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Smart clothes could take photos

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:50:06 +0000

Smart fabrics that may one day be able to take images of their surroundings are under development by US researchers.

Urban planter

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:50:06 +0000

Interesting urban design pops up in Toronto. A really creative approach to guerrilla gardening. The planter is made from layers of old advertising flyers!

Giant Gundam + Gundam Girl Robots stalk Japan

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:30:15 +0000

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An for the boy version:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139218.stm

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Japan continues to build robot army

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:30:15 +0000

Wakamatsu Park in Kobe, Japan, will soon play host to the latest member of a robot army. A life-size Tetsujin (aka Gigantor) robot, 60 feet tall and weighing nearly 50 tons, will be on permanent display starting in October. Tetsujin joins a life-size Gundam, built in Odaiba.

Tetsujin invades Kobe

(Credit: Kobe Project)

iPhone app lets you squash Wall Streeters

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:18 +0000

Squash the $treet is a game for your iPhone that enables you to express your violent dislike of all those smarmy bankers that Americans like to blame for the economic collapse.

Financial Crisis? Let your rage rain down on the crooks and swindlers who caused it.

Watch the shady bankers, creepy fraudsters and corrupt CEOs flee their gilded offices, sprinting for the nearest escape vehicle. Squash and flick the snarky scoundrels up and down the streets and sidewalks in the festering heart of the city where all the thievery and greed began.

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TEDTalks : The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames - Eames Demetrios (2007)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:18 +0000

The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, loving tribute to their creative process.

Tour de France chalkbot

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:18 +0000

Welcome to the e-wasteland

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:18 +0000

London-based photographer Sophie Gerrard has created a photo series called "E-wasteland," a graphic look at the toxic effects of electronic waste on India's land and its people.

Every year, Gerrard writes, 20 to 50 million tons of electronic waste are generated worldwide.

Seoul's Platoon Kunsthalle Art Center is Made of Shipping Containers!

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:07 +0000

The stunning new Platoon Kunsthalle Art Center is completely composed of recycled shipping containers for a modern look. See photos at Inhabitat

Space and Sound: NYC Edition

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:07 +0000

The NYT has two stories out. The first examines an installation by composer John Morton in a tunnel just north of the Central Park. The second looks at the proposed installation of nature sounds for the coming subway station house at 96th Street and Broadway.

Alternative Fuel Watch: MP(ee)G

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:06 +0000

Would you like to drive a car powered by urine? Of course you would. Not only is it an awesomely efficient concept, but, according to Gas 2.0, 'using urine as a source of hydrogen to power the cars of the future is a serious undertaking and based on completely sound science.' The scoop:

[R]esearchers at Ohio University have found that urine makes a much better starting point for generating hydrogen than water. The hydrogen found in…

Cardboard Tube Fighting League comes to NYC

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:06 +0000

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Ikea Chicken Coop

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:06 +0000

Via Patti Scheindelman's New World Geek comes word of this nifty "Ikea hack," a chicken coop made from an Ikea bunk bed and storage unit.

Ikea home for chicks

(Re)constructing Iraq

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:00:11 +0000

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An illustration that the neoliberal dreamworld city plays the same soundtrack and architectural rendering style from Baghdad to Brooklyn.

As you can see from the comments posted, there's a conflation with the freedom to build luxury environs with larger, societal freedoms associated with democracy. But beyond the real estate justifications for the costs of war, will these new condos eventually be converted to homeless shelters or affordable housing, as we've seen in Crown Heights?

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On the rise: "ghostboxes"

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:17 +0000

As the recession takes its toll on big-box retailers, empty buildings are piling up.
Many are trying to find creative uses for those near windowless monoliths. In Minnesota, one became a Spam Museum. In Texas, an indoor go-cart track. In Illinois, a church moved into an empty Wal-Mart. The new tenants, however, often generate less revenue for local governments. AP

One Year in Ten Minutes

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:17 +0000

Nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds, to be precise, is the length of the Bartlett School of Architecture, Year 1's End of Year Film 2009.

Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:17 +0000

Previously: Daimlerstrasse 38 or How to get a fox to shoot portrait of itself.

From the photo archive of the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, 1977. Photograph: CLUI archive

Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, an exhibition that opened a few days ago at the Barbican in London, brings together Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism.

Global Street Food

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:00:10 +0000

Global Street Food is an exhibition the various contraptions people use to make and sell food on the street.

"Global Street Food" is dedicated to the fascination with improvised kitchens in public places. Urban fast food stations navigating the contrast between pragmatic dilettantism and complexity in the smallest of spaces. Mike Meiré will be presenting several objects and street kitchens from different parts of the world in the Buckmneister Fuller Dome. An exhibition depicting the sculptural quality of authentic objects and their cultural identity

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The architecture of Star Wars

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:00:10 +0000

The Architects' Journal selected their top 10 structures from the Star Wars films.

Not quite a building, but the monumental quality of its form and its polygonal facades lend this Jawa Sandcrawler a building-like presence. These large treaded vehicles have inspired buildings from a Tunisian hotel to Rem Koolhaas' Casa de Musica in Porto.

The Uniform Project: A Dress for All Seasons

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:00:10 +0000

Sheena Matheiken's Uniform Project is a fashion trend I can support. With the help of clothing designer Eliza Starbuck, Matheiken is wearing a single dress every day for the next year, albeit with an inspired array of accessories, in what she describes as 'an exercise in sustainable fashion.'

Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds…