Getting engaged, we have all seen it depicted in countless films, plays, and books. It’s the most exciting and romantic time of your life
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fiji island community works with CAUKIN studio to build coconut oil processing plant
the expressive facade is designed to integrate large swathes of black mosquito netting, influenced by local batiki patterning.
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Kengo Kuma, Snøhetta, Marjan van Aubel and Adam Nathaniel Furman feature at VDF this week
Week six of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Prague’s centre for architecture and urban planning CAMP, including a live interview with Kengo Kuma. We also team up with magazine Sight Unseen and Stockholm Design Week, plus we launch a new series of Screentime interviews featuring leading designers sponsored by Philips. Read more
Supercomputers across Europe have fallen to cryptomining hacks
Contaminar Arquitetos designs Casa Povo to be an "inhabited and humanised cave"
Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. Read more
This Guy Made a Googol to 1 Gear Reduction Machine Entirely Out of LEGO
The Finnish madman behind Brick Experiment Channel built a crazy Googol:1 gear reduction using 186 LEGO gears of various kinds.
The build was inspired by Daniel de Bruin’s “Universe’s biggest gear reduction” and the rotation time for the last gear would take 52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years to complete once!
Formula for the gear ratio:
24/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 40/8 * 60/1 * 12/1 * 168/1 * (140 / 8 + 1) * 141 * 20/12 * (40/8)^20 * 20/12 * (24/1)^20 * 56/16 * (36/1)^10 * (40/1)^18 * 15/9 * 56/1
List of gears used:
27x Gear 8 Tooth [3647]
1x Gear Expert Builder 9 Tooth [g9]
6x Gear 12 Tooth Bevel [6589]
2x Gear 12 Tooth Double Bevel [32270]
1x Gear Expert Builder 15 Tooth [g15]
1x Gear 16 Tooth [94925]
2x Gear 20 Tooth Bevel [32198]
23x Gear 24 Tooth [3648]
10x Gear 36 Tooth Double Bevel [32498]
49x Gear 40 Tooth [3649]
2x Turntable Large Type 2 [48452cx1]
1x Turntable Large Type 3 [18939 / 18938]
8x Gear Rack 11 x 11 Curved [24121]
1x Gear, Hailfire Droid Wheel [x784]
1x Gear Worm Screw, Short [27938]
51x Gear Worm Screw, Long [4716]
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Michael Jordan’s Game-Worn Air Jordan 1s Sold For Record $560,000 at Auction
The last two episodes of the ten-part “The Last Dance” documentary are set to air tonight, and thanks to it, Michael Jordan fever has reached new heights. Over a decade-and-a-half after #23 laced up his Jordans for the last time, MJ is still setting records as a pair of his game-worn shoes has set the new mark for the most valuable kicks ever sold at auction. Though Sotheby’s opened the auction a week ago and expected the “Chicago” Jordan 1s from 1985 to go for around $150,000, the results dunked on that estimate with a closing bid of $560,000.
This particular pair of Jordans, which were sold by collector Jordan Geller (nice name, by the way), was rocked by Michael in his standout rookie season and are signed by the GOAT himself.
Also, just a reminder that if you want a pair of Chicago 1s for yourself, though they won’t run you a half a million, prices on the original AJ1 style are currently skyrocketing on the aftermarket.
The Variety of Landscapes You See on the Pacific Crest Trail is Incredible
The 2,660 mi (4,200 km) Pacific Crest Trail connects Mexico to Canada by way of California, Oregon, and Washington. Passing through 25 national forest and 7 national parks, the trail crosses 700 miles of Southern California desert before entering the Sierra Nevada and then following the Cascades north to Canada.
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BNA Is Bringing Its Beastly Procedural Action to Netflix Next Month
Fans of interesting, stylish anime that are also kind of strange are in for a treat.
Attention Design Heads, Vitra’s “Chair Times” Is Now Free to Stream
Vitra Design Museum (VDM) in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is temporarily making its “Chair Times” documentary available online for free.
“Chair Times. A History of Seating” analyzes the chair as a historical artifact and describes the history of seating furniture from 1800 until today. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum, with commentary from experts in the field of design and architecture.
The film was shot in 2018 by Switzerland’s HOOK Film & Kultur Produktion and is made available digitally for the first time for the wider public. The documentary is presented in German with English subtitles.
Check out the trailer below and then head over to VDM’s website to watch it in full.