New York Waterfalls
Art Installation by Olafur Eliasson. View out of the Q train window.
“The New York City Waterfalls” is a public art project of four man-made waterfalls rising from New York Harbor, some as high as the Statue of Liberty. Organized by the nonprofit Public Art Fund and the city of New York, it is being billed as the city’s biggest such project since “The Gates,” the $20 million effort by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 2005. (via NYT)
Double one-handed origami bird-folding video
Making two origami flapping birds simultaneously, one in each hand.
Soundtrack
Stone Roses - Waterfall
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Karl Lagerfeld dons a reflective yellow vest for a new French road safety campaign, declaring, “It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it doesn’t match anything, but it can save your life.”
According to Bloomberg, “Lagerfeld agreed to pose in the shapeless protective apparel as part of a French government safety-awareness campaign, which was kicked off yesterday. The vest and a reflective triangle will become mandatory for all drivers and cyclists on July 1. The number of traffic deaths in France jumped 10 percent to 346 in May, the highest since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Environment said on its Web site. Two cyclists have died in Paris since the introduction of free municipal bicycles last year.” (via)
Dirty Car Art by Scott Wade. You can see more dirty car art here and here. (via)
Hilarious idea.
The making of Macintosh - An Interview with The Macintosh Design Team (Feb, 1984)
“Jobs: If you read the Apple’s first brochure, the headline was “Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication.” What we meant by that was that when you first attack a problem it seems really simple because you don’t understand it. Then when you start to really understand it, you come up with these very complicated solutions because it’s really hairy. Most people stop there. But a few people keep burning the midnight oil and finally understand the underlying principles of the problem and come up with an elegantly simple solution for it. But very few people go the distance to get there”.
Onlab’s Urban Jealousy - Humboldt, Between The Lines. Designed by Nicolas Bourquin andJeannette Gaussi.
A “Jalousie” is a window that one can see through but not be seen.
(via asimoko)
”Did you know that true love asks for nothing?” - Steveland Morris aka Stevie Wonder
(via Clinton Hill Chill)
