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Arcologies were one of my favorite parts about the SimCity series. Loved to plant about 4-5 of those in an area.
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I can't imagine who would want to live in a place like that. You would never own your bit, only rent it, and you couldn't do anything serious to personalize it. Talk about the Neighborhood Association from Hell. Of course, I wouldn't mind if large numbers of other people went to live in one and left the real land open for people who appreciate it.
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I highly recommend anyone interested in it to do check out arcosanti if they find themselves north of phoenix.
Sure, the project has mostly stalled in a larger sense, but is still self supporting. One thing the pics don't capture is the experience of being in those buildings, very unique, and very refreshing in a sense. It was early summer when I visited, very hot out, and yet quite cool and comfortable inside, without any AC on. The internal distribution of thermal energy and movement of air felt much more fresh and alive than the artificial cold tomb-like experience of most of Phoenix's large buildings that time of year.
Aesthetics aside, Soleri has a gift for creating true living spaces.
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Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket... Having an entire city in one structure leaves the entire population very vulnerable to a variety of disasters: fire, epidemic, power failures, enemy or terrorist attack, etc., not to mention the attendant problems of utilities, waste disposal, emergency evacuation, and maintenance. Some ideas look a lot better on paper than in reality.
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They aren't such a clever idea, 1 million people crammed in, what if a bomb goes off in a very important place, you could have up to 1 million casualties!
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I've always thought that Solari's megacities were to some extant a reactin to Frank Loyd Wright's Broadacre City; a vison of continent ecompassing sprawl. PT: actually his vision was a bit more heterogenous. The exteriors aren't very uniform because building really only provides a concrete slab and basic infrastructure. Everything else would be built by the individual "condo-owner."
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All are legitimate concerns, thanks for this neat discussion.
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Good work and great images.
In my blog i put another arcologies like X-Seed 4000 and Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid
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These are all grand ideas that lead to something bigger. While the concerns raised by the commenters here are all valid, these represent the first step in being able to colonize other worlds once they are determined to be able to sustain life, or we have developed the capacity to make other worlds sustain life.
Arcologies like this provide us with an opportunity, built on Earth, to discover the flaws, problems, logistical hurdles and potentials for disaster that exist in the designs prior to building them in space and sending them, fully loaded, to another world, or building them on that world. If they can be made stable in an environment that is already relatively stable, they have passed the first step towards being able to support human life elsewhere in the universe. It is only a few more baby steps to design them in such a way as to be able to survive elsewhere and/or travel there under their own power and land safely.
Big plans require big ideas.
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To those who dismissed the idea's based on fear filled sentiments, I am profoundly sorry. A bomb can cause 1 million casualties due to the close proximity of the living quarters? Damn, all it takes is a bigger bomb, which you know each country is always developing and the benefits of being spread out are lost, and the cons are all thats left. Destruction of natural ecosystems around the entire world have been destroyed based on people wanting to own "their" piece. At least with arcologys nature has a better chance of surviving. And humans still just have human problems, like thinking you need more than you have. Americans wake up to the world your part of please.
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Another cult complete with a saintly founder who enjoys his own opulent private quarters (with desert swimming pool) while his acolytes do all the drudgery trying to get his unwieldy designs to work.
He nowadays passes his time making styrofoam models for the trademark wind chimes. Incidentally, his eco-friendly minions directly invest molten metal into the styrofoam sending gouts of poisonous black hydrocarbons into the otherwise pristine high-desert skies.
"Thinking globally but acting locally." What a crock!
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Mainly someone said this seems like putting all your eggs in one basket - well think about it this way: Earth = One Basket. We need to spread out and this is a logical primer.
Next to the guy who said leave land to the people who appreciate it. The point of this is to give everyone the opportunity to appreciate land not divide it up and fence it off and 'customize' it.
There will never be enough land to go around and some of the best land is taken by people who assume they have a right to keep it from everyone else.
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lets build one of these over the darian gap!?
glass bottom city-structure overlooking the last and wildest uncivilized part of the world.
it would be quite poetic! the most advanced in conservation and sustainability with a view of that which is untouched.
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Bogie... Your comment made my day. Quite an idea!
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vinyl player??? It's called a turntable
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I think this post is wonderfully hilarious and that some one is just a crabby pants...
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There's a candidate for the Darwin Award in the first picture of the wheelbarrow BBQ!
First, the heat of the fire will most likely cause the wood frame to start smoldering or burst into flames. Second, the wheelbarrow is not stable and is likely to tip over. But the worst offense is the uncapped gas can in the background...
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"vinyl player??? It's called a turntable"
What do you think Turn Tables are? They are vinyl players. Are you like 12?
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Great post.
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that was hilarious .. had a good laugh lolz .. thnx for the post
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dude, only 2 pics were from romania, stop being mean :P
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good read, love the site
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The drunken animals clip sounds suspiciously like the film "The Gods must be Crazy 2". The first film had the "myth" that rhinos stamp out fires!
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The clip belongs to the film Animals are beautiful people, from the same director of TGMBC. It's a great film, but it's been known for a while that this scene and several others were actually staged and/or manipulated for dramatic effect.
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hahhah i have a lego calendar! except mine is red.
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The American Eagle is the remains of an F-104 Starfighter fuselage, an aircraft which was also powered by a J-79. What? No-one is impressed by a fact a brief google search would have revealed? Fine, be glad we're living in the future, rather than in the book-laden, internet-free past.
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Thank you for publishing my pic and linking to my photo blog.
But you got a couple of things wrong.
The village is called "Planina v Lazu" and the mountain on the right looking down on it is "Slatna". The picture was taken from "Prvi Vogel" which is 2181m high.
Thanks again and be sure to check out more pics on my blog.
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The Buchwald lamps might be the coolest things I have ever seen.
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Cool!!! wireframe furniture!!!
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If it was "Mad IKEA in the Wonderland", it'd be fecking impossible to assemble
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love the coffe table that imitates a dog!...not sure if i would have one though?
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'A Piece of Awesome - Would like to know who the artist is.'
The artist is Tony Ariawan.
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Stop-Haunt-Me-Everyday-Collection/53669
FYI - I found out using a site called TinEye http://tineye.com/
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Thank you David, this "tineye" is quite a find!
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Eiffel Tower Modification is few months old awesome canadian joke.
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Aircraft carrier looks like its coming into port everglades, in Ft. Lauderdale. FL. They used to have the air and sea show every may and before/after the event the boats/subs/aircraft carries parked in Ft. Lauderdale Harbor...seriously cool
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Huge army ships there. Is it stuck at the shore?..hehe
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The squirrel drinking a Guinness gif is taken from a longer Guinness commercial called "Dream On", which may be found here:
http://www.spike.com/video/guinness-dream-club/2444983
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That's a chimpanzee bathing the cat, not a monkey.
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Yay!
You changed "monkey" to chimp.
I salute you and this fantastic site!
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LOL! )
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The weird arm-flapping guy on the third animated gif is Andre van Duin, a dutch commedian. This clip is from very early in his carreer. I think he is like 60 jears old now, while in the clip he must be in his early 20's.
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A (kind of) plate on the Tour Eiffel ?!!!
It is the most stupid idea ever !
(and looks ugly)
That tower must remains as Eiffel did it, beautiful.
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Love these articles.
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Quite Beautiful! Thanks!
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Thank you! Some days I get so involved in my own silly problems; in the little life I'm living (and feel is just SO important!) that I forget what an amazing, beautiful world with which God has blessed me. Thanks for the reminder to look around...
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The pictures from holland aren't actually spiderwebs, but rather a protective covering created by caterpillars. They can cover entire trees and bushes in a dense white webbing to protect themselves from predators.
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Amazingly beautifull...
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Cool...
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Camel spiders are so named because they can jump to the height of a camel's belly, and draw blood from them directly. That is scary, I don't care who you are.
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Gorgeous photos! Spiders absolutely fascinate me. My avatar is actually a picture I took of a Golden Orb Weaver on her web in our backyard. Orb webs are the prettiest, but also pretty are the sheetlike webs that the Funnel Spider makes. We currently have a Funnel Spider living near the frontdoor of our house that is starting to build a sheet, and it's slowly getting bigger. We won't be taking it down anytime soon. Our house is a spider-friendly area. :P Two years ago, we had a funnel spider build a sheet that covered half of our front door! Let's just say it made for a very interesting conversation piece. :P
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This is amazing stuff. Simple no words. You have compelled me to bookmark this outstanding page. Great architectural work!
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I love your photos! Earlier this week I took some good spider web photos. And I have been on the hunt for more to photograph.
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About genetic engeneering, if I remeber well, scientist have introduces spider genes in cows to try to produce milk with silk (spider's of course).
My house too is spider friendly, I have one in my room, a rather big one, who keeps insects and flies away:)
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Only a fool could say this capability evolved ... thanks for the reminder!
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These are gorgeous photographs, and remarkable work on the part of our eight-legged neighbors.
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Wow...don't usually post stuff but these are beautiful!!! I'm inspired to find some webs and try this myself now...my house is also spider friendly...they are all called fred (for the boys) and of course Charlotte (for the girls)!!:)
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This post just screams out for
A. R. Ammons's poem "Identity":
1) An individual spider web
identifies a species:
an order of instinct prevails
through all accidents of circumstance,
though possibility is
high along the peripheries of
spider
webs:
you can go all
around the fringing attachments
and find
disorder ripe,
entropy rich, high levels of random,
numerous occasions of accident:
2) the possible settings
of a web are infinite:
how does
the spider keep
identity
while creating the web
in a particular place?
how and to what extent
and by what modes of chemistry
and control?
it is
wonderful
how things work: I will tell you
about it
because
it is interesting
and because whatever is
moves in weeds
and stars and spider webs
and known
is loved:
in that love,
each of us knowing it,
I love you,
for it moves within and beyond us,
sizzles in
to winter grasses, darts and hangs with bumblebees
by summer windowsills:
I will show you
the underlying that takes no image to itself,
cannot be shown or said,
but weaves in and out of moons and bladderweeds,
is all and
beyond destruction
because created fully in no
particular form:
if the web were perfectly pre-set,
the spider could
never find
a perfect place to set it in: and
if the web were
perfectly adaptable,
if freedom and possibility were without limit,
the web would
lose its special identity:
the row-strung garden web
keeps order at the center
where space is freest (intersecting that the freest
"medium" should
accept the firmest order)
and that
order
diminishes toward the
periphery
allowing at the points of contact
entropy equal to entropy.
(see the link for the appropriate formatting)
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Idanogie,
Thank you for this...
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Incredible. Thank you for posting.
Adam
www.twilightearth.com
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Not quite as beautiful as natural spider webs but look at this to see an amazing piece of art made from led lighting & thousands of crysals. http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpoolbiennial/2892056332/in/set-72157607535470041/
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I just stumbled upon this site: so awesome!
I just wanted to say that I appreciate that none of these photos contained the actual spiders. While I find spiderwebs beautiful and fascinating, their creators scare the bejeezus out of me >.<.
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What an awesome bunch of photos! Evolution leads to some amazing things.
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OMG Dude, that is some of the craziest wiring I have seen yet!
RD
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strange stuff!!
damn those wires are messy
zip ties always help with organizing wires
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No, GOD NO! Zip ties are the bane of the industry. Too many twits yank down on them and kink the cables! Then every one and their mother wants to cut off the end of them, which turns them into little plastic razors! I can't even tell you how many scars I have from those things. Good god man. NO, just NO!
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Wow...some of those are inconceivable! I can also tell which ones were put together by a serial killer.
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The 2nd photo - Pho Ly Quoc Su is in Viet Nam. There are many examples of such wiring "arrangements" in Ha Noi and elsewhere. No idea in which city this particular street is since the same street names are used repeatedly in various cities.
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ok, that credit card one was obviously done for effect. the card still has the "I am not yet activated" sticker on it. Someone just got a couple cards and some tweezers and took a photo.
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Hey, good thing to note is those 'perfect' wiring jobs. there is such a thing as too perfect, and those are a good example. Proper structured cabling should not be perfectly parallel, combed, straight cables. Such an arrangement promotes crosstalk and impedes signals. cable bundles should be slightly lose, and allowed to weave a bit. They may look messy, but you'll have a significantly cleaner signal on your network.
Holy crap, did i actually LEARN something from my Data Communications course? oO
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The ones that are messed up are called job security. HAHAHAHAHA
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Wow James - interesting point, I was not aware of this (although I had my share of tackling crazy wiring)
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Ditto the earlier comment about the evils of zip ties. Use only on a permanent installation, and it's rare any wiring is going to be permanent.
For most applications I use velcro ties, they're a bit more expensive than zip ties, but you only have to buy them once. Write them off as a business expense. :)
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The pic of the girl tied up in the wire reminds me of something from way back when.
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=36&id=11#article
Scroll down about 2/3 to:
"THE FUTURE OF SUPERCOMPUTING"
Keep reading.
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Haha, some are real funny. Nice post ;)
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That picture of the vintage wiring is almost artistic. :o)
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@ james: Actually, Cat5/6 cables, as well as shielded coax/fibre/other waveguides are designed not to crosstalk with each other. Consider that a Cat5 has 4 pairs, each w/ different signals, and they don't have problems due to the architecture i.e., the twist in the pairs along with the opposing current creates a net 0 EM field, therefore no inducted voltage in another pair.
I also agree w/ Scott, I hate zip ties, although if I have to use them, I twist them off, which creates a smooth end. I hate them more due to the disposable nature of them...
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one last link to the ultimalatte wild wiring http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg/250px-Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg
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This is what happens when wiring is left to software engineer or system adminstrators!!
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The painted cubes is a work of Agustín Ibarrola, a basque artist.It called "Los cubos de la memória" (The memory cubes)and is placed at the village of Llanes (Asturias)
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If you're wondering, the Pininfarina concept pictured is a Ferrari 206 S Dino Berlinetta Competizione. It's based on a prototype racer chassis. More info here (as well as a comment from the current owner): http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3713/Ferrari-206-S-Dino-Berlinetta-Competizione.html
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Alvarhillo, are you 100% sure ? I would also say it's in the Basque Country but in the north, in France, in Socoa.
http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.396956,-1.677099&spn=0.006018,0.013947&t=h&z=17
Maybe it's two different works by the same people.
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Yes I´m sure. You can look here.
http://www.desdeasturias.com/asturiasbasica/rutas.asp?idruta=3
http://www.llanesnet.com/loscubosdelamemoria/fotografias.htm
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@ alvarhillo
Yes, I confirm : it is the rompeolas from the small puerto de Llanes, a very very nice place to visit.
http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/concursos-de-ojodigital/110700-ganadores-concurso-llanes-con-mucho-ojo-2006-a.html
"Esto ye Asturies" !!!
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The picture "from some B-Movie" is from Gog (1954)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047033/
I saw it a long time ago, it really is a prototype for 50s b-movies: robots, russian spies and silly science.
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Great info, thank you... page updated!
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hee thanks for the info, really great help
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So which smiley face was the one in the Watchmen?
The nice thing about that Moog was, that is was in fact monophonic. One note at a time :)
Flintstones' dream car? More like Asphyxious! Looks like something on a Cryxian road!
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