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The Art of Alex Varanese, alt 1977

In the Artists own words:
“What would you do if you could travel back in time? Assassinate Marilyn Monroe? Go on a date with Hitler? Obviously. But here’s what I’d do after that: grab all the modern technology I could find, take it to the late 70’s, superficially redesign it all to blend in, start a consumer electronics company to unleash it upon the world, then sit back as I rake in billions, trillions, or even millions of dollars.”

I like his thinking, and the great retro poster concepts. Check them out.


Check out his site for more great images

Alax Varanese | alt1977

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Where’s my jet pack?

Its 2010, i entireley expected to be flying to work by now.

Wired Magazine and Will Ferrell take a look at the future that never was.

Where’s The Future | Wired

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Happy Magic Water Cube, Beijing Water Cube Water Park

That’s the snappy (as translated)  new title of he Beijing olympics famous watercube. The building has been repurposed to house a new water theme park and is now open for business.

Beijing’s Water Cube now has slides, rides, a wave pool and spa | CNNGo.com.

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‘Beyond the Hive’ – A Hotel for Insects

Arup Associates have won a competition to design a hotel for insects.

Interesting idea.

‘Beyond the Hive’ – A Hotel for Insects – DETAIL.de – Portal for Architecture – information and magazine for architects about construction and design.

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Gresley Abas Architects turn 6!

It has been 6 years since Gresley Abas was formed and we celebrated with cake!

Phil and Ahmad took the honours of blowing out the candles as we all refected on the journey that has brought us to here……….16 staff across two offices.

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Pixelated Bathroom

On the Subject of Pixels,

Check out this bathroom by De Meza + Architecrure + Interiors produced for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase.

Photos Yanked from

Pixilated Bathroom Design Made With Custom Mosaic Tile | DigsDigs.

by  Shae Rocco

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Stand Inside An Imploding Stadium

Well, this is something you dont see everyday,  a 360 degree interactive camera view inside an imploding stadium.

The home of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys was recently demolished, but they took the opportunity to record this hystoric event in the Teams history with a full 360 degree camera rig setup inside the destruction.

What you end up with is this

via| Gizmodo

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Swiss Army – Presentation Master

The Swiss Army will be a force to be reckoned with with the launch of the new Victorinox – Presentation Master multi-tool.

http://www.swissarmy.com/images/ProductCatalog/vm/vm_5301PMG16_sol_a02.jpg

Its a modern multitool for very modern uses.

The knife is equipped with:

  • Fingerprint  encrypted USB Flash Drive
  • Bluetooth presentation remote (for changing slides)
  • Laser Pointer
  • Nail File with Screwdriver
  • Scissors
  • Key Ring
  • Knife

So not only is this tool perfect for transferring and presenting digital presentations, it can also be used to threaten any objectors with the included knife.

Fantastic!

Victorinox Swiss Army – MultiTools – Presentation Master 16GB.

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Holographic Architectural Imaging

This presentation absolutely made my jaw drop. 3D modelling, both physical and virtual have always played a big part in any architectural practice. The difficulty in virtual 3d modelling has always been how to best present the work. Renders are good, but you can only see one aspect of the building at a time, fly throughs are constrained on rails and require a computer to present.

This new blending of holographic technologies and data imported from traditional architectural modelling tools produces a “flat model”, able to be viewed from all directions just a physical model can.

Very cool.

Holographic Architectural Imaging by Zebra from Core77 on Vimeo.

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IOGraphica, might as well make art while you’re working

Came across this simple little application that tracks your mouse movements whilst you go about your day to day. From the site “IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done!” The end result is rather cool.

Check out a couple of images from our office today!

Worth pointing out that the large black dots are for periods of inactivity……

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*cough* *cough*

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