thepenguinpress:

From the General Motors Futurama Exhibit, 1940. Featured in the Harry Ransom Center’s upcoming “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” exhibit.

i want one of these.

this world’s fair makes my heart sing 

fattydingdongs:

YO PEOPLE FUCKING SOURCE THINGS jesus

this was drawn by my girl Babs Tarr

Thank you!  I was wondering who illustrated this.

opossums are so cute

(I mean, I wouldn’t pet one or go near it but still so i love their alligator-esque jaws)

carliefornya:

Ruby the Red Deer maquette. This is what inspired the character, actually. I originally had this “fine art” type of paint design I wanted to put on her, then I realized after getting her halfway covered, that I hated it. Thats what I get for thinking in terms of fine art! Anyhoo, painted her in roughly the same scheme as her character. There are gradient differences, discrepancies in the sculpting, but meh. For a first maquette, it went fine. Not happy with it, but over it!

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

i’m like crying this is amazing

zomo:

megaweeniehutmondays:

THSIS IS THE BEST PRICTRUE EVR IM CRING GIANNA OMFG WHERED U FIND THIS

Don’t you love it when something you were buying and eating unironically becomes the GREATEST MEME ON THE INTERNET?

I love that suddenly this monkey is everywhere, because eons ago I saw him in the store and snapped a photo while laughing my ass off, and it makes me really, really happy that I’m not the only one who thought it was amazing.

visualgraphic:

Flower Patterns

nocogsorwheels:

itsthatdog:

I kind of love this a whole lot <3

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ART.

LOOK AT IT