May, 2011

Some footage of one of the tornadoes that are currently making a violent path through Oklahoma.

Rich Juzwiak noticed the contestants from American Idol had a tendency to end their performances with the title of the song they were singing, and decided to delve into it a bit deeper. Turns out, this is a pretty common practice…like…”every damn time” common.

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My buddy Sean Stillwell (who designed the Time Capsule cover) designed a skyscraper that was recently highlighted by eVolo Magazine, because he’s got serious skills and it’s about time that fact became public.

Compressive looks at this existing condition and, more specifically, the car as a representation of human beings’ very worst and very best achievement. While the resources consumed to manufacture and operate the car are astounding, the personal freedom the car affords is something that every society should strive for (personal freedom, that is). The car is an integral component of our existing lifestyle, and Compressive reexamines the interaction between person and car at various scales, while also questioning the current understanding of the parking lot as a type of “service space.”

By utilizing the car as another form of vertical transportation, the building can begin to register occupation by reacting to the weight of cars parked on various floors. By sectionally arranging the main programs of the mixed-use tower, groups of up to 5 floors will actually begin to sag with the weight of cars based on program use at different times throughout the day. The dynamic façade system intensifies this condition by folding out and up when the floors compress, allowing for more ventilation throughout the parking area in order to counteract the greater number of cars. Whatever solar protection is lost by the folding façade is made up for by the new condition of shorter floor-to-floor height of the surrounding parking ramps.

Relevant Design

A weathered wall gets some clever additions up the road from here in Carlsbad, CA.

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Since the guys from Googenheimer don’t seem to be willing or able to follow up with their a capella Inception trailer, Nocturnal7 decided to step in with an a capella version of JJ Abrams’ Super 8 trailer.

Related: The early buzz for the Spielberg/Abrams flick has arrived.

In theaters June 10th.

Battlefield 3′s competitor finally shows its face, and it looks pretty damn good as well.

Starts getting you in trouble with your girlfriend November 8th, 2011.

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A before and after shot of a Joplin, MO neighborhood by Aaron Fuhrman, showing the devastating path of destruction left by Sunday’s tornado.

The death toll from the tornado is now at 116, making it the most deadly tornado in 60 years.

Via here & here

Green Lantern finally got his own movie, but not everyone’s happy about it…

FrogIslandFlicks | Thanks Chuck.

6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.) – [Cracked]

Ten Commencement Speakers You Wish You’d Had – [GOOD]

8 Brilliant Beer Apps – [Cool Material]

Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac – [Business Week]

Little known outside of his native Austria, Dietrich Mateschitz is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our age, a man who single-handedly changed the landscape of the beverage industry by creating not just a new brand but a whole new category: the energy drink.

Blackjack Master Beats Atlantic City For $15 Million - [Gawker]

Since last December, some dude named Don Johnson from Pennsylvania has been single-handedly beating the crap out of Atlantic City casinos. So far he’s won over $15 million from just three: Borgata, Tropicana, and Caesars Palace.

Twitter Acquires Tweetdeck – [CNN Money]

Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal.

Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert – [The Awl]

Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as “doers, not recipients.” If learners are indeed doers and not recipients, from whom are they learning? From one another, it appears; same as it ever was.

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