August 3, 2009 @ 7:52 am
Boey makes an art out of the traditional styrofoam coffee/drink cup by hand-drawing various illustrations onto the side of the cups. His drawings are absolutely amazing and he has amassed quite a number of them over time.
Each cup he draws is for sale and they come in a nice plastic case (see below) with a cork base and name tag. He’s also taking requests too which means that this would be a neat gift for just about anybody. Certainly something to put on the shelf and show off to others, no?
February 6, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
Speaking of deep-sea phenomenon, check out this video of a Styrofoam cup being crushed by deep-sea pressure as it is being lowered by a robotic submarine. According to the video description, the surface of Earth has an atmospheric pressure of about 14.7 pounds per square inch which allows the Styrofoam cup to stand about 4 inches tall.
But at 3000 feet under water, the pressure becomes almost 100 times that of the surface of the earth and the cup shrinks to about half the size. This video is obviously sped up and actual shrinking time may be a lot longer than 24 seconds.
