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These are cut by lasers on mounting board. Fascinating and beautiful. Each map takes about 2 hours to cut.
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“He has so much to say he doth filibuster himself.”— John Dickerson of Slate imagining what Shakespeare would say about Mitch McConnell this week....
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Jane Abbott Lighty, 77, and Pete-e Petersen, 85, were the first couple to get married in Seattle, Washington last night after the...
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2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
This object, known as Messier 54, could be just another globular cluster, but this dense and faint...
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This is believed to be the only photo ever taken of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. And it’s for sale.
Photo of the Day: People arrive at the “Diner en blanc” (Dinner in White) event outside the ArtScience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
A total of 888 people, dressed head to toe in white and bringing with them white tablecloths, glassware and other finery, gathered at the promenade near the museum on Thursday night for an impromptu open-air dinner, organizers said.
Participants at the event, the first in Asia, were told of the venue via social media sites and the Internet, then rushed to assemble at the venue. ( REUTERS/Tim Chong)
A sand kitten sits at her enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv. Four sand kittens were born three weeks ago at the safari park. Sand cats are found in the wild in the deserts of northern Africa and southwest and central Asia.
Ok — here’s our cat post.
Photo of the Day: A girl sits on a floor painting which creates a three dimension optical illusion at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. (Reuters)
Rooftop farms flourish in space-starved Hong Kong
Unused roofs are some of the few places in the most heavily populated areas for budding vegetable gardeners.
(via silas216)
Singapore is imploring its citizens to make babies.
Known as the “Switzerland of Asia,” Singapore’s booming hi-tech manufacturing and financial services industries allow its citizens to enjoy one of the world’s highest standards of living. But the country has a population problem. It has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The government has offered “baby bonus” tax breaks and paid maternity leaves to help get the birth-rate back up.
Singapore has also launched a new campaign encouraging locals to do their civic duty Thursday, National Day, by making babies. More.
(Photo: A child checks out a Buddha statue in Singapore. By Marco Fedele/Flickr.)
DELUGE Residents swam through floodwaters as others waited for help on their roofs after torrential rains caused a river to overflow in Manila Tuesday. Approximately one-third of the city is underwater; more than 50 people have been killed and 250,000 evacuated in the worst flooding since 2009. (Photo: Noel Celis / AFP-Getty via The Wall Street Journal)
Photo of the Day: A monk and seagulls on Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Photo by: SauKhiang Chau (Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia); Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar
(via smithsonianmag)
The Hashtag Comes to Architecture
The Bjarke Ingels Group, a Danish architecture firm, has taken inspiration from the (resurgent) hashtag in its design plans for an apartment complex in Soul, South Korea.
Via Dezeen:
“The Cross # Towers constitute a three-dimensional urban community of interlocking horizontal and vertical towers. Three public bridges connect two slender towers at different levels – underground, at the street and in the sky. Catering to the demands and desires of different residents, age groups and cultures the bridges are landscaped and equipped for a variety of activities traditionally restricted to the ground. The resultant volume forms a distinct figure on the new skyline of Seoul – a “#” that serves as a gateway to the new Yongsan Business District signaling a radical departure from the crude repetition of disconnected towers towards a new urban community that populates the three-dimensional space of the city.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
Images: Schematics for the Cross # Towers in Soul. Via BIG.
As part of Singapore’s masterplan to develop its Marina Bay area, these towering eighteen ‘Supertrees’ take vertical greenery a step further, integrating over 226,000 plants consisting of over 200 species with a host of other functions, like solar power and solar hot water generation, rainwater collection and acting as ventilation towers for the horticultural conservatories below.
Read more and see more pics here: Huge Biomimetic ‘Supertrees’ Taking Root on Singapore’s Waterfront (Video)
Brilliant.
(via wnyc)
Do Nhat Nam, who lives in Vietnam and is all of 10 years old, is locally famous for his mastery of English. He translated a book at the age of seven. (Photo by Jennifer Pak, PRI’s The World)
Nam fell in love with the language after seeing a video of Steve Jobs talking about computers on YouTube. More.
