Steam of Consciousness heißt die terminatoreske Steampunk-Skulptur von Christopher Conte. Die Dampfe sieht nicht nur fantastisch aus, sondern ist auch voll funktionstüchtig. I love the smell of Esbit in the Morning!
(via Nerdcore)
LABPLATZ möchte urbane Räume anders denken und deren mögliche Nutzungen in unseren Städten zeigen. Wir haben Freunde und Nachbarn eingeladen, ihre Ideen zu teilen und mit uns für einen Tag Parkplätze umzunutzen. Und ja, wir haben die Parkgebühr bezahlt!(via Pop-Up City)
Apple has long been fortunate to have an excited fan base promoting its products and helping lure first-time buyers. But did you know that Apple used to distribute free collateral to help its biggest fans spread the message. That’s what this is: The 1997 MacAdvocate CD-ROM, full of “why Mac?” presentations, free software and games, Apple TV commercials, and more. It came out shortly after Apple acquired NeXT, but before Steve Jobs had really started remaking the company around products like the iMac or iPad ... More recently, poking around my family’s home in Chicago, I found the old-Mac-stuff stash. I booted up my sister’s blue iMac, popped in the CD, and took a bunch of screenshots.Some of this stuff is pretty amazing.(via Cult of Mac)
It is not an emotional statement. It is an examination of the choices one would face living at the poverty line. This is an ongoing project, with the first series understanding China, Japan, Nepal and Thailand. We have since expanded this project and have gone to five continents. We are not trying to compare different countries’ poverty, but rather to have a starting point to understand poverty within a country’s context. One frame. One person. One day. Everything else is left up to interpretation ...(via Junkculture)
I only select objects that have been used and discarded. My goal is for each object to transcend its origin by being integrated into an animal/ organic forms that are alive and in motion. This process of reclamation and regeneration is liberating to me as an artist.Mehr Getier gibts auf ihrer Webseite unter Motion, Displays und Scrap Metal.
Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS. I removed noise and edited some shots in photoshop. Compiled and arranged in Sony Vegas.
"This one is made in my friends garden. It was her mom idea to make from skate swing. This is a great example of upcycling, and one with a nice rustic look to boot. It seems we’ve been seeing more and more repurposed skateboards lately."(via Make)
This para-functional invitation – is a result of three years of research based on function paradoxes within design objects and designed spaces. One of the most important element in the project is human’s inherent wish to find one’s own space, to have a secret, to differ, to find such place from which one could watch others but could stay unseen at the same time. The other aspect is a will to be higher, to be raised over the ground – this is the instinct of safety. The idea was inspired from the author’s enjoyment to spend time on roofs and from admiration of old roofs since childhood ...
Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications ( email, web, word etc ). Key sounds include: letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return and scroll up and down.
An Pfingsten 1983 besuchte eine NASA-Delegation Köln/Bonn mit dem Space Shuttle „Enterprise“. Mehr als 300.000 Besucher beobachteten die Landung bzw. besichtigten die Raumfähre, die auf den Rücken einer Boeing 747 montiert war. Die Landebahn des Flughafens Köln/Bonn gehörte seitdem zu den weltweit rund 60 Notlandeplätzen des wiederverwendbaren Shuttles. Diese benötigten solche Notlandebahnen für außerplanmäßige Landungen.(via Nerdcore)
The project rrrrrrrroll is made by a group of friends from Japan. They were all thinking how cool it would be to produce something while just hanging out together when they started to make their amazing animated pictures. The small GIFs are showing people or objects turning around their own axis. Most of the pictures have been produced on a short trip where the group of friends spent half the time shooting and just had fun being together. The reason the gifs are rolling is because they wanted to make the animation as minimal as possible and also because they wanted to make something that expresses flow of time.(via iGNANT)