Two and a half million gallons of filtered water fill this enormously deep swimming pool in Belgium called Nemo33.
1 - Timelapse of Hand-drawn Manhattan
2 - Handmade Wooden Surfer Handplanes
3 - An Attentive Eye on Madrid's Las Ventas
My first real exposure to the ancient practice of Bull Fighting was at Las Ventas.
4 - Femto-photography - Time Super Hi-Res
This TED talk on Femto-photography (1 trillion frames per second) is a real mind-bender. I love having my mind bent.
5 - Book Art: Beautiful Evidence
Wry little diorama like photos, these pieces from a show called "Beautiful Evidence" (no doubt inspired by one of favorite Tufte books: Beautiful Evidence
1 - Bill Murray
2 - Wildly Imaginative Public Schools
Above: Kindergarten Kekec by Arhitektura Jure Kotnik — Ljubljana, Slovenia
The folks over at Flavorwire have a great piece on some of the most amazing public schools around the world. Here are some of our favorite highlights.
Bailly School Complex by Mikou Design Studio — Saint-Denis, France
Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM — Paris, France
The Josephine Baker Schools by Dominique Coulon & Associés — La Courneuve, France
Sarreguemines Nursery by Michel Grasso and Paul Le Quernec — Sarreguemines, France
Sra Pou Vocational School by Rudanko + Kankkunen — Sra Pou, Cambodia
Ørestad Gymnasium by 3XN Architects — Copenhagen, Denmark
3 - Animated GIFS are amazing
What a comeback such an old and low-tech thing as animated GIFs are making. Love these from a tumblr called 40licks.
4 - Handmade Bionic Hands
"Sun Jifa, 51, lost both his hands when a bomb he was creating for blast fishing in Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, exploded"
"Could not afford hospital's prosthetic arms so made his own"
5 - Love Sport: Stylish, Funny Sports Animations
This animation series from Studio AKA is a gem. I can't quite believe I've never seen it before now.
1 - SPHINX OBSERVATORY IN THE SWISS ALPS
The Sphinx Observatory in Switzerland is beautiful and gorgeous and looks like a steampunk castle to me.
2 - Metro Animation
There isn't anything particularly innovative about this short animation. It is just stylish, lovely and moving.
3 - Where Children Study
The folks over on Brain Pickings brought this phenomenal series of classrooms from around the world from photographer Julian Germain to my attention.
4 - The Lincoln Tunnel at 190mph
I haven't driven through the Lincoln Tunnel for about 10 years, and that was in a UHAUL. So, yeah, this is a bit of wish fulfillment.
5 - A Robot That Prints Buildings Out of Sand
Three architecture students from Spain have developed the Stone Spray Project: a robot that uses CAD drawings to program a robot to 'print' buildings out of sand using a special binding agent. I would imagine that bonded sand would have remarkable compressive strength. Not so sure about tensile, shear and torsional strength. I am really interested to see if/when this moves past the proof of concept phase.
1 - Dubai On the Move
Dubai is such a rapidly growing dynamic city. Every time I see a video like this or a set of photos it seems so much has changed. And certain so much has changed since my brief stop there in 1997.
2 - Motion Capture of Flying Robots Is Pretty
Quadrotors, micro-drones, all other sorts of flying robots are terrifyingly amazing. And this video studying and visualizing flight paths is gorgeous. The look like vertebrae . Eery.
4 - Parisian Theaters
All of these astounding photos of gorgeous Paris theaters are from Paris-born photographer Frank Bohbot. I wish I knew the names of each of them. Anyone recognize any of them?
5 - Tilt-shift Olympics
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.