Plastic Bank
#1141 posted by
bambuz on 2008/09/25 20:56:28
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...
Hmmmm.
#1142 posted by
Text_Fish on 2008/09/26 00:53:50
*Melts his way in to the safe.* Muahahaha.
List Of Rotary Steam Engines
#1144 posted by
bambuz on 2008/09/28 20:03:00
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
Have No Fear
#1145 posted by bamby on 2008/09/29 13:10:23
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.
Random Suggestion
#1146 posted by Tronyn on 2008/10/07 20:57:37
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.
In The Bob Dylan Song Isis.
#1147 posted by
HeadThump on 2008/10/07 23:37:24
One of his best
Stuff You Probably Know About II
#1148 posted by
Lunaran on 2008/10/08 01:14:09
Holy Shit
#1149 posted by
pjw on 2008/10/08 07:03:46
Some of those pics are really great!
Great Link
#1150 posted by
nitin on 2008/10/08 10:20:35
I'm now inspired to go travelling again right now!
amazing pics.
Site Of The Guy Whose Pics Lun Linked To
#1152 posted by
nitin on 2008/10/10 13:21:20
heaps more photos here, sorted by country.
http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/
A Few Futuristic Transportation Themes
#1154 posted by
bambuz on 2008/10/11 04:16:35
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
Finely Lacquered Hardwood Crateware
#1156 posted by
Lunaran on 2008/10/11 08:33:45
#1157 posted by
Zwiffle on 2008/10/11 09:14:05
That does not inspire me. That makes me suicidal.
Wuppertal Schwebebahn
#1158 posted by
jiri_b on 2008/10/11 15:55:55
Now Zwiffle,
#1159 posted by
HeadThump on 2008/10/11 18:22:21
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.
Frank Frazetta
#1162 posted by
pjw on 2008/10/16 04:12:09
is the man. He's always been one of my favorites, and is often imitated, but few artists have the sheer talent and style to get away with it.
More here:
http://www.artshakes.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=99
Also
#1163 posted by
pjw on 2008/10/16 06:29:53
apologies if this has been posted here before, but I hadn't seen a lot of these:
http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/
Be sure to go on to part two.
#1164 posted by
Zwiffle on 2008/10/16 06:49:59
Not sure if it was mentioned in your link, but I heard Frazetta lost his right arm (his drawing arm) to a stroke or somesuch, and re-learned to draw with his left arm.
Fucking gosu. Props. Mad props.