Video | Zaha Hadid – The Opus

Although I appreciate Zaha’s work, I can’t really say she isn’t lazily copy/pasting her old stuff a lot of the time, kind of suffering from the Gehry syndrome, if you will. But this time, I’ve gotta hand it to her, she’s definitely realized where her strengths lie and has shifted away from generic organic shapes on the outside to make better use of them in the core of the building. In one word, her new buildding in Dubai, The Opus, looks awesome, and the trailer below is nothing shy of hypnotic due to clever use of atmospheric music, smooth voice-over and good renders.  More info here.

Links: Zaha Hadid | The Opus | more Opus

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Architecture | Construction Awards

I can’t tell if some of the images are photoshopped or not, but it’s still LOL funny:)

More here.

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Internet Altering the Way Our Brains Work
• [IT] Get the Green Web 3.0 Experience on Truevert (or how ‘green’ is raising the bar with semantic web)
• [Future] Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street
• [Nature] Bacteria Cause Old Buildings To Feel Off-color (a must-read for anybody in the construction business)
• [Politics] Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict
• [Man-made] [Nature] How biometrics could change security (see the video)

ENTERTAINMENT

• F-f-freaks @ adg conference
• High Performance Fighter Uniform Can Stop Bleeding In 20 Seconds
• What Do We Have Here? TWINS? (lol celeb pics)
• 52 Epic Natural Wonders of the World
• Red Enhances Men’s Attraction To Women?…
• Obama and McCain – Dance Off!

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to perfect timing, or in my case chance & coincidence…pour me another one of those ‘CC’s, please:)

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The future of designing buildings and other man-made structures

Oh its at least a couple of years away (mildly put) from becoming mainstream, but  the video after the jump gives a surprisingly detailed and thought-out idea of an efficient (again, mildly put) work environment and indisputably shows how technology can be an architect’s best friend. And an engineer’s, designers, you name it!

Hod do I know this? I just do…for I have been to the mountaintop:

On a lighter side, let’s look at it from a different, albeit still important perspective. A mirror of the not-so-distant future, if you willl…

Do you wanna be the I-have-a-serious-long-term-relationship-with-my-desktop-computer,-my-mouse-is-bigger-than-my-erect-penis-and-my-idea-of-exercise-is-opening-a-new-jar-of-mayonnaise bald fat fuck:

Or do you want to be the I’m-actually-psycho-but-still-take-care-of-myself-because-I-predominantly-do-my-work-standing-or-at-least-move-my-arms-and-upper-body-a-whole-lot wholesome, good looking guy like Tom Cruise:

I crossed the line with ‘wholesome’, but the question was rhetorical…or was it?

Further information on building Information modeling (BIM), especially the last paragraph of ‘BIM in the USA’.

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [Eco] A green New Deal can tackle depression
• [Health] Scientists uncover new gene link to male pattern baldness
• [Health] TED Talks – Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
  
• [Economy] The End of Suburbia (worth a view, especially the last 5 minutes or so!)
• [Economy] ‘We need slaves to build monuments’ (Dubai is under a lot of fire lately, more here, here and here)
• [Man-made] Long Overdue GPS Upgrade Could Save Airlines $10 Billion a Year

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Indonesian Mimic Octopus
• The Sun (mesmerizing photography)
• Flesh Eating Mutant Fish Invades Nepal
• What Is The Sport Of Kiiking? (dedicated to my beloved Estonians)
• The Aquaduct Bicycle (brilliant idea!)
• Chinese deaf girls mystical dance (how the **** do you train deaf people anyways?)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to autumn.

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• [Eco] Chicken Manure to power 90,000 Homes in the Netherlands!
• [Future] Automated Construction System To Change Face of Home-Building (mental note: it’s fun to be right:P)
• [Nature] [Astronomy] Bill Stone: Journey to the center of the Earth … and beyond! (from caves to cosmos or how this man’s favorite color is definitely black!)
• [Economy] [Politics] When the wind doesn’t blow (ups and downs of wind power)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos (physics galore…really fun stuff:))
• [Psychology] Banned Self Hypnosis Video (had to repeat it to get it and just ‘let go’…surprising and impressive)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Faces Behind The Simpsons
• Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability (forget make-up, ladies! Learn to, khm, walk properly:))
• Rare banned Bush speech
• Insane Stretchable Skin Man
• 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World (great stuff with a lot of effort put into it)
• Racism in the Elevator

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to relevant issues (2) and quality journalism (2).

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Photographs Enhance Video in Absolutely Unbelievable Ways (unbefuckinglievable!)
• [Eco] FreeGreen (or the Napster of green architecture!…and we know how that evolved!!!…a radical new business model that I think can’t be stopped)
• [Future] 10 Futuristic User Interfaces (comments & other links also worth checking)
• [Man-made] Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks
• [Psychology] Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube (already featured the first two, the other 3 are just as great. I’d also add this one;))

ENTERTAINMENT

• Watching mushrooms grow
• The Evolution of Men’s Style: 1933-2008
• Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras
• Awkward Rap
• Trailer – Comedian (if you digg stand-up comedy or presentation skills check the movie)
• Little Gordon

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to contemporary interior (and exterior) design (or Gizmodo:P)

Link: Click | Click | Click | Click | Click

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The awesome highlighter (one ot the beter Web 2.0 apps around, does exactly what the name implies)
• [Eco] New Precast Concrete Sucks CO2 Out of the Air (perhaps the future of constructing with concrete. Further links: Click)
• [Health] The Truth About Plastic (puts things in a much needed perspective)
• [Future] Your DNA’s in the post
• [Nature] Male biological clock ‘ticks too’
• [Man-made] [Nature] Alert map (slow load, but perhaps the most comprehensive source of alarming events going on around the world)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Cosmo’s 20 Favorite Sex Tips Ever (won’t speak on anybody else’s behalf, but 2, 4, 8, 9, 15 sound mighty hot to me:))
• 5 Incredible Works of Insane Architectural Genius: Wooden Skyscrapers to Recycled Wonderlands
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!
• Laughter: the secret of love
• 5 Tiny Mistakes That Led To Huge Catastrophes
• The Soup: iPhone 3G (let’s face it people, this needed to be made!)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
China, bitch! The land of paper, kung-fu, excellent dental care and those weird dumpling-looking thingies.

Links: Click | Click | 劉琵琶

Oh. Did I mention they scare the shit out of me and at the same time seem like an unavoidable playground for the future. “China…so you don’t have to!”

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] 2012: The Year The Internet Ends (a MUST-READ if you’re reading this!..it’s got so many Diggs it’s gotta be dug
• [Eco] Hydrogen Cars Won’t Make a Difference for 40 Years
• [Future] Built for Speed: Printing Buildings (love it when my phantasmagorias start springing to life, through me or somebody else…if I had enough cash laying around, this would be in my “top 5 investments” list 4 sure!!!…mark my words, this is the future!)
• [Future] Long-Promised, Voice Commands Are Finally Going Mainstream
• [Politics] TED Talks – Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the “bottom billion” (not your typical moral lecture, this guy actually has experience galore and solid proposals)
• [Man-made] [Nature] Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth’s Ecology (sounds like bs, but is in fact quite the eye-opener)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Denmark hosts first “Masturbate-a-thon”
• Deluxe Apartments In The Sky
• Obscene Losses in the porn industry
• How Do They Do That? Nine Mind Blowing Flash Animations (yeah, some are old, most are annoying, but damn that no.8 is hella cool;)
• Modelogues (kind of like a taxi driver who crashes into a tree because he doesn’t know how to drive his fancy car…but I’d still tip the fucker:P)
• JCJC

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
A small tribute to this year’s summer movie blockbusters…let’s just hope they all don’t suck major donkey hairy ‘Bolls’ like “Indi 4: Klingon’s gonna piss in your skull”…(hmm, I should probably copyright this, before Lucas gets any more “bright” ideas)

Link: Click | Click

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Guess who’s got your passwords and emails stored on their servers…?
• [IT] Google Health: A Quick Hands-On Look
• [Nano] New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week (in Your Mouth and On Your Face)
• [Economy] The Real Face of the European Union
• [Man-made] Burj Dubai Becomes World’s Tallest Man-Made Structure Today
• [Psychology] Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters

ENTERTAINMENT

• Something to wear on mother’s day;)
• 10 Private Islands You Can’t Afford to Live On: Amazing, Exotic and Remote Luxury Retreats
• 40 Hours Of Illustrator, Time-Lapsed (for design freaks who can stand to listen to the background music)
• YouTomb: Where Videos Go to Die
• The Danish language & some more Danish language
• The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World (so the Danish can feel a little better)

WEEKLY TRIBUTE
Well, I’ve thus far managed to rip on mothers, my email provider (ooopsies), the Danish, and pretty much everybody else…so here’s a totally uninspired, totally random miniscule “tribute” to those who can sell their own shit and get away with it (…more than 5 times!!!?!?!)
I give you this a**hole….(disclaimer: watch the videos in order, FSM knows you can barely make sense of it anyway:P)

Link: Click | Click | Click

And please, even if you’ve never seen them, even if you’ve never heard of them…do your civic duty and friggin put the HerrBoll out of his misery!;)

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