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Would you set foot on this insane, beautiful staircase?
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This scaffolding staircase is 95-feet tall, 187-feet long, and definitely not for people who are scared of heights. If you have ever struggled to hold down your lunch while climbing to the top of a waterslide, maybe skip it.
But it’s also beautiful, and has a great backstory. The staircase was built by the Dutch architecture firm MVRDV as a month-long installation for a city-wide festival in Rotterdam, South Holland. The festival celebrates the 75th anniversary of the rebuilding of the city, which was catastrophically damaged by a Nazi airstrike in 1940.
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“The Stairs to Kriterion” connect Rotterdam Central Station to the roof of the Groothandelsgebouw, one of the first major…
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This illustration of the entire Star Wars: Episode IV plot is over 400 feet long
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For anyone who might be sick of watching the actual film, artist and graphic novelist Martin Panchaud has created an incredible 157-page illustration of Star Wars: Episode IV showing the entire plot from start to finish that you’d have to scroll through to believe. The entire image, which Panchaud made in Adobe Illustrator, contains every bit of dialogue and action in the film, and measures 10.6 inches by 4845.3 inches — or 403.775 feet long.
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A few moving LEDs can trick your brain into seeing a person walking
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New artwork from art studio Random International experiments with the amount of information our brains need in order to visualize an animated image. The work, “Study for Fifteen Points,” consists of robotic arms, each with an LED light, that move in formation. From one angle, the piece looks literally just like that — moving robotic arms — but when looked at from the side, an image of a walking human appears. “Instinctually, the brain is able to stitch the disparate points together and recognise them as one human form,” Random International says.
This slightly reminds me of Brookstone electronics that business executives kept on their desks in the nineties. Maybe Study for Fifteen Points is…
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Twitter is testing a night mode on Android
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If there’s one thing all nerds can agree on, it’s that night modes absolutely rule.
I have no idea why this is a thing, but it is. Literally just this weekend, while procrastinating on a story I was supposed to be writing, I started searching for a way to add a night mode to Google Docs.
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The 2002 Hommage concept pays tribute to BMW's most important car
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Before the M3, before the 3 Series, BMW sold the world on compact sports sedans with the 02 Series — a line of cars that traces its heritage all the way back to 1966. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first 02 off the line, BMW just unveiled the 2002 Hommage concept car at Villa d'Este in Lake Como, Italy.
The styling is a little polarizing, but there’s little question that you can see elements of those early compacts: the single headlamps, the short overhangs, the aggressive stance. This is an angry little car. And it’s based on the new M2, which you can kind of tell, if you squint your eyes. Considering that the M2 is being almost universally lauded as a great little sports coupe, that’s great news.
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Aston Martin's most beautiful car in years is the Vanquish Zagato
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Five years ago, Aston Martin teamed up with Italian design house Zagato to make one of the most beautiful cars of the last quarter century, the Vantage-based V12 Zagato. The 510-horsepower coupe — painted in rich, deep, stunning Diavalo Red — ended up getting a 150-unit production run after the concept debuted, and for good reason: the muscular beauty of that car was beyond description.
Now, Aston and Zagato have done it again.
What you’re looking at here is the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Concept. Yes, “Concept” is a part of the name — but unless the car gets booed off stage at its Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este debut this weekend (it won’t), you can bet your bottom dollar that Aston will end up making a few of these for very, very…
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DC Comics went old-school for its new logo
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DC Comics has a brand-new logo. The company announced today that, as a tribute to its 80-year history as one of the biggest comics publishers in the industry, the DC logo would return to the simple typographic styling of the past. The decision lines up with the upcoming DC Universe: Rebirth Special #1 comic, due out later this month, which will see its comics universe embrace classic continuity and storytelling without rebooting the work of the last several years.
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The BMW i8 Futurism Edition is the most incredible-looking i8 yet
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No one would accuse BMW’s sleek i8 eco-supercar of looking bland. But if for some (ridiculous) reason you felt like it needed a little more visual flair, look no further than the i8 Futurism Edition, a one-off concept celebrating 50 years of BMW’s presence in Italy. Built by Milan’s Garage Italia Customs, it’s basically just a stock i8 that’s been covered by one of the most intense vinyl wraps you’ll ever see.
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Meizu's Gravity wireless speaker channels Buddhist zen
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Meizu wants you to find zen through its Gravity speaker design. Users can wirelessly stream from Spotify, Last.fm, or SoundCloud by pairing with the speaker over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Gravity also comes with an iOS and Android companion app for remote control. But really, the details aren’t as impressive as its design. Meizu says the Gravity “floats,” but I think that’s a bit generous. What it does do is use a prism to display whatever you’re streaming. A prism! Okay, that’s cool. Also from “certain angles” the whole speaker can look like it’s floating. The mandatory power cord throws that illusion off, though. (It’s notably missing in these stock photos.)
The actual speaker is the product of Meizu’s partnership with Dirac. It comes…
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Carl Burton’s beautiful sci-fi GIFs are from another world
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Carl Burton’s oddly hypnotic animated GIFs depict a range of monochromatic scenes: a strange, pulsating cylinder or mysterious beams of light in a lush forest. No matter the subject matter, though, the style remains the same.
It’s a look the New York-based artist came up with while experimenting on his laptop at the NY Public Library, and he’s since gone on to illustrate everything from articles by Margaret Atwood to the second season of true-crime podcast Serial. “They’re influenced by nature, architecture, mundane environments, and the news,” he says of the GIFs.
They may also be more than just moving images at some point in the future. “I’m also currently working on a game in this style,” he says. In the meantime, you can check out…
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