this is in the days before semi-trucks. How did they do it? It boggles the mind.

I love the photos from the expedition to the moon at the Natural History Museum here in NYC. If you ever get a chance to go there, plan to spend at least half an hour or an hour just staring at these beautiful huge prints around the second floor of the part of the museum with the planetarium in the middle of it.

Looking at the photos, I could imagine feelings of intense excitement, utter loneliness and a fear of death far away from home.

The landscape is so grey.

I love the moon buggy. The tires are especially wonderful.

You can tell that these suits were zig-zag stitched and that the velcro is failing on some of the pockets! Space boots are awesome! More photos in my Man on the Moon flickr set.

While walking around town with my friend Martin, we ran into two gentlemen, Josh and David Trawin who were getting ready to go on a balloon walk.

Update! Here is a photo slideshow of their walk!

They have a foamcore frame and have set up their camera with the CDMACHDK hack to take a photo every 5 seconds. They are having a good day. Until they post today’s photos, you’ll have to check out their last adventure!

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Now I have the information I need to make a fake me with realistic dental records and put them in the basement like in that movie swordfish.

Dental technology has gotten pretty impressive. It’s been a few years since I’ve been to the dentist and it’s really cool that there are digital xray sensors available.