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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Estos vestidos de novia pertenecen a Ángel Sánchez del mercado americano. Vemos como nos mostrará una novia mas atrevida y desenfadada a la que no le importa dar el primer paso.
Monday, May 3, 2010
- Shanghai Expo: Yawn.
- China's central bank continues to turn the screw, gently, by raising lending requirements
- Francisco Blanch of BoA/Merril Lynch presents his theory for why emerging markets have a greater capacity than the rich world to absorb higher oil prices.
- 'Switzerland Should be Dissolved as a State' - That would be none other than Col. Ghadhafi, bringing the AAA-rated Crazy to the table once again. There is some truly fantastic bullshit in here - too much to quote here - so I encourage you to check it out.
- Greece offers to repay loans with giant wooden horse. Suspicious.
- Hey look! Belgian politicians can agree about some things after all: cultural intolerance.
- What makes charities special?
Ahora que el color de la primavera verano está por invadir el ambiente y el ánimo de todos, para las bodas que están por celebrarse en los días cálidos que están por llegar nada mejor que ir pensando en el bonito ramo de novia que puede ser tan natural como quieras, en realidad las flores artificiales ya hace mucho que pasaron a la historia, la naturalidad impera ahora en las bodas.
Mucho color y bonitos detalles en las imágenes siguientes de sugerencias de ramos de novia, para la primavera verano 2010, con muchas flores y mucho color, atenta que el ramo debe combinar con la decoración de la boda.
Le Spose di Gio es una conocida marca italiana de ropa establecida en Bolonia, que tiene lindas colecciones para novia, y de la que forman parte estas imágenes, su colección de vestidos de novia 2010 de Le Spose di Gio, encantadores vestidos que son de verdad una elección perfecta a la hora de casarse, pero hay que decirlo, estos vestidos son para novias con figuras estilizadas porque son diseños ceñidos y de suave caída que demandan una figura que se adapte perfectamente para lucirlos.
Hay un lindo vestido en un tono que ya se mira rosa, y faldas vaporosas con románticos cintos para ser atadas de atrás, y un rebelador vestido ceñido cuya falda deja al descubierto la silueta de las piernas, algunos con diseños tan sencillos que en eso radica precisamente su elegancia. Seguro que muchas novias vestirán con alegría y deslumbrante belleza estos bonitos vestidos de Le Spose di Gio.
Ya les hemos traido imágenes de bonitas propuestas para zapatos de novia, para las chicas que ahora se preparan para armar su ajuar de boda. Y como nunca serán suficientes los zapatos que veamos hasta encontrar, aquellos que nos resulten los ideales para llevarlos el día tan importante de la boda, pues hoy más fotos de zapatos de novia, para que todas puedan buscar esos zapatos soñados que necesitan para el maravilloso vestido de novia.
Estos zapatos son de Bellisima Bridal Shoes, que distribuye bonitos estilos de zapatos, y aunque hoy les presentamos todos altos, en realidad cada novia debe escoger el par de zapatos que más le guste y se adapte al vestido elegido pero también debe tener en cuenta el alto de los mismos y para ello ya hemos dado consejos en otro post, a a fin de que logren hacerse de los ideales.
Vía: Bellisimabridalshoes
To add unnecessarily to this year's particularly rabid pavilion season, here's our very quick and very dirty proposal for one. It's basically a giant version of iRobot's palm-size chemical robot, a new genre of robot that can roll around and squeeze into tiny holes by changing its state of blobbiness.
As it is funded by DARPA, it is being developed primarily with military application in mind. However, we are conceiving this soft pavilion for application in a different, though no less destructive, industrial complex: tourism.
Specifically, we're imagining several dotting a long stretch of beach. Fully inflated and firmly berthed on the sand, their occupiable interiors can serve a variety of purposes. For instance, they can be used temporarily as vending kiosks, changing rooms, trash collection site, lifeguard houses, beach security command center and, of course, sex rooms.
Embedded on their outer skin are sensing devices that constantly monitor environmental conditions. These external stimuli influence the dimensions and location of the pavilions, thus actuating a constant state of flux throughout the day, like the weather. No longer totally tethered to human agency, they adjust positions with the rising and ebbing of the tides, deform into a more aerodynamic shape against strong winds, deflate in cold temperatures.
There may be times, perhaps most of the times, when the pavilions are too slow to react during a storm or the occasional hurricanes and are thus tossed wildly about before they can burrow themselves safely beneath the sand or find a tight space to squeeze themselves in.
For the lucky few beachfront home owners, some pavilions might seek shelter in the company of others and in the process coagulate temporarily into a giant sandbag.
With the return of clearer skies and calmer winds, those pavilions that have burrowed themselves will emerge out of the sand, like geoglobules secreted by the earth, while the others will ooze out of their confined spaces.
Like a herd of tumbleweeds or a colony of amoebas, they will migrate together towards the shoreline, honing in on the sound of waves breaking, then instinctually retreating a few paces back when their protruding pseudopods touch seawater.
One could consider them a new type of “organism”, a taxonomic hodgepodge of flora, fauna, geology and architecture, encoded with new ethology to be played out in their newly classified biome.
In a windowless room in some nondescript corporate building, but with IKEA furnishings, a clandestine team of crowd physicists and spatial hackers is busy modeling a switching IKEA labyrinth in which these tracings and trajectories of consumerist boredom are whirled unto themselves.
These men who stare at IKEA furniture have been tasked to design a store that can snare cool hunters into a continuous delirium of consumption, only releasing them when bankruptcy is just one shelving unit purchase away. Show rooms seem to flow endlessly into other show rooms, never towards an exit. Countless bounds but boundless. The same corner sofa with the taste-affirming Swedish appellation is passed by a dozen times. On the thirteenth pass, comes overwhelming desire, mortgage payments be damned.
Next door, meanwhile, a fellow employee is also busy crunching numbers. This rogue among rogues has been tasked to weaponize the work of his colleagues, to design an IKEA store as simulant city in which one could trap would-be occupiers and confuse them with self-knotting streams of generic spaces, a labyrinth within labyrinths, until they can be neutralized.
Pedestrian Labyrinth
In March, Circle of Blue reported that the Shimo la Tewa prison near Mombasa, Kenya, is to replace its broken sanitation infrastructure with an artificial wetland to clean its wastewater. Funded in part by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), it is the first project of its kind in Kenya.
Shimo la Tewa’s new system uses gravity to pipe waste water 200 meters away from the main prison buildings to a screen that traps the solid waste. The remaining effluent enters a septic tank to break down anaerobically before it flows through the wetland, which is filled with plants that naturally filter pollutants, such as water hyacinth.
When the wetland is completed in April 2010 it will provide the added benefit of recycled water that the prison can put to economic use. Shimo la Tewa will install aquaculture ponds that will create work for prisoners at a neighboring minimum security facility, [Shimo la Tewa's Senior Sargeant Paul Cheruiyot] said. Any excess water will irrigate plants on the prison grounds.
As estimated by UNEP, “operating and maintenance costs for the constructed wetland are roughly $50 per person served, compared to $300-$500 per person for the pumped systems.”
Though mindful of the ethical implications of using inmates as guinea pigs, we're nonetheless tempted to think that prisons are, or most likely have always been, ideal testing grounds in which to form and develop new and alternative systems to redress conditions of resource scarcity. It's not shockingly revelatory to say that these carceral spaces are really miniature cities or the whole world condensed, continually concerned with issues of food, health and shelter. Increasingly burdened with over carrying capacity and diminishing financial inputs, they're on a perpetual crisis mode, a disaster in waiting, just like the world outside their walls. One could thus understandably assume that such threat of catastrophe would turn a prison into a hotbed of innovations.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Vis-à-vis the Switching Labyrinth over on BLDGBLOG, here's a recently published paper on a largely ignored aspect of crowd behavior: the need to socialize.
Most current models of crowd displacement assume the individuals to act independently, simply trying to reach their destination without collisions. Using video recordings in urban areas, the team of Guy Theraulaz (Research Center on Animal Cognition, CRCA, University of Toulouse/CNRS), in a straight collaboration with Dirk Helbing of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, showed the 50 to 70% of pedestrians do not move alone but in small groups of 2 to 4 people. The study of the spatial organisation within these groups reveals that they walk side by side as long as space allows it, but switch to more complex shapes when crowding increases, with the central persons waking behind the others. This leads ot V shapes in groups of three and U shapes in groups of 4. While these configurations facilitate the communication within the group, they slow down the whole group speed. These concave configurations simply make straight walking ahead more tedious and complicate avoidance manoeuvres. On the whole crowd scale this leads to a roughly 17% traffic reduction compared to a situation where pedestrians move independently.
As with many efforts to understand how crowds behave in urban environments, how they are affected, for instance, by bottlenecked entrances, dueling streams of pedestrian traffic and “turbulence” in shoulder-to-shoulder mobs, this new model of crowd dynamics will help urban planners develop safer and more flock-friendly public spaces.
Not quite related but somehow we're compelled to twin it with the above is the CyberWalk.
Developed by a consortium of several European research labs headquartered at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, it's “an omni-directional treadmill, which together with markerless tracking, optimized control and several perceptual tricks enables humans to walk through Virtual Worlds in a natural and unconstrained fashion.” It's the largest such platform in the world, we are told.
You can see it, or rather the virtual explorer, in action here.
For a much larger treadmill, cover the ribbon belts with turf, plant a few trees and some shrubs, screw in some decorative boulders and glue in a water feature. Introduce some fauna as well. Then turn on the machine, go for a stroll, and watch as this deterrestrialized earth rotationally reconfigures itself into myriad combinatorial landscapes.
Pedestrian Laboratory
