Leatherworker Tom Banwell makes amazing masks, costumes, and mad inventions with a steampunk bent. I own one of his rayguns and it’s one of my favorites. His blog has really thorough build notes on his projects, as well as many examples of his lovely, lovely work — via Boing Boing
There is some serious cute happening in this line up of adorable baby monster amigurumi from Allison of Crafty is Cool. The best part is that they are all just simple decorative variations on the same basic pattern. The possibilities are endless — via CRAFT
The site is 600 square meter land area which located in medium dense, semi detached, without any physical and building typology from one and another.
The client came to TWS & Partners with a particular vision of garden house, which can maximize a correlation to outdoor space from within. From client’s brief of room program, come to quite huge area of 800 square meter, which should be located within limited site — via ArchDaily
— via www.alloverthehouse.net
Frogs re-evolved lost
bottom teeth after more than 200 million years, according to new research — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian man who cycled around Europe looking for his missing son has returned home to Sydney with the six-year-old boy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are further calls for the competition regulator to investigate the slashing of milk prices by the big supermarkets after the price of fuel jumped significantly over the weekend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The housing project, designed by Barré Lambot Architectes, continues and finishes the existing residential area, consisting of – The creation of an urban courtyard North / South to organize the site into two blocks and provide continuity in inter-district connecting the two existing ways – The creation of a public footpath through the operation – Creating a common courtyard to contain parking spaces and garages needed for the housing – Construction of a kindergarten, dedicated to the neighbourhood and located at the corner of two streets – The establishment of thresholds
or gardens, before all the individual units also avoiding air parking — via ArchDaily
The major Italian watchmaker Officine Panerai did not present anything revolutionary at SIHH 2011. Instead, they kept building on success of their last year’s exhibition. Among such successful updates was the new Panerai Radiomir 8 Days Ceramica PAM 384 hand-wound watch.
The new model is presented in a large black case, which is made of zirconium oxide powder — a material, widely used not only by watchmakers, but also by automotive and aerospace industries — via World Watch Review
This Japanese house is as easy-looking as it gets – at least from the outside. This modest-seeming project is stunningly executed, using minimal materials with a strategic precision that surpasses their ordinary potential and just keeps going — via Dornob
The Swiss watchmaker has issued another iteration of its cash-cow — the Bell & Ross BR 123 Vintage Original Carbon automatic pilot’s watch.
The model has undergone a number of face-lifts, and now its 41.00 mm round case is delivered in a black PVD-coated stainless steel — via World Watch Review
International marriages are on the rise, and subsequently so are cases in which former spouses engage in international custody battles over their children.
To help address this situation, the government set up a senior vice-ministerial council involving related ministries and tasked with discussing the possibility of Japan joining an international convention. The discussions necessary for Japan to join the convention should be expedited.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction contains the principle that children from an international marriage who are removed from their country of residence by one of their divorced parents, without the other parent’s consent, must be returned to the country of residence.
Signatory nations are obligated to provide administrative cooperation in such efforts as discovering the whereabouts of such children and restoring them to their country of habitual residence.
Eighty-two countries, mostly in the West and Latin America, have signed the convention, while Japan has not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Officers from the Australian Federal Police allegedly stole and concealed documents that could have helped a former pilot and businessman fight allegations he had raped a 14-year-old girl in PNG — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Schools, hospitals, churches and other public sites are being systematically rezoned for residential development across the state in what critics say means open slather for land to be sold to developers without safeguards — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A privately owned animal pound in Sydney is to become the first in the state to promise not to put any animals down, and to find homes for every healthy pet that comes through its doors.
The ambitious aim has been achieved by shelters elsewhere, said Tim Vasudeva, the manager of the Sydney Cats and Dogs Home in Carlton — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New World Centre, part of the New World Symphony America’s Orchestral Academy, opened its doors this week. Located in the heart of Miami Beach, the music education and performance facility is the first purpose-built home for the New World Symphony founded by artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas.
In terms of design the building’s exterior portrays a quiet, almost tamed Frank Gehry. The rectangle shaped white building expresses Gehry’s well known bends and folds within its interior — glimpses of which are visible through the main entrance east facade 80 foot high glass curtain wall — via ArchDaily
Like the Italian Officine Panerai, the Swiss watchmaking brand Breitling keeps distancing from the overwhelming monopoly of ETA and gradually substitutes their ebauches with its own in-house Caliber 01 automatic movement. The Breitling Montbrillant 01 Chronograph watch is one of those old models getting equipped with a brand new heart — via World Watch Review
A mother in Tampa, Florida has admitted in detail to killing her two teen-aged children, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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