Russian Stealth Fighter
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
From industrial designer Aleksander Dultsev – design images of the new/upcoming Russian stealth fighter.
(via English Russia)
Dolphinmobile
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Urban Non-Legends: Two Million Miles on a Car
Monday, June 8th, 2009
After 250,000 miles (400,000 km), most cars are on the brink of death.
Irv Gordon has passed this limit ten times over:
Irv has clocked 2,600,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S.
This is the equivalent of driving to the Moon . . . ten times.
(via Tina)
Extreme Sheep LED Art
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Twitter: Exposed
Thursday, March 26th, 2009So we all Twit Tweet these days, but what are we really doing? Current TV’s new animated short SuperNews! investigates:
SuperNews! airs Fridays at 10 PM ET/PT on Current TV
(via Balagan)
RIP: Newspapers
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Check out this great article by Clay Shirkey, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” Here’s a snippet:
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to.
There are fewer and fewer people who can convincingly tell such a lie. ”
Read the whole post here– worth the time.
(via Eliot; image via TheStranger)
Alien Stompers – 5 Months Too Late (or 150 Years Too Early)
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Dammit!
Once again I’ve missed out on getting my hands on a decent pair of Reebok “Alien Stompers.”
Reebok “Alien Stompers” are the cool futuristic sneakers that Sigourney Weaver wore in the 1986 science fiction film “Aliens.”
1987: Reebok made a limited release of these sneakers. And I was too young and too broke to get my hands on them.
2003: They were re-released in a limited run (mostly in Japan). The best I could get were some brown suede ones. They’re cool, but you don’t really look like you’re ready to hand aliens their asses in these.
2007: Stupid “Freddy Kreuger” themed ones were released.
October 2008: Again, a limited-edition release of them (in Japan) with cool color mods. The stylish “space suit white” ones are by far the best. And they are nowhere to be found already. Too damn late, again. And that’s alright because I’m still broke and rent is more important than sneakers. Maybe.
(image from Hypebeast.com)
