Wednesday, 18. February 2009, 06:50:44
sonam, cool, a, sonam dangers
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I don't think it's a stretch to say that this planned Huaxi city center for Guiyang, China is just bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S! It's an architectural fever dream created by 11 different firms, invited and overseen by Beijing-based MAD architects. It's supposed to mimic nature rather than cater to the traditional design of a city: "The city is no longer determined by the leftover logic of the industrial revolution (speed, profit, efficiency) but instead follows the 'fragile rules' of nature," MAD said in a release.
You may remember MAD for their work on that crazy floating star-shaped city we showed you. While neither this nor that will probably ever be built, MAD is still known for pushing the limits — even when designing real buildings, like Sinosteel Plaza.
Saturday, 8. March 2008, 12:30:23
sonam mathuria, way, box, mathuria
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One of best parts of Will Smith's first slapstick-sci-fi "Men In Black" film is the part when an entire galaxy is found living inside a tiny marble. The scene was a mind-blowing moment in sci-fi history and now you can relive the cognitive dissonance too with design firm Living World's Milky Way galaxy 3D model. Created using real space data culled by Eiichiro Kokubo, Assistant Professor at Japan's National Astronomical Observatory and Osaka University's Kato Tsunehiko, the three dimensional cube encased model does indeed look you're holding an entire galaxy in the palm of your hand. But holding 80,000 laser rendered stars in your hand isn't cheap, the cube costs 80,000 yen ($770).
Friday, 7. March 2008, 10:59:28
ghost, sand, burried, mathuria
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Friday, 7. March 2008, 10:27:12
cyberpunk, mathuria, chandelier, any
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Matrix...anyone said. Yeah but this chandelier in first look, seems like the bunch of screens in the movie Matrix...except for the blue in place of green. But looking closely it turns out to be just a chandelier for your ceiling.
If Big Brother had a chandelier, this would be it. "End of an Era" is an art project created by Ian Burns that attaches 16 small black-and-white TVs to a chandelier-ish frame. Each screen displays a live video feed (presumably received via the extended antennas in the pic), and from the looks of the screens, it's the same one on each. Well, that's kinda boring. I want 16 different live video feeds, Ian. I want this thing to look like some kind of 24 scene cutaway run amok — think you can handle that next time?
Tuesday, 4. March 2008, 14:11:23
future, robot, one, mathuria
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The works of Kenji Yanobe are renowned in the Japanese art world for their nightmarish takes on the future. But peeling through Yanobe's portfolio of work reveals a particular obsession with man-meets-machine contraptions. From the fire breathing Giant Torayan (created as a child's toy, it actually breathes fire), to the erotic bug-like Radiation Suit Atom to the Dune-esque features of the Mini Tanking Machine, Yanobe's work hints at a future many of us would be afraid of, and others would revel in. If the dark side of sci-fi is your cup of sake, Yanobe's work will be on display at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art until April 16th.
Monday, 3. March 2008, 12:58:04
years, on, sonam mathuria, sonam
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How long do you expect your flashlight to last without needing a recharge? A few hours, perhaps? How about 80 years, how does that sound? Because that's just how long newly developed micro LEDs can last on just a single charge. Damn.
Of course, this LED is called micro for a reason — it's tiny. Like 15 microns across compared to the 300 microns across that a standard LED measures. But still, the technology is there, so it could be expanded to make larger, more practical LEDs that might last a less impressive but still awesome 5 years on a single charge. It'd be tough to complain about that.
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