Mar 23
Mar 23
Urban Cloud Farming
Posted in: UncategorizedThis 2 part micro-farming design brings urban dwellers clean, fresh homegrown produce. The first part, called Nimbus, is a personal hydroponic system with an integrated pump and reservoir that send water and nutrients to your plants growing in two porcelain pots. The second, called Biome, is a greenhouse designed for home windows that installs just like an air conditioning unit. Together, they’re a great way to exercise your green thumb even in a small apartment!
Designer: Bradley Ferrada
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Mar 23
Colourful Three Sided Shelves
Posted in: UncategorizedVoici un set d’étagères métalliques imaginé par le designer basé à Stockholm, Kyuhyung Cho. Composées de trois faces, les pièces de tailles différentes peuvent s’empiler pour former diverses combinaisons. Cho a conçu ces « corners » comme une solution efficace pour l’organisation de l’encombrement des petits objets.
Mar 23
A Penthouse at the Top of a Ski Jump in Norway
Posted in: UncategorizedL’entreprise AirBnB a commissionné un projet d’architecture surprenant : construire une penthouse au coeur d’une station historique de saut à ski à Oslo, en Norvège. Un vrai travail de rénovation a été effectué pour réaliser cet appartement planté à une hauteur de 60 mètres, pensé dans le cadre d’un concours pour faire gagner des nuits dans ce lieu atypique.
Mar 23
Bluetooth Wireless Crossfader
Posted in: UncategorizedMixfader est le premier cross-fader connecté fourni avec une application de DJ dédiée qui dématérialise les platines classiques sur n’importe quel smartphone et tablette. N’importe qui peut désormais mélanger et scratcher partout et à tout moment. Proposé par DJIT, Mixfader a été conçu par des ingénieurs du son en collaboration avec platinistes professionnels.
Mar 23
First and Final Famous Movie Frames
Posted in: UncategorizedJacob T. Swinney, dont nous avons déjà parlé, a réuni en une vidéo les premiers et derniers plans de films célèbres. Sur une musique de Thomas Newman – « Any Other Name », ce montage permet de se rendre compte de la circularité de certains films comme Melancholia, Gone Girl ou Somewhere et de la beauté et la cohérence d’autres films comme Fight Club, Black Swan ou The Master.
Films used (in order of appearance):
The Tree of Life 00:00
The Master 00:09
Brokeback Mountain 00:15
No Country for Old Men 00:23
Her 00:27
Blue Valentine 00:30
Birdman 00:34
Black Swan 00:41
Gone Girl 00:47
Kill Bill Vol. 2 00:53
Punch-Drunk Love 00:59
Silver Linings Playbook 01:06
Taxi Driver 01:11
Shutter Island 01:20
Children of Men 01:27
We Need to Talk About Kevin 01:33
Funny Games (2007) 01:41
Fight Club 01:47
12 Years a Slave 01:54
There Will be Blood 01:59
The Godfather Part II 02:05
Shame 02:10
Never Let Me Go 02:17
The Road 02:21
Hunger 02:27
Raging Bull 02:31
Cabaret 02:36
Before Sunrise 02:42
Nebraska 02:47
Frank 02:54
Cast Away 03:01
Somewhere 03:06
Melancholia 03:11
Morvern Callar 03:18
Take this Waltz 03:21
Buried 03:25
Lord of War 03:32
Cape Fear 03:38
12 Monkeys 03:45
The World According to Garp 03:50
Saving Private Ryan 03:57
Poetry 04:02
Solaris (1972) 04:05
Dr. Strangelove 04:11
The Astronaut Farmer 04:16
The Piano 04:21
Inception 04:26
Boyhood 04:31
Whiplash 04:37
Cloud Atlas 04:43
Under the Skin 04:47
2001: A Space Odyssey 04:51
Gravity 04:57
The Searchers 05:03
The Usual Suspects 05:23
Mar 23
Tham & Videgård designs wooden residential towers for Stockholm waterfront
Posted in: UncategorizedSwedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a row of high-rise apartment blocks constructed from timber that will tower over an old harbour in Stockholm.
The four 20-storey apartment blocks proposed for the site by Stockholm-based Tham & Videgård Arkitekter will be constructed and finished entirely in Swedish pine, according to the firm.
If approved, the Wooden Highrise apartments will be set along the waterfront in Loudden, a former transport harbour on the island of Djurgården.
“The buildings are constructed entirely in one material, Swedish solid wood, from the frame to the facade, finishes and windows,” said a statement from the architects.
The towers will be connected by a three-storey base and will collectively provide 240 new homes for the city, as well as quayside restaurants, cafes and indoor gardens.
Tham & Videgård were commissioned to design the 24,700-square-metre scheme by Folkhem – a local developer specialising in the construction of solid timber buildings – as part of a wider regeneration of the industrial area.
“Through consistent use of a renewable material like wood, the result is a sustainable, well-insulated and robust house structure with good potential to perform well over time, and minimise the total energy consumption,” said the architects.
Each apartment will feature large windows that overlook a sea inlet in the centre of the city, while enclosed gardens at the top of each of the four blocks will provide residents with communal social space. Apartments will also feature private terraces partially concealed by slatted wooden screens that will provide a degree of privacy and shade.
The towers will be spaced evenly along the block and set at varying angles, to give each residence views towards the sea and to let sunlight reach the promenade and buildings behind.
The connecting low-rise block that zigzags along the quayside will accommodate the angle of the towers and create triangular patios planted with trees.
“The high-rise towers are interconnected by a three-storey base that supports a clear street section,” said the architects. “Its folded plan shapes exterior spaces for meetings and outdoor activities in wind-sheltered and sunny locations.”
The roof of the lower connecting building will be planted with flowering sedum to provide drainage for rain water, while solar panels will be placed on top of the four towers to offset some of the building’s energy requirements.
A start date for construction of the project has not yet been confirmed.
Scandinavian firm CF Møller revealed plans to build the world’s tallest Wooden Skyscraper in 2013. The 34-storey tower block was the winner of a housing design competition for Stockholm and is planned for completion in 2023.
“The main reason it hasn’t been done before is that concrete and steel have a big part of the market,” CF Møller architect Ola Jonsson told Dezeen. “But now the building industry has started taking responsibility for the environment.”
“We have a long history of building wooden structures in Sweden,” he explained. “We have a higher knowledge of how to use the wood those days and we know that glued or nailed wood does have very strong construction qualities.”
Project credits:
Architect: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Responsible architects: Martin Videgård, Bolle Tham Team: Jonas Tjäder, Johannes Brattgård, Ryan McGaffney
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Mar 23
Shadow-free skyscrapers would redirect the sun's rays to public plazas
Posted in: UncategorizedA concept for “shadowless” skyscrapers that redirect sunlight to public spaces could work for tall buildings anywhere in the world, say the London designers behind the proposal.
Architecture firm NBBJ developed proposals for two twisting towers on a side in North Greenwich, London, that bounce light between them down to a public space that would otherwise be in their shadow.
Led by design director Christian Coop, NBBJ’s head of computational design David Kosdruy, and architectural assistant James Pinkerton, the team created the design as part of a research project to see if they could make “shadowless” skyscrapers.
“We like to push the boundaries of what is achievable with design computation by developing new applications like the No Shadow Tower,” the designers told Dezeen. “The algorithm design for the tower is based on the law of reflection. Our facade has varying angles of panels that distribute light over a certain area at multiple times during the day.”
The reflective panels on the twin skyscrapers could reduce the amount of shadow they cast by up to 50 per cent, according to the team. Light would be reflected from the individual panels that form the skin of the building, down into a public space at the base of the towers.
“One of NBBJ’s principle concerns is public space and the ways the public use and interact with theses spaces,” said the designers. “The No Shadow Tower places public space at the heart of the project, along with human interaction and the impact of skyscrapers at street level.”
The team said that the proposal could be replicable for almost any site in the world.
“The research that we have undertaken could be applied in many locations in the world, each time creating a different form that would relate to its specific context and solar conditions,” they said.
The design for the towers was generated by developing a bespoke algorithm to record the angle of sunlight on the site every day for a year.
This data allowed the team to predict the behaviour of light at different times of the day, and calculate how it would bounce off the two structures. This information was then fed back into a parametric computer model to generate the envelope for the buildings.
Using individual panels to create the facade would allow sunlight to be reflected pane-by-pane, resulting in pools of light on the ground instead of a large, concentrated area to prevent heat or glare.
“The construction of the tower would not be the most complicated task in creating this project, the building operates within the same parameters as other tall buildings and the curve in the facade would not pose a significant challenge above what’s been achieved for towers that already exist,” the project team told Dezeen. “The real task is in the approach, the research that determines the sun’s location and angles to create the optimum structure for a particular location.”
“We see this concept developing and eventually incorporated into towers around the world,” they added. “It will add to the possibilities that tall buildings can provide for improved urban environments globally.
NBBJ submitted the concept for an ideas competition run by New London Architecture, with a view to exploring how skyscrapers can improve public spaces at street level.
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Mar 23
Guns, Plastic and Baroque Furniture
Posted in: UncategorizedLooking around your home or office—or anywhere, really—it’s extraordinarily likely that you posses something constructed of a plastic polymer. This item was most likely pumped out by the hundreds of thousands in a factory overseas, along with billions of other mundane objects that have come to completely surround us in our daily lives. James Shaw wants you to shift your conception of plastic from a nameless, faceless material to one steeped in handcraft and tradition. Designing a suite of baroque furniture (and a tool for manufacturing it), Shaw hopes to break the mold by elevating these pieces high above the lowly plastic counterparts you have seen before.
A recent graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Shaw first created the plastic-extruding gun used to make this furniture as part of a graduation project while enrolled in the school’s Design Products program. It was part of an arsenal of three “gun” tools—the others were a gun that shot out molten pewter and another that sprayed plastic fiber and glue to create papier-mâché upon contact. “The project was informed by the idea that the tool dictates the outcome and so having new tools would allow new outcomes, but it was also to make tools that would allow small-scale expedient manufacture, to set me up for the studio furniture practice that I would embark upon after I left the college,” Shaw explains. “The reason that I styled them as guns was partly a tongue-in-cheek idea that I would need to ‘fight’ for survival once I left education, but also based on the observation that so many tools are already in gun form—think nail gun, glue gun, spray gun or even the common power drill—and I liked the relations between creation and destruction that this raises.”
Shaw’s extruded-plastic bureau. Furniture photos by Paul Plews
The gunShaw’s plastic-extruding gun pumps out high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the most commonly used packaging plastics, which Shaw sources from a recycling company in East London called Closed Loop. “We have what can only be thought of as an extremely unhealthy relationship with the polymers that completely surround and make up our daily lives,” Shaw says. “The plastic-extruding gun turns it into a handheld process.”
Shortly after his graduation in 2013, Shaw’s gun became the catalyst for a number of commissions, pieces that allowed him to hone his skills and refine the process for using the tool. Adam Gallery approached Shaw in the early summer of 2014, asking the designer to develop some new work for an exhibition during London Design Week. The result is the Plastic Baroque Collection, inspired by visual similarities Shaw noticed between the 17th-century art movement and how the plastic naturally behaved when extruded. “The sense of dynamic movement and complexity of form seemed to have an association with artworks and furniture from the Baroque,” Shaw says. “Then, as I researched more into the movement, I found that a lot of the ideas rang really true with what I was trying to achieve with these works. The Baroque is all about embracing sensuality and worldly values and the expression of movement through mass, which for me resonated strongly with a project that is about trying to come to grips with a very ubiquitous and misused material.”
A closeup view of the bureauWith a starting point in mind, Shaw chose to base the items on the tradition of a suite of furniture, usually comprised a bureau table, a mirror and two candlesticks. “These pieces were often the most precious and exquisite in the house—or more likely, palace—made from rare materials such as exotic inlayed timbers or marble,” Shaw says. “Louis XIV is reputed to have owned one made from solid silver. I decided to kind of riff on the idea of one of these baroque suites.”
Shaw began the process by sketching and prototyping in tandem. “A lot of my ideas come about from the material and the way that it behaves,” he says. “But since this collection draws so heavily on concepts around the Baroque and historical references, sketching and visual research were a bigger part of the process than usual for me.” Alternating between the mediums of paper and plastic, the designer made sure that the formal development on paper always matched up to what he could realistically execute.
Shaw in the studio
Experimenting with the plastic-extruding gun. Left and above photos by Sasa StucinWorking quickly, Shaw started at the base of each object, moving upwards to build out each piece based on his sketches and prototypes. Since the material would only bond while still warm—and since it cooled quickly—the designer used multiple jigs to get the correct dimensions and ensure that pieces with glass components would fit together properly. “When the plastic comes out from the extruder, it kind of has the consistency of blue-tack or marshmallow, but it starts to go solid quite quickly as it cools,” Shaw explains. “You probably only have a minute or so before it goes too hard to work with, so you have to be quite fast-paced when working with it.”
Dealing with the somewhat organic nature of the material proved to be the most challenging part of the process, as the plastic would continue to move as it cooled even up to a day or two later. “I was really surprised to find how ‘organic’ the behavior of this ‘synthetic’ material was,” Shaw says. “Because of the freedom of the material, it requires a certain amount of improvisation as you are going along—which I enjoy. It becomes a very dynamic way of making something where you really have to respect the material.”
The complete Plastic Baroque CollectionShaw’s final suite consists of a bureau, a mirror and two floor lights (replacing the traditional candlesticks)—in what at first glance could be mistaken for sheets of glass supported by globs of very thick teal and turquoise toothpaste. The colors are a result of what Closed Loop sweeps up from its floor, bits and pieces of a light greenish hue. Shaw wanted to accentuate those even further, however, so he added pigment and other bits of HDPE to alter the saturation. “I wanted to choose colors that were a bit weird but somehow worked, which is the vibe I was going for with the whole collection,” Shaw says.
With this collection under his belt, Shaw has been mulling over what to tackle next, but thinks that a series of smaller objects or accessories produced in batches using the plastic-extruding gun might be in store. “I am also getting to a point where I want to adapt the tool,” he says. “Having worked with it for a while now, I am starting to see how I could improve it, which is exciting. As the tool evolves, the capabilities of what I can do with it will, too.”
This is the latest installment of In the Details, our weekly deep-dive into the making of a new product or project. Last week, we checked out a light-socket projector.
Mar 23
Morning Media Newsfeed: Viner Named Guardian EIC | WABC Reporter Dies at 49
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Katharine Viner Named Guardian EIC (FishbowlNY)
Katharine Viner, most recently the deputy editor of The Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian US, has been named the new editor-in-chief of The Guardian. The Guardian Viner will be the first woman to run the newspaper in its 194-year history. She will take up the role in the summer from incumbent Alan Rusbridger, who is to stand down after 20 years. Capital New York In picking Viner, The Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group, adhered to the will of Guardian and Observer staff. On March 5, Viner was announced as the winner of a staff ballot used to take the pulse of employees; Viner, in attracting 53 percent of the 964 votes cast, edged out Emily Bell, Janine Gibson and Wolfgang Blau, the three other would-be editors-in-chief who took part in the nonbinding ballot. Mashable Viner, who grew up in Yorkshire, England, lines up well with the paper’s legacy of activism in the coverage of liberal causes. She led the publication’s expansion into Australia with coverage of immigration and climate change as well as the addition of lighter features like a regular political cartoon. Poynter / MediaWire Rusbridger announced in December he was leaving his post to become chair of The Scott Trust, the sole shareholder of the Guardian Media Group. He will join the Trust next year.
Lisa Colagrossi, Reporter for WABC-TV, Dead at 49 After Suffering Brain Aneurysm on Assignment (New York Daily News)
WABC/Channel 7 reporter Lisa Colagrossi died Friday after suffering a catastrophic brain aneurysm while out on assignment, according to officials at the television station. TVSpy Thursday, Colagrossi was returning from a live report when she noticed something was wrong. A producer flagged down an ambulance that took her to the hospital. The Daily News reported her family was told it was unlikely she would recover. New York Post Colagrossi, whose two sons are 11 and 15, had been with the station since 2001, when she was hired as a freelancer to help cover the 9/11 attacks. Deadline She has served as a substitute anchor on various news programs on the station. Most recently, she has been a reporter for the Eyewitness News programs in the morning and at noon. Before joining WABC-TV, Lisa was a main news anchor for WKMG-TV in Orlando, Fla. She began her journalism career at WKYC-TV in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and later worked at stations in West Virginia and Alabama. She won several local Emmys and numerous awards from the Florida Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists.
Durst Lawyer: Try Case on Facts, ‘Not on an Effort to Win an Emmy’ (TVNewser)
The Robert Durst TV specials continued into the weekend following Durst’s seeming murder confession in the conclusion of the docu-series The Jinx. Durst’s lawyer Dick DeGuerin gave his first sit-down interview since his client’s arrest to 48 Hours. Variety In the interview, DeGuerin insists that he was eager to get to court and prove that the case against Durst is “weak circumstantial evidence.” He also says he thinks “the case ought to be tried on the facts and not on an effort to win an Emmy,” alluding to the already-mounting award-season buzz for The Jinx. Mediaite Durst was arrested a day before the show’s finale aired and charged with murder in a case that had been a big focus of the series. The one moment that everyone’s been talking about all week is Durst, in the final moments of the series finale, muttering, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”
Barack Obama Asks Iran to Free Jason Rezaian, Other Americans (WSJ / Washington Wire)
President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran to release a Washington Post reporter and two other Americans held there. Obama, in a statement released by the White House, said Iran must release Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who the White House said has been held “unjustly” by Tehran for eight months. The Washington Post / AP Obama said Iran should also immediately release U.S. prisoners Saeed Abedini of Boise, Idaho and Amir Hekmati of Flint, Michigan. Obama also says Iran should help find Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing eight years ago from the Iranian resort of Kish Island. Poynter / MediaWire Obama’s call echoes several others in recent months. Post executive editor Marty Baron, The National Press Club, legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and Rezaian’s mother have all spoke out on his behalf. Rezaian will face trial in Iran’s Revolutionary Court before Judge Abolghassem Salavati, a notoriously harsh official.
Reuters Site Blocked in China (FishbowlNY)
Reuters is the latest news site to be blocked in China. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News have all had their sites previously blocked. Users attempting to access Reuters’ English and Chinese language sites noticed the problem Thursday. China’s Internet regulator, unsurprisingly, had nothing to offer on the issue. HuffPost / Reuters It was not immediately clear why users were hindered from using the Reuters sites. The websites of some major news organizations, including Reuters, have at times become inaccessible in China in whole or part, often after the publication of stories on issues about which the Chinese government is sensitive. “Reuters is committed to practicing fair and accurate journalism worldwide. We recognize the great importance of news about China to all our customers, and we hope that our sites will be restored in China soon,” a Reuters spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
Ted Cruz Announces Presidential Bid With Twitter Post, Video (Fox News)
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016 via a Twitter post early Monday. CBS Local / AP Cruz became the first high-profile Republican to officially enter the 2016 contest even though, like others, he has been campaigning in all but name for many months. Ahead of a speech, Cruz turned to social media and tweeted: “I’m running for president and I hope to earn your support!”
New Apple TV With Siri Reportedly Coming This Summer (BuzzFeed)
Apple is preparing to mount its effort to drag a TV experience that CEO Tim Cook once described as “stuck in the seventies” into an Apple-curated present. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported the subscription Internet TV service Apple’s been trying to get off the ground since 2009 appears to be finally headed to market. And now sources familiar with the company’s plans say that a successor to its dusty and recently discounted Apple TV set top box is headed to market as well. Mashable The new device will reportedly feature an updated design, support voice control via Siri and will act as a hub for “a selection of HomeKit-enabled home automation devices,” according to BuzzFeed.
Rolling Stone to Publish Review of Disputed Rape Article (NYT)
Rolling Stone magazine plans to publish an external review of a widely disputed article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia “in the next couple of weeks,” its managing editor, Will Dana, said on Sunday. The 9,000-word article, which was published in November, was based on the account of a female student who described being sexually assaulted by seven men in a dark room during a fraternity house party.
Steven Alperin Leaving Vocativ (Capital New York)
Vocativ chief business officer Steven Alperin is leaving the company. Alperin joined Vocativ in February 2013, early in the digital media company’s existence. In early January, Vocativ’s management structure was reconfigured to create a tier of three individuals — Alperin, COO Danna Rabin and chief content officer Gregory Gittrich — who effectively lead the company. Poynter / MediaWire In an email, Alperin said the parting was amicable and motivated by a desire to go into business for himself.
March Madness Breaks Ratings Record on Opening Day (Variety)
CBS and Turner are off to a great ratings start with their joint coverage of college basketball’s March Madness, as Thursday’s games produced the best-ever overnight rating for a first full day of action. The tournament saw a record five games decided by a single point — at least one apiece in the day’s four television windows — and that may have contributed to the strong numbers. Deadline Thursday night’s 7-9:53 p.m. game pulled in a 1.6/6 rating among adults 18-49 and had a total viewership of 5.514 million on CBS. That’s up 60 percent in the demo and 45 percent in overall audience over the first game in primetime on March 20, 2014. The game peaked in the 9:30 p.m. slot as it got down to the wire for both teams with a 2.8 rating and 8.938 million watching.
Washington Post Appoints Wesley Lowery to New Law Enforcement Beat (The Washington Post)
The Washington Post announced Friday that Wes Lowery is pioneering a new beat focused on the interactions between law enforcement officials and their communities. Poynter / MediaWire The announcement, which was made in conjunction with a series of job moves at the Post, comes months after Lowery was assigned to cover the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown. During his coverage of the story in August, Lowery was arrested along with the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly.
Reuters Hires Jim Oliphant as Political Correspondent (FishbowlDC)
Jim Oliphant has been brought on board by Reuters to serve as a senior political writer, per a staff memo.
More E! Layoffs: SVP Betsy Rott Exits (Deadline)
On the heels of the recent merging of E! and Esquire’s marketing operations, which resulted in E! layoffs, including the departure of SVPs Leigh Anne Gardner and Tim Rosta, the cable network is making cuts in original programming.
Rupert Murdoch’s Sun Journalists Cleared in Bribery Trial (THR)
Four journalists at the U.K.’s most widely read tabloid paper, The Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, have been cleared of paying public officials for stories.
Fox News Wants Appeals Court to Examine Transformational Value of Social Media (THR / Hollywood, Esq.)
On Thursday, Fox News requested a federal judge’s permission for an interlocutory appeal in a dispute concerning how it used a 9/11 photograph on Facebook.
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