LET'S GO TO BED: June 2010

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

1948 Norman E. Timbs Buick Streamliner

one reason why I should learn how to drive

Andy Gilmore

universality/symmetry/interconnectedness/patterns

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woofwoof

bread is sooooo easy to make, even dogs can bake 'em!

(via Yimmys Yayo)

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secureseedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.^[1] The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in genebanks worldwide. The seed vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises. The island of Spitsbergen is about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.

(via Wiki)

Monday, June 21, 2010

time perspective

it's really the most simple idea in the world

Sunday, June 20, 2010

INCREDIBLE

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?

(via TED)

wooden joy

Terunobu Fujimori, Tokyo, Japan - Beetle’s House from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

(via Core77)

FREE SHIT

at Materials for the Arts

Watch the full episode. See more SundayArts.

a NYC-based organization that gathers leftover materials--wood, paper, fabric, furniture, computers, electronic equipment, you name it--and redistributes them, free of charge, to creatives and creative organizations that need the stuff. Literally tons of material is thus diverted from landfills, and a city's worth of creatives are able to get what they need for free.

(via Core77)

MANNA

Left: shir-khesht manna; Center: hedysarum manna; Right: Chios Mastic (not a manna, but a resin that is also a tree sap)

AFTER several weeks of wandering the desert after their escape from Egypt, the Israelites were hungry, the Bible says, and started grumbling.

So God conjured up two things for them to eat. In the evening, there were quails.

“In the morning,” the Book of Exodus says, “there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ ”

In ancient Hebrew, “what is it” can be rendered man-hu, a likely derivation of what this food has come to be called, manna.

Both of them look like what they are: stuff knocked off bushes by the desert gatherers who harvest it. They contain bits of twigs and leaves and who knows what else. The Hedysarum (type of Manna) is $22 an ounce, and the Shir-Khesht is $28.

Ravenous insects puncture holes in the stems, leaves and roots of the plant, causing sap to run. Sometimes the bugs eat the sap and poop it out as sweet honeydew.

Paul Liebrandt of Corton in Manhattan used Shir-Khesht manna in a dish of charred Frog Hollow Farm apricots, fresh wasabi and Kindai kampachi. “The texture is unlike any other I’ve experienced — chewy and crunchy at the same time,” Mr. Liebrandt said. “It also makes the food intensely personal, because no two people taste manna the same way. I might taste a haunting minty-ness, while you might detect a whiff of lemon. No other ingredient is like that.”

Hedysarum manna comes from Hedysarum alhagi, the camel thorn bush. It resembles Grape-Nuts mixed with aquarium sand, and tastes like a combination of maple syrup, brown sugar, blackstrap molasses, honey and nuts.

The Bible describes it as being “like coriander seed,” and “white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.”

But as miraculous as its biblical apparition may seem, manna is real and some chefs have been cooking with it.

The dozens of varieties of what are called mannas have two things in common. They are sweet and, as in the Bible, they appear as if delivered by providence, without cultivation.

Most of this manna is either dried plant sap extruded from tiny holes chewed out by almost invisible bugs, or a honeydew excreted by bugs that eat the sap.

(via NY Times)

Beyond Phucked

a full blown erection

Some time today the 477 millionth liter of oil will gush into the Gulf. Happy 60 days

-Clayton Cubitt

(via Constant Siege - Sloane)

ma bruv, ma blud

Monday, June 14, 2010

everything looks sexy in slow motion

The Huber Experiments - Vol. 1 from The Upthink Lab on Vimeo.

(via Serious Eats)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Brown Pelicans

(via Big Picture)

Friday, June 4, 2010

Being a Fish in Japan

Minimovies - Being A Fish In Japan - Tuna from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

sinkhole

Pacaya volcano > tropical storm Agatha > surreal disaster

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

SLOW DOWN NIPON

'Cause i'm comin' for you!

Hayaku means Hurry Up in Japanese but we suspect that once you take a look at this stunning time lapse film of Japan you will want to go, make yourself a cup of tea and soak this in again and again.