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Finally Make The Internet Work for You With ifttt.com

December 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

Want to give a great gift? Give the gift of TIME.

 ifTTT stands for If This Then That That and is one of those sites that looks simple but makes profound connections between just about anything you want to do, schedule, remind or post. Think icon based scripts for all your to do lists and every site on the Internet. Think automatic everything. If you want to stop repeating posts to all your social networks IfTTT can do it in heartbeat – but that is just the beginning.  See the examples below to help understand this service has endless possibilities. Warning: some of these apps ask for too many permissions to your information.

 

via: https://ifttt.com

Finally Make the Internet Work for You With ifttt.com

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The Sculpture of Benedetto Bufalino

December 16, 2013 — Leave a comment

Check out the new sculpture of Benedetto Bufalino. Reminds me of something that we would see in a Road Runner cartoon…

“In keeping with the theme of his humorous urban interventions, french artist Benedetto Fufalino has sent a residential caravan soaring into the sky. ‘la caravane dans le ciel’ is a mobile trailer situated atop a sky jack that slowly moves upwards towards the clouds. towering over trees and building-tops, the hybrid habitat is gradually lifted into the air and at night, the mysterious illusion lights up the sky with its illuminated interior windows”.

via Design Boom

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Theo Jansen Makes Beach Creatures

October 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

One of my favorite artists… Theo Jansen has been creating new life forms that live on the beaches and feed on the air and wind since 1990. He is the Leonardo da Vinci of beach creatures. His goal is to get them to be self-sustaining wind creatures. He just might one day succeed.

 

His TED talk is one of the most watched ever.

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D-Day artwork: 9,000 Sand Drawings Commemorate The Fallen

September 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

D-Day artwork: 9,000 Sand Drawings Commemorate The Fallen

“British artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley of sand in your eye, along with a team volunteers, arranged and stenciled 9,000 drawings on the sand of the d-day landing beaches in Normandy, representing the civilians, Germans and allied forces that died during WWII. ‘The Fallen‘, which commemorates international peace day on September 21, is a massive art installation of thousands of silhouettes covering the shoreline. echoing the ephemeral nature of the lives lost, the artworks are totally erased by the incoming tide, a sobering reminder of what happens when peace is not present.

‘…the idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable – the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the WWII normandy landings on 6 june 1944.  there will be no distinction between nationalities, they will be known only as ‘the fallen’.  it does not propose to be a celebration or condemnation, simply a statement of fact and tribute to life and its premature loss.’  — jamie wardley”

 

via DesignBoom.com

 

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When Architecture Attacks! Walkie Talkie Scorchie Melts Car

September 6, 2013 — Leave a comment

The  famous “Walkie Talkie” building in London designed by Rafael Viñoly is being blamed for melting a parked jaguar. Apparently the intensely concave mirrored building was not tested for the obvious ability of creating a solar death ray (by concentrating the suns rays on small areas below).  Londoners call it the “Walkie Scorchie” phenomenon.  Apparently this is not the first building by the architect that has produced this effect. He has another in Las Vegas that managed to melt all the pool furniture on a hotel terrace.

 Image via the Evening Standard

 

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