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Doodle/ink breaks between work stuff.
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Carl Sagan passes on wisdom about the importance of understanding the origins of cosmic bodies before you begin baking for the afternoon.
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
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Eternal Heads. Game of Expressions. 2011
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Virtual Photography
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夜間走行時、路面の凹凸をエンハンスする格子型ランプ「Lumigrids」
http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/05/21/lumigrids-while-cycling/
that is incredibly smart.
seems pretty cool, though i wonder how effective it would be at higher speeds? i’d hate to just get tunnel vision staring at the grid instead of, you know, looking around me.
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Old Bilsland’s Bakery, #Glasgow. #typography #decay #architecture #sky #nofilter
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Botched Corners #3. Binghamton, NY. 2004
One from the vault. Graphic red, boarded-up brick building in the Binghamton, NY section of the Rust Belt. Large horizontal fenestration grid meets staggered window pattern of stair “tower” at corner while slipped sidewalks try to manage grade. An almost abstract use of graphic color in architecture.
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At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding.
“All those things are true,” I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. “But until you learn what the good parts were that excited the reader, you’re always going to be bitterly upset about what is wrong with that bestseller. Learn to spot what worked in that book, and you’ll be able to move forward. And you’ll be a lot less upset all the time as well.”
—Tobias Buckell on “The fate of today’s book bloggers”
The C.C. Finlay quote: “A novel doesn’t excite readers because you took all the bad stuff out of it, it excites them because of all the good stuff that’s in it, regardless of the bad.”
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Another shot of the #wind farm in #Tehachapi, #California, home to #GE Power & Water’s brilliant wind #turbine. Photo by @sessenyc. #windturbine #technology
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Project HARP (High Altitude Research Project) was a joint initiative between the United States and Canada to research the use of ballistics to deliver objects into the upper atmosphere and beyond.
In lay terms, the project was established to create a cartoonishly large gun to shoot things into space. The sole fruit of this partnership, a massive toppled gun barrel, still remains on the Barbados test site.
Designed by mad ballistic engineer Gerald Bull, the gun itself was originally built from a 50 caliber naval cannon, like what might be seen on a battleship, and was later doubled to 100 caliber, making the gun too big for effective military application, but seemingly perfect for satellite delivery. Not-designed for delivering human subjects, the cannon fired smaller projectiles in a sabot that would protect the payload during the firing and would fall away as the satellite rose. At its apex, the gun was able to fire an object a staggering 112 miles into the sky, setting the 1963 world record for gun-launched altitude at 93 KM.
As the project continued, installing similar guns in further locations, the Barbados gun was abandoned in the late 1960s and left to rust on its original launch site. Looking more like a painted sewer pipe than a Godzilla-size gun barrel, the original Project HARP space gun can still be reached along the Barbados coast.
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This is it! My Kickstarter for DRAWINGS is live. Go check it out now!
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Holy Land USA
Waterbury, ConnecticutHoly Land USA was once an 18 acre Bible-themed park located in Waterbury, Connecticut. The park had about 40,000 visitors a year until it closed in 1984 for renovations. Holy Land USA never opened back up again due to the death of owner John Greco in 1986. It has been abandoned ever since. The abandoned acres of the theme park have been watched over by groups of nuns for decades, but the place keeps getting more and more creepy as the park continues to deteriorate.
On top of the vandalism and eeriness the park gives off, a teenager was murdered on these abandoned grounds in 2010. Since then police records have shown that the amount of trespassers have been decreasing which just means abandoned Holy Land USA is as creepy and deserted as ever.
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