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Boy Creates Real Life Angry Birds Game Using A Pumpkin Cannon

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Oct 312011

A young boy from England took his gaming obsession to a whole new level when he created his own real-life “Angry Birds” game. In the game of Angry Birds, the player shoots birds at pigs using a slingshot.

Sam Beards, a 12 year old from England, used to spend countless hours each day playing the infamous computer/cell phone game. After Sam discovered an old pumpkin cannon his father built for a previous Halloween, he asked his father, Dorian Beards, to help him build an Angry Birds game, utilizing the pumpkin cannon.

Together they painted various pumpkins to look like the birds and pigs from Angry Birds. They used old barrels and straw bales to build the playing field.

This real life version of Angry Birds is already attracting tons of visitors. Sam’s siblings, Jessica, Ben and Davy, are in charge of painting the pumpkins, while Sam fires the compressed air cannon which can shoot the pumpkins up to 1500feet.

Sam’s mother, Fiona, reckons that they might resurrect this game on a yearly basis around Halloween.

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Photo from www.telegraph.co.uk

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Natsumi Hayashi – Tokyo’s Levitating Girl

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Aug 152011

Natsumi Hayashi became an internet sensation at the end of 2010 after she started posting photos of herself “levitating”.

According to Hayashi, it was an English idiom that inspired her to start on her levitation journey – “To have ones feet firmly planted on the ground”. Hayashi doesn’t consider herself a practical person, and decided to not have her feet firmly on the ground.

She started uploading more and more photos of herself levitating in varies places all around Tokyo, and the photography and scenarios are getting more impressive by the day. Her facial expressions and body coordination looks extremely natural in her photos. Hayashi admits that people gets edgy and frightened, sometimes whispering that she’s gone mad, when she has to jump hundreds of times to get that perfect photo.

Man converts small barge into a U-Boat replica

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Aug 012011

They say the only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

For his 50th birthday, Richard Williams’ dad bought him a barge, so that he could start slowing down and enjoy life. But the moment that Williams laid eyes on it, his mind started thinking about ways to really make it a unique boat.

Williams initially wanted to transform the barge into The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, but when he finished the boat and started shopping for the correct paint, he found that the specialist yellow paint would cost him $6,500, which was tons more than what he had bargained for. In the end, he settled for black. When the boat was painted, his wife Laurel commented that the “submarine” boat looks a lot like a German U-boat. Williams interest in naval history caused him to do more research, and before long he started remodelling his boat to look more like an actual mini U-boat.

Williams and his wife modelled the boat and decor from a movie called Das Boot. They’ve completed the boat with a torpedo bay and fake torpedoes, launch tubes, officers’ quarters, a control room and a periscope utilizing CCTV equipment.

Today, Williams and his wife offer free tours to the public on their boat.

Couple builds U-boat replica

Leaf Art cuttings by Lorenzo Duran

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Jul 192011

We’ve seen various interesting art forms here on AroundTheInterwebs, but Lorenzo Duran’s art must be the most painstakingly difficult to make.

Duran was inspired by the age old paper-cutting artwork of Chinese sculptors, and decided to try the techniques on leaves, creating highly detailed pieces.

Before starting a project, Duran will put his design on paper, before “stencilling” the design to the leaf by cutting small sections out of it. Duran admits that it took him ages to perfect his technique, and most of his earlier work ended up in the dustbin. Before cutting the leaves, he’ll process them by washing, drying and pressing them.

Man creates exact replica of the house in Disney’s movie “Up”

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Jul 182011

Even though home prices might have dropped considerably lately, there is one house whose value is sure to go “up”

Blair Bangerter, co-owner of Bangerter Homes, recently started building an exact replica of the house featured in the Disney movie “Up”. The house has four bedrooms, two family rooms and 3 bathrooms. Bangerter has painstakingly remodelled every part of the house to match the details he could find in the movie. The house is currently in the market for $400 000.

Creating this cartoon home proved to be extremely difficult. Certain support structures had to be custom made for the house. The design and building team had great difficulties recreating the exact pitch of the roof, the windows and stairs.