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Tech NewsDesignThese Graphic Prints Contain The Text of Your Favorite Books
There are lots of different kinds of love out there, but perhaps none more pure than between people and their favorite books. You could keep a copy of your one and only out at all times, prominently placed on a shelf at home, or you could spring for one of these posters, t-shirts, or totes … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignMaking Hot Air Bread Balloons With An Industrial-Strength Blower
Here is the most fun way to make bread: Prepare a massive pile of dough, brightly colored with natural dyes; cut off a small section and flatten it out; place that pizza-like sheet on top of an industrial-strength blower and watch it inflate into a toasty, instantly edible balloon. Blow Dough was the brainchild of … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Greatest Eulogy of All Time For a Broadway Legend
Elaine Stritch passed away today at the age of 89. While the Broadway legend had decades of iconic live performances under her belt, tonight’s a good time to celebrate her life on the small screen: As Colleen Donaghy in 30 Rock with a eulogy—The Greatest Eulogy of All Time—written and delivered by her onscreen son, … Continued
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This Chlorine-Free Pool Is Biofiltered and Freaking Beautiful
‘Tis the season for stripping down and getting wet in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, the chlorine and chemicals used to keep man-made, al fresco watering holes clean can do a number on sensitive skin, which makes this Swiss pool all the more appealing; Herzog & de Meuron designed this beautiful lagoon with biofilters. Au naturel, … Continued
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One Listen of This Long Track Will Totally Clear Your Mind, Man
Christopher Willits is a San Francisco-based musician who does magical, meditative stuff with sound. Gold is a 24-minute track that somehow manages to take all the frenetic flotsam and jetsam bouncing around in your head and morph it into a slow-flowing stream of happy molasses. It’s not a song, really—more of an exploration of sound. … Continued
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This Ramen Is Made By a Machine That Takes Up The Length of a Room
A noodle is a noodle is a noodle—right? No way, dude. Though the ingredients are few, the process to make ramen is nuanced. It can (obviously) be done by hand, but Sun Noodle HQ has the help of a long machine that mixes dough into balls, flattens it into sheets, rolls it like toilet paper, … Continued
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How Cyclists on Fixies Saved California’s Mail Service 120 Years Ago
Over a century ago, a major rail strike in Chicago cut train activity—including mail service—from Illinois straight to the Pacific coast. In order to maintain California’s consistent postal deliveries, a group of bicyclists teamed up to complete a 210-mile relay from the state’s central valley up to San Francisco—on fixies, over unpaved dirt roads. This … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThis Century-Old Warship Got a New Dazzle Paint Job To Commemorate WWI
Dazzle camouflage is not subtle; the in-your-face style popularized in WWI seems more suited to a modern art gallery than a battle zone. Now, in commemoration of the Great War, a 1918 relic floating on the banks of the Thames has gotten a brand new paint job that honors its past. The black, white, and … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignWatching This Moody Light Show Might Transport You To Another Dimension
Using a combo of convex mirrors, choreographed projections, and strategic puffs of fog, the creative duo behind Seoul-based art and design studio Kimchi and Chips put together this brain-bending installation called Light Barrier. Stare too closely and you just might get transported to another dimension. The trippy show took place earlier this month as part … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignPractice Putting At 3,000 Feet With This Mountaintop Mini-Golf Course
If you make it to the top of La Rhune, a 3,000-foot-tall mountain in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, you can look up and out to the natural panorama: peaks and valleys stretching unobstructed into the distance. Or you could look down to the playful Panorama: an eight-hole goofy golf course at your feet. … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignWatch the World’s Biggest Wooden Yo-Yo Do a Trick in the Desert
Would you like to see the world’s largest wooden yo-yo attempt a trick in the desert? Of course you would! Six feet in diameter, made from the boards of an old deck and big and heavy enough to require a crane. Yep, that’ll do the trick. Benjamin Moore organized the stunt to promo a new … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMassive school of anchovies looks like a hungry giant alien oil blob
This big black blob that recently appeared off the San Diego coast looks like the fallout from an oil spill, or an undersea plague coming to haunt humans and probably steal their souls. In reality, it’s a massive school of anchovies—harmless enough that people are actually snorkeling through the dark mass of fishies. Apparently the … Continued
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Tech NewsWho Recorded the Best Ever Cover of “Summertime”?
We’ve recently seen some serious contenders emerge for title of official jam of this, the sweatiest season of the year. Grimes, Dodger Stadium, and, uh, Usher with his boys Lil Jon and Luda have all wooed Giz staff with their vocal talents. Well, forget about those fools. Today is the time to make your case … Continued
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Inside San Franciso’s Fire Department, Where Ladders Are Made by Hand
San Francisco’s Fire Department is one of the few left in the United States that still uses wooden ladders. Each is made by hand at a dedicated workshop. Some have been in rotation for nearly a century. We’ll get to the why and how, but hang on: Wouldn’t a wooden ladder burn? Yes. They go … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Young Terry Gilliam Explain How He Makes Monty Python Animations
There’s a lot to love about vintage Monty Python—dead parrots, silly walks, lumberjacks, killer rabbits—but Terry Gilliam’s magic touch with his signature cut-out animations really gave the group a goofball creative edge. In this clip from the early 1970s, a fresh-faced Gilliam (with an incredible ‘do) describes his no-tech approach to the process. “Maximum effect … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Fantastic Animated Film Will Take You On A Bizarro Tour De France
The Tour de France has kicked off, which means tonight is the perfect time to snuggle up on the sofa and watch The Triplets of Belleville. The animated feature follows a badass little granny (with a limp and hint of mustache) as she tracks down her cyclist grandson who’s been kidnapped by the French mafia. … Continued
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London Has Never Looked Better Than in These Mid-Century Linocuts
London has been written about, painted, sketched, photographed, and depicted in pretty much any and every creative medium available to human hands, but Edward Bawden’s linocuts of England’s capital are some of the coolest depictions of the city, ever ever ever. The Floral Hall, Covent Garden, 1967, lithograph after linocut The artist and graphic designer … Continued
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Watch How This Futuristic Fiberglass Chair Is Made By Hand
Moreso than any seat I think I’ve ever seen, the Karuselli Chair looks like something that should be stationed front and center on the bridge of the starship Enterprise. Can’t you just see Kirk in there, doing a power swivel to talk biz with Spock or Scotty? In reality, the fiberglass classic was not conceived … Continued
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The Middle of this Massive Indoor Maze Reveals How To Get Back Out Again
Getting lost in a museum is easy, and aimlessly wandering from wing to wing is a nice, relaxing, not-at-all-claustrophobic way to spend an afternoon. Alternatively you could venture into The BIG Maze at DC’s National Building Museum, an on-site installation filled with winding paths, dead-ends, and a cool reveal at the end of the road. … Continued
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Tech NewsNeil Diamond’s Anthemic Ode to America is as Patriotic as it Gets
U! S! A! U! S! A! The sun’s setting on this very fine fourth of July; I’d say that’s just about the right time for a sing-a-long of this rousing 1981 stadium-filler by national treasure Neil Diamond. Let your patriotism flow like a tapped keg of Budweiser; allow your America love to sparkle like an … Continued
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