This image is part of an ad campaign for the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris — via BLDGBLOG
This cam-gear mechanism is an essential part of Chicken Point Cabin house by Olson Kundig Architects. Thanks to it the huge window-wall with size 9 x 6m can be easily opened even by a child — via Youtube
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Malcolm Turnbull has dialled down the terror-scare rhetoric since taking the reins from Tony Abbott — and some in his party are not liking it one bit.
A number of MPs have been speaking out with cabinet member Josh Frydenberg and the member for Canning Andrew Hastie leading the charge this weekend, doing their bit for social cohesion by arguing there is an intrinsic link between terror and Islam.
In an interview with Murdoch tabloid the Herald Sun Hastie said modern Islam needs to cohere with the Australian way of life, our values and institutions. In so far as it doesn’t, it needs reform
, in an article title ‘Islam must change: War hero MP Andrew Hastie leads radical push’.
Frydenberg reiterated criticisms Australia’s Grand Mufti, while MP Michael Sukkar said Islam had not reformed as Christianity had.
George Christensen, the Nationals MP who appeared at a Reclaim Australia rally earlier this year, moved a motion in Parliament today which, among other things, calls for continued action in countering violent extremism and in particular, radical Islam within Australia in order to prevent further acts of terrorism within our borders
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Somewhere along the way Labor MP Tim Watts — who has previously taken aim at the Reclaim Australia movement — decided enough was enough.
In four minutes and 58 seconds flat the Member for Gellibrand shredded the dissenting Coalition MPs in Parliament — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Carles Enrich designed the elevator that will improve the accessibility to the old town centre in Gironella, Spain — via ArchDaily
Featherweight fabric has a smooth sheet-like weight and finish, designed for those who like cooler bedding on warm nights. All item have come standard with a solid cream colour reverse side — via Etsy
As part of the renovation of a house in Brussels, Belgium, architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens, included a new staircase that has been suspended from the upper floor. It travels almost all the way to the floor below, but the last few steps are completed by a path through a wood storage unit — via CONTEMPORIST
Weird anthropomorphic, gaudily painted concrete octopus slides lurk within hundreds of Japanese playgrounds, silently traumatising generations of kids. These playground octopi climbing frame/slide installations are so common and have been around for so long, it’s really no surprise Japanese parents are nonplussed by their ominous presence — doubtless they played on the very same structures when they were kids — via Urbanist
As part of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s annual California Sculpture SLAM, Oakland artistCourtney Brown unveiled this unwieldly typing device titled Self Organisation
, that went on to win first place. Brown used a 1938 Underwood typewriter affixed with sculpted bronze tentacles — via Colossal
Meadow Argus Butterfly originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The Greenville Zoo, in South Carolina, celebrated the birth of two female Ocelot kittens on 15 August. The kittens are the first offspring for parents Evita and Oz, who are four years old. This is the first successful birth of this species for the Greenville Zoo, which is one of only two Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) institutions to breed Ocelots this year — ZooBorns
In 1970 there was a spate of cases involving brood parasites. Unknown children began appearing in households all over Scarfolk. So inconspicuous were these children that months would go by before a host family noticed a strange child in their midst, sitting at their dinner tables, taking over the bedrooms and toys of the youngest legitimate family members. Social workers reported that it was as if each host family had been hypnotised
into believing the child was theirs.
It was also discovered that these children had been regularly stealing small, family possessions which they then sealed in wax and hair and buried in scrubland beneath a motorway flyover. When unmarked Scarfolk council vans were found collecting the wax-sealed objects, an enquiry was launched. The council rejected the accusation that the brood parasite offspring were part of a secret government deal with an insistent non-human organisation
, and they were pressured to tackle the problem, hence the poster campaign above.
Local corporations generously funded a community aid scheme, whose slogan was The future of our real children is at stake
. Scarfolk Tobacco Company recommended literally smoking out the preternatural children and sent thousands of complimentary packs of cigarettes to infant schools, while Scarf Distilleries Ltd. promoted the regular application of neat alcohol to any suspect minors.
It is now believed that there were very few officially accepted brood parasites and the vast majority of arrests turned out to be normal children rejected by their disappointed parents because of low exchange evaluations — via Scarfolk Council
Microsoft has shown off an internet helmet built by a customer.
The hard-wired headwear is the brainchild of construction outfit Laing O’Rourke, which is rightly concerned with the welfare of workers it sends out to build stuff in the sweltering heat of places like Australia and the Middle East.
Folks toiling in the hot sun in such locales are liable to come down with nasty ailments like heatstroke, which the company would rather avoid because an afflicted worker is a danger to their colleagues as well as themselves.
The firm’s therefore found a way to fit sensors measuring heart rate, ambient temperature, body temperature, ultra-violet light and location into the sweatband of a bog-standard building site hard hat. There’s also a Zigbee radio in there with a range of 100m to shunt all the data into a Linux box, which passes it on to an Intel Compute Stick. That device shunts the lot into Azure where the incoming data’s crunched and turned into alerts to get that chap off the site, stat. And not because of the classic building site shocker — horrid arse-crack exposure — but rather because the helmet suggests a worker’s in a physical state that suggests ill-health or increased likelihood of accidents.
What’s that you say? Building sites are bigger than 100m? They certainly are, so Laing O’Rourke’s cunning R&D folk have daisy-chained Zigbee repeaters and reckon they’ve built a helmet-net with a range of 500 metres. Zigbee’s low power requirements make for all-day data beaming action. And if you’re worried about all that collection, storing-and-forwarding and cloud uploading going on, know that heatstroke’s symptoms can be detected before a sufferer notices them. So a few minutes diagnostic delay won’t be disastrous — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This giant octopus is lovingly hand knit by Emily Willmann. It will class up any dorm room or toy bin. This octopus is made from 100% acrylic yarn, and is filled with 100% super soft polyester fibre fill. Octopus number 94 is Caribbean blue, with lime green tentacles, and hand painted green safety eyes. This giant octopus is knit on a pair of needles generally intended for chunky sweaters, so it is truly giant, measuring just over two feet long from tentacle to tentacle — via Etsy
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Italian Cypress Pencil Pine (Cupressus sempervirens ‘glauca’ Conifer) and Caper White Butterfly originally uploaded by Red Wolf
These squid are lovingly hand knit by Emily Willmann. They have firmly attached hand painted safety eyes. They are made of 100% Peruvian wool yarn, filled with new polyester blend fibre fill. This baby squid is about 17 inches long overall, with contrast color on the inside of all tentacles and arms. #71 is orange with maroon tentacles and hand painted blue safety eyes — via Etsy
Nobody said thermometers needed to be embedded with complex algorithms to be smart. Best Made Co.’s Weather Station is incredibly clever — and it’s completely analogue. Two needles report on temperature and relative humidity—gauging the feel
of the room rather than stats — and let you know when the weather is just right
. Better yet, the station is housed in solid brass that will take on a life of its own over time — via Cool Hunting
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