2013-04-30
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Chris McVeigh (aka powerpig’s) latest Lego creation: a miniature Polaroid camera complete with an ejecting photograph. (via brothers-brick)
2013-04-12
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![landscapearchitecture via notational:
Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama [created] an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.
I’d love to see an equivalent of this for the London Underground. I did once have a look for detailed elevation (or should that be depth?) data for the stations, if not the lines, but I didn’t look that hard or find anything.
I also considered trying to hack up an inertial recording system, but unsurprisingly that’s kind of tricky. (It’s a shame the iPhone’s gyroscopes probably aren’t up to it.)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/af662f53caecd5e68a2c71ae4ffdc699/tumblr_ml459aMbTO1qzypppo1_500.jpg)
landscapearchitecture via notational:
Tokyo University graduate student Takatsugu Kuriyama [created] an accurate three-dimensional model of Tokyo’s lifeline by using multi-colored tubes strung with wire. Different color liquids pulsate throughout all 18 lines, creating a staggering picture of what goes on below the streets of Tokyo every day.
I’d love to see an equivalent of this for the London Underground. I did once have a look for detailed elevation (or should that be depth?) data for the stations, if not the lines, but I didn’t look that hard or find anything.
I also considered trying to hack up an inertial recording system, but unsurprisingly that’s kind of tricky. (It’s a shame the iPhone’s gyroscopes probably aren’t up to it.)
2013-03-25
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Cute. Nice use of the transparent plates and the relatively new 1x1 round tiles.
(Source: Flickr / custombricks)
2013-03-18
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Sandia engineer Steve Yearout displays a 1/15 scale model of a NAVSTAR Block IIR GPS satellite: “Sandia sends sensors into space to detect nuclear blasts globally”. (Google cache; via.)
2012-11-18
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This is a 1960s postcard of the Army Corps of Engineer’s model of the Mississippi river basin, built in Clinton, MS. Approved in 1943, the model wasn’t finished until 1966, and it was made obsolete by computer models (as opposed to hydraulic ones) within a decade.
It’s now abandoned and decaying.
(via chriswoebken; thanks)
2012-11-08
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London Buses, a collection by Kate Farley, presented at Obsessionistas, a website about collections
Aw.
2012-04-06
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Three more from the Atlantic Cities post of photos of world leaders and models:
- Then-Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok walks carefully through the miniature streets of Amsterdam at the amusement park “Madurodam” in The Hague. Photo credit: Reuters/Str Old, March 27, 1998
- Franz Muentefering, then-leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, places a building into a model railway during an exhibition in 2009. Organizers invited most of the German political parties to design their ‘Idealland’ (Ideal country) within the model. Photo credit: Reuters/Christian Charisius, September 5, 2009
- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspects a model of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport during a visit on March 28, 2011. Photo credit: Reuters/Alexei Nikolsky
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World Leaders Posing with Model Cities (via iamdanw):
In this photo from 2010, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2nd R) views a scale model of a plan to build Europe’s largest combined deep-sea port and logistics park. Photo credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor, January 5, 2010
Someone needs to set up a Google News alert and turn this into a Tumblr right away.
2012-01-06
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A NASA mockup of the lunar module from 1964. It’s reasonably similar to the finished article.
(via hammerandcode)
