cipheramnesia:

anais-ninja-bitch:

ralfmaximus:

anais-ninja-bitch:

ralfmaximus:

laughingsquid:

A Cocktail Dress Made Out of 2,652 Pennies

  1. Weight: about 14.6 pounds (6630 grams)
  2. It probably smells faintly of blood

Why blood? Because hemoglobin in our blood has a lot of iron and thus has a metallic scent, similar to the coppery smell of a bunch of pennies collected together.

People who do things like floor an entire room in pennies counsel that you really need to seal/varnish the finished surface otherwise the smell can be pervasive.

what if i want to smell like blood?

You want vampires? Because that’s how you get vampires.

i mean….

Kinda forgot what website they were on for a minute, huh?

A reading on the train simulator would require:

  • Train sway rocker base upon which is bolted two standard passenger train seats, one to sit on and one ahead of that seat to glance at occasionally
  • Train sway must be programmed for random jostles and jolts
  • Acceleration and deceleration simulation with the seat rocker as the train simulation stops at programmed points in the simulation
  • Monitor in place of a window on the right side with 4K 60FPS day and night loops of passing neighborhoods and vistas as viewed from the upper level of a two-level passenger train
  • Air conditioner flowing past constantly, ensuring warmth never occurs during the simulated train ride
  • Faux train interior dressing for the left and front views of the participant viewing area to ensure immersion during the reading experience
  • Speaker system
  • Train conductor voice recordings of upcoming stations with appropriate level of poor speaker system muffling
  • Programmed cessation of seat jostling during scheduled stops
  • Random stops and conductor announcements of an obstruction on the tracks
  • Nice to have: an entire passenger train car in which the simulator is constructed, thereby maximizing immersion and eliminating the need for set dressing

ofhouses:

1073. Tadao Ando /// Nakayama House /// Nara, Japan /// 1983-85

OfHouses presents: Japanese Architects, part II – Tadao Ando.  
(Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 08/1985; ‘Tadao Ando – Houses & Housing 1’, Tokyo: Toto, 2007; Francesco Dal Co, ‘Tadao Ando : complete works, London: Phaidon Press, 2000; Masao Furuyama, ‘Tadao Ando’, Basel: Birkhauser, 1996.)

This project will be published in our upcoming book
: Japanese Fields | OfHouses.