Nate pointed me to this (fairly boring) video of AMAZING robots. Rather than build a robot that can find a shoebox on a shelf, pick it up, and bring it to a worker, Zappos has robots that bring the whole shelf to the worker. Impressive.
School desk design! The bag rack is great, but so is the little ledge that stops your laptop from falling off the front edge.
This guy is my new hero. Payphones in NYC converted to guerilla libraries.
Oh, we are so headed to LACMA to see this.
Kathryn Clark makes quilts that visualize foreclosures in American cities. Above: Detroit.
I’ll tell you something about yourself. You may think, “You know what, self? I’m not really interested in how chicken wire is made.” But you’re wrong.
Watch this, and tell me you’re not a little bit fascinated at the way the machine twists the wire together to make a fence.
Kohei Nawa takes taxidermied animals and covers them with glass beads of varying sizes.
Amazing calligraphy from the 1600s. Lots more on Flickr.
I do it every year, but I’m always willing to have company. I hereby propose a toast to Charles Dickens, on today his 200th birthday.
Cheers, Charles.
Oh, and a shameless plug: you should get my friend John’s new book about Charles Dickens. It’s pretty great.
Astounding. These anatomical cross-sections of a human body are made of tiny paper strips, a fringe craft called ‘quilling.’
