Obsidian Bureau

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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:56:51 +1200

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via // barsandpies: toodamnninja A field guide to typestaches

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:29:46 +1200

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A field guide to typestaches

via // picapixels: Wonder Showcase Officail Web Site

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:55:42 +1200

via // picapixels: Wonder Showcase Officail Web Site

1930 Art Deco Henderson The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:18:37 +1200

1930 Art Deco Henderson

The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find’—an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent months. It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork.

The art deco influence is obvious; legendary automotive designer Harley Earl could have drawn those curves. It’s all the more unusual because the mechanicals are hidden: even at the height of the Art Deco movement, most motorcycles were a triumph of form over function, with exposed cooling fins, brake drums and suspension springs.

via // davesparks: niktoprojekt “Happy tunes. The eyebrows...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:09:00 +1200

via // davesparks: niktoprojekt “Happy tunes. The eyebrows are sharing the joke.”

Brionvega RR226

The venerable Italian brand Brionvega thinks the 60s and 70s are worth bringing back, or that at least some of the design sensibilities of the era warrant new life. The classic, groundbreaking Radiofonografio, divined in 1965 by two of the three Castiglioni brothers, Pier Giacomo and Achille, is making a new entrance as RR226. In 1965, the ‘musical component robot’ was a home electronic marvel that in one sleekly designed device included a radio, amplifiers and a record player (for both 45s and 33s).

The modernized model has also a CD and DVD players but otherwise it is as close as possible to the original. The amplifiers are moveable which makes it possible to create different configurations both for visual and listening pleasure. Showcased at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in April, RR226 may be a while coming to a store near you. But like so many of the Castiglioni brothers’ objects, still produced and/or displayed by Zanotta, Flos, Artemide and MoMA, the Radiofonografio is most likely going to stay with us for yet another long period. - Tuija Seipell of thecoolhunter

via // niktoprojekt Now that is some tech arse bling right there...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:53:13 +1200

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Now that is some tech arse bling right there ;)

via // proto-jp: reblololo: Moonlight, Wolf, 1909 Frederic...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:42:13 +1200

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Moonlight, Wolf, 1909
Frederic Remington (1861–1909)

via // limeflavored: satelliteofyou: “These are so amazing...

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:55:33 +1200

via // limeflavored: satelliteofyou: “These are so amazing that I don’t know if I’d be able to eat them.”

via // lethebashar: Dan McCarthy, Sketching: The Animal Kingdom,...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:37:36 +1200

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Dan McCarthy, Sketching: The Animal Kingdom, (2009) 4 color screen print – 25″x19″

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Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:40 +1200

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Photograph by Wayne Levin.

via // jesuisperdu: julianxberman “I’LL TAKE BOTH.”

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:50:32 +1200

via // jesuisperdu: julianxberman “I’LL TAKE BOTH.”

via // baubauhaus

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:47:58 +1200

via // baubauhaus

via // proto-jp: life: October, 1934: The vast and intricate...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:47:12 +1200

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life:

October, 1934: The vast and intricate framework of zeppelin model LZ 129, under construction at Friedrichshafen, Germany. With a gas capacity of 7,070,000 cubic feet, and christened “Hindenburg,” she became the largest — and ultimately, for all the wrong reasons, the most famous — airship the world has ever seen.

Blimps and Other Awesome Airships

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:08:39 +1200

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via // dvint1: This is the same technique that the game The...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:37:00 +1200

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This is the same technique that the game The Sentinel used to generate 10,000 Solid Rendered 3D levels on the Spectrum 48k in 1986.

spime:

Subversion: a procedurally-generated city to infiltrate uses a programming technique where pseudorandom number generators are fed into an algorithm, and that then cranks out a near-infinite amount of content. Streets, lamp-posts, rooms, buildings, and anything else that a city needs can be assembled in a relatively short space of time just from a string of numbers.

(via quietbabylon)

Another title called .kkrieger used procedural generation for almost its entire mechanics. By coding an algorithm that can design textures, level layouts, models, animations and sound, it managed to fit an entire first-person shooter videogame into just 96kb — about 1/70 of the size of an MP3.

via // nevver: Mies van der Rohe

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:35:31 +1200

via // nevver: Mies van der Rohe

via // davesparks: 4-d: / Veerle. Nice. Go 70s.

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:08:13 +1200

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Nice. Go 70s.

via // davesparks: icraftwebsites: ninedaysoff: Khuan Cavemen CO...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:06:32 +1200

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Khuan Cavemen CO have even more gorgeously illustrated maps on Flickr.

The mountains look like ice cream. Nice.

via // cozar: lilianvictoria: feedgeeks: amazing linework by...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:47:23 +1200

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amazing linework by hyuro

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Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:26:29 +1200

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