Behold: the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 sports cars, inspired by classic racing barchettas of the 40s and 50s, the single and dual seater, roofless, carbon fibre sports cars are powered by the most powerful engine Maranello has ever created: a V12, 798bhp monster capable of 0-100km/h in 2.9 seconds.
Only 500 will be made and every one of them has been sold in advance.
A selection of especially gravity-defying examples of Brutalist architecture.
From top: Grand Central Water Tower, Midrand, South Africa, (1996); Armstrong Rubber Company Building, New Haven, Connecticut, (1968); São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil, (1968); Praxis Home, Mexico City (1970); Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum, Austria, (2010) and De Rotterdam, Rotterdam, ( 2013).
Online giants of the 70s, imagined by designer Future Punk. To wit;
I created Retro style animated intros for today’s modern internet companies inspired by great work of sullivan & marks, Robert Abel & associates, Computer Image Corporation and various other Early CG/Scanimate companies.
The balloon-twisting witchcraft of Masayoshi Matsumoto – each one between three and six squeaky hours in the making.
Mezmoglobe – a fairly mesmerising aluminium desk toy by Kristoph Krisjans (currently Kickstarting).
Behold the all electric Volvo Vera Autonomous Transport – a conceptual but entirely likely vision of the future of driverless, cloud-controlled, short-haul transport vehicles.
Also, it’s how Skynet will distribute Terminator components.
John P. Muldoon asks:
My daughter picked up this tea with ginger and other stuff in America. It sounds awful but the packaging looked familiar. It is made in Poland and they also sing the praises of their triangular teabag. Coincidence?
Anyone?
An impressive construction by block geek Shadow Elenter, to wit:
A LEGO technic bomb squad robot built with six S Bricks, 19 motors, a laser, lights and an electromagnet.
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