Location: Ottawa, Canada. Level: Year 23. Greetings! If you have come for the art, be advised that it comes around every once in a while after A LOT of random reblogs. Currently Sherlock, Science and Harry Potter are my main fixations. (Blog occasionally NSFW)
What’s 23 feet tall, eats smog, and makes jewelry for fun?
In Rotterdam this week, the designer Daan Roosegaarde is showing off the result of three years of research and development: The largest air purifier ever built. It’s a tower that scrubs the pollution from more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour—and then condenses those fine particles of smog into tiny “gem stones” that can be embedded in rings, cufflinks, and more.
Each stone is roughly equivalent to cleaning 1,000 cubic meters of air—so you’re literally wearing the pollution that once hung in the air around Roosegaarde’s so-called Smog Free Tower. In the designer’s words, buying a ring means “you donate a thousand cubic meters of clean air to the city where the Smog Free Tower is.”
The project has been in the offing for a long time. We wrote about the idea more than two years ago when the Dutch designer first publicly announced the project, which was originally planned for Beijing after the city’s mayor endorsed the idea. Roosegaarde and his team have spent the past few years developing the first prototype in Rotterdam, where it was unveiled this month. “It’s really weird that we accept [pollution] as something normal, and take it for granted,” Roosegaarde explains.
To fund the travel, the studio launched a Kickstarter campaign where you can buy jewelry and cufflinks made with its tiny smog gems—which, theoretically, would eventually become diamonds if they were compressed with much more extreme pressure.
But for now, the tower sits on a patch of grass next to Roosegaarde’s studio in Rotterdam, whose mayor and local government supported the project with grant money.
The process taking place inside its walls is powered by 1,400 watts of sustainable energy, which is comparable to a water boiler, and the studio says it hopes to one day integrate solar PVs into the design to power the process—which works not so differently than some ionic air purifiers. Roosegaarde explains:
By charging the Smog Free Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will send positive ions into the air. These ions will attach themselves to fine dust particles. A negatively charged surface -the counter electrode- will then draw the positive ions in, together with the fine dust particles. The fine dust that would normally harm us, is collected together with the ions and stored inside of the tower. This technology manages to capture ultra-fine smog particles which regular filter systems fail to do.
The team’s Kickstarter, where the studio is raising funds for another eight days, is closing in on doubling its goal—you can get your own smog gems by donating here.
Okay, so I’m listening to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, and I realize something. In the beginning it says “The rose would bloom until his 21st birthday” meaning the Beast is about 21 years old during the movie.
BUT. In the song Be Our Guest, Lumier says “Ten years we’ve been rusting, needing so much more than dusting…” etc.
This confused me. Because if they were under the curse for ten years, but he would be 21 by the time the last petal fell… that could only mean one thing.
The beast was 11 years old when that witch transformed him.
11.
11. Freaking. Years. Old.
DOES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE HOW CUTE THAT IS, IMAGINE AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD BEAST BEING RUDE AND SASSY TO AN OLD LADY, AND BEING LIKE “NO YOU CAN’T COME IN, MY MUM SAID I CAN’T TALK TO STRANGERS, AND PLUS, YOU’RE SUPER UGLY, GO AWAY!”
AND THEN SHE TURNS HIM INTO A LITTLE MONSTER.
LIKE THAT ADORABLE LITTLE CREATURE RIGHT THERE.
Guys do you not see how I’m freaking over this right now, do you not see how I need more of this in my life???? I CAN’T STOP SMILING!!!!
(I honestly don’t think Disney thought this out very well, BUT THE IDEA OF A CUTE BABY BEAST TOTALLY MAKES IT WORTH IT!!!)
#disney#beauty and the beast#actually it’s brilliant#when we assumed the prince was older and think he got just what he deserved#when really it was the witch who was at fault for using corporate punishment on a child who didn’t know better#he’s spoiled yes but that’s not how you teach a child#and he still didn’t truly understand the lesson until belle taught him through kindness#it would also explain why he didn’t know how to read or eat properly#long story short I think disney knew exactly what they were doing (via kamiya-akuto)
SHE FUCKING DISFIGURED A CHILD WHO HAD NO OBLIGATION TO LET HER IN TO HIS HOME AND THEN SHE DISFIGURED EVERY OTHER INNOCENT PERSON IN THE HOUSE TOO, THE SERVANTS, THEIR CHILDREN, HIS DOG
nooooowww CAN YOU MAYBE UNDERSTAND WHY HE REACTED THE WAY HE DID WHEN MAURICE SHOWED UP
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM THE LAST TIME A STRANGER ARRIVED UNINVITED ON HIS DOORSTEP DEMANDING TO BE LET IN
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