Friday, October 27, 2006

Flying Masterpiece

This masterpiece was made by Ralph Helmick and Stu Schechter in Melvin Price Federal Courthouse, East St. Louis, Illinois. The sculpture is made from 3,000 hanging pieces and symbolizing the dialog between people where the truth is born.






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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

99 wolves crash into glass

From the "cool art" dep't:
It's 99 life-sized wolves, made over a period of six months out of sheepskin, straw, and other such materials. They crash into a thick pane of glass and tumble in confusion onto the floor. The lead animals are the ones crashing, but clearly the pack is headed for the smackdown as well.
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It's called "Head On", one part of a three-part installation by Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, made as a commissioned piece for the Deutsche Bank Collection in Berlin.




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Monday, August 28, 2006

Cash machine presented $750 millions for the lucky russian guy

Software failure generated 20 billions rubles (near $750 000) on the account of lucky russian guy in Novosibirsk.

This thing happened in Russia, with a luck guy Ievgeniy Borodin. He decided to charge a little cash from his account in a cash machine in downtown of Novosibirsk. After the operation the money amount on his account became 20 millions of rubles (near $750 000).

But Borodin was a honest person! He went to the bank a showed a check. Bank employee didn’t believe him. He decided to prove the failure. On the next day, after several transactions, the money amount on his account became 20 billions of rubles (near $750 000 000)!!! He went to the bank again, and showed the check. This time bank employee was a little bit clever. The bank had disconnected all cash machines and fixed the failure. Ievgeniy Borodin was granted a premium for his honest deed.
http://cnews.ru