Agatha Christie: “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
A papier collé of design, art, food, advertising, media, space and others that defy a clear category. Part visual and part verbal, in the ratio of 4/5 and 1/5.
Swarms of airplanes, circling in the night sky. Photo, by Pete Mauney.
Eco-friendly stainless steel straws (with silicone tips.)
Outer Space Vodka comes in cool alien head bottles that are made from thick green glass.
“I can’t dial a setting that stimulates my cerebral cortex into wanting to dial.”
— Philip K. Dick in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
All-Clad’s D5 Stainless cookware
features five alternating layers of aluminum and durable stainless steel.
Pinblock is a construction toy that lets you build things with a colored squares, a.k.a. a pixel.
“The great round chasm of Pavonis … This caldera was one of the geological marvels of the solar system … a perfect cylinder of space cut into the volcano like a rock sampler’s coring. None of the other three calderas even approached this simplicity of form: Ascraeus and Olympus were complicated palimpsests of overlapping rings, while the very broad, shallow caldera of Arsia was roughly circular, but shattered in every way. Pavonis alone was a regular cylinder: the platonic ideal of a volcanic caldera. … [The tented settlements on its] rim looked like] toy villages in paperweights.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson in “Blue Mars.”
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of “My Neighbor Totoro” (1988), Studio Ghibli commissioned a new poster, created by Chinese artist Huang Hai.
A transformer explosion at a power plant in Queens temporarily lit up the New York City skyline a brilliant blue on the night of December 27, 2018.
If you were in an airplane, flying at the speed of the NASA probe to Pluto, New Horizons—36,000 m.p.h.—then this is what you’d see out the window. Clouds would hurtle past swiftly. At that speed, you’d be able to fly from San Francisco to New York in about five minutes. Of course, you’d also be turned into a ball of searing hot plasma.
A miniature curio cabinet, with each window filled with a range of creations, from a miniature iguana and array of small fruits to even tinier models of buildings and structures. Sculpture, by Matthew Simmonds.
Coffee cups made of sand.
A Christmas fireplace.
Hot chocolate and pine cones. GIF, by Daria Khoroshavina.
