Best Unbuilt Thrill Rides- The Eiffel Tower of Terror, the Cantilevered Coaster and Hurricane Simu -- should we be happy or sad that these amusement park rides are not real?
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- With Microsoft's New Interface, You Are the Joystick
- Microsoft's new Xbox 360 controller is no controller at all. Codenamed Project Natal, the interface uses a depth sensor, mikes and a lo-res camera to read your gestures.
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- Found: Wildlife From the Future
- This month's Found gives you a closer look at wildlife in the mid-22nd century. Navigating the Everglades in 2150 will be no glide through the park. Here, we envision how evolution, human tampering and happy accident could transform the subtropics.
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- Found Photoshop Contest: The Future of Athletic Gear
- This month's Found contest asks you to imagine the future of athletic gear. Today, aerodynamic outerwear is making superjocks sleeker. Safety equipment is making them less vulnerable. In 50 years, what else will tech do for the sports set?
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- Evolution of the Self-Winding Wristwatch
- The workings of the self-winding watch were inspired by a seesaw almost 100 years ago. Today's EvoTec is powered by an ultradense geared ring rotating on carbon rollers. Here's a history of the tech as the watch evolved.
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- Storyboard Podcast: Vintage Science Illustration Evolves
- A flea-market find inspires a brainy mission: Give artwork from Roy A. Gallant's '50s textbooks a 21st-century upgrade. A behind-the-scenes look at "Intelligence, Redesigned," which appears in the November issue of Wired.
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- How to Make an 'LotR' Sword
- Take a look at how the craftsmen at Weta Workshops created swords for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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- Behind the Curtain of a Customizable Theater
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The Dallas Arts District Theater was a magnificent piece of crap. Affectionately dubbed the Shed, the junky, corrugated-steel construction looked more warehouse than Koolhaas, but it was basic enough that wild-eyed visionaries would routinely rip out and rearrange seats to fit whatever the current show demanded. Then, in 2005, the Shed was torn down.
[1] Aluminum siding. The Wyly is sheathed in aluminum tubes whose cylindrical profiles deflect the infamous ... (more)
- Yesterday Third Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, Bamberg, Germany
- Yesterday Gabriel Kahane, Lincoln Center, New York
- Yesterday The Nose, Metropolitan Opera, New York
- Yesterday Dizzee Rascal/Lily Allen, O2 Arena, London
- 3 days Tamerlano, Royal Opera House, London
- 3 days Sweet Nothings, Young Vic, London
- 3 days A voice fit for any occasion
- 3 days Arts around the world
- Today Check This Out: "Pomplamoose"
- Pomplamoose, a relatively local band whose entire process of composition and exposition rely on an aural and visual montage of instrument tracks.... (more)
- Studio Visit w/ Ferris Plock & Kelly Tunstall
- We visit their quiet store front studio in the Western Addition of San Francisco.... (more)
- Stacey Rozich - Mini Interview
- Fantastic illustrative work from this 22 yr. old studying in Seattle.... (more)
- ClipODay: LSD No No
- Going to repost this because it's too good, and baseball season is around the corner.... (more)
- Free Fridayz: Super Cool Jesus
- We're far from being religious nuts, but have always thought that if people lived like Jesus, the world would be pretty rad. What's that Neutral Milk Hotel song?... (more)
- Ryan T. Christian Interview
- Alexis Mackenzie interviews our Chicago man Ryan as he's soon to unleash this incredible collection of graphite works.... (more)
- High 5s: Scary Ass Fog
- Sailing on the San Francisco Bay Feb 13&14 in the densest fog we've ever been in.... (more)
- Erin McCarty - Mini Interview
- 22 yr. old living working schooling in Portland, OR inspired by the excitement, grandeur, and terror of human life and the unknown.... (more)
- Today Wheel deal
- Despite its wobbly beginnings, the capital's giant ferris wheel has become a much-loved symbol of London. And even urban sprawl seems beautiful from the topTony Blair officially opened the London Eye on 31 December 1999. But it was only after a number of technical glitches had been sorted out that the public was finally allowed aboard in March 2000 -- 10 years ago this week. Since then, well over 30 million people have taken the vertiginous but breathtaking half-hour journey, in air-conditioned ... (more)
- Today Labour's lost loves
- If the party is to reconnect with its soul, it needs to revive the passion for culture that seems to have ended with Michael FootMichael Foot was a name I knew long before I was old enough to vote Labour. My dad's fading paperback copy of the first volume of Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan was one of the familiar volumes on the bookshelves at home. I don't think I knew he was a politician, but I did know he was a writer. Much later on, as a sixth-former, I read his collection of essays Debts o... (more)
- Today Art of disaster
- Jane Bown and Tom Hunter are among a host of celebrated photographers auctioning their works in London in aid of Samoa's tsunami appeal
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- Today Annie Leibovitz makes debt deal
- Agreement with private equity owners of Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch will pay off celebrity photographer's previous $15m loanTop photographer Annie Leibovitz has struck a deal with a private equity firm that will solve the financial crisis that threatened her with bankruptcy last year.Under the agreement, Los Angeles-based Colony Capital will become Leibovitz's sole creditor. Colony will provide Leibovitz with a loan to pay off her previous borrowings, and work with her on future projects.C... (more)
- Today Viewer or voyeur?
- Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness"To catch a death actually happening and embalm it for all time is something only cameras can do," writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others, "and pictures taken out in the field of the moment of (or just before) death are among the most celebrated and often reproduced of war photographs."Sontag goes on to describe ... (more)
- Today Cultural 'women to watch' omissions
- Fifty "women to watch" have been selected for the Cultural Leadership Programme by a panel of judges including choreographer Wayne McGregor, broadcaster Jenni Murray and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. Good to see such superb names as Kate McGrath, director of theatre producers Fuel, and Emma Stenning, executive director of the Bristol Old Vic chosen. But there are some significant omissions: I'll also be "watching" such women as Kathleen Soriano, who has taken over from Norman Rosenthal as exhibit... (more)
- Today Jenny Holzer: Nightmares in neon
- Jenny Holzer's bold new show draws on US military memos and torture techniques. Adrian Searle is left feeling paranoidA river of words runs across the floor. "I swim in her," say the 10 lanes of yellow text, streaming through the semi-dark. "I sing her a song about us." How lyrical, you think. I am looking down from an interior balcony at the Baltic in Gateshead. Below me words flow by, disappearing when they hit the base of a wall, as if sliding under it. There are too many words, too many thou... (more)
- Today Ronald Searle: a life in pictures
- A new exhibition celebrates the work of Ronald Searle as he turns 90. Steve Bell on what makes him Britain's greatest living cartoonistWhen I first wrote to Ronald Searle with the idea of an exhibition focusing on his reportage work, he was polite but sceptical, pointing out the difficulty of locating artwork that had been scattered across continents. The idea for a show at the Cartoon Museum, where I have been on the board of trustees for some years, fell into abeyance until the approach of his... (more)
- Today Wasted Lhasa Youth
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But at least they're on target. Fairground target practice on the outskirts of Lhasa.
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- Future Photo
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I'm a fan of design provocation - little projects that challenge the way we think about and see the world. Which is why Sasha Pohflepp's camera made me smile - press the button and it pulls in a photo from the internet that was taken somewhere in the world at the same time. We're at a stage in human evolution where connectivity can still bring about a sense of child like surprise and wonder - pause a moment to enjoy it because it's an experience that most of you will look back on as an era of... (more)
- Ad Literacy
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Facebook's ad platform is the Flip of advertising: smart, simple and just enough to be effective.
If you haven't already tried Facebook's advertising platform you should - because it, and services like it, are increasingly going to become part of the vocabulary and literacy of the future perfect. For better and sometimes definitely for worse it democratizes access to run a particular form of online advertising.
The platform allows anyone with a Facebook account and PayPay/credit card/... to ... (more)
- Local Local
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Every city has pockets that remain resolutely somewhere else.
The manwhabang tucked in the back of the Wilshire Gramercy Plaza Shopping Center is such a place: wall to wall to wall to wall manwha; low plasticky seating and coffee tables piled high with entire series + phone + cigarettes; a layer of cigarette smoke that at a micro-level competes with the LA smog; and Korean customers so engrossed in stories and home that no-one pays attention to the stranger in their midst. Lovely.... (more)
- Observational Transparency
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- Conflicts of Interest
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The 27 mile ride in from Dulles takes a soul-destroying 150 minutes the result I suspect of a sat-nav that decided that every possible road-works was a Point of Interest. Which might sound a bit far fetched today, until you consider that someone somewhere is drawing on ever more reams of data to serve up your your route - and someone else somewhere else is using every tool in their disposable to cajole individuals of interest past places 'of interest'.
When the company pitching you advertisi... (more)
- Corridors
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Regulators it seems, have a sense of humour - here in Meeting Room E at the Federal Reserve a gentle chuckle ripples around the room for jokes that are as soft as the cushions that no-doubt ease Bernanke cheeks at the end of another long working day. I'd love to share what I'm doing here, and as one-day events go I've written up more notes here than for any recent event I can recall, but in all honesty *you* probably wouldn't find it that interesting.
A fascination you might share however co... (more)
- #Fed
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A day in DC hosted by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors - surrounded by regulators and a smattering of financial industry folks and consumer advocacy groups. Quote of the day: "he who enrolls, controls" - if the customer is signing up through your organisation you have the control point through which to monetise other services. Most US banks are (apparently) still not asking for mobile phone information at account sign-up - given the importance of this channel for a variety of banking ser... (more)
- Nano Supermarket: Call for Speculative Products
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The Next Nature foundation calls upon designers, technologists and artists to submit speculative nanotech products for the upcoming NANO SUPERMARKET in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The supermarket will be feature debate--provoking visions on possible products expected to hit the shelves between today and 2020.
Submission deadline: May 12, 2010.
• www.nextnature.net/events/nano-supermarket
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- Fuck Google - Build your own Google Street View car
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For Transmediale 2010 members of the R&D network F.A.T. met in Berlin and produced a series of projects dedicated to the topic of the week: FUCK GOOGLE.
In addition to on-site workshops, F.A.T. Lab built a fake Google Street View car and took it out for a ride in the city of Berlin.
Watch the hilarious video, in which the fake Google car gets lost (the driver has to ask for directions), jams the traffic and in other ways attracts negative attention.
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- ShadyUrl
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Shady URL is an online tool, that can turn an innocent looking URL into a suspicious and frightening one.
For instance, the ShadyUrl engine turns www.twitter.com into http://5z8.info/illegal-guns-for-sale_f5v7f_launchexe and CNN.com into http://5z8.info/guns_u1t5v_murdervids.
You can also opt for shorter URL's, albeit making them a little less shady.
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- Reconfigured Typewriter
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Ambo Dextro is a typewriter in which the keys have been rearranged so there is no correspondence between what you think you type and what you get on the paper. Characters, words and sentences are simply turned into abstract visual text as you type.
Ambo Dextro is on display in Copenhagen at the new gallery IMO projects until March 20. The piece is made by New York based artist Tauba Auerbach. Visit her website for other fabulous pieces - her website is basically a piece in itself.
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- 'Sent Things'. An exhibition of objects sent to Paul Smith
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For the past 10-15 years, an anonymous admirer have been sending different items to fashion designer Paul Smith by post.
Items include a a surfboard, a coffee-pot, a skateboard and lots of other things. These objects were never send in a box, they simply had post stamps on them. Quite amazingly, they still arrived at Paul Smith's store in Covent Garden, London.
The objects were recently exhibited at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Designboom has put together a great post with pictures from the... (more)
- Polluter Harmony
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Polluter Harmony is an anti-polluting campaign site, shaped like an online matchmaking service for polluters, industry lobbyist and politicians in the USA.
The site is a project of PolluterWatch / Greenpeace and the aim is to draw attention to the close connections between polluters, influence peddlers and friendly public officials.
• www.polluterharmony.com... (more)
- Crowd-Jamming: Help Douglas Rushkoff come up with a new book title
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The author Douglas Rushkuff has asked readers at his website to help him come up with a title for his new book.
The book is a paperback version of "Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back" but in order to (re)publish it, Rushkuff's publisher RandomHouse asked him to retitle it.
If you feel inspired and want to help out, you can submit suggestions at Rushkuff's website. The winner will receive books, credits - and lots of community respect.
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- Tenants' Rights Flash Cards
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The Tenants' Rights Flash Cards is a non-profit product designed to make renters in New York more familiar with their rights.
The flash cards translate New York's official Tenants' Rights Guide into a simple and friendly format that covers issues from security deposits and subletting to paint and privacy.
The concept is developed and designed by Candy Chang in collaboration with the organization Tenants & Neighbors. A boxed set of 30 cards costs 10$. They are available for sale online.
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