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In 1945, a B-25 bomber pilot crashed into the Empire State Building’s elevator shaft, snapping the cable. By the time the carriage reached the bottom, a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it acting like a spring, which allowed the lone occupant in the car to escape injured but alive.

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Open calls. UPDATE: “On Nov. 21, The Collegian reported false information in an article about a student cast in “Star Wars: Episode VII.” As far as The Collegian’s editors and reporters know, the part has not yet been cast. We apologize for this error. ” Charming. Meanwhile, the London call this weekend has a new [...]

Somewhere in Melbourne there is a giant decaying warehouse now covered in some two dozen pieces by graffiti writer Sofles. Filmed and edited by Celina Mills, this impressive time-lapse shot over an indeterminate amount of time (this has to have taken more than a day, right?) documents Sofles as he whips out tags and more complex graffiti paintings in a seemingly limitless variety of styles, texture and color. (via stellar)

The Reading Nest is a new site-specific installation by artist Mark Reigelman outside the Cleveland Public Library. Reigelman obtained 10,000 reclaimed boards from various Cleveland industrial and manufacturing sites and worked with a team of people over 10 days to construct the nest which was completed earlier this month. From his statement regarding the project:

For centuries objects in nature have been associated with knowledge and wisdom. Trees of enlightenment and scholarly owls have been particularly prominent in this history of mythological objects of knowledge. The Reading Nest is a visual intermediary between forest and fowl. It symbolizes growth, community and knowledge while continuing to embody mythical roots.

You can see many more hotos of the Reading Nest over on his website. (via colossal submissions)

 

Carnovsky is a Milan based artist/designer duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla. In their ongoing series entitled RGB, the duo create incredible artworks that completely transform when viewed through different colored filters. Carnvosky explains:

“RGB is a work about the exploration of the ‘surface’s deepness’. RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. RGB is an ongoing project that experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting.
 
The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers. [Source: carnvosky.com]

 

Carnovsky have not only exhibited the RGB series at solo shows around the world, but they have experimented on different surfaces and canvases such as scarves, wallpapers, skins and framed prints. You can see their complete body of work at their official site, carnovsky.com
 
[via The Creators Project by Vice]

 

5th November 2010 – 5th March 2011: Carnovsky’s exhibition at Direktorenhaus, Berlin, is structured in three different scales, from the large to the small, from an architectonic scale, to an object one, passing through the prints.
 
In the architectonic level one of the gallery’s rooms has been set up with a large installation made of wallpapers and colored lights: It is a sort of “fresco” made with contemporary technologies, “frescos”, but instead of being static, they are in mutable and fluctuating, capable of creating an ambient in continuous movement. [Source: carnovsky.com]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues the RGB project experimenting new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings.
 
Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement. In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. [Source: carnovsky.com]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28th July 2011 – 30th October 2011: We have always wanted to explore the concept of “Jungle” or really tangled, intricate and dense tropical forest. The jungle subject, with its exuberant, twisted and redundant vegetation that hides bizarre creatures, lends us to the exploration of another theme: the night. For the first time in fact we are presenting some pieces from a new series that represents an evolution of our RGB project: RGB – The black series. They follow the same original RGB principles but inverted, so it works over a black background and, looking through the filters, lights or transparent materials in the three colors, the worlds appear on negative. [Source: carnovsky.com]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With a wolf’s jaws clamped around her neck, Dawn Hepp survived by just keeping calm
Stay calm was what Dawn Hepp, a medical secretary in Thompson, Manitoba, kept telling herself to do on March 8 when a large and presumably hungry timber wolf pounced, locking its jaws around her neck on a lonely stretch of highway near Grand Rapids, about 400 km north of Winnipeg.

“A car had passed me on the road and a little further on they were stopped,” Ms. Hepp tells me from her mother’s home in Ashern, Man. “You are in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe they were having car trouble. I pulled over and off in the distance I could see a wolf. He was maybe a mile away, and this being wolf country, bear country and coyote country, I thought nothing of it.

“I talked to the people. And they were fine. And I like to talk. It is my nature, and so I kept talking and as I turned back to my truck all of a sudden this wolf jumped me, and all I could feel was fur on my face and jaws around my neck. There was no growling. He was just suddenly there, wrapped around my neck. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t yell. So I put my arms by my sides and relaxed.” (Photo: Courtesy Dawn Hepp)

 

Completed in 2011, the treehouse at Camp Wandawega Lake Resort in Elkhorn, Wisconsin is simply amazing. Proprietors Tereasa Surratt & David Hernandez along with a group of very talented and generous friends built this labour of love, located in the center of the property.

Below you will find progress pictures of the construction, the end results and the background story on how the tree house came to serve as a touching tribute to Tereasa’s late father Tom.

Carpentry
• Bladon Conner of Bladon Conner Design Studio
• Shaun Agase and Tyler Peterson of Stone Blitzer
• Steven Teichelman of This is Threefold

Interior
• Angela Finney Hoffman of Post 27 Store
• Tereasa Surratt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It started with a tree. Not long after Tereasa and David purchased Wandawega in 2004, Tereasa’s father christened the property by hanging a rope swing on the big elm tree in the center of the camp. Tom would pass away a year and a half later. Tereasa tells Chicago Home+Garden:

“Almost immediately after, we found out the tree had Dutch elm disease. I was devastated. I couldn’t cut that tree down.”

 

Although the tree’s branches were dying the trunk was still quite strong, so the couple along with some friends started thinking… big.

Ultimately they settled on a three-level cottage in which the tree comes through a deck near ground level, then breaks through the floor in three spots on the first level of the house. At two of those points, sturdy arms of the tree were sawed level with the floor; a third arm pierces the floor and extends out a window.

Tom’s Treehouse was built for free through the amazing generosity of Tereasa’s incredibly talented and generous friends (mentioned at the top of the post). They selflessly donated their time and skill to make the tree house a reality.

 

 

 

 

 

Most of the wood is reclaimed and much of the interior is custom-made, vintage and re-purposed. It’s a showcase of DIY ingenuity by Angela Finney-Hoffman of Post27. For example:

- The pillows are made out of old flour sacks
- The stumps of the trees were refashioned as side tables
- DIY Antler chandelier made from old sheds found at the camp
- DIY mason jar lamps with lamp kits from Home Depot
- Repurposed sconces in the sleeping lofts from elsewhere on the camp
- Much of the interior was sourced from flea markets, thrift stores and eBay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources

- Official Wandawega Website
- A Very Modest Cottage Blog
- Chicago Home+Garden – Up in the Air
- Designtripper – Stay: Wandawega Treehouse
- Bob Coscarelli Photography
- Jacob Hand Photography
- t. HARRISON HILLMAN Photography
- The Lettered Cottage
- Apartment Therapy – Tereasa & David’s Grown-Up Tree House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vimeo Direktcrank, Danke Paul!

2011 gab’s ein Musikvideo mit ‘ner First-Person-Parkour-Story um ein Teleportations-Gadget, jetzt haben sie den zweiten Teil online gestellt und die Action nochmal bis zum Anschlag aufgedreht. Der Song ist ein schlechter Ripoff von Prodigy und ich halte die Action für etwas dümmliche Jason Statham-Scheiße. Aber im Gegensatz zu den Filmen von Statham (mit der Ausnahme von Crank, dennoch most-overrated Action-Schauspieler ever) geht hier wenigstens wirklich was.

Das Video kommt von Ilya Naishuller und Sergey Valyaev für die Band Biting Elbows, der Song heisst „Bad Motherfucker“, den ersten Teil der Insane Office Espace-Serie findet man hier. Joa. Scheiß Song, dümmliche Provo-Action und auch nicht nur ein bisschen gewaltverherrlichend… unterhalten fühlte ich mich trotzdem.

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AP Drops "Illegal Immigrant" From Style Book:

Regardless, the principal point is that unauthorized presence is a status, not a crime. There is no such thing as an illegal person. No human being is illegal. I’m glad the AP has decided to recognize this. It’s time other media outlets did too.

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Kraft’s subterranean cheese cave, Missouri by Christoph Morlinghaus

“More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. The shiny, humming stainless steel box in your kitchen is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak—a tiny fragment of the vast global network of temperature-controlled storage and distribution warehouses cumulatively capable of hosting uncounted billions of cubic feet of chilled flesh, fish, or fruit. Add to that an equally vast and immeasurable volume of thermally controlled space in the form of shipping containers, wine cellars, floating fish factories, international seed banks, meat-aging lockers, and livestock semen storage, and it becomes clear that the evolving architecture of coldspace is as ubiquitous as it is varied, as essential as it is overlooked. […]

Despite the efforts of industry bodies, government agencies, and industrial archaeologists, this vast, distributed artificial winter that has reshaped our entire food system remains, for the most part, unmapped. What’s more, the varied forms of these cold spaces remain a mystery to most. This guide provides an introduction to a handful of the strange spatial typologies found within the “cold chain,” that linked network of atmospheric regulation on which our entire way of life depends. […]

Welcome to the coldscape: the unobtrusive architecture of man’s unending struggle against time, distance, and entropy itself.
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So, first this happened:

And then I stole a map from Reporters Without Borders to illustrate the plight of those who cannot send dickpics:

Thanks for the inspiration, @mould2k! I’m gonna go start an NGO about it. I dedicate myself to filling in these black holes with as many dickpics as humanly possible.

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