Official Lyrics to “Indianapolis Jones”
Dun da-dun dun, dun da-dunnnnnn
Dun da-dun dun! Dun da-DUN DUN DUN!
Dun da-dun dun! Dun da-DUNNNNNN!
Dun da-da dun!
da-da dun!
da-da dun!
da-daaa dun da-dun!
(*Repeat until he’s done whipping people)
Done.
Model railway bar :D
Three-dimensional works by Daniel Arsham
I like how the presence and use of texture creates a visually surreal quality to the works.
Stuart Williams - Luminous Earth Grid (1993)
1,680 fluorescent lamps over 10 acres
A drop of sugar syrup falls into a pool of methylated spirits, producing a Worthington jet and several ejected droplets. Although surface tension holds the jet in a smooth shape, the refractive index of the spirits reveals the turbulent mixing within the jet. (Photo credit: Rebecca Ing)
british rail design cover by smallritual on Flickr:
The [Danish] design of this book looks like 2006, in British terms, rather than 1986. the 1980s were not a good period for swiss-style modernism in Britain. The book celebrates the British Rail corporate identity at a time when it seemed outdated in Britain - a case of ‘you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone’. The British have never been very good at sticking to rational design systems - they get distracted by romanticism and nostalgia.(Edited for capitalisation.)
Off to Civ5!
station timetable by smallritual on Flickr.
Steve Collins (who goes by smallritual online) has been posting scans of the nearly impossible to find Danish Design Council book on British Rail’s design and identity. As he writes of the pocket timetables, “In a sense, the invisibility of this kind of design is the point.” Certainly I look at that now as almost a work of art, whereas for most of my life it was just background.
What do you call a cow with two legs?
Lean beef.
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Ground beef.
Lego action movie :D
The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. Pitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appear solid, most commonly bitumen. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very slow rate, taking several years to form a single drop.
The most famous version of the experiment was started in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, to demonstrate to students that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very-high-viscosity fluids. Parnell poured a heated sample of pitch into a sealed funnel and allowed it to settle for three years. In 1930, the seal at the neck of the funnel was cut, allowing the pitch to start flowing. Large droplets form and fall over the period of about a decade. The eighth drop fell on 28 November 2000, allowing experimenters to calculate that the pitch has a viscosity approximately 230 billion times that of water.
This is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment, and it is expected that there is enough pitch in the funnel to allow it to continue for at least another hundred years. To date, no one has ever actually witnessed a drop fall.
The image above features The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment with its current custodian, Professor John Mainstone (taken in 1990, two years into the eighth drop).
Credit: John Mainstone and The University of Queensland
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January 28, 2012 10:45 AM
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