Archives for the Month of July, 2010

Mount St. Helens

Some of the most surreal photos I have ever seen of a natural disaster are in the Big Picture’s gallery of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The indescrimenate shockwave that blew through the forests surrounding the volcano is incredible. The photograp…

Alessandro Beber’s Pentagonal Puff Star

oschene posted a photo:

A very nice model, indeed.

Oil spill glows under UV light

Maybe there’s something for hippies to love about ecological disaster, after all. Chris Combs, photography editor at National Geographic News, took these amazing shots while on assignment in the Gulf of Mexico. Via Submitterator, he says:

…researc…

Signal Shed by Ryan Lingard Design

This 130 sq ft shelter is built in the wilderness near Joseph, Oregon. Signal Shed is designed by Ryan Lingard Design in collaboration with Greg Morrow and Sons Inc.

The name Signal Shed is taken from the origin of the place that is used as as a summ…

Clever Recycled Furniture Made from Undesirable Materials

The green movement has helped guide some great designers to create amazing new products from materials that already exist by sourcing supplies from consumer trash. New York City-based furniture designer Chris Rucker gets right to the heart of the iss…

U.S. Senate passes ‘libel tourism’ bill

You just have to look at certain British newspapers to see see why the establishment there clings for dear life to its draconian libel laws. But with ‘libel tourists’ using English courts to attack enemies abroad–even if one has no assets in the U.K.,…

1963 Airstream Trailer Transformed into Beautiful Modern Studio

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Simple, Stunning Spanish Prefab Assembled In Three Days

All images by FG+SG Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra, via Archdaily

It is hard to call a big expensive second home in the country green. On the other hand, sometimes they are just so stunning and have so many great design ideas in them that you just ca…

Supermassive Aerogenerator Turbine is 3X More Powerful

Just when you thought the dust was settling on the best wind turbine design, the stakes have gotten higher — or in this case, wider. A new design called the Aerogenerator X (‘X’ to make it sound cooler?) would have a massive span of 275 meters a…

Underscore by Francisca Prieto

Nice field of origami butterflies.