Cooper Griggs

historicaltimes:

Member of the 101st Airborne Division enjoying the view and a cognac at Berchtesgaden in 1945. The US soldiers’ three day drinking binge from Hitler’s private cellar is considered one of the most expensive of all time.

Porsche first unveiled its electric car, the Model E, last December as a luxury model fit to compete with Tesla's Model S. 1,000 new jobs would be created to bring the concept vehicle to life, but today they increased the total to more than 1,400, li...

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Duck

tastefullyoffensive:

Video: Curious Hawk Checks Out Weather Cam

Snout
#jeffkoons #balloondog #thebroad #museum #losangeles #california #dtla (at The Broad)

Glass Stacks
#dtla #losangeles #california #disneyconcerthall #prtv_wide #glass #desk (at Walt Disney Concert Hall)

Insomnia #2
(at Los Angeles, California)

As a kid, I marveled at the Cadillac owned by my parents' friend. You could roll down the windows with the push of a button! My father would comment that it was just another thing that would break. A few years later, you couldn't roll down two of the...

On November 2nd, 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules took off for the first time. The test run lasted less than a minute, and it traveled for around a mile. The H-4, erroneously nicknamed the Spruce Goose, was a behemoth; its wing 320-foot wingspan is stil...

Inspired by our perception of flattened images, Korean designer Jongha Choi decided to build a set of furniture that collapses into two-dimensions, conveniently hanging on the wall when not in use. These tables and chairs were produced for his thesis at Eindhoven Design Academy in The Netherlands, and are collectively titled De-Dimension.

“In our current situation, in which modern society experiences the image, in relation to advertising, image circulation and the internet, why do we not question an image’s confinement to a flat surface,” said Choi in his thesis. “Why don’t we try to get more stereoscopic and attempt for direct experience with the image. My question started with this point, and I tried several experiments in order to realize this idea from a personal point of view.”

You can see the collapsible models in action below and read more about Choi’s project on his website. (via Twister Sifter)

owlturdcomix:

I didn’t want to know.

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this-is-life-actually:

Don’t mess with a cosplayer. After her boss set up a new dress code banning ponytails and “cultural head wraps,” June J Rivas decided to protest by diping into her costume closet. There are so many more photos and awesome comment reactions.

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Falcon 9: Launch and Landing

Did the two most famous satellite galaxies of our Milky Way Galaxy once collide?

via http://ultrazapping.tumblr.com/

(via Cartoon: Trumping our safety | Jen Sorensen)

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(via Alex Romano / dev_maxpayne)

A group of teenagers vacationing on Camano Island in Washington State became technology-assisted crimestoppers this week, ABC News reports. 14-year-old Chris Harris and his friend were visiting the island from San Francisco when they spotted thieves...

hobolunchbox:

Is it asleep?

It's all coming down to this. Well over a year after beginning its round-the-world trip, Solar Impulse 2 has embarked on the final leg of its journey. The solar-powered aircraft left Cairo early on the morning of July 24th and should reach its orig...

office

post-its on the white board, development diagrams taped to the wall, hiroshige prints in black frames behind me, inherited ikea lamp that largely remains off, and mismatched but comfortable office chairs.

IT life at a university.

the ears?

oh, those are because i have an ‘open door’ policy. my door is **always** open. if i’m wearing my ears it helps folks to know i’m trying to get some bullshit bureaucratic paperwork done on a deadline, but i gladly welcome an interruption.

really, they’re my “there’s a lot of dumb in the job, but we can still dance” ears. cuz i may have to do some lame ass shit, but i can do it in red vans and cat ears.

never let the turkeys get you down.

gifsboom:

When the sand is very hot. [video]

catsbeaversandducks:

“Gave my cat some catnip and he’s been laying like this for 2 hours.”

Photos/caption by YA BOY DANNY TANNER

While helicopter pilot Andrew Park was flying over Phoenix this week, photographer Jerry Ferguson captured what appears to be a giant foreboding mushroom cloud hanging over the city. In actuality the scene is a weather cluster called a “microburst,” a phenomenon that occurs when cooled air from a thunderstorm rushes to the ground and spreads over the land at speeds over 100 miles per hour causing a powerful and centralized air current.

Ferguson captured the sight while filming the weather for a local TV station. A timelapse video by Bryan Snider shows the same microburst from Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport, the camera positioned at what looks like just a couple hundred feet from the center of the storm. (via Mashable)

Smoooth
#losangeles #dtla #concerthall #waltdisney #california #frankgehry (at Walt Disney Concert Hall)

“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”

- Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)

Real tree, painted leaves
#marvista #losangeles #california #mural #art (at Mar Vista farmer’s market)