2013-05-28
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#bikeshare day 1, much use. Brand hacked already. “the street finds its own uses for things”: #BikeNYC Love, not banks. (by neotint)
Earlier today Slavin, Tricia, CW+T, and I made predictions about the unintended uses for the new NYC CitiBikes:
- Ride from New York to Boston (or Philadelphia.)
This reminds me of Ian Visits taking a London bike hire cycle to Paris:
a check of the Boris Bike T&C’s showed that while there is a limit of 24 hours for hiring a bike, and oddly a limit on letting no more than three other people use the bike, there is no geographical or mileage restrictions.
In addition, as it happens, Eurostar are quite comfortable with carrying bikes on their trains and have a procedure in place already for that – although in our case some tweaks were needed due to the way the prize tickets were arranged, and double checking that it would be OK to carry heavy Boris Bikes on board when they usually carry light touring bikes for holiday goers.
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Sky Garden by Robert Rauschenberg, currently on display at SFMOMA. (Previously.)
2013-05-27
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A visualisation of words following other words in Daily Mail comments on stories about young offenders.
2013-05-26
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Early designs for Avatars for The New Flickr by Charis Tsevis (via migurski)
2013-05-24
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Interstate 5 bridge collapses over Skagit River at SFGate via migurski)
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From the highlights video of the Xbox One “reveal” event, the new dog in Call of Duty, in game, as a model, and the motion capture prototype.
(Source: youtu.be)
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Designing for Unnatural Selection at the next Cooper Parlor:
Like it or not, the sixth wave of extinction is upon us. By the end of the century nearly 50% of all species on the planet will be gone. Most will perish simply because they do not have enough time to adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions. But what if there were gadgets (or services) that would help plants and animals transcend time and make the evolutionary leap? What if there was a Whole Earth Catalog for the non- human among us (eat your heart out, Stewart Brand)?
2013-05-23
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The final Lego Lego X-Wing, in a hangar in New Jersey before being moved to Times Square, New York City.
It’s 42 times bigger than the set it’s based on, which is big enough that the studs have the usual LEGO raised word on the top.
(Source: Wired)
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The steel infrastructure of the human-scale model of the Lego X-Wing (itself made, except for this skeleton, of Lego) that’s currently on show in Times Square, New York City.
