http://www.materialicious.com/

and his other site

http://www.stairporn.org/

and something linked from it

http://www.richardpowers.co.uk/library_landing.php?id=2 

at the other end of the timeline, Opacity hasn't been killed in the collapse of an old insane asylum yet and now has 100+ albums:

http://www.opacity.us/ 

This bank:
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design/What--A-Bank-/

It's like walking around in an ipod 

That bank is SO not going to go bankrupt. It probably has its own time travel device built into it to prevent such catastrophes.

Also, to get an account there the bouncer has to think you're cool enough. 

http://zulmiradesign.blogspot.com/

http://bp2.blogger.com/_5qrYlZp3an0/SCixJm96vfI/AAAAAAAAAHI/1InbMRoE7Cw/s1600-h/escavado.jpg 

Shit won't stick on it.

Sadly, what happens when that surface is tarnished? You can't change any panels or grind out or anything, since it's monolithic.

And it also probably turns yellow with time.

Plastic summer cottages were marketed in Finland in the sixties. You don't see any around...
http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=61&lang=fi&mo
But there were different ones... 

*Melts his way in to the safe.* Muahahaha. 

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/ny-design-meetup/house-tour-bill-and-marias-cat-playgroundnew-york-062481 

Lotsa great inventions here... except that most of them didn't work out too well.
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/rotaryengines/rotaryeng.htm 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_JLIhZLxg
The future is here. Hovering rocket vehicles popping all over USA. Showdown in November.
Soon, space travel will not be the same as it used to be. 

suggestion for someone else to make for Q1SP, maybe speedmapping session:

Pyramids in Antarctica (as in, they were built so long ago that it was tropic there at the time), as in Lovecraft's AtMoM, or even (maybe) in the Bob Dylan song Isis. 

One of his best 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html 

Some of those pics are really great! 

I'm now inspired to go travelling again right now!

amazing pics. 

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all 

heaps more photos here, sorted by country.

http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/ 

http://whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2008/10/sarugaku-backstreet-shopping-mall/ 

Rollercoasters are the way of the future - you can do tight turns with high speed since the track can be tilted.
http://www.brusa.biz/news/news.php?l_sel=1&idm=4&idk=9

There's been a huge number of fascinating concepts for mass transit but something always comes in the way:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/romag.htm

Here's a more general history with a huge number of cases http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/history.htm 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdF0FK-2io
Cabintaxi from Germany 

http://www.alicjakwade.com/Palette.html 

That does not inspire me. That makes me suicidal. 

a monorail thats now over 100 years old !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNI45mt8q0o&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn 

as the computer game industry grows, more specialized niches will spring up, and virtual crate designers are bound to be high in demand (ever seen a FPS without one?).

Of course, gazebos are my thing. 

http://blog.kierankelly.net/