Man on Wire
Two years before I was born Phillipe Petit walked a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center. My father looked up from his coffee through his kitchen window to see the silhouette of a man suspended between the towers. In New York tonight is the premiere of the movie, Man on Wire, about Phillipe Petit and his unbelievable 45 minutes spent in the void.
Well, yes and no. Of course the very first step, as you can imagine, was a giant first step. But a few moments during those crossings I remember perfectly. But that first step was a giant moment for me: I was finally stepping in to my dream. So I remember that vividly. And at some point I stopped on the wire and I sat down, and I looked down all the way – a 1/4 mile to the empty plaza below – and I stopped and saw the crowd gathering around that plaza. Yes, I remember very well many, many moments in those 45 minutes.
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Party Dress
Party Dress is a music pavilion worn exclusively by five women seamlessly injecting architecture into fashion by using the body as space.
God’s President
Yes, we can vote for George W. Bush in 2008. We have the right to write in the name of our chosen candidate, regardless of whether or not he is officially on the ballot.
We know that George Bush was God’s Candidate in 2000. We know that George Bush was God’s candidate again in 2004. And George Bush has been God’s president for the last 8 years.
Trust in God and vote your faith. Keep America safe. Write-in George W. Bush for President in 2008.
Talk To Me
The Talk to Me pin. As claimed on the website IT RENDERS INTERNET DATING OBSOLETE.
Some have called the TTMTM Pin an innovative breakthrough, the ultimate “icebreaker” without the constant fumbling clichés. You don’t even have to be wearing one, for once you see a TTMTM Pin or wear one you are empowered in any environment day or night.
McCain uses internet. You can too!
didden village
MVRDV has created an addition to a loft building in Rotterdam for an expanding family. NYT slide show. More pictures
largest drawing
Work from Jim Denevan
one of his more recent pieces has been dubbed the ‘largest freehand drawing in the world’ and it certainly is big at 3 miles (4.8km) across! the circular work took 100 (160km) miles / eight days of walking to complete and was washed away in a rainstorm the next week.
via Designboom
Lobster Nikes
Strangely they don’t have a split toe design. Would be even more lobster like.
Carrots
square watermelons
Grow your own square watermelons just like they have in Japan. There is a lesson to be learned here.
candy bar quiz
Test your candy bar knowledge. Post your scores in the comments. Winner gets to go to the corner store and buy their favorite candy bar. And eat it.
city of shadows
Alexey Titarenko uses simple long exposures to create slightly creepy, blurred human masses, using the movements of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg. See his City of Shadows project for more.
Autobahn Pirates
Pick-pocketing a truck at 60mph in the dark-
In the nighttime darkness, with their lights off, the men drove up behind a transport truck.
Once in place, one man climbed onto the hood of his own car, then used a bolt cutter to break a lock on the trailer door before heaving it open and climbing inside. He then handed boxes of electronics back to a second man on the car hood, who loaded them into the thieves’ vehicle, Radecke said.
A second car blocked the left lane during the operation to prevent other cars from pulling too close, he said.
Because both cars had their headlights off, Radecke said, the truck driver never noticed he was being robbed.
Younger than John McCain
As Presidential candidate McCain’s age, 72 on election day, seems to be a persistent topic in the media, it might be a good idea for you to know how old he is in comparison to other stuff that most of us think is pretty old.
The following things are younger than Mr. McCain
- Golden Gate bridge
- Plutonium
- FM radio
- Keith Richards
more at thingsyoungerthanmccain.com
treadmill kittehs
Olinda
Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.
Borrowing from the social aspects of the web (how people consume, share and react to media on the internet) as well as the interchangeability of data via APIs (the radio has a hardware API) and the understanding of a strong product ecosystem (iPod) Olinda is poised to open a multitude of discussions. As consumer electronics get smarts we can look forward to some of the interactions we expect from the web and highly specialized devices to move down to our simpler gadgets, like radios.
Olinda was created by Shultze & Webb for BBC Audio & Music Interactive R&D.
Paulville, where like minded people come together
The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty. The first of many, I am sure, Paulvilles is located in West Texas.
The first Paulville based community purchace of land has happened! This land is in western texas a short distance from Dell City, Texas. The land is a 50 acre chunk of land, it is flat and level and ready to be developed. We have had a couple members that went to check out the area and took many photos of the area.
great hair at the polygamous cult
What is not explained in any of the news reports so far is what membership of a polygamous cult could possibly offer its female members. Yet pictures showing the women and girls being bussed from the sect’s headquarters have shed light on at least one unlikely advantage - great hair. As the women were taken into custody and investigators started searching their home, they each sported elegant quiffs, complicated plaits or multiple buns; hair so intricately woven that one hairdresser has called it “classic couture”.
from the Guardian
most photographed barn in america
To follow up Deron’s post on views of earth from space I submit a most photographed thing/place on earth.
Moulton Barn (seen above) is discussed in Don DeLillo’s White Noise as Jack and Murray travel to visit The Most Photographed Barn in America
There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras; some had tripods, telephoto lenses, filter kits. A man in a booth sold postcards and slides — pictures of the barn taken from the elevated spot.
“No one sees the barn,” he said finally.
A long silence followed.
“Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.”
pixel pour
Physical-Digital hybrids are a continuing fascination of mine. Pixel pour is only a hybrid in the visual sense but it asks the right questions and presents the ideas of a mixed reality in terms of adding digital to the “real” world rather than trying to virtualise it.
A wonderful instance of hybrid realities. Here, of course, the pixels are materialized through some medium that is not electronic and the hybridity is more about a semantic cross-over from pixel worlds of electronic games to the real world.
markedly vulgar, transcends the limits of simple bad taste and offends the sensibility of viewers
BANNED! Tom Ford eyewear ads as reported in WWD
Italy’s advertising watchdog, the Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline (IAP), has banned Tom Ford Eyewear ads from national media. A close-up photo of a woman wearing the brand’s sunglasses with a man’s finger in her mouth was deemed by IAP to be “markedly vulgar” and, as such, it “transcends the limits of simple bad taste and offends the sensibility” of viewers.
via search & destroy
LOLvant Garde
LOLvant Garde combines contemporary art and LOLs. This one is for Mary
oh shiit
oh shit!
The single serving site ohshiit.com tracks the google results for various permutations of the popular phase “oh shit”.
Clusterflock’s contribution - oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit - 50 (currently zero ohshiit/google results for that one)