— via Wolf Haven International
Forest Squid, originally uploaded by hine.
A piano that features in the classic 1940s film Casablanca has been sold for more than $600,000 (£370,000) at an auction in New York.
The upright piano appears in one of the film’s most iconic scenes, in which Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick utters the line: Here’s looking at you, kid.
It was sold to an unknown buyer at Sotheby’s in New York — via redwolf.newsvine.com
yesterday i was driving through the odd part of east hollywood that is sometimes known as thai town or little armenia or east hollywood or hollywood or the boulevard of broken dreams or, as i like to call it: home. and while driving through home (or home adjacent) i stumbled upon this giant orthodox church cathedral that also looks like a giant orthodox space ship. and yes, that’s academic architectural writing at it’s finest, to compare a beautiful house of worship to a spaceship — via moby los angeles architecture
Arctic Fox #1, originally uploaded by Pat’s Pics36.
The University of Chicago Admissions department received a package Wednesday that initially wasn’t given a second thought until they gave it a closer look.
On the surface, the package addressed to Dr Henry Walton Jones, Jr
seemed innocuous enough until a student mail worker asked who Dr Jones was. That’s when they realised the package was addressed to none other than Indiana Jones.
Further inspection of the packages contents revealed they contained a detailed replica of Dr. Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Raiders of the Lost Ark, photos of Marion Ravenwood and replica money, most of it made by hand. Rosenwald Hall, which houses U of C’s Admission’s Department, also used to be home to the university’s geography and geology departments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Monovolume Architecture + Design have completed the House M in Meran, Italy — via CONTEMPORIST
You don’t often see Yamaha’s SR250 customised in the west, and certainly not to the radical extent we’re looking at here. This is the Winning Loser
, the first El Solitario motorcycle to be built from scratch, and one that still has pride of place in David Borras’ Galician garage — via Bike EXIF
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling‘s music video for Episode 1: Arrival
is a shot-for-shot remake of the opening sequence of the ’60s cult spy-fi TV show The Prisoner. The video was produced & directed by Theodore Cormey of Lost Jockey Productions and took nearly 2 years of planning and 11 days of shooting to accomplish.
Side-by-side comparison of original and this remake and comparison photos, video & behind-the-scenes stills
Lisbon-based custom workshop Maria Motorcycles is turning out some very sharp bikes indeed. Like this latest build, a 1994 Ducati 750SS called Italian Sniper
— via Bike EXIF
Vo Trong Nghia Architects have designed Stone House in Dong Trieu, Vietnam — via ArchDaily
As part of a $1 billion upgrade of its city campus, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is installing an underground automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) for its library collection.
The ASRS is in response to the need to house a growing collection and free up physical space for the new library of the future
, which is to open in 2015 to 2016, so that people can be at the centre of the library rather than the books.
Having the extra space will allow for more interactive learning environments where students can work more collaboratively in the library — for example, mixed media spaces for video editing and production.
The ASRS, which will connect to the new library, consists of six 15-metre high robotic cranes that operate bins filled with books. When an item is being stored or retrieved, the bins will move up and down aisles as well as to and from the library. Items will be stored in bins based on their spine heights — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MB&F‘s newest sculptural masterpiece, the Horological Machine No.5, harks back to ’70s super cars. Sporting a slender and aerodynamic body easily read without taking one’s hands off the wheel—the precision crafted timepiece comes complete with a chassis, aerodynamic body and rear flaps akin to those on the 1970 Mustang, and tells time on a dashboard — via Cool Hunting
The Cariblanco
is based on the Suzuki GN series, and designed by Arnau Sanjuan Román — who helped design the Bottpower Moto2 race bike while at Anime Design in Spain. Román is developing a family of custom motorcycles with Costa Rica Hot Rods for the Central American market, and this is the prototype, a lightweight blend of street tracker and cafe racer — via Bike EXIF
Microsoft gave Windows 7 users a way to run older applications via Windows XP Mode. With Windows 8, however, that mode is no longer officially supported, and if you want to run Windows XP in a virtual machine, you need the license for it. Lifehacker reader Miloš, however, has found a workaround.
He discovered that within the free WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe file, there’s a VirtualXPVHD file containing the Windows XP virtual machine, which you can open in VirtualBox — via Lifehacker
Originally a church built in 1908 and converted to a library in the 1970s. From 2009 to 2011, owner Mario Kalpou worked with interior designers Hecker Guthrie to transform the library into its current incarnation as a restaurant in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST
Everyone needs play time — including this pair of Amur Tiger cubs at the Minnesota Zoo. Thanks to the donation of a bubble machine from the zoo’s “Animal Enrichment Wish List,” the cubs enjoyed interacting with these mysterious new “toys!” — via ZooBorns
This is an alliance between Roland Sands Design and Technics, the DJ and audio technology brand. Sands’ brief was to evoke the style of Technics’ ubiquitous SL-1200 decks, familiar to everyone in the business of spinning records. He chose a 2010-model XL883 Iron Sportster as his starting point: part of Harley-Davidson’s Dark Custom
range, it’s designed to evoke the dirt tracks and drag strips of the 1950s. Sands, however, has pushed the XL883N in an entirely new direction — via Bike EXIF
When Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over an erratically swerving grey Camaro yesterday outside of St Augustine, they figured they had a standard DUI on their hands. The driver, 63-year-old Leslie Richard Newton, had in fact been boozing and driving, the FHP says — but that’s not the main reason he was having trouble staying in his lane.
Newton had a piece of a traffic sign embedded in his skull.
It’s not entirely clear when the signage ended up in Newton’s head, but Jacksonville’s Fox30 reports he rammed into a sign earlier in the evening on eastbound SR 16 outside of St Augustine.
Photos of his Camaro show a front headlight bashed in and some window damage; apparently Newton hit the sign hard enough for a chunk of it to fly into his cranium — via redwolf.newsvine.com
While any soldier dreads the idea of being shot, sustaining an internal abdominal injury from an explosion or other impact can be far worse. Bleeding from wounds that can’t be compressed causes some 85 percent of preventable battlefield deaths.
As part of DARPA’s Wound Stasis program, Arsenal Medical has developed an injectable polymer foam that expands inside the body to staunch internal bleeding.
Based on testing in pigs, DARPA says the product can control haemorrhaging in an abdominal cavity for at least an hour, a critical window to get the soldier to a medical facility — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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