October 2008
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Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster 722 S
Want. With 650 hp and a top speed of 220 mph, the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster 722 S ($TBA; Jan. 2009) may quite possibly be the fastest open-top production car ever built. Powered by a supercharged 5.5 liter V8 engine hand-built in the Mercedes-AMG engine shop in Affalterbach, the 722 S features a carbon fiber body, crystal antimony grey paint finish, and a soft top that can...
Uber Shelter →
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THIS IS SOOOOO AWESOME! I WANT ONE NOW! :D
Uber Shelter is an amazing concept for a portable housing unit that would help people in meeting their immediate shelter…
September 2008
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hpduong: @APNews reporting that East L.A. wants to... →
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“The Future of Health Care: The Candidates’ Plans
Daniel Kessler, Senior Fellow,...”
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House plant measures the economic wellness of Home... →
The “Spore 1.1” project is a self-sustaining ecosystem for a rubber tree plant purchased from Home Depot where the economic health of Home Depot stock value is analyzed and used to control…
Barber Shop / Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch →
Architects: Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch
Location: Rehovot, Israel
Project year: 2007-2008
The hair strand project started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what…
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Electroluminescent sheets, tapes and EL inverters →
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Video: How to Use Google RSS Reader →
Google Reader and Bloglines are probably the best web-based RSS readers. If you do not already use one, the videos below will show you how you can start and, most importantly, why you should be using…
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Note to self: download http://bit.ly/3yGmx4 Bre’s “history hacker” from Friday :D
The Living Environment of the Future - Axor Starck... →
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Wouldn’t it be wonderfully convenient if we could literally roll out of bed and into the shower? Hansgrohe has created just that in the Axor…
loft 34 →
Loft 34 is located in a late XIX century industrial building in Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires. Love the stairs and the roof deck…. Najmias Office for Architecture
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casa de retiro espiritual →
Words still fail me. Emilio Ambasz
planhaus prefab house and guest quarters →
Haus_KR35 and Haus_KR27. planhaus Below The Clouds
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‘A house within a house’, in Ōita Prefecture on Kyūshū Island. Sou Fujimoto Architects | Iwan Baan Photography Moco Loco
Plateau →
Plateau is a low, reclined two seater sofa/daybed with an upholstered seat platform supported by a steel under-frame. The aim of this project was to c..
#14378 - NeoCube ~ as seen in #14197 ~ we ordered,... →
NeoCube ~ as seen in #14197 ~ we ordered, and i can’t stop playing with it - here’s a 10% discount code: URCOOL2 (exp 10/1/08) Same as those magnetic jewelry kits but cheaper and more…
ATmega328 in the wild →
This will be interesting to a small subset of our readers, but we’re finally seeing ATmega328P chips in the wild. This is a new chip from Atmel that is nearly identical to— but with…
Koichiro Tsujikawa →
Koichiro Tsujikawa is the name behind most of Cornelius videos. He is a self-taught video artist who began to create concert visuals at the invitation of his friend Keigo Oyamada…
Media_city Seoul, round one →
Finally some time to put order in my brain and write a few lines about the 5th edition of Seoul International Media Art Biennale, aka media_city Seoul. With some 70 artists showing their…
Video: How to Use Google RSS Reader →
Google Reader and Bloglines are probably the best web-based RSS readers. If you do not already use one, the videos below will show you how you can start and, most importantly, why you should be using…
Abramovich's Girlfriend Parties with Supermodels... →
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Our friends at Kempt spotted Dasha Zhukova, Russian oligarch / Luxist mascot Roman Abramovich’s gorgeous 27-year-old girlfriend, partying with…
In 2000 when I quit my job and reoriented myself away from money and towards the gathering of skills: welding, sewing, building, growing food, many of my friends thought I was nuts. I did not make these changes with a doomy perspective. The epiphany that inspired me was one of a better world that followed a great collapse. So here we are. Some of my friends no longer think I'm nuts. The nearing end of oil and the collapse of the monetary system have set rapid change in motion. Oil had enabled us to fraction ourselves off from the natural world and build an artificial one on top of it, a poor and unsustainable mimic. Yet the natural world we started off with actually perpetuates life, it is life, needs no caretakers and naturally provides. We replaced it with a dependent machine. Without oil the machine grinds to a halt and leaves us where we started, with the only task we've ever been given, to live on earth. Our monetary system enabled greed to be the road to wealth. Wealth was not measured by generosity, creativity or love. When I look at what's dying I see things that never had life in the first place. The lifelessness of our way of living is just becoming more evident. But remember we are life, and life has always existed. And so I feel no reminiscence towards what's passing away now.
So I made my choice a few years ago. I left NYC for Truth or Consequences, NM, a tiny desert town that was never fully dependent on the national economy. Folks here have skills: welding, sewing, woodworking, canning, growing etc. The domestic economy is vibrant, in fact barter is more respected than the dollar which says so little of one's character. When a developer came here with big plans to "help us" I realized that he could not see that poverty is being redefined. While one in four American homes are empty, here in T or C we have a nearly full occupancy. He sees trailers and mobiles, "poor folks!" I see balance, living within one's means. This is wealth! This is a place that skirted through the great depression of the 1920's and 30's. Here locals grew food and stocked the supermarket for those who could not grow. That supermarket is still here.
In Truth or Consequences one must bring their work or create it here. You could say that it's a perfect place for folks who attend Burning Man. Like the desert utopian experiment T or C is pioneering, it asks you what your made of and what your skills are. You can still buy a home here for $50k, taxes average at a couple hundred bucks a year. What's here? Whatever you bring here. Like Burning Man it asks you to manifest and share what matters most to you. This place highlights my own belief that in this time the maker is the revolutionary.
We'll all find our place soon enough. As we slide deeper into what's being now called the 'greater depression' I suggest we consider this collapse is also the renaissance in disguise. If your tempted to savor what was: money, consumerism and greed, consider how little life it contained. Mystics over the ages have told us that we fell from paradise, from the garden. Religious texts speak of man's fall into idolatry. These concepts need not be filed under religious thinking. When we built a world on top of one that was given to us and we thanked ourselves for it we parted ways with the natural world and we made gods of ourselves for the doing of it. What do we have to gain from this collapse? Only paradise and the rediscovery of our humanity. And perhaps wealth will finally move to the hands of those most capable of holding it, those who know how to live in the real world a world that teaches us through our ability to live in it that the health of the individual is dependent on the health of the whole.
WatchThis video music is an abstract journey in our everyday surroundings, illustrating moments of life in a continuous way.
A trip into 4500 still photographs, a travel where urban landscapes meet pastoral scenes to create a whirlpool around the theme of the video: the subjective point of view and urban life.
This video was created with a stop motion technique, it was conceived with a very simple...
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#14372 - From Gym to Apartment...One day i'll... →
From Gym to Apartment…One day i’ll have a space like this! (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video... →
I love useful tools like this. Songreference has a free download for iTunes (Windows only for now) and Winamp called MiniTube that searches for the music video of whatever MP3 you are…
NES Controller Socket Lets You Control Your Mods... →
Parallax has just released their NES controller socket to the delights of modders everywhere. Instead of forcing them to chop up an old NES to get the 7-pin socket, Parallax has made it…
Tesla to launch electric luxury sedans →
It is no more chic to own a car that guzzles gallons of diesel and petrol. Instead, an electric car is green, cool and of course, environmentally friendly. However, most of us wouldn’t want to…
Luxury on Sale: Internet Tycoon Sells His Lavish... →
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AWESOME. Makes a fortune, then decides to “…retire from the rat race at an early age of 30”
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Having made a fortune through internet and online marketing,…
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History Hacker show pilot tonight →
[Bre Pettis], the former host of the Make podcast and member of NYCResistor has gotten his own show. Debuting tonight on the History Channel, “History Hacker” will be exploring our…