Results of Vancouver's manhole cover
design contest
Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow opens tonight. The movie looks like its going to be huge and a nice addition to the library of movies that designers use for inspiration. Production designer Kevin Conran, cites Raymond Lowey as a major influence on the aesthetic. His brother Kerry wrote, directed, and produced much of the movie in his basement.
Coming soon to a bike rack near YOU:
The Kryptonite Story: Broken Locks, Broken Promises From Core reader and NYC biker Chris:
"It is very easy to pick a kryptonite lock with a bic pen. All you have to do is remove the pen from the plastic tube, and insert the plastic tube into the lock and then wiggle and twist and push on the pen.
"At first I thought it was a hoax. A coworker told me that his brother saw somebody do it. then I was playing around with my pen and his EV disc lock (NY chain lock) and the lock fell open.
"There are a couple of threads on the web on this topic, all of which make it seem like a hoax, but I have unlocked and locked the EV lock in as little as 30 seconds. We called kryptonite and they sounded frantic. They said they found out about it on Monday and they have been having meetings and working on it all week. they said they hope to have a solution by the end of the week, but they did not think they would be able to return all of the phone calls by then."
Seven Fallacies in Architectural Culture A very interesting essay by Douglas Kelbaugh FAIA, Dean of the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, University of Michigan. Many of these points span all disciplines of design.
[via
Archinect]
A new feature for Windows users - the '
JPEG of Death' flaw allows hackers to gain access to your computer when you view the wrong type of file.
No, that guy standing in the bathroom taking digital photos is not a fetishist (nor a prevert), it's
Peter Merholz, documenting the
various designs of paper towel dispensers (and inviting you to join in on the fun).
First Jurg Lehni's inkjet rig
Hektor (love the favicon, btw), and now Rosemarie Fiore's
Scrambler drawings? We love when grafittistas don't do as they're told.
Welcome to the Global Positioning System Drawing Project. (A perfect marriage of 2D and 3D, for all you designer types.)
In San Francisco, Swiss designers
revisit the milking stool.
Sorry Hummer owners, the best way to make up for your lack of self confidence is now this CXT truck thing. It's 21.5 feet long, weighs 7 tons, and gets 6 to 10 miles to the gallon. Who let this happen?
Found at
Gizmodo.