This amazing short video is a fun, insightful, and frustratingly pretentious interview with Charles Eames in 1956. There are a few great quotes in there about Charles’ and Ray’s design philosphy, but more importantly to me, it appears to be one of the first times the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman was revealed to […]
Gadling compiled some great quotes from the master of living and loving life, Kurt Vonnegut, in honor of the first anniversary of his passing.
[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] “Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred […]
A Mythbusters episode this morning reminded me of this crazy video footage of of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940. Amazing footage. Essentially the bridge was under designed and the wind and natural sway of the bridge sort of aligned in something called “mechanical resonance” and the swaying sort of amplified and amplified until […]
A guy named Marco Spitoni from a company called Cee Gee wrote, directed, modeled, and animated this short film which answers the question we have all asked ourselves. “What if the Nazi’s had giant robots?”
The answer is spectacularly animated and “filmed” to look authentic and plausible. The camera movements and style are spot on, and […]