Mauritian Sunset by Sandy Smith
Artist Sandy Smith has thought of a wonderful way to recycle old PCs and monitors. This piece of art is named Mauritian Sunset for the Great Artspectations Exhibit at Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh.
“I started this body of work in January 2005 using a pile of broken and obsolete computer equipment I had salvaged from skips and offices. I set about making these work again, then used them as building blocks to create various architectural structures.”
The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie
Originally a part of the ThinkGeek’s April Fool’s prank stock, when the company has traditionally showcased fake products that are completely over-the-top and absurd, the 8-bit Tie received such an overwhelming response that the company actually decided to produce the product for real.
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Macheads: The Movie
When I was 12, I used to collect pictures of Apple Computers that I had found in my dad’s computer magazines and keep them in a diary dedicated only to Apple products. When I was 14, I went to the Kid’s Computer Club, a place where computer science was teached to kids. Of course, they were exclusively using Apple computers. At home, we had only PCs because as my father kept telling me, “Macs are way too expensive for what they are — let me build you a PC with spare parts. I cried. But some years later, when I got my first student job, I used the paycheck to buy a Mac, and I never looked back. Yes, I always thought I was a bit crazy. But there are people that are more nuts than I am, and Macheads is a movie about them.
The Legend Of Zelda Pixel Blocks
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, in cooperation with The King of Games, is producing fabulous Zelda collectibles that will make any kid who grew up with Link drop a tear of joy. Yeah, I am one of these (grown up) kids. Hyrule rules!
The Million Dollar Home Page
It took a 21-year-old a few minutes to come up with an idea which has made him more than one million dollars in four months.With $999,000 banked so far, Alex recalls his thought process at the time. He says:
“I wrote the title to spark the creativity and then wrote down the attributes the idea needed. It had to be simple to set up and understand. It was selling pixels, the dots which make up a computer screen, as advertising space, costing a dollar per dot. The minimum purchase was $100 for a 10×10 pixel square to hold the buyer’s logo or design. Clicking on that space takes readers to the buyer’s website.”
Alex spent £50 on buying the domain name (milliondollarhomepage.com) and a basic web-hosting package. He designed the site himself but it began as a blank page. His last 1,000 pixels will be sold on Wednesday on eBay, in a clever and lucrative twist to the story.