Posts Tagged ‘awesome’
It always amazes me what God can do with a single light source
Monday, December 8th, 2008Lego History
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Reverse Graffiti
Monday, October 1st, 2007More then Meets the Eye
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Suspended Animation
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Spaced Out
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007The world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport will be a “green” building rising out of the desert of New Mexico, US, according to plans made public on Tuesday.The designers of Spaceport America opted for a “low-lying, organic shape” that they say will blend into the surrounding landscape while conveying “the thrill of space travel”.
The spaceport will be the headquarters of Virgin Galactic, which will begin test flights of its passenger spaceliner, SpaceShipTwo, in 2008 and aims to be taking paying passengers to the edge of space by 2010.
The 9300-square-metre, $31 million facility features a circular terminal topped with an undulating concrete roof and flanked by berms of earth rising out of the desert.
Visitors will enter the spaceport through a channel cut in the landscape, walking between retaining walls covered with exhibits on the history of the area and of space exploration. They will be able to look down on spacecraft parked in the hangar and watch them rolling down the runway through the terminal’s expansive windows.
“It’s really science fiction becoming reality,” says David Wilson, a spokesperson for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA). “We think it’ll become a destination people want to come and see even if they’re not one of the passengers to space.”
The Future is Advertising
Friday, August 10th, 2007Move over Scarlett Johansson! Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton.The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign for the French luxury label, along with Steffi Graf and her husband, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve, said a statement Thursday from Vuitton, a division of the LVMH group, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.
Shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, the ads focus on travel — a “core value” for the company that started in 1854 as a trunk-maker, the statement said.
Gorbachev is featured in a car, a Vuitton bag at his side and the Berlin Wall in the background. Graf and Agassi are shown snuggling in a hotel room bed. A vampy Deneuve sits perched on a Vuitton suitcase in a foggy train station — or is it a movie set?
Vuitton said it was making donations to former Vice President Al Gore’s The Climate Project to fight global warming and Green Cross International, founded by Gorbachev to promote sustained development. The company didn’t disclose the amount of the donations.
Floating Light
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
