Kate just found for me this amazing Tumblr, Everything Punk, Goth and New Wave – a collection of real photos from the heyday of the subculture(s).
Sometimes I think I was born just a little too late. While my 1984 start in the world put me in the thick of new wave and goth culture, I was a little too onesie-clad to partake in the more interesting fashion choices. And it may be a little cliché to look like a panel from the Sandman, I’d still thrill at participating in this aesthetic while it was new.
As Kate astutely points out though, “I’d miss the internet.” So maybe the 80s were best left to my early years?
If I were able to give technology like this to my six year old self, my parents hours would have been fully of projected sky cities for my hovering sedans and sports cars to visit and exotic forest planets for my adventurers and scientists to explore. We’d also have had cameras everywhere, but them’s the breaks, I’m afraid.
I can imagine a school outfitted with this technology that could project different functions onto a student’s accoutrements depending on what room or building was being used. Would certainly be a worthwhile experiment of kinesthetic learning…
From the designer’s mind to the web, Autoblog gives us a run down on this traffic light concept from Thanva Tivawong. With at least twelve of the bastards between me and my parking lot – just 2.6 miles away – I’m now on constant lookout for ways to maximize green-time and win at the white line.
The Oxford English Dictionary has launched a campaign of word adoption in an effort to keep these mature, forgotten language components from falling out of common use. The clever website offers up a word finder with hilariously unusual sentences explaining how each needy word can be used. You can choose which one you would like to call your own and receive an emailed certificate to commemorate your pledge of support.
I’m waiting on my emailed certificate right now so I can start making use of my new “child,” however, I have to stress how (sillily) dire this situation is: impudent is on the list, and that’s a one I even use!
Not that anyone was really watching – which was the main reason why Syfy decided what they did – but Caprica has been canceled midway through its second season. This saddens me for all of the reasons that io9 explores in their post-mortem, “What killed Caprica?” Too smart for TV? Probably.
While I think of cars with pretty staggering regularity, I very rarely pay much attention to those from South Korea (which have always seemed like half-baked knock-offs of Japanese cars.) Recently, though, I’ve noticed my eyes drifting towards Kia’s offerings as they roll past and I had to ask myself: what the hell is going on here?
The Kia C’eed, Top Gear’s reasonably priced car from last season.
Well, the answer turns out to be something I already knew but had completely forgotten: Peter Schreyer is the chief of design for Kia. And his former job? Lead designer for Audi and VW.
