More on rapid prototyping in this article I wrote earlier.
This is the result so far with our Reprap 3-d printer at [foAm] (Pics).
You may notice that it even has some wooden parts!
Before this I went to the fablab that is set up in Mediamatic. Here's some images from the workshop there:
Ojode Pez a wonderful documentary-photography magazine, recently featured a collection of photographs of some strange architecture, taken by Christian Schwager.
Certainly this highlight from the history of military architecture deserves a closer look, for some of its features can be found in more recent large scale housing-projects and mass-urban-planning, where homes can look as fake as these bunkers do.
What looks warm and comfortable from afar, becomes chilling and lifeless under closer inspection.
And some more can be found on flickr:
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail.
For a hundred years the villiage of Oeschberg near Bern has featured an old-folks-home for Knechte und Mägde: farmhands and maids, who served on farms all their lives. Now they are spending their latter years working for themselves at the home. Photographer Andreas Reeg made some impressive pictures of them.
I don't want to romanticize old-fashioned ways of living, but obviously any snotty little rapper driving his tribal tattoos around in some pimped-up Hummer, will in his hart of harts know that these people have a dignity and strength of character that he will never have.
And crafts are technology too!!!
