Yesterday: One Small Hole For Man
Author Archives: Chompsky
From the Preachers ’n’ Sneakers Instagram account, which calls out supposedly ‘humble men of God’ sporting outrageously expensive footwear and leggings.
Someone had to take a stand.
Tessellated
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The intricate and ingenious folded paper art of Ekaterina Lukasheva – matt and iridescent paperworks that expand and contract, encapsulating two different forms in one.
Hot Wheel
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Behold: the Kiwano Koi+ electric scooter – a single wheeled scooter capable of a pedestrian friendly 20km/h with a 1000W hub motor packing a 40km range.
The Koi+’s ‘mono-shock’ suspension system and chunky polycarbonate tyre soak up bumps and provide light off-road capability, including the ability to tackle 30 degree inclines.
Step on. Lean forward. It does this.
Yours for around €1,152.
Unreal
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A promo for Unreal Engine 4 – a suite of graphics tools for designers and developers of games, simulations, and visualisations. As one commenter (presumably from a southern US state) observes:
Y’all are gonna be able to cook Thanksgiving Dinner with your graphics card.
Axeman
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A very satisfying time-lapse video (with equally pleasing speeded-up carpentry sound effects) of luthier Patrick Hufschmid creating the neck and body of one of his hand-built electric guitars, a gig at which he is no slouch.
A digital graduation short by Hungarian animator Anna Katalin Lovrity. To wit:
Somewhere, on an oceanic island, the forces of nature are still at work as in primeval times. A young, naive female tiger lives there in harmony with herself and nature. When her awakening femininity is noticed by an older male tiger, the young tigress is getting more and more scared by his heated approach.