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bashford:

Next month flying robots will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a three metre wide, six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.
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Looking forward to watching this.

bashford:

Next month flying robots will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a three metre wide, six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.

More on Dezeen

Looking forward to watching this.

29 November 2011 • reblog: bashford

Facebook is dead. Long live Diaspora.

Diaspora is an open source social network where you own your own data, it has more than enough features to satisfy your social networking needs. My Facebook accounts days are numbered…

19 October 2011 • Diaspora, Facebook alternative Facebook Open Source social network

What comes after money?

An excellent article/essay that discusses the current state of the global financial system and touches on alternative ways to live and for humanity to evolve.

Time is not money, time is art.

8 October 2011 • Alternative to capitalism, occupy wall street Karl Marx Money financial meltdown time is art

Green flight from NASA and Google.

6 October 2011 • NASA Google Eco

Wabi-sabi Coffee Maker (侘寂コーヒーメーカー)

I’m not going to attempt to explain what wabi-sabi is as Marcel Theroux produced a one and a half hour TV show and didn’t come up with a definitive answer.

Needless to say this Nescafe Barista coffee maker has all the characteristics of what wabi-sabi is. It uses instant coffee and can produce five different types of coffee that is not so different to what you would find in one of the high street coffee shop chains!

The look of the first cup I made fooled me into thinking it was real, until I took a sip. I’m not sold on it but if you need a morning caffeine fix and there’s nothing else in the house it will do the trick as long as it’s not loaded with decaf!

2 September 2011 • wabi-sabi coffee coffee machine Japan 侘寂コーヒーメーカー design

An amazing video about the 1981 Brixton riots made just before the 2011 UK riots.
The Karl Marx quote at the end is…?

12 August 2011 • london riots Brixton Karl Marx Social unrest UK riots

Young people who feel vulnerable feel that there’s no jobs, there’s no future, there’s no prospects. They feel that nobody cares about them so they don’t care. They’ve lost respect for authority because at the end of the day if it was just about what happened in Tottenham, that’d be an isolated situation. That was just a trigger.

— Ros Griffiths, who runs the Employment café in Brixton, which provides advice to jobseekers, says the violence across the capital is the result of years of tension between working-class people and the authorities. (via brosephstalin)

(via socialisimo)

9 August 2011 • reblog: brosephstalin • London Riots London UK riots