Steampunk has jumped the shark
I stole this post title and all from Tiffany of Curious Goods.
I stole this post title and all from Tiffany of Curious Goods.
Anne Troake is a choreographer and filmmaker from Newfoundland. Her film Pretty Big Dig is, IMHO, the best of the many “dancing heavy machinery” videos I’ve seen on YouTube.
From silohome.com:
NY’s Adirondack State Park – During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s when the Cold War was escalating, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos (each for 18 million in 1961, with the rising cost of construction today one could barely fund the excavation.) to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Today, most of these silos lie abandoned and filled with water, monuments to a bygone era of American history and left to waste. But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a luxury home safe haven getaway complex accessible by plane or car. The real estate includes 20 acres of land with approximately 78 acres available as 10 approved building lots. The home is conveniently located to Montreal, Lake Placid and Plattsburgh and boast such outstanding year round activities as golfing, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking and world class skiing.
The price, regrettably, is north of two megabucks. But when I finally marry that wealthy heiress this place is at the top of my shopping list. Bruce was nice enough to provide us with a high-resolution scan of the plan view, above, which (for the time being anyway) is exclusive to the MAKE blog. You can click on the image above to see it at 1000 pixels wide.
Bloody good post over on Mental Floss collecting some delightful home furnishings from the Lady MacBeth collection. Just don’t think you can get away with leaving them out past Halloween. The world’s not ready yet.
Reader captures footage of a car-powered mechanical gate opener.
That’s right, it’s a wooden sports car. And although the sexy images shown here look PhotoShop-y to me, the body of the car, which is made fiberglass-style out of wooden fibers woven on a custom-built loom, appears really to be complete. You can follow Joe Harmon’s construction of “Splinter” at his site. [via Dude Craft]
I dunno if these pixel art stained glass windows I stumbled upon in Gary in Cleveland’s Flickr stream are his original work or not, but I dig ’em. Can anyone confirm authorship?