Auclair: Jupiter + Venus UK music website The 405 debuted a new track from London-based singer, songwriter and producer Auclair this week. From her forthcoming EP Semaphore, “Jupiter + Venus” is like the Goldilocks of new…
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Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. It’s been an incredibly busy month here at YD so I haven’t had much time to capture all the videos I wanted but I promise more product reviews are coming. In the meantime, enjoy episode 8. I’m talkin’ Booq Viper hard cases, the red dot winning Sol Republic RELAYS and see how my Click & Grow herb garden is doing.
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Machines have more than proven their self-worth among manufacturers of the modern age. While I may not be old enough to remember a time where computers were large enough to fill a room—much less when a lifetime of manual labor was more common than desk-bound day jobs—I’ve been reminded time and time again about my parents’ take on the good old days. You know, the ones where employees were forced to get really good (and über efficient) at the jobs they held instead of relying on machines to do the quick work. There are still a few gems in the mix of people who continue to smash the tortoise-hare logic of “slow and steady wins the race” into microscopic bits, whether or not there’s a machine available to do the work for them. Here are a few videos of people doing just that for your afternoon viewing pleasure:
Today, creating a data visualization that’ll grab (and hold) the attention of thousands is a cinch, considering that even the smallest of screens comes equipped with state-of-the-art software and editing capabilities. In the ’60s and ’70s, not so much. John Whitney, the late founder of Motion Graphics Incorporated, was a man against the technological odds. Even constrained by less-than-desirable computer systems (by today’s standards), he created what could be considered an improvement on today’s iTunes visualizers.
Whitney’s work has been compiled into multiple demo reels of sorts. Best to full-screen these, even with the grainy quality—it just adds an extra layer of trippy texture:
Some of you may already know about the fella in the picture above—after all, he makes a living by performing in a heavily trafficked intersection in Chicago, where he is colloquially known as the “Bike Flip” guy. It turns out that his full nom de guerre is “Flip Bike Travis,” and while I didn’t press him for further biographical details, I did have the opportunity to witness the showman in action—in a special St. Patrick’s Day costume, no less. This, folks, is what the iPhone 5S slo-mo cam was made for:
Those who frequent Wicker Park have surely seen the DIYer extraordinaire at some point, though I consider myself lucky that he elected to brave the intermittent flurries (and heavily inebriated revelers) on a chilly Saturday night, layered up in his winter gear and a fantastic costume—one of my colleagues described it as “a giant koosh ball”—for the occasion. (He remarked that he thought that the slick streets would make for a nice visual effect, and that he’d actually made the costume before he built the bike itself.)
As for his sweet ride? Travis estimated that it weighs in at about 70lbs (let’s just say it’s not crafted from Reynolds 853 or Columbus SLX) and it’s hard to tell from the photos, but there is a tread along the outside of the outer arc. The LEDs are powered by a NiMH battery pack under the saddle, and the switch is hidden inside of the foam, er, dongle off the front.
Travis was also confident enough to go for a double—don’t try this at home:
1. Design & Fiction: Panel Discussion Bringing together heavy hitters across numerous industries, the IDEO-hosted panel Design & Fiction explored the relationship between technology, design and fiction—all in the context of the past, future and present….
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Not sure how I missed this when Oli Firth first posted it to our discussion boards three months ago (when it first hit the web), but “Road Bike Party 2″—great title for bike porn, as far as I’m concerned—is just insane. We’ve seen similar feats from Tim Knoll on BMX and Ines Brunn’s fixed-gear track-robatics, but, as the saying goes, steel is real. Non-cyclists might enjoy the general outlandishness of the stunts, but fellow riders will appreciate the technical difficulty (and cojones) of Danny Macaskill (pulling some of his signature moves), Martyn Ashton and Chris Akrigg as they endo, bunnyhop and generally thrash on a £15,000 Colnago C59 Disc like it’s a 26er.
The jury is out on the practice of raising the windshield wipers during snowy/icy conditions: it’s intended to prevent the blades from freezing to the glass, but some say that it’s not worth the trouble. Raised like antennae, they could well be sensors activated by atmospheric conditions, or insect legs, a gesture of beseeching the firmament for respite or simply resigning to a snowy fate.
It’s been a rough winter by any measure, what with the salt shortages and architecture fails, but I only recently learned that the entire country of Slovenia was essentially covered in ice for several days. The freak storm struck two weeks ago and lasted three days, blanketing the some 8,000 square miles (20,000 km2) with 10cm of ice, causing upwards of €66 milliion in damage, including widespread power outages and ravaging half of the alpine nation’s forests.
“Extreme weather chaser” Marko Korosec documented the havoc, as did Reuters’ Srdjan Zivulovic; here’s a drones’s-eye view of Postojna, which was devastated by the storm:
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As a first generation Chinese-American living in NYC (the fabled Greater New York Combined Statistical Area has the largest concentration in the States), I have no excuse for not celebrating my cultural heritage during the most important holiday of the year. A low-key Chinese New Year party fit the bill for me, but a pair of Russian “sky-walkers” took it to the next level and then some. It turns out that the major holiday was the perfect window to infiltrate and summit the tallest building in China—and, of course, to document it with photos and GoPros.
L: Rendering of the finished tower; R: Photo by Vitaliy Raskalov
Currently under construction, the Gensler-designed Shanghai Tower was topped out at 2,073 ft (632m) just six months ago and is on track to open in 2015. Along with the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center (a.k.a. the Bottle Opener), the new supertall will anchor the city’s Pudong business district—which was farmland 25 years ago, until it was declared a “Special Economic Zone” in 1993—and is second to only the Burj Khalifa in the international playing field.
Photos by Vitaliy Raskalov; both he and Makhorov have more posted photos
It reportedly took Vitaliy Raskalov, 20, of Novosibirsk, and his Moscow-based buddy Vadim Makhorov, 24, about two hours to climb the 121 stories of the edifice itself; they spent 18 hours there, waiting for the skies to clear before free-climbing the crane to its apex of 2,132 ft (650m). Makhorov told the Telegraph that “we didn’t get any sleep for over 24 hours, it was physically and mentally challenging for the both of us.”
We had to wait for hours for the clouds to part, but it was well worth the wait, the view was like something from an aircraft window. As soon as we saw a gap in the clouds were climbed right to the top of the crane and were able to get some great shots of the city below. We were not afraid at all and we have never had any injuries as a result of our sky walking.
As a result of our ‘mission,’ Our target was to climb the highest tower in China and the seconds highest in the world, it felt amazing to accomplish it, the sky is the limit.
Wow. Such Great Heights. Very vertiginous. Much machismo. So epic.
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