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Salar de Uyuni

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Love & Peace

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2.5 Tons of Stop-Motion Play-Doh

New Sony Bravia ad just posted, I love these.

The third TV commercial for BRAVIA is the most ambitious piece of stop-motion animation ever undertaken. Devised by Fallon and shot over three weeks in New York, the commercial employed 40 animators from Passion and used 2.5 tonnes of modeling material.

LINK/VIDEOS [Bravia website, with ad and making-of [...]

Skin Color Distribution

Confirms my theory that skin color is a function of the earth’s axis and exposure to solar radiation. Duh.

In Praise of Melancholy

“I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations.”

HTV-3X Scramjet

“If it works, the HTV-3X will be the first reusable scramjet-powered plane. It will be able to take off from a runway, fly at speeds of up to Mach 6, land safely, and then do it again.”

Tallest Buildings of the Old World

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Qi Zhong Stadium

The stadium’s dome opens and closes like the iris diaphragm of a camera lens to control natural light and protect against rainy weather.

SpaceCollective

“Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction.”

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