Dust from One Giant Production on Vimeo
Short film starring Alan Rickman, Jodie Whittaker and Lola Albert
Written and directed by Ben Ockrent and Jake Russell
Produced by Catherine Bailey
British photographer Benedict Redgrove has taken a rare look inside the design studio of italian automobile firm Bertone. In a distinct artistic approach that highlights geometry, architecture and engineering, redgrove has captured some of the company’s most radical concept cars from the 1960s and 70s — some never seen before __ including designs for Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini and Lancia. The series of images which was originally commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine, exudes a specialty in styling, coachbuilding and manufacturing, with Bertone’s vision categorised by abstract angular frameworks, a use of unique materials for standard auto parts and super-sleek interiors built for luxury and functionality — via designboom
Dug up a few pictures of Kuzya 2007, when he was very young and playful — via Igor Shpilenok
There have been many comments to this story from people who are assuming that these towers
are physical installations. There’s no reason to assume this is the case: it’s far likelier that they are mobile installations of the kind used not only by law enforcement and government agencies, but also by scammers and other criminals — David Harley
Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security — but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science.
The fake towers
— computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the baseband
chips built to allow them to communicate with their networks, can eavesdrop and even install spyware, ESD claims. They are a known technology — but the surprise is that they are in active use — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1963, Jaguar embarked on the Special GT E-Type Project
, of which only 12 of the planned 18 were built. This year, Jaguar begins manufacturing the missing
6 all-aluminum, hand-built E-Type — via Youtube
The Clouded Leopard cubs, born at Houston Zoo on 6 June, are growing and developing their big cat skills. So far, the pair has mastered the art of being adorable — via ZooBorns
This video isn’t about how automation is bad — rather that automation is inevitable. It’s a tool to produce abundance for little effort. We need to start thinking now about what to do when large sections of the population are unemployable — through no fault of their own. What to do in a future where, for most jobs, humans need not apply — via Youtube
We were shooting a time lapse when this marmot interrupted. In Glacier National Park, global warming is melting glaciers and shrinking the alpine tundra environment as treelines move higher up the mountains. Shrinking tundra threatens marmots and other animals that live up high in these mountains — via Youtube
Via the /r/mildlyinteresting subreddit comes an office-supply creation that puts your cubicle-mate’s obnoxiously oversized rubber band ball to shame. According to its creator, redditor Eduardoballestero, the ball comprises 130 clips and took roughly six hours (~1 hour a day, for a week) to make — via io9
Seyit UYGUR { Ebru Artist } from oguz uygur (ozzie) on Vimeo
My parents perform this art (Ebru in Turkish, Paper Marbling in English) and the footage was shot for a promo piece I was working on back then and my dad asked me to put a video together for him. This is what came out of that.
For those who is wondering how it’s done I’d recommend googling Paper Marbling
there is plenty of info out there
Chloe Giordano is a self-described illustrator, avid reader, history lover and dreadful knitter
from Buckinghamshire, England. She may not be a great knitter, but her embroidery is more than up to par. Shown here are her tiny embroidered animals, done freehand. Giordano’s mixture of multiple colored threads adds detail and dimension. See more of her creations or request a commissioned work at her tumblr site — via Neatorama
Go inside the home and mind of John Waters as we take a closer look inside his Baltimore home before we kick off a week of his controversial films in John Waters Presents: Films of Bad Taste — via Youtube
Mat Brown is an industrial designer and jewellery maker in Norwich, UK. He wanted to do something productive with a long piece of chestnut wood that he owned. It was heavily cracked and had knotholes, so some woodworkers might choose to avoid it. But Brown had a plan. He mixed resin with glow-in-the-dark powder and poured it into the cracks and holes. He then varnished it with 8 or 9 coats of a linseed oil solution. Brown made the now elegant board into a lovely set of shelves that glow under black light — via Neatorama
Pulguinha the Steampunk Guinea Pig doesn’t need a jetpack, because he has a pair of brass and leather wings, perfect for soaring high among the airships — via Etsy
The JD rug offers a snapshot of life in rural Scandinavia. Heavy machinery has long since replaced the labour of farm animals, leaving its trademark tracks in the grass and mud. On the outskirts of civilisation, reading such tracks is a vital skill — via Permafrost
Delivered new to Hollywood and motoring icon Steve McQueen on the set of Bullitt; owned by McQueen for more than four years. Subsequently owned by TV star Guy Williams, of Zorro and Lost in Space fame. Restored by Ferrari Classiche to McQueen’s original specification; Classiche certified in the autumn of 2013. Currently owned by F1, Indy, and Le Mans racer Vern Schuppan. With its history confirmed by Ferrari, the car was proudly displayed by the Maranello company in its own museum exhibit, From Cinecittà to Hollywood — via Youtube
Last Friday, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department sent internet service providers (ISPs) a confidential discussion paper — subsequently leaked to Fairfax Media — that attempts to clarify exactly what metadata they’ll be required to store under the government’s proposed mandatory data-retention scheme. The detailed requirements are presumably designed to feed into the statutory specification
of metadata that will be included in legislation to be introduced to parliament in coming weeks.
Until now, the only official government description of metadata we’d seen — apart from that breathtakingly confused TV performance by Australia’s favourite Attorney-General Senator George Brandis QC — was the hilariously inadequate one-pager (PDF) that the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) tabled in Senate Estimates on October 15, 2012, after much prodding by Greens Senator Scott Ludlam.
You might therefore think that the description of the government’s metadata needs in Friday’s document was a recent development.
You’d be wrong.
A confidential document obtained by ZDNet shows that even more detailed descriptions of the government’s data-collection ambitions had been discussed with ISPs as far back as early 2010.
The document, Carrier-Carriage Service Provider Data Set Consultation Paper version 1.0 (PDF), is a 16-page PDF file created on 9 March 2010, at 14:49. Its core sections are similar in structure to the nine-page document obtained by Fairfax Media this week, with the addition of tables of sample data to further illustrate the expected type of data to be retained for each specific retention requirement from the data set
, discussion questions for industry to answer, and an introductory background section rather than an executive summary.
The 2010 version of the document was quite specific about the data to be collected. For mobile calls, for example, the data would include the IMSI and IMEI of both the calling party’s and called party’s devices, whereas the current version simply specifies the identifier(s)
of the devices. This is in line with the government’s intention to make the legislation technology neutral.
References to web-browser sessions and file transfers that were in the 2010 version have vanished, too, in line with such ideas being dropped as the data-retention debate has evolved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Limited edition bronze of 20 — Year released: 2012 — Bronze giant squid dining table dimensions: 30” tall x 36” round glass — via Kirk McGuire
A maritime fort constructed in the 1860s in the middle of the Thames Estuary is on the market for half a million pounds, or roughly $835,000.
With its fifteen-foot thick walls and insanely daunting approach—accessible on foot only at low tide and, even then, after a squelching walk across seemingly endless mudflats — it’s certainly a good option if you’re looking for solitude — via BLDGBLOG
For over 15 years, the keepers at the Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, have eagerly hoped for zoo babies in their Fennec Fox enclosure. Their patience has been rewarded, and they are excited to announce the birth of two new Fennec Fox cubs — via ZooBorns
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