"Club doors become stale during the daytime ... It is absolutely fascinating to consider that behind those doors, one of Berlins most essential traits – partying – sparks up every night. Behind each of those doors, an individual community arises to celebrate whatever there is to celebrate. During the day, the rest of the city is shut out ..." Finding Berlin: Day and Night
"These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place (like Tjentište, Kozara and Kadinjača), or where concentration camps stood (like Jasenovac and Niš). They were designed by different sculptors (Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, to name a few) and architects (Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković...), conveying powerful visual impact to show the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic. In the 1980s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year, especially young pioneers for their "patriotic education." After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost ..."
“Tell me, what is love? … Love is first widening my eyes a little bit and quickening my breathing a little and warming my skin and touching … And so on, exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.”
"This was done simply to discover if I could do it. I went though a stage where my goal was to remove as much material from an egg shell as possible while still retaining the shape and image of the egg. Carving an egg shell like this is great fun and watching people's reactions when they seem something like this is even more fascinating."(via Make)
"It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, "The Time Machine," a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower ..."Popular Mechanics: The World's Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
"This is the 1958 box for Lego set 700/5.1 It shows three children so absorbed in play that they couldn’t even bother to look up at the camera. The children weren’t models but Lego’s managing director Godtfred Kirk Christiansen’s daughters Hanne (l) (who tragically died in an auto accident in 1968) and Gunhild (now Gunhild Johansen) as well as his son Kjeld (future owner of the company and heir to the Lego fortune) ..." Lego – A Natural History of Package Design(via Coudal)
"So wie der Geigerzähler das Unsichtbare hörbar macht, macht Godzilla das Unsichtbare sichtbar: das atomare Trauma Japans. Godzilla ist die zum Monster gewordene Angst Japans vor der Atom-Katastrophe ... Doch nicht nur in Japan beschäftigt sich die Popkultur mit dem Phänomen Atomkatastrophe, auch in den USA setzt man sich mit dieser unheimlich mächtigen, aber eben auch unheimlich gefährlichen Kraft auseinander. In diesem Generator soll es um die Frage gehen, wie die Popkultur die Atomgefahr verarbeitet hat. Wie hat sich die Darstellung der atomaren Gefahr mit der Zeit verändert? Gibt es Unterschiede zwischen Japan, den USA und dem Rest der Welt? Was haben uns Kunst und Kultur, Filme, Comics und Computerspiele über den nuklearen Tod zu sagen?"Downloadlink ( 39 Minuten / 36MB)
"Lerne mit diesem Quartett-Spiel Wissenswertes über Deutschlands Atomkraftwerke! Spielend weißt Du anschliessend u.a. über Großunfälle, Zwischenlager und Grüne Wiesen Bescheid. An welchen Atomreaktoren stürzte schon mal in unmittelbarer Nähe ein Kampfjet ab? Wo gelangten unbemerkt Greenpeace-Aktivisten auf einen Reaktorblock? Wieviel Restlaufzeit besitzen die leistungsstärksten Reaktoren? Wähle u.a. aus den Kategorien Mega-Oldtimer, Mega-Störfälle, Mega-Leistung oder Mega-Restlaufzeit Dein Lieblingsblatt. Aus fünf verschiedenen Werten wählst Du Deinen Trumpf."(via rebel:art)
"For the most part Soviet architecture and design is remembered for its heavy block buildings and functionally Spartan designs ... A notable exception to this is in the transportation sector ... While many of us are aware of elaborate splendor of the Moscow underground, it is easy to overlook the phenomenon of the common roadside bus stop as an example of soviet art and design letting loose und becoming a little weird and crazy ..."(via Junkculture)
"In a unique collaboration with the European Space Agency, and the Expedition 26/27 crew of the International Space Station, we have created a new film of what Gagarin first witnessed fifty years ago. By matching the orbital path of the Space Station, as closely as possible, to that of Gagarin's Vostok 1 spaceship and filming the same vistas of the Earth through the new giant cupola window, astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and documentary film maker Christopher Riley, have captured a new digital high definition view of the Earth below, half a century after Gagarin first witnessed it. Weaving these new views together with historic, recordings of Gagarin) from the time, (subtitled in English) and an original score by composer Philip Sheppard, we have created a spellbinding film to share with people around the world on this historic anniversary ..."Und weil bloggen via Telefon mir gerade etwas zu mühsam wird, alles Weitere später ...
"... [junge] Frauen, die kurze Röcke und kurzes Haar trugen, Jazz hörten und sich über die Regeln des „guten Benehmens“ selbstbewusst hinwegsetzten. Die Flapper galten in ihrer Zeit als keck und frech, weil sie sich schminkten, hochprozentigen Alkohol tranken und rauchten ... Zum Lebensstil der Flapper gehörten nächtliche Besuche von Jazzclubs, in denen sie provokativ tanzten, ebenso wie das Rauchen von Zigaretten durch lange Halter und Verabredungen mit Männern. Sie fuhren Fahrrad und Automobil. Sie tranken öffentlich alkoholische Getränke, was in der Zeit der Prohibition besonders aufsässig erschien. Sexuelle Intimität ohne Geschlechtsverkehr ... gewann an Verbreitung ..."Und wie in Subkulturen so üblich hatten auch die Flapper ihre Szenesprache: Das Flapper-ABC gibts bei book flaps, hier eine kleine Auswahl:
Out on Parole—A person who has been divorced.(via Clockworker)
Petting Pantry—Movie.
Petting Party—A party devoted to hugging.
Police Dog—Young man to whom one is engaged.
Potato—A young man shy of brains.
Rock of Ages—Any woman over 30 years of age.
Rug Hopper—Young man who never takes a girl out. A parlor hound.
Stark radioaktiv kontaminiertes Wasser sickert ungehindert in den Pazifik. Doch keine Panik, beschwichtigt der Reaktorbetreiber Tepco: "Wer trinkt schon Meerwasser?"(via DrLiMa)
