Hasta La Ideas

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pI don’t know if you want a bookshelf that can accidentally kill your sleeping cat, but A HREF=”http://dvice.com/archives/2010/04/screw-e-books-g.php” this/A has to be one of the most original concepts we’ve seen. Or prototypes, we should say; artist A HREF=”http://davidgarciastudio.blogspot.com/” David Garcia/A actually built this, it’s not a Photoshop job./p

pOne place where this thing would never work is in my apartment–crooked floors coupled with the vibration of the subway would send it rolling all over the place. It’d be just like having hyperactive dogs, where you come home and brace yourself while turning the knob to see what they’ve destroyed this time./p

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pGranted this has nothing to do with industrial design per se and it looks like the beginning of a Michael Bay movie, but how can we not show you A HREF=”http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html” the first high-def pictures of the sun/A? /p

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blockquotePicture captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory…. Red indicates cooler areas, while blues and greens show hotter regions. SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) is on a five-year mission to capture data that will help scientists learn more about the impact of solar weather on the Earth./blockquote

pThe picture looks a lot different than the sun outside my building right now, but you know what they say: A full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet imaging camera always adds ten pounds. /p

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It’s easy for we here in Chicago to get complacent over our skyline, given that we have the best in the world. But what about all those poor other cities who need some help in making their outline look appealing? London, for one, is doing something about it with the launch of the “New London Skyline” contest (PDF). It’s a joint effort put on by Transport for London and the London Festival of Architecture, which is calling for submissions to both make the city look good and serve as a sort of replacement for the familiar skyline illustration from 1908. While there have been a few new buildings built since then, we can’t imagine that any entry will skip things like Big Ben and the Tower Bridge. But add what you please and see if you get a bite from the judges, who run an impressive gamut, from Pentagram‘s Angus Hyland to Design Week‘s Lynda Relph-Knight. The prize is £1000 and some sort of big roll out at this June’s Festival of Architecture, and as far as we can tell, isn’t limited just to Britons, so have at it.

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While always preferred, buying organic is often cost-prohibitive and, with some produce, sometimes less important. Heidi Kenney’s
downloadable Dirty Dozen Cheat Sheet makes that split-second decision on whether to spend that extra 20 cents a pound on organic bananas or organic strawberries a little easier.

The convenient, credit card-sized guide separates 27 common fruits and veggies into two categories, those that usually have a low pesticide content and those that don’t.

Kenney, the crafter also known as “My Paper Crane” for her anthropomorphic plushies, uses kawaii-style illustrations based on the Environmental Working Group’s more extensive list, which they offer as an iPhone app.

Découverte de ce court métrage futuriste The Raven, se déroulant dans la ville de Los Angeles. Un film dirigé par le réalisateur Ricardo de Montreuil, avec peu de budget et une caméra RED en 1920×1080. L’histoire est simple : un homme doté de pouvoirs doit faire face aux robots.

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• Hollywood Sign Project
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• The Art of the Billboard