Oscar G. Torres

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Month: August 2008

  • Solar Tree Concept is catching on!

    Vivien Muller came up with a tree design to harvest the sun just like my tree concept, Helios: The Power tree. PhotonSynthese is a small little tree that can charge your gadgets just like the Helios. But thats about all it does. It is built of 52 mini PV solar cells, so it should get […]

  • Notes on the environment.

    I was hanging out in D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn yesterday. While looking around for a place to seat in the grass, I found a four leaf clover. Now, It is believed that this is a sign of good luck in many cultures, which is fine. But what about a five leaf clover? what is that? I say […]

  • No name bike locks.

    I bought two bike locks a couple of months back to protect my bike from evil thieves. One was a Kryptonite bike lock and the other was a no name lock. A week ago I tried opening the lock with the key and it would not open. After a few days of trying and trying, […]

  • Love, Sex, Aids and Condoms.

    Logged into facebook and saw a really bad condom ad. This instantly triggered a memory to really cool TV ads I saw a few years back. Now that we have youtube, we can look back into the past. Why cartoons? because we are all children trapped in grown up bodies. Girl Looking for love: Boy […]

  • Beau Black, you have to listen to him.

    Ok, so maybe its because I made the illustrations for the album cover, but I totally dig the music. Maybe its the fact that I digged the music that I made the album art? Who knows the bottom line is that its a good album. Beau Black released his new album “Meant to be” and […]

  • Helios Concept.

    This is where I am with the Helios Power Tree concept; pretty pictures illustrating what I want to do.

  • Develop Willets Point?

    I was having a donut and coffee at Washington Sq. Park this morning and while looking at two little squirrels frolicking, I saw the people above walking around making a ruckus. Maybe I’m an opportunist, but I loved to take my old car for repairs to Willets Point. I used to have a 1989 Ford […]

  • How Capital One Ruins People's Lives.

    What a Horror Story. On a sunny day in early August, just as I am beginning to get psyched up for my last year at NYU. I get a letter in the mail1311 from HESC, which is the company that helps students get their money/ loans for school. The first thing that catches my eyes […]