Jan 14
Jan 14
Ralph Lauren does not mess around when it comes to cars
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Wowsers–you thought Cameron’s unseen dad in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off had the crazy rare-Ferrari set-up, in that Mies-van-der-Rohe-esque house in the woods? Nah, that guy was a rank amateur. You need to click over to this Vanity Fair slideshow shot by Todd Eberle and peep the large shots of Ralph Lauren’s personal garage/museum, loaded up with rare Ferraris, Bugattis, Benzes, you name it.
The attendant article indicates that these are “60 or so of the rarest, most valuable cars in the world.” The cool part is that they don’t just sit there like museum pieces–Lauren reportedly drives all of them.
Jan 14
Happy X Birthday Wikipedia!
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Image courtesy of Will Clayton
This Saturday, January 15th, Wikipedia will be turning 10 years old! To celebrate the founding of the project, NYU’s ITP program is hosting a conference in collaboration with Wikimedia New York City, Free Culture @ NYU and the Free Culture Alliance NYC. Described as a “modified unconference,” the format includes a dedicated plenary session, 5-minute lightning talks on wiki-topics and free culture, and open space discussions. Sign up here or see more information on the Wikipedia Day 10th Birthday Bash NYC page.
Learn more about birthday parties held around the world at Wikipedia 10 or create your own event to add to the list!
Jan 14
Geekin’ out with Giken: Civic design solutions Part 2, Bicycle Parking
Posted in: UncategorizedGiken Engineering Group’s Eco-Cycle urban bicycle parking solution follows the same Five Construction Principles–Environmental Protection, Safety, Speed, Economy and Aesthetics–that they applied to the design of their carpark system. But the Eco-Cycle naturally takes up less space, requiring only a 7-meter-diameter footprint to store 144 bicycles. It’s faster, too, at an average of just 10 seconds per storage/retrieval operation.
It’s been in operation for at least two years in Japan, but is recently seeing a resurgence of interest on the blog rounds. We love how you just slap a card against the reader to get your bike:
Danny Choo has more complete footage of the entire procedure:
Jan 14
Fingerprints Art
Posted in: fingerprintsUn travail original sur les empreintes digitales en grand format de la part de l’artiste new-yorkais Kevin Van Aelst grâce aux objets et aux élements du quotidien. Une série insolite “Fingerprints Art” et une mise en scène à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Jan 14
Geekin’ out with Giken: Civic design solutions Part 1, Carparks
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Giken Engineering Group is the name of a Japanese company that deals with thorny construction problems: How to build a highway in the side of a mountain, how to reduce railway renovation accidents, how to build tidal defenses, where to park your car or bicycle in a crowded city.
The 43-year-old company puts a lot of thought and even philosophy into their solutions–their Five Construction Principles are Environmental Protection, Safety, Speed, Economy and Aesthetics–resulting in some serious out-of-the-box thinking. As an example let’s look at their attitude towards parking a car in a city, where Giken has presented themselves with an enormous challenge: They correctly conclude that parking a car “can not be considered a cultural activity which enriches our lives,” yet they seek to make it so through clever design.
Criteria for Car Parking Systems (edited)
Door to Door Location. “Door to door” transportation is the most effective way of travel, so the ideal location of car parking is in the very place to be visited. However, places where people gather are normally occupied by existing facilities aboveground. Moreover these objective places are spread over populated areas. In short, an ideal “door to door” car parking needs to be medium sized (50 – 70 cars) and installed or built directly underneath every place to be visited.
Hit the jump for more explanation and photos.
Jan 14
Ask Unclutterer: Handling other people’s clutter in your space
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Reader Deborah e-mailed the following to Ask Unclutterer:
Deborah: My sister moved across the country eight years ago and left boxes of things at my house because she wasn’t sure if she’d stay out west. They had been stored in an extra bedroom that we weren’t using at the time. Since then, we’ve had two kids and really could use the space. I’ve asked my sister to clean out the room, and she does go through a few boxes when she visits, but basically there are boxes stacked to the ceiling. How do I get this space back in my home without causing a problem between the two of us? If I had the extra money I would just ship the boxes. I’m not working so the cost is prohibitive to me.
Every now and then, I’ll have time in my schedule to respond to readers as e-mals arrive in my inbox. A couple weeks ago, one of those days popped up on the schedule, so I sent Deborah back the following response:
Unclutterer: Explain to her exactly what you just explained to me. Then, tell her that by X date if the boxes aren’t gone, you’ll start going through them for her. You’ll sell the more expensive and not-very-sentimental items on Craigslist, and use that money to ship to her the few boxes of what you believe to be very sentimental stuff (photographs, favorite childhood stuffed animal).
Hopefully, she’ll come and go through the stuff. If she doesn’t, though, you’ll have a way out from under her stuff. I’m sure going through her stuff won’t be fun, but at least you’ll be able to reclaim your space.
Then, to my wonderful surprise, a week later Deborah e-mailed me again:
Deborah: Thank you so much! I have a pile of boxes to ship in my car, and three bags of shredded documents to drop at recycling. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders!
Clutter can put a lot of strain on relationships, so I am so glad to know that these two women worked things out after eight years. I hope other readers in similar situations can find a way to have comparable conversations to reduce stress and clutter in their homes.
Thank you, Deborah, for e-mailing your question and for letting me know how things turned out in the end.
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Jan 14
Friday Photo: Marina Abramovic Is on Fire
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(Photos: Diane Bondareff)
Don’t you dare call it a dessert. Artist Marina Abramovic has transformed the good ‘ol Baked Alaska into “a multisensory culinary intervention” now thrilling more adventurous diners at New York’s Park Avenue, the AvroKO-designed restaurant that overhauls everything from its menu and wine list to its interiors and name with the seasons. Executive chef Kevin Lasko (at far left) collaborated on the food experience, “Volcano Flambé,” which includes an exclusive take-away collection of Abramovic’s Spirit Cooking Menus, a recorded reading by the artist guiding diners (who use the headphones and digital audio device placed at their seats in wintry bleached-wood boxes) through the experience of the dish through sound, and the decadent dessert itself, set ablaze as it is served. We hear that the fiery treat is a journey through sensory contrasts: hot and cold, soft and hard, dark and light, sweet and savory. The project came about thanks to Creative Time, and the organization hopes that restaurant patrons have an appetite for more artist-chef collaborations. Janine Antoni, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and Michael Rakowitz will debut their delicious works, also whipped up with Lasko, later this year. Meanwhile, Abramovic’s Volcano Flambé will be available at Park Avenue Winter through March 20. And the best part? You don’t even have to stare her down for the last bite.
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