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Real Beauty...

2013-04-20T10:26:00.003-07:00

Your self-confidence shouldn't be dependent on how attractive other people find you, but ... because I know I would have reacted the same way if I'd been part of this project, I'll get down off my high horse just long enough to say, "Ladies, we really need to stop being so hard on ourselves!" Chances are, you'll take a second look in the mirror after you watch this. Or maybe you'll just ditch your mirror altogether. Wouldn't that be nice?

via www.upworthy.com

So Much To Learn

2013-04-05T09:26:00.001-07:00

Growing and maturing... Crap! In a world that produces more than enough food to feed everyone, 3.5 million children still die from hunger every year. And the blame goes to us. We should learn from them and share, too.

The 'Busy' Trap

2013-03-25T05:05:00.001-07:00

Is being busy a good or bad thing? Are you too busy? How do you handle it?

Look at ...yourself

2013-01-25T06:15:00.000-08:00

Is this what they see? Is this what we are going to see???

via http://9gag.com/

Treehotel

2013-01-25T03:35:00.001-08:00

Satisfy the boy's dream inside you. How about complete isolation, in a near zero-emission resort, in rooms designed by Scandanavia’s leading architects? “Treehotel offers a unique hotel experience: treerooms with contemporary design in the middle of unspoiled nature,” say the creators. “Here you can forget about the time constraints of everyday life, enjoy the serenity, and rejuvenate in a sophisticated yet familiar environment.”

The hotel has a total of 24 rooms with five unique designs, all of which complement their natural surroundings in very different ways.

The Mirrorcube is the first and arguably most striking of the five designs. Hidden deep in the forest and camouflaged by mirrored walls that reflect the surroundings, the room is built around a tree trunk and is supported by an aluminium frame covered with reflective glass.

If the other rooms try to integrate with their natural surroundings, the UFO aims to stand out from the crowd. Thirty square metres of cosy interior covered by durable composite metal, the UFO provides plenty of living space and extra modern furnishings in its hull.

The Bird’s Nest is a room of contrasts: from outside, a stack of twigs, bleak and uncompromising. The interior, however, is familiar and warm with space for two adults and two children.

The Cabin was developed to exhibit the best views over the Lule River Valley. The roof terrace also means you can eat your dinner under the Northern Lights.

The ironically-titled Blue Cone (it’s red) is the quintessence of simplicity and accessibility. The room is a traditional wooden structure with three foundations in the ground to give a sense of height and lightness, but also stability.

No Scandinavian hot spot would be complete without a Scandinavian hot spot, so Tree Sauna is the perfect way to sweat those metropolitan worries away.

More at http://www.treehotel.se/

via http://amazingstuff.co.uk

Famous Guitar Paintings

2013-01-13T15:51:00.000-08:00

These are some acrylic and charcoal paintings of the most famous guitars of all time, by Karl Haglund. From Slash to Keith Richard and from Flee to Paul McCartney we can see the guitars and bases that made the rock n roll history. More at www.karlhaglund.com

Pavegen

2013-01-08T13:48:00.000-08:00

We have seen many different "green" solutions for energy production. This is a new one, creating energy from simple footsteps. It seems that we are making progress...

The Scale of the Universe

2013-01-08T13:39:00.000-08:00

How big is a strange quark, compared to the Rotten Egg Nebula? How big is the total human weight, compared to the sun?These are questions you may never have asked — indeed, their answers are perhaps of dubious value — but I bet you’re still curious… The Scale of the Universe is a mind-blowing flash site that can travel you from the scale of a string to the scale of tha known universe... You should definately check this out...

The scale of the universe

via amazingstuff.co.uk

The Billionaires Shop

2012-12-31T03:08:00.001-08:00

Do you need some last minute gifts for these days? Here is a list of some that your dear ones will probably like...

J Craft Torpedo

His Royal Highness of Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf owns a J Craft torpedo. Each of the 42 ft long J Craft Torpedo takes about 4,000 man-hours to complete and every detail receives care, from the touch of the leather to the weight and resistance of a particular switch. The eco-friendly mahogany deck is lacquered and varnished 18 times.

Bentley Mulsanne

The Mulsanne represents W.O Bentleys view of what pinnacle automobiles should be like: large, fast, refined and comfortable. A Mac is wired to the LED-screens in the backseat.

IWC Sidérale Scafusia

The Sidérale can be useful if you are portaling and desire a timepiece to help you remember where you are. It combines a perpetual calendar with leap year display and absolute day of the year, with a celestial chart showing horizon, ecliptic and celestial equator with a indication for day, night and twilight, with a display for sunrise and sunset and coordinates for a specific location. Price: $750,000.

50 Central Park South

This apartment is located on the same address as the Ritz Carlton Hotel across from Central Park and it’s perfect for Christmas celebration.

There’s actually 12 apartments on top of Ritz Carlton which all share their own Lobby and a private spa/gym. What’s more the Ritz Carlton’s hotel services are available to you 24 hours a day.

Pretty neat being at home and at a hotel at the same time.

Boeing 7×7

Perhaps the ultimate private jet will be the new supersonics bringing back the performance of the Concorde allowing you to take your guests from NY to Paris in 2 hours.

Until then, a custom Boeing or Airbus will have to do as your personal airborne explorer.

via informationfarm

Brusspup

2012-12-29T03:01:00.001-08:00

Brusspup is a youtube channel with really interesting videos about optical illusions and science. Take a look at some stunning illusions and cool experiments. You will be amazed.
Here is a preview:

Santa Tracker

2012-12-24T13:02:00.004-08:00

So, it's Christmas Eve! Google has made tha most useful site of the day. It's Santa tracker! A wonderful flash site with many information about this year's Santa's trip for gifts. Check it out and learn when your presents arrive, search for the cool mini games, create messages for your dear ones or even call Santa himself!

http://www.google.com/santatracker/

Original Quote Posters

2012-12-24T06:12:00.000-08:00

Quotes from great people, with nice illustration.

via thrashlab

Ferrofluids

2012-12-23T15:42:00.000-08:00

Ferrofluids are colloidal liquids made of nanoscale ferromagnetic, or ferrimagnetic, particles suspended in a carrier fluid (usually an organic solvent or water).

Ok, it's a liquid that can be controled with magnets...

Funny Scary Snowman

2012-12-23T08:43:00.002-08:00

Christmas is here! This is a funny way of sharing happiness. Or just a cool prank...

Faviken Magasine

2012-12-22T04:18:00.000-08:00

If you are craving a Christmas meal with an authentic flavor, then book your reservation for Sweden’s Fäviken Magasine a restaurant set on 24,000 acres of pristine farmland where chef Magnus Nilsson creates his version of Scandinavian locavore cuisine using seasonal produce and sourcing ingredients locally. With Fäviken’s grounds covered in snow for six months out of the year, Nilsson relies on pickling, fermenting, curing and other old-fashioned preservation techniques through winter.

Check out one of the 50 greatest restaurants in the world, and one of the greatest chefs, too.

Chef Magnus Nilsson. All Photos: Howard Sooley

Fäviken Sweden

Fäviken estate

Scallops on bed of moss & juniper

Brown trout roe in pigs blood “baskets”

Raw milk and sugar for coffee with meadow sweat candy and dried berries

Cured meats and onion display in the dining room.

Wolfskin coat

Just Saying...

2012-12-18T12:58:00.001-08:00

The CataCombo Sound System

2012-12-17T11:36:00.000-08:00

Seriously now... What t...??? Materialism in all its glory. Not a joke. This is for real.

Is it just me laughing? Check for yourselves: http://www.catacombosoundsystem.com

Giant Dust Storms

2012-12-15T03:20:00.000-08:00

Here are some frightening huge dust storms, from all over the world. Dust storms like these can be cross-continental events, eating up everything in their path for hundreds of miles. If they make it into the upper atmosphere, they have been known to travel to the other side of the world, carrying with them all manner of viruses and respiratory ailments. They are called apocalyptic dust storms.

8 Spruce Street NYC

2012-12-14T05:19:00.000-08:00

Designed by Frank Gehry, 8 Spruce Street is the world’s largest residential tower at 867 feet tall with 903 residential units.Each apartment on the north side has a bay window that is not vertically aligned to its neighbor and each apartment is configured differently to fit the building’s seven-sided design which is comprised of 10,500 stainless steel panels of different shapes.

via informationfarm

Kai Tak Cruise Terminal

2012-12-14T05:08:00.001-08:00

The new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal is being constructed on the site of Hong Kong’s former airport, at the tip of the old runway. Establishing Hong Kong as the preeminent regional hub for cruise liners, the terminal will have capacity to berth two large 360-metre-long vessels, each with more than 4,000 passengers and over 2,000 crew, as well as anticipating the demands of a next generation of larger ships.

NASA Says Relax, 21 December 2012 Will Be Just Another Day

2012-12-06T03:09:00.001-08:00

So evidence shows no earth destruction? Greece hang on...

Zhangye Danxia

2012-12-02T15:34:00.000-08:00

It seems that the day when the Earth decided to create this landscape, it was celebrating a party. This is a real landscape located at Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, a remote region in northern central China.Even for the undeniably powerful Mother Nature, creating something this arty wasn’t easy. It in fact took 24 million years of painstakingly laying down mineral deposits to form these rocks, like pouring different colours of sand into a jar. Over time these weighty layers were compressed into rock, and then a slight and unthinkably slow ripple from the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates rumpled the landscape into those magnificent undulations to complete the effect (meanwhile also giving rise to the Himalayas). Thus the amazingness of Zhangye Danxia was formed.

Tokyo Compression by Michael Wolf

2012-11-30T08:43:00.003-08:00

“On the JR Yamanote Line, it’s common during peak times for cars designed to hold 160 passengers to carry twice that number.” ~Japan Today
Photographer Michael Wolf’s “tokyo compression” focuses on tokyo’s underground system. Every day thousands and thousands of people enter this subsurface hell for two or more hours, constrained between glass, steel and other people who roll to their place of work and back home beneath the city.

In Wolf’s pictures you can look into countless human faces, all trying to sustain this evident madness in their own way. The Huffington Post called the series “zen commuters.”

All photos, Michael Wolf.

Via http://informationfarm.blogspot.gr

Chengdu Tianfu District Great City

2012-11-30T08:34:00.000-08:00

Great City, outside Chengdu, China, is envisioned as a prototype satellite city to be replicated in other locations throughout the country. The development is intended to respond to the problem of overburdened infrastructure in many of China’s major urban centers without contributing to the high energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with suburban sprawl.

Great City will be home to about 30,000 families totaling 80,000 people, many of whom will also have opportunities to work within the development. The distance from any location in the city to any other location will be walkable within about 15 minutes, all but eliminating the need for most automobiles. The city will also be connected to Chengdu and surrounding areas via mass transit to be accessed at a regional transit hub at the Great City center.

Great City will use 48% less energy and 58% less water than a conventional development of similar population. It will also produce 89% less landfill waste and generate 60% less carbon dioxide.

The project has been designed to conserve existing farmland, with more than 60% of the 800-acre site area preserved for agriculture and open space. The 320-acre urbanized area will be surrounded by a 480-acre buffer landscape, whose natural topography—including valleys and bodies of water—will be integrated into the city itself. Within the city, 15% of the land will be devoted to parks and landscaped space, while 60% will be parcelized for construction. The remaining 25% will be devoted to infrastructure, roads and pedestrian streets.

The city’s perimeter is defined by a clear edge, from which the city center can be reached on foot within 10 minutes. An extended recreation system connects the pedestrian network to trails that run through the green buffer and surrounding farmland. The infrastructure and public-realm networks include electric shuttles, plazas, parks and links to the recreation system. As a primarily pedestrian city, only half of the road area is allocated to motorized vehicles. All residential units will be within a two-minute walk of a public park.

In addition to improved efficiencies within buildings, the city will use seasonal energy storage to use waste summer heat to provide winter heating, and a power generation plant will employ the latest co-generation technology to provide both electricity and hot water. AS+GG has worked with the infrastructure consultant Mott MacDonald on plans for an Eco-Park located on the northwest edge of the city will integrate waste water treatment, solid waste treatment and power generation.

More at http://smithgill.com/work/great_city/

TOP 10 “REALLY HIP” MOUSTACHES IN L.A.

2012-11-28T10:09:00.000-08:00

Like the title says...

via thrashlab