Simian Design

These are my delicious links for December 21st:

• Box'O'Snakes – Amazing photographs of snakes like you've never seen before

These are my delicious links for December 16th:

• PHOTOS: "Alien" Jellyfish Found in Arctic Deep – Flaming Farts of Fire are Fantastic.

These are my delicious links for December 9th:

• Zeppelin Eureka – I want to take a Zeppelin Ride over San Francisco now. Great photos.
• The great alone: Scott and Shackleton's Antarctic – Robert Scott's ill-fated trip to Antarctica and Ernest Shackleton's attempt to cross it are great tales of human endurance. Here we present photos taken by their on-board photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, presented in the book The Heart of the Great Alone.

These are my delicious links for December 8th through December 9th:

• Water Drops – wicked cool.
• Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel – In which you prove to the world that you are indeed a dork and a nerd, and understand math and space better than most.
• Bugs. Big Giant Bugs. – Thomas Shahan takes excellent macro photos of bugs. Check out his stream.

These are my delicious links for December 2nd:

• Decandence, Sleaze and Excess; all in one shoe. – the Jeffery-West shoe collection—the work of childhood friends Mark Jeffery and Guy West—fall somewhere between a swanky gentlemen's club and Sweeney Todd's closet. Blood-red leather linings and handmade soles, inscribed with "Decadence, Sleaze and Excess,“ ooze with the kind of luxe horror that arguably only Brits can successfully pull off.
• The Unearthly Beauty of Antelope Canyon – The Navajo call it ‘the place where water runs through rocks’ and that is literally true. One of the most unearthly places on the planet, take a look at the astounding Antelope Canyon.
  The peculiar formation of a slot canyon can make for an eerie experience and certainly the Antelope Canyon, on the lands of the LeChee people of the Navajo Nation is one of the stranger places you might choose to visit if your budget doesn’t quite run to a space shuttle. The shuttle, though, never lands on alien planets – you can get the experience for very little here on the third rock from the sun. And it is the sun that makes this canyon extra special.
• Sietch Nevada – I like this. MATSYS took the idea of a Sietch from Dune, and created this project, Sietch Nevada, that projects waterbanking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure in the American Southwest. Sietch Nevada is an urban prototype that makes the storage, use, and collection of water essential to the form and performance of urban life. Inverting the stereotypical Southwest urban patterns of dispersed programs open to the sky, the Sietch is a dense, underground community.
• Spiral Staircases are cool. – I love spiral staircases. They easily are the focal point of a room, presenting graceful lines to the inside of a house. And they make a room feel ultra-important. Here are a collection of famous and fantastic staircases.

These are my delicious links for November 2nd through November 3rd:

• Photos of really really tiny things – Seriously, here is a photo of an electron.
• Redwoods are tall. Really tall. – National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you've ever photographed in a forest, you'll understand the challenge this presented. There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

These are my delicious links for September 23rd:

• Red Sydney – A great photoset of the large dust storm raging through town turning everything red, red, red.

These are my delicious links for September 8th:

• 8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root – Patrick Blancs gardens have grown massive in scale. One inside a Portuguese shopping mall is larger than four tennis courts, and there's one in Kuwait that's almost as big. But Blanc's recently completed facade for the Athenaeum hotel in London (shown) could be his most high-profile project yet. Looming over Green Park, it's an eight-story antigravity forest composed of 12,000 plants.

  But plants for this vertical landscape must be chosen with care. Because the walls are so high, conditions vary widely. The shade at ground level is perfect for rare Asian nettles; on the brighter upper stories, plants that usually cling to windblown cliff faces brave the blustery British breezes.

These are my delicious links for August 6th through August 7th:

• Living Root Bridges – In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built – they're grown.

  The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves.

• Build your own IcyBall – The Crosley IcyBall is a commercial early-twentieth century portable chemical refrigerator that runs without moving parts or electricity. Cooling is caused by the evaporation and re-adsorption of ammonia into a water-based solution, which is a spontaneous process that can be reversed by applying heat, as from a campfire.

These are my delicious links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Feral Homes – James Griffioen has a haunting collection of photos of homes and buildings being overtaken by vegetation in Detroit. I can't imagine walking the streets with these buildings, must be surreal.
• Photos of Chicago from the top of a Crane. – Ken Derry, crane operator for McHugh, has taken some amazing pictures of the Trump Tower during its construction.
• 202 Star Wars T-Shirts – A grand list of 202 Star Wars Shirts. Not ranked, just a missive listing.
• I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since. – One of the best XKCD's I've seen in a while.