Category: asides

Marine Traffic is a live tracking of all ocean vessels that transmit their position by AIS. Rotterdam looks pretty busy…

Bullet impacts in super slow motion. Micro armageddons at one million frames per second (and a terrible sound track).

The Burnie Maker’s Workshop by Terroir in Tasmania’s industrial northwest is nearing completion. The project is looking great and it is good to see at least one institutional/public client in this country backing a relatively young/untested practice with a substantial cultural project.

A flickr gallery of this morning’s intense dust storm dawn, where we were treated to one morning of what it is like for much of the year in Abu Dhabi.

Russell Davies visits Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. As the name suggests, this is pretty serious collection of miniature model cities and landscapes and reminds me of the time, we discovered an entirely unexpected model train set underneath a pool in a Robin Boyd house.

Fans of Lost have been mapping and making models of the TV series island based on the limited and sometimes contradictory snapshots and maps shown in the show.