Gendy Alimurung

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Flight 1549: Homage to Bad-Luck Geese

Gendy Alimurung
In their nightmares, the passengers of Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's U.S. Airways flight 1549 undoubtedly see geese. Captain Sully safely ditched the plane in the Hudson River one year ago following its collision with a migratory flock of geese minutes after takeoff from New York's La Guardia Airport. The passengers......
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Digitize Your Graffiti: The Choreography of Tagging

Gendy Alimurung
Street graffiti eventually gets cleaned up and sandblasted away. Sure, you can take pictures of the piece when it's done, but there's nothing like watching a piece as it is being written. Now there is software that captures the essence of the tag in motion. Artist/programmer Evan Roth designed a......
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Lady Vader: What if Darth Was a Woman?

Gendy Alimurung
Why couldn't the most powerful, most feared Jedi in the universe have been a woman? Yes, we've been on a Star Wars kick here on Style Council lately. It got me thinking about that world and about how Darth Vader, a.k.a. Anakin Skywalker, spawned two children and one was a......
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FungiFest 2010: Mushroom Mayhem at Machine Project

Gendy Alimurung
If you're looking for something fun(gi) ((Oh god, did I actually make that joke?!)) to do this coming Saturday night, you could do worse than the launch of Machine Project's almost-weeklong FungiFest 2010. Event starts at 8 p.m. with a mushroom collecting tutorial, some mushroom-themed film shorts, mushroom gelato from......
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World's Coolest Hamster House: MTV Cribs, Rodent Edition

Gendy Alimurung
When is your hamster fetish out of control? When your hamster has a better crib than you do. When Apartment Therapy blogs about your rodent's abode--not yours. A girl named Martina made her hamster Sonic a cage out of an IKEA Expedit bookcase. I'm no expert, but this has got......
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Bodhi Tree Bookstore Is Closing: Bad News for Buddhists

Gendy Alimurung
Bad news for Buddhists and others seeking enlightenment: the Bodhi Tree Bookstore is closing. Owners Phil Thompson and Stan Madson informed their staff last Wednesday that the cozy Melrose Avenue shop, a nationally renowned and much beloved spiritual center, will be shutting its doors in a year's time. After some......