The High Definite

“it’s (LA) the easiest place in the world to rent an elephant.” | Via

The seed has been planted. | Backstory here.

The condensation coming off an F-22 Raptor in flight gets caught at the right angle in the sunlight, creating a sight that would probably make Hungrybear9562 shit himself.

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A bunch of little things you can do at home, school, work, or life in general to make things easier for yourself after the jump:

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“Ripple Effect Tea Table” by Korean industrial designer Jeonghwa Seo and Hanna Chung is a reflection of eastern mentality towards social relationships.

From the product site:

Easterners commonly believe that small changes of individual person or objects can be a big impact on the whole, which lead them to modest and totalitarian social culture. This social tendency, which described as a ‘ripple effect’ in psychological term, here in translated into tea ceremony.

The water layer on the tabletop makes the ripples by the movements of users. Tea plate floats on the water while drinking tea. One’s action can cause an impact on the whole situation on this table.

Through this project we wanted to emphasize the importance of considering mentality, when designers deal with culture as a context of design. Considering the cultural psychology will provide deeper understanding of each other’s culture in the globalized world.

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Created for NYC subway travelers that enjoy a little suspense in their platform wait time.

Jason says:

In 2007, the New York City Transit Authority began installing LED signs on subway platforms that display estimated wait times for arriving trains. Unfortunately the information is little more than trivia: except for a few stations, it is only visible to travelers after they’ve paid their fare, so the data has little bearing on commuter decision-making.

Their primary effect, then, is to erode faith in the system, to create expectations that can’t always be met, to raise false hopes, and to erase the mystery and magic of the wondrous system that transports more than five million riders a day.

These LED signs also threaten historical social behaviors, rendering obsolete the time-honored New York tradition of leaning over the platform edge with the hope of glimpsing headlights from an approaching train.

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Two good friends of mine (who also happen to read this site) tied the knot today.

Congratulations guys.

Walt Disney’s patent application for the cornerstone of his empire.

Fun fact: Mickey Mouse’s original name was Mortimer, it was changed to Mickey because Walt’s wife Lilly preferred it.

Wellll…obviouslyyy…we’ve got a news report turned internet meme turned auto-tuned masterpiece in the Billboard Hot 100.

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If you’re going to parade about in a costume and fight (or cause) water-based crime, this is without a doubt the vehicle you should have in mind when doing so.  From Dvice:

A 260 horsepower engine pushes the Seabreacher X through the water at 50 miles per hour on the surface and 25 mph when it’s diving. That means it has enough speed that it can jump a whopping 12 feet into the air when it gets going.

Other notable features: 1) It can also spin in the water 2) It looks like a fucking shark.

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