Zipora Fried 2011 - I am not sure anyone is better off dead
via @plugimi Julio Lafuente. Reconfiguration study for Roosevelt Island, NY (by francis jonckheere / ony one)
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Winston’s shell. Designer Graham demostrates Winston Churchill’s personal pressure chamber, created to enable him to make high-altitude flights safely. In: Life, 10 Feb 1947.
To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.
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GooglyEyeShield - 05 (by oskay)
random interlude: check out this rafael lozano-hemmer piece.
I send this pothole pic to @311NYC a few months ago. 311 replied and referred to their protocol on their website to submit and upload issues. I’d much rather participate in reporting through a tweet.
Kyle McDonald showed me http://bkme.org/ an ITP project. Input/output mapping system for bike related street issues via twitter.
positioning systems I - falling objects (by pe lang) via 2x4
Crop Blog 2 (by Vintage Aerial)
flight patterns from #neverneverlab (by chriswoebken)
Fernweh (by chriswoebken)