Next generation – Halley VI, Purpose: Base design is supported on jackable legs above the snow surface, legs placed on skis so that the base can be moved easily. Work on Halley VI started in the Austral summer of 2007-2008 with an award winning new design. When the base moves too close to the sea (with the drifting ice-shelf) the modules can be towed further inland by tractors. In addition the “pods” are more flexible in function and can be converted from sleeping accommodation into scientific labs as required.
Every spring in the rice paddies of the small town of Inakadate, Japan, locals work together to painstakingly plant and groom different hues of rice to create massive, intricate works of art before harvesting the rice in September. This year’s masterpiece, a depiction of a samurai fighting a warrior monk, is in its full splendor. A tradition since 1993, the rice art attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Dr Ruben Rausing, the founder of Tetra Pak once remarked “Packaging Should Save More Than It Costs” Tetrapak has a healthy 8 billion euro business packaging liquids and food products exemplifying how to be elegantly simple yet highly innovative.
This images reminds me of the seminal branding campaign that was commissioned for UK television station Channel 4 who sought to be different, unexpected and immensely smart with it. Click the image and you’ll understand what I’m talking about. It’s a very clever series. Props @we love to build
Fascinating story about Apple’s rigorous regime for signal analysis.
After a series of double doors and long, anonymous hallways, we entered a large, warehouse-like lab cluttered with test equipment. So our group stood in the concrete and steel room — quite sparse and utilitarian, not what you expect from Apple — surrounded by giant aluminum cubes (a few of the company’s 17 anechoic chambers used for radio testing), and a small army of Apple reps. Ruben began by telling us that the labs used to be secret even to Apple employees — something they referred to as “black labs.” He also informed us that there were 40 engineers working in those labs who were experts and held PhDs in physics, telemetry, and all matter of dark arts that allow the company to continually develop and test wireless technologies.
Rather nice titles for the OFFF conference. An underwater deep sea world, full of these beautiful aquatic creatures and ionosphere sounds give it a really dreamy feeling.
Remembering the Thomas Crown Affair. That split screen effect is positively quaint now. But this was a big deal at the time. Revolutionary thinking (and amazing technical achievement) through a series of beautiful optical effects.
In the design by Herzog & de Meuron for 560 Leonard Street the load-bearing structure is strategically absent in the façade. The round columns are placed where Le Corbusier put them: just off the wall. The effect is not so much that of weightlessness – the building still has a distinct, ‘heavy’ mass that firmly stands on the ground. No, combined with the hip displacement of the upper floors, the effect is that of the stack. A stack of 56 stories, to be precise.
When molten lava meets the ocean it’s a profoundly cinematic moments in nature. Peter Lik’s award winning shot came after countless trips to Hawaii hoping to capture volcanoes. Stunning.
Kilauea Volcano, on Kalapana, The Big Island, I found following some rumors down dirt roads. I shot it at 5:54 a.m., under moonlight. It reminded me of the legend of Pele, Goddess of Fire in Hawaiian folklore—legend has it that she and her sister Na-maka-o-Kaha’i, Goddess of Sea and Water sabotaged each other. You can visualize Pele in the upper left, blowing steam from the volcano into the ocean.” Visit www.peterlik.com. *Tech Specs:* Tripod-mounted Hasselblad H2 with 50mm lens and Fujichrome Velvia 50. Exposure, 2 sec at f/11.
The war photographer Tim Hetherington, right, spent 14 months with a platoon of United States soldiers in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan. He, along with Sebastian Junger, left, made a documentary about the experience called “Restrepo.”
It avoids the conventions of documentary film: there is no back story, no drive-by’s with experts for context, no underlying ideology or obvious message. The viewer is dropped into war, with a hard jolt, and resides, along with 15 soldiers from Second Platoon of Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in a remote and raw outpost called Restrepo, so named after one member of the platoon who is killed early in their rotation. In practical terms the soldiers of Second Platoon hump up a mountain with lots of bullets and some shovels and dig in.
I’m in complete awe of these soldiers, it’s an extraordinary achievement and it shows tremendous bravery and commitment.
It’s clear watching the film that Mr. Junger and Mr. Hetherington achieved extraordinary intimacy with their subjects over time. There are noncombat moments in the film that are very much part of the military life: the men wrestle one another and in one particularly vivid scene they crank the song “Touch Me” and gang pile on one another as the lyrics “I want to feel your body” pour out of the speakers. It’s less homoerotic than a clear antidote to the physical isolation of their posting, according to the filmmakers.
Next generation – Halley VI, Purpose: Base design is supported on jackable legs above the snow surface, legs placed on skis so that the base can be moved easily. Work on Halley VI started in the Austral summer of 2007-2008 with an award winning new design. When the base moves too close to the sea (with the drifting ice-shelf) the modules can be towed further inland by tractors. In addition the “pods” are more flexible in function and can be converted from sleeping accommodation into scientific labs as required.
A good way to slice up a tough question. Go ahead and ask yourself what it takes to visualize how to move your business/brand into the middle.
Dr Ruben Rausing, the founder of Tetra Pak once remarked “Packaging Should Save More Than It Costs” Tetrapak has a healthy 8 billion euro business packaging liquids and food products exemplifying how to be elegantly simple yet highly innovative.
How is your brand coping with customization and having your users redefine how your part of ‘their’ world? Not the other way round.
Did you see the infinity pool in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel? See comments for the full story.
Peal away the layers. Props @ffffound
Time magazine from the black and white era.
Flying to London tonight to kick start a new design lab project.
Booking holidays.
Robin Howie, Dialogue with Public Space, Primrose Hill London.
Respected Korean artist. Featured on 
