Hotel room that looks like a drawing
Hotel room that looks like a drawing - What they did was outline all the corners in thin black lines, giving the appearance that the room is a comic book sketch. Unbelivably convincing illusion.
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Hotel room that looks like a drawing - What they did was outline all the corners in thin black lines, giving the appearance that the room is a comic book sketch. Unbelivably convincing illusion.
How to descend a mountain - This is the most amazing video you’ll see this year. These guys combine hang gliding and skiing to descend a mountain in an unbelievably short time. Ben Saunders, the guy who links this, has done solo skiing expeditions to the north pole, and he calls this video “the most hardcore thing I’ve seen for a long time.”
(Thanks, kottke
I went home for fall break a couple of weekends ago, and while I was studying for my cell biology at my old desk, I opened up the file drawer on it. In it, I have a hanging folder folder marked “sentimental” in which I have an entire scrapbook worth of old scraps of paper I saved from high school and junior high. I’ve got band concert programs, my valedictorian speech, the brochure I received at the Sears Tower during my junior high trip to Chicago, and so much more. It’s grounding to occasionally return to these scraps. I know times were “tough” in their own way during the years I gathered these scraps, but the human power of retaining the good and forgetting the bad charges this eclectic stash with sentimental value.
I pulled two scraps from the pile to take pictures of. Some of you may recognize them (and for those who do not … it’s pretty self explanatory) as Nils’ invitations to his birthday and graduation parties during the spring and early summer of 2003. If I recall correctly, these party flyers were popular for a while in high school - they were fun little creations, sometimes printed at the school’s expense, that promoted an upcoming social shindig.
Those were good times: only 3 and a half years ago, these events feel like another lifetime. We’ve all grown so much these past years. Expect more reminiscing this coming spring as the successful conclusion of many undergraduate careers approaches.
Still under construction at time of photography.
Solar power becoming more affordable - “Last month, Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corporation showed off its new system for focusing sunlight with a fresnel lens (like the one used in lighthouses) onto superefficient solar cells, which are about twice as efficient as conventional silicon cells.”
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