Transportation
You’ve seen the pictures of the hacked together ones but here’s the real deal. Motorcycle side-car based camera mount. The fabrication quality blows me away. Based on a 6 cylinder 1500cc what? Seats 4.
Sexy enough to make me consider a electric car. Almost. Or I could buy one and put a real engine in it. Porsche 918 Spyder.
A lyric piece of description. The destruction of a median strip is carefully watched from it’s seemingly innocuous beginnings with a few dusty foot prints to it’s take over a a crossing point for auto-rickshaws. (New Delhi, but it would be under the Viaduct here in Seattle.)
A few pages from the catalog of the 1930 Earl’s Court Bicycle and Motorcycle Show. Love Smith’s gauges.
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Technology
In Afghanistan there are people working hard with little more than trash to bring some connection to the modern world. Wi-fi points and repeaters made from stuff scrounged out of the garbage — literally. Great ingenuity and drive. And so much of the same-same hassles, petty politics, and interpersonal failures of relationships that affect any tech project. As Amy says, it’s funny but it’s not.
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Literature
Good Night Moon has driven parents bonkers since 1947. Now there’s a Star Wars based update called Good Night Forest Moon. Better yet it’s a download and bind yourself project with excellent instructions. Craft time to bed time.
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Art, Images, and Design
Best iPhone stand ever. What is this gadget holder doing in Art, Image and Design? — It’s great found object sculpture. Fork over.
Also an iPhone/iPod accessory. The ammo box speaker set, perfect disguise. Do Want.
More cross-over stuff. Why won’t the world stay nicely sorted in to my categories? The title of this recently released book says it all — Go Faster: The Graphic Design of Racing Cars
A little cool for my day today. Here’s Ms. Loren from the Impossible Cool.
onward and upward, or at least out the door.