Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Survival town
A great promotional newsreel from 1955 about "Survival Town", a full-set town model in the Nevada desert on which the US government threw an atom bomb in order to study what happens. They created scenes of daily life with mannequins and even stocked the fridges to analyze radiation levels afterwards.
There's also a two-part color video on Youtube that goes into much more detail about the setting up of the town and the subsequent blast which is rather interesting too. Of course it's all in super-patriotic fifties newsreel speak and music background! More reading and photos in the Weburbanist article.
Blown To Smithereens: The Secret Story Of Survival Town | Design + Ideas on WU
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Ruins of Detroit
The Ruins of Detroit is a book by photographers Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre that will be released on May 31st, 2010. Glimpse a sample of the great pictures they made in abandoned buildings in Detroit-- these look almost too surreal to be for real! Really awesome.
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit
Saturday, March 13, 2010
World leaders' daily life
Well, how similar the lives of some of the World's leader must be! In two unrelated slideshows, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and America's president Barack Obama are seen touring facilities in their country, getting things explained. The main difference is that in Kim's case, he is described as touring to "give his personal guidance on the spot", while with Obama it's titled "Obama feigning interest in mundane things.. funny!
On the Spot with Kim Jong-il - The Big Picture - Boston.com
A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things -- Daily Intel
Friday, December 12, 2008
Complete removal of American continent
Ha ha yeah, this is right down my alley. Similar to the idea of the "American Archipelago", where the whole continent is blown away and only some scattered islands remain. Well this reminds me...
"According to this top secret Russian document," dated February 26, 1973, "Soviet military engineers" were interested in what they refer to as "assumed changes in geographical structure of Earth continents which may happen as a result of correction of gravity field of the Earth by the A-241/BIS device."
BLDGBLOG: North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device
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