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This is a wonderful idea. Wooden pallets are available in every corner of the world and correspondingly inexpensive. Often they are scrapped. Sure the wood isn’t usually top quality but as internal structure for adobe it need only be srong, not pretty.
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Some inspired glass designs each one of the seven deadly sins. Here is a design sketch
and my all time favorite sin Sloth after the jump. I love the Greed glass…
Another nice photo viewer based around spherical image walls or ‘planets’ I guess. Check it out anyway.
linkage: tag galaxy
A clever experiment in Typography which uses the sun to slowly reveal poetry in the shade created by a pavilion with angled perforations. The artist Jiyeon Song explores the concept of Slow Media.
‘Today, people cannot pause even for a few minutes. If a web site takes longer than a few seconds to load in the browser, we move on to another site. Designer and engineers, and scientists put a lot of effort in making things faster. However, our life is finite. Nature has its own speed. Humans cannot control it: we live underneath its providence. Slowness has its own value.
linkage: light pavilion poetry via vaux.net
Girlfriend Team Fortress 2 is a completely entertaining video montage from a guy who recorded his girlfriends first foray into the world of online first person shooters.
Basically I recorded my girlfriend (who I would not call a gamer) playing Team Fortress 2 for the first time.
It’s quiet an interesting experiment, to see how her skills improve as she gets over the initial learning curve and how she doesn’t have any of the ground work that most gamers have in knowing the general rule sets and principles of games.
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Here’s a nice musical animation similar to some of the other Japanese drumming animation you may have seen previously.
linkage: tokyo plastic animation
We’ve probably all seen this pic before – but the addition of such a simple caption and I find myself constantly breaking out into uncontrollable snickering
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I see these ‘amazing facilities’ photos and can only think what great sites they would be for a party…
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William Shatner’s version of the I am Canadian speech. And for the record – Ginsberg is his real doctor.
Stumbled across this nice high resolution viper pic. Here’s a sample – click the linkage to see full size
linkage: super hd viper (battlestar g)
Similar to the Dreamquilt project Infinate OZ takes you on a journey to fantastic worlds
linkage: infinite oz
Ever got fed up with the slow speed of the neighbors wifi you are ‘borrowing’ for your Torrent download server? Well not to worry, Slurpr is here to save your day. Now you can steal ALL your neighbors wifi!
linkage: geektechnique