Alejo Malia hat unter dem Titel "Google’s World" eine klassisch wirkende Illu-Serie geschaffen, in der aus Google Maps bekannte Icons überlebensgroß in ein reales Setting verpflanzt wurden.
(via Coudal)
I read some Marx, and I liked it;
The friend of the proletariat.
I read some Marx, just to try it;
Hope Adam Smith don't mind it!
It felt so wrong,
It felt so right;
Men of the working class, unite!
I read some Marx, and I liked it;
I liked it!
Fred's Vocals - TI99/4a computer, speech synthesizer and terminal emulator ii module
Kate and Cindy's Vocals - Two HP Scanjet 3C scanners, UBunto and sjetplay written by NuGanjaTron
The Guitar, Keyboard, Cow Bell, Cymbal and Tambourine are all controlled by various types of push/pull solenoinds for a total of 23. The Solenoids are powered by four ULN2803 darlington drivers and everything is controlled by two PIC16F84A microcontrollers.
"The $37,000 piece was built with funds from Nissan, which is building a $3.7 million dealership in the city. Santa Rosa’s “1% for art” law dictates that 1% of major construction projects be devoted to public art ... Grieve and Spector collected the hundreds of bicycles they needed for the project from community donations ..." California Artists Build Obelisk Out of BicyclesWer Interesse hat findet weitere Fahrrad-Skulpturen von Mark Grieve auf seiner Webseite.
"It might be one of the most unconventional hospital wards on Earth, except that technically it’s not on Earth: It’s hundreds of meters below the surface. For decades, the tunnels of the Solotvyno Salt Mine in Ukraine have hosted subterranean convalescents. Patients with various bronchial blockages, asthma and breathing problems are sent to the mines by the Solotvyno’s allergological hospital to suck up the curative air. Kirill Kuletski’s photographs of these mines depict a cool underground outpost whose inhabitants appear to lie in eerie stasis. Patients are, in fact, undergoing speleotherapy: ambient exposure to the air of caves or mines, in this case air that’s permeated with salt ..." Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics
"Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, and PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall at the historic U.S. Exhibition in Moscow in July 1959"(via Atompunk)
1. Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket to go to the moon and back with a man. Is there any other space program which promises dramatic results in which we could win?
4. In building large boosters should we put out emphasis on nuclear, chemical or liquid fuel, or a combination of these three?