New York Cubic

Holy cow, Brooklyn, what a sunset!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:57 -0500

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Holy cow, Brooklyn, what a sunset!

Tim Burton at the MoMA

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:42:17 -0400

A director of fables, fairy tales, and fantasies, with an aesthetic that incorporates the Gothic, the Grand Guignol, and German Expressionism, Tim Burton has created a body of films—fourteen features released over two and a half decades thus far—that reveal an uncompromised auteurist vision. Burton’s striking visuals and indelible characters make even his blockbuster studio films intimately personal. From adaptations to musicals to stop-motion animated films, his work bears a distinctive, unmistakable point-of-view, and his unique interpretations of well-known comic and literary characters, real-life personalities, and beloved childhood icons have resulted in creations that sometimes surpass their sources. Along with his frequent collaborators—including actors Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, composer Danny Elfman, production designer Rick Heinrichs, and costume designer Colleen Atwood—Burton has crafted a new canon of beloved characters, from Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice to Jack Skellington and the Corpse Bride.

sundancekid: cloud treehouse.

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:55:48 -0400

sundancekid:

cloud treehouse.

sundancekid: After two days With no one to run the pumps, New...

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:01:09 -0400

sundancekid:

After two days

With no one to run the pumps, New York subways flood.

Seven days

Generators that cool nuclear reactor cores run out of fuel.

One year

Human head and body lice grow extinct. Wildlife returns to sites of melted-down nuclear reactors.

Three years

In colder climes, walls and roofs start to separate, pipes burst, roaches die.

20 years

Panama Canal closes up. Garden vegetables revert to wild strains.

100 years

Feral housecats devastate populations of small predators. Elephant population grows 20-fold as ivory trade ceases.

300 years

New York bridges fall, dams fail worldwide, cities built in river deltas, such as Houston, wash away.

500 years

Forests overtake suburbs in temperate climes, but plastic and metal debris remain.

Thousands of years

Underground structures such as the Chunnel across the English Channel are the last intact human-made structures.

35,000 years

Lead deposited by smokestacks finally is cleansed from the soil.

100,000 years

Carbon dioxide returns to prehuman levels — maybe.

Hundreds of thousands of years

Microbes evolve to eat plastic.

7.2 million years

Traces of Mount Rushmore images remain. PCBs and other toxins remain but are buried.

10.2 million years

Bronze sculptures are still recognizable.

3 billion years

Life still thrives on Earth, in new forms.

4.5 billion years

Depleted Uranium-238 reaches its half-life. Earth begins to warm as sun expands.

5-plus billion years

Earth burns as dying sun swells to envelop inner planets.

Forever

lalalataro: MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2007 |...

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:01:01 -0400

lalalataro:

MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2007 | Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years | Index

2007 … good ol’ 2007. Off topic? Yes!
PS: These sculptures were amazing. However, after they were gone, I did appreciate the sculpture garden being freed up and functioning architecturally the way that it does now and always has.

huenink: axis mundi unveils conceptual design for MoMA...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:01:04 -0400

huenink:

axis mundi unveils conceptual design for MoMA tower

usually i prefer glossy architecture/design/pudding - this, however is ~~mysteriously intriguing~~ intriguingly mysterious.

Looks like CoolIris, you say? Yeah - but it’s actually a...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:00:59 -0400

Looks like CoolIris, you say? Yeah - but it’s actually a website. Most impressively: it is written using only XTML, WebKit’s new 3D CSS extensions and some JavaScript (but the 3D extensions actually can work without JavaScript, too …). After a day of fighting with the complexity of much simpler web issues on more “traditional” technologies, a glimpse at a future where everything is as easy as a couple of CSS commands is quite a nice endnote.

chatblanc: me? I’m totally procrastinating on my “to do” list...

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:05:33 -0400

chatblanc:

me? I’m totally procrastinating on my “to do” list by playing with photos and textures. good gawd, I need to get a life.

(texture: A Reason, Its All Up To You by *Smoko-Stock)

bzzinglikeneon: U2, 1982. This is at 5th and 59th! So many...

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:01:00 -0400

bzzinglikeneon:

U2, 1982.

This is at 5th and 59th! So many questions …

- WHY did they close 5th Ave. for a single band?
- WHY are they walking? Is this some sort of Magritte thing - with the umbrellas etc.?
- Has 5th Ave been paved since then - aka - can I go and touch the asphalt?

PS: Look at that Trump tower skeleton in the background. Bono should go and warn Donald about the dangers of overeating and bad hairstyles.

Can we get NewMindSpace to do this in Central Park? (via...

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:00:55 -0400

Can we get NewMindSpace to do this in Central Park?

(via pixcetera)

NowDoThis - ToDos made (EXTREMELY) simple

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:59 -0400

NowDoThis - ToDos made (EXTREMELY) simple

davidkendall: Quite the close-up, right? Here’s the...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:01:01 -0400

davidkendall:

Quite the close-up, right? Here’s the story:

Juliana International Airport serves the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. The airport is famous for its short runway — at only 2,433 metres (7,980 ft), it is barely long enough for heavy jets to land. Therefore, incoming airplanes approaching the island on short final for Runway 10 have to fly extremely low, passing only 10-20 meters (30-60 ft.) over relaxing tourists on Maho. Beach.

Click through for more interesting shots of these jumbo jets buzzing the beach.

(via acidcow.com)

sundrows: purzlbaum: maniacalrage: Landings by Branislav...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:02:04 -0400

sundrows:

purzlbaum:

maniacalrage:

Landings by Branislav Kropilak

Nice series of photos of time-lapsed airplane landings at night.

Absolutely stunning.

saltyeyess: Gibraltar Airport is a very unusual airport....

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:00:59 -0400

saltyeyess:

Gibraltar Airport is a very unusual airport. It is the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. When a plane has to take off or land, traffic is shut down.

The only less optimal solution for this problem that I could come up with: whenever traffic comes, a helicopter comes and picks up the individual cars and brings them to the other side. This is even better because now there is a chance of the helicopter collid… whatever SMART!

Absolutely horrific ad for the Palm Pre. ANYONE in their right...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:22:00 -0400

Absolutely horrific ad for the Palm Pre. ANYONE in their right mind would not have let this go on air. I’m glad I sold my Palm stock. I mean … simply because it’s not really hip anymore. I buy and sell based on ~~tumblarity~~ hipness.

PS: If you like Gizmodo’s style … read their take on it: here.

applearts: via blog-imgs-32-origin.fc2.com I’d like to...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:00:56 -0400

applearts:

via blog-imgs-32-origin.fc2.com

I’d like to photoshop some soy sauce on that!

Pasadena’s got Pow!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:58 -0400

Pasadena’s got Pow!

NYTimes Lens Blog: European Balloon Festival in Barcelona,...

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:00:58 -0400

NYTimes Lens Blog: European Balloon Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

The [fridge/T.G.I. Friday’s]>[actual applications/web...

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:00:48 -0400

The [fridge/T.G.I. Friday’s]>[actual applications/web schtuff] analogy at about 3/4ths into the clip is my personal highlight.

phibes: Frozen Cherries (via dl.ziza.ru) This is what I think of...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:00:50 -0400

phibes:

Frozen Cherries (via dl.ziza.ru)

This is what I think of under the Californian sun after an hour of fighting against bicyclists for the street around the Rose Bowl. THIS IS IT!