Friday Ephemera

Do you own an ICBM silo? // Silo makeovers. // USB-powered chainsaw. // A 3-D map of Hong Kong. (h/t, Coudal) // Could you make a toaster from scratch? // A chess set made of vacuum tubes. // Clothing made of leaves. // Origami dollars. // Socialist grades. // Hitchens on evil. // Unusually limber. // LCD monitor porn. It’s curved, it’s big and it’s $8,000. // Fancy a pair of toe shoes? // Modern mega-churches. // Deep zoom the Moon. // Someone didn’t like the Battlestar finale. // The SR-71 Blackbird. A piece of aeronautic art. (h/t, Maggie’s Farm) // More experimental aircraft. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Richard Cheese.

Comments

[Tim239]

The 'elastigirl' video creeped me out. It can't be real... can it?

[mlrosty]

I like the origami scorpion.

http://orudorumagi11.deviantart.com/art/New-pics-Dollar-Scorpion-59320307

And the tank.

http://orudorumagi11.deviantart.com/art/Two-Dollar-Battle-Tank-57017095

[apotheosis]

I am disappointed in the iSaw. I rather liked that idea...the PFY in the next cube with his stupid ThinkGeek USB nerf missle launcher wouldn't know what was coming until it was far, far too late.

[Anna]

I don't think those toe shoes will catch on. They're just... wrong. :)

[David Duff]

Thank you, Sir, for your link, I don't think I have ever received quite so many hits in such a short time, and 'emphemara' describes me exactly!

[David]

“I don’t think those toe shoes will catch on.”

But they come in a range of colours…

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/

And ladies’ styles too…

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/products/products_Sprint_f.cfm

[Dutch Canuck]

The mega-church photos are great. It seems to be the kind of commission that architects love to get -- Frank Lloyd Wright took on quite a few, and I think this is one of his:

http://www.morlinghaus.com/folio_1_14.htm

This feels like the inside of a tent, or a cocoon:

http://www.morlinghaus.com/folio_1_16.htm

This appears to be a repurposed set from Logan's Run:

http://www.morlinghaus.com/folio_1_02.htm

Wasn't there some talk about a Logan's Run remake?

[David]

Dutch,

“Wasn’t there some talk about a Logan’s Run remake?”

After Bryan Singer left the project, it seems to be moored somewhere in production hell. Joseph Kosinski is the latest director attached to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run#Remake