Last Call: 11 Drunk Dry Abandoned Liquor Stores
These 11 abandoned liquor stores are hangovers, as it were, from an era when Mom & Pop stores sold the kind of products Mom & Pop forbade you from buying. ...
Month: May 2013
Kite Cameras: Aerial Photography Accessible to Anyone
Towers convey power, and height is both literally and metaphorically connected to broader and better views - but here come kites to undermine that top-down view. Kite photography is ...
World’s Largest LEGO Model: Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
Forty-two times larger than the toy set currently available in stores, this Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter is made of over five million LEGO bricks weighing a whopping 45,000 pounds. Assembled in ...
Philography: Complex Philosophy Meets Graphic Simplicity
The bigger the idea, the harder to understand, let alone distill. That is the idea and challenge behind this growing set of graphic designs that seek to capture big ideas in simple shapes and ...
Tinshed: Home Rebuilt from Shreds of Scrappy Shack
In a sleepy suburb of Sydney, Australia, long since taken over by mainly-one-story houses, sat a disused metal-sided shed. An ad hod affair, it was a rare leftover of what was once an industrial ...
Laser-Cut Record: Music Etched Onto Slices of Wood
We already know what kind of music trees make when left to their own devices, and now we can make them sound the way we want. After developing a method for converting digital files into 3D ...
Future Perfect: 7 Potential Wonders of the World
One hundred years from now, will we be living on other planets, teleporting from place to place, communicating to each other telepathically, or even becoming immortal by shifting human ...
Solar Socket: Portable Plug-In Creates Free Energy to Go
With batteries running low, your eye roams the room for a place to plug in, but then you remember: you brought your own power supply - all you need now is a window. Portable, easy and green, this ...
Earthscraper: Inverted Pyramid Spans 1000 Vertical Feet Down
Skyscrapers are the traditional small-footprint solution for growing square footage in big cities, but what are developers to do in growing places like Mexico City where new building construction ...
Infinite Garden Multiplies Miniature Forest with Mirrors
Peering through a hole in the hovering white skin of an unusual installation at the 22nd International International Garden Festival of Chaumont Sur Loire, France, seems to transport the viewer ...
