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Job Opportunity: “Research of Electrostatic “Wiffle Ball” Fusion Device. The contractor is to specifically investigate the required instrumentation to achieve spatially resolved plasma densities and spatially resolved particle energies.” Comments Off mt

Photo sharing site as latter day cartography service: Flickr has has started collating the geo-tagged images on its site and using the data to determine the perimeter of various countries. Previously. Comments Off mt

Australian National Architecture Awards. Amongst the winners, the Everleigh Carriageworks — Congrats to SC buddies Jeremy and Matt! + City of Sound has video of the rad moire facade of the winning public building by m3architecture. Comments Off mt

Kemistry Gallery is offering to challenge your self-image with First Impressions Last. Five diverse people – a romance novelist, a teenage rapper, a comedian, a psychic and an erotic horror writer – write your portrait based on their first impression of you and put them on display. via Dave Brown at URB. Comments Off mb

A gallery of retro futuristic cars. Comments Off mt

The Unfinished Swan is a game in development set in an all white world. Navigation through this space is achieved by shooting paint at the walls, revealing surface and enclosure. Not unlike how a new city is experienced, or I imagine, how bats see navigate through their environment. Added to the list of games I will not have time to play.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

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RjDj is an iphone app that samples your immediate acoustic environment and plays it back live, distorted and looped and screwed up. In effect giving you your own personal ambient music soundtrack. This may be the best iPhone app I have come across yet. Some samples of it in action here. Comments Off mt

Gentrify: “Tired of stepping over homeless people on your way to bikram? Jonesing for a Yacon Root smoothie? Gentrify (San Francisco edition) helps the elite urban bourgeois find their natural habitats.” Comments Off mt

Dieter Rams talks about the influence of his architecture training on the design for the Braun SK4 record player as well as his other early work for Braun and his Universal shelving system. Comments Off mt

Google Earth is now available for the iPhone. Goodness me, the earth in your pocket — pinchable and tiltable to boot. Comments Off mt

In a move that might even make Jeff Koons wince, Ceramica Cielo have unveiled a range of ‘fashion luxury bathrooms’ with their Jungle Collection. The ceramic range is available in natural or brown python as well as brown, white, vintage ivory or black crocodile. Not only does the collection convey ‘the material and tactical effect typical of these skins,’ it promises ‘to release washbasins and sanitary ware from a purely functional vocation to transform them into totemic objects that stand as the unquestioned protagonists of the domestic interior.’ Good luck to them. Comments Off mb

The Independent interviews Anish Kapoor as his new exhibition Place/No Place: Anish Kapoor in Architecture opens at RIBA. Comments Off mb

Foster and Partners has been selected to create a new circulation library within the New York Public Library’s main building. The project will replace seven levels of stacks situated beneath the Rose reading Room. NYT. Comments Off mb

Scott Borgerson maps the opening of new sea routes through the once impenetrable Arctic and looks at how this could recalibrate geo-strategic power. The Atlantic. Comments Off mb

All out of organic espresso? Why not try ‘David Lynch Signature Cup’ available direct from davidlynch.com 1 Comment mb

Visit UC’s Earthquake Engineering Research Centre with Wired and see the 400-square-foot ‘shake table’ in action. Comments Off mb

Nicolai Ouroussoff on Zaha’s Chanel Pavilion: ‘The wild, delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough.’ NYT. Comments Off mb

Zaha Hadid has also collaborated with Lacoste to design dynamic footwear. A mockup of the shoe can be seen here. 1,000 pairs of the limited edition shoes are to go on sale in May. via IHT. Comments Off mb

Soriano’s Biblioburro is a bookmobile of a different kind: a man leading two donkeys carrying 4,800 books to people living in impoverished regions of Colombia. IHT article. Slideshow. Comments Off mb

The TKTS booth, designed by locals Choi Ropiha but delivered by others has opened in Times Square, New York. Archidose and The Architects Newspaper have more images. Comments Off mt

The chopstick manufacturing city of Obama, Japan, has launched the ‘Obama for Obama’ campaign with T-shirts, rallies and the ‘Obama Girls’, a 70 strong local Hawaiian Hula dancing troupe. Magnum Slideshow. Comments Off mb

Sad news: Future Systems is to split following the divorce of partners Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. The Guardian. Comments Off mb

Explore the objects, postcards, paintings and mind games of Madelon Vriesendorp. Comments Off mb

Boy George pays tribute to Barack Obama via the ever versatile medium of disco with Yes We Can. via The Guardian. Comments Off mb

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