Jul 31
Jul 31
Star Wars Parkour – Jedi Free Running
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Jedi free runners are Jeremy Carpenter and Sinjin Cooper…(Read…)
Jul 31
Smartwatch lets you control it using simple gestures
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Hot Watch smartwatch is a device that allows you to control some of its functions via simple..(Read…)
Jul 31
William Trubridge – Freediver
Posted in: UncategorizedWilliam Trubridge dives deep on a breathtaking journey into the big blue sea while by land..(Read…)
Jul 31
Baby Stroller from Å KODA car AD
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It is much taller than any conventional baby carriage, at two meters high and has wing mirrors,..(Read…)
Jul 31
In Which John Hodgman Deftly Compares Corn on the Cob, Typewriters, and 3D Printers
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We first discovered the genius that is John Hodgman in late 2005, when we spent Christmas reading aloud to our family (and anyone else who would list) the lists of “hobo facts” and wacky state mottoes (e.g., Nebraska: “Birthplace of Unicameral Government!”) in The Areas of My Expertise. That inspired volume, the first in his since triumphantly completed trilogy of Complete World Knowledge, would go on to catalyze Hodgman’s transformation from a literary agent-turned-magazine writer to global renown as an author of fake trivia books, The Daily Show‘s resident deranged millionaire, judge, and most recently, star of his own Netflix special. In addition to the highly enertaining Judge John Hodgman Pocast, he adjudicates disputes (in 100 words or less) in a wee column of The New York Times Magazine, and his latest is a doozy:
Sophia writes: My father eats corn horizontally. I eat it in a circular motion. I believe that his way of eating is inefficient. Could you please issue an injunction stating that the proper way to eat corn is in a circular motion?
Your father eats corn that way because, as I do, he remembers what a typewriter is. It’s hard for us to see a roller-food and not proceed left to right before returning to the next line. Sometimes I even hear a bell ring. You dismantle your corn like a 3-D printer in reverse: vertical stack by vertical stack. Your argument from efficiency is specious, so I find in your father’s favor: I would rather look like Hemingway while eating than like some kind of mechanized chipmunk any day.
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Jul 31
16-Bit Iron Man 3
Posted in: UncategorizedIt started as an art project, but quickly grew into a full blown homage to Iron Man 3, retro-games,..(Read…)
Jul 31
Architecture & Design in the Movies
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I recently saw the Tom Cruise flick Oblivion, which people apparently hated; but one thing I really dug was the shot you see above. Director Joseph Kosinski, depicting New York City in the year 2017, gives us our first glimpse of the completed One World Trade Center. The movie was released in April of this year, but as we saw earlier, in reality it wasn’t even until May that the spire was raised. And just this morning, I looked up to see the real deal still has glasswork to be done, and still has a construction elevator running up its side. Oblivion was the first convincing depiction I’d seen of the completed structure.
Kosinksi is an architect by training, and until recently was still teaching 3D modeling as an adjunct assistant prof at Columbia, so it’s no surprise that he took the time to get One WTC right. (Amusingly, had he swung the camera just a bit to the left in the shot above, we’d see Gehry’s ugly 8 Spruce Street; thankfully the framing precludes it, and I wonder if it was intentional.) But even directors with no architectural background are in a prime position to educate, or at least familiarize, the general public with different styles of architecture. With that in mind Architizer’s Zachary Edelson has written “A Brief History Of Modern Architecture Through Movies,” where he ticks off a list of flicks with such iconic backdrops that any layperson who’s seen them can get an instant frame of reference for what Art Deco, Art Nouveau or Modernism looks like.
By necessity Nelson’s list is far from complete, but it makes me wonder what films you guys would use to describe not just architecture, but entire design movements to laypeople. I first saw Blade Runner, with Deckard chilling out in the Ennis House, before I even knew who Frank Lloyd Wright was.
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