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Lu. 31. f. Uruguay / Ireland. Tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon.

[archiemcphee]

Today the Department of Miniature Marvels is delighting in an awesome new project by Google Maps (previously featured here). They traveled to Miniatur Wunderland, the world’s largest model railway, located in Hamburg, Germany, and mapped it so that it can be explored on their Street View site.

“…to capture the nooks and crannies in Miniatur Wunderland, we worked with our partner at Ubilabs to build an entirely new—and much smaller—device. Tiny cameras were mounted on tiny vehicles that were able to drive the roads and over the train tracks, weaving through the Wunderland’s little worlds to capture their hidden treasures.

Populated by over 200,000 itty-bitty citizens, Miniatur Wunderland features 13,000 meters (42,650 feet) of track that travel through miniature replicas of German provinces, famous locations in the USA, and a fully functional airport.

Click here to learn more about this geektastic project and take your own virtual tour of Miniatur Wunderland, which now also contains a miniature Google Street View car that was created to commemorate collaboration.

[via Laughing Squid]

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Holy shit this is amazing.

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This startup is turning plastic waste into affordable housing

The company called Eco Domum, or Eco Home, is based in Puebla, Mexico. Founder Carlos Daniel González collects, sorts and melts down non-toxic plastics into a liquid, according to Unreasonable. That sludge is then put into a hydraulic press, which forms the plastic into hardened panels. It takes two tons of plastic to make one house. At scale, González’s plastic houses could be just what Mexico needs.

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[luamado]

Chart types that I've been using lately. Circliful, Chart.js (doughnut), Bar charts using Bootstrap's Progress bar.

In some of my recent projects I've been using several types of charts and I've found myself reusing these styles. In this jsFiddle I've compiled the ones I use most frequently. Feel free to take a look and play around with them!

Circliful is particularly easy to implement but I only use it in situations where I have to display only one value.

If the chart needs to show more than one value I like to use Chart.js.They have loads of dfferent types of charts, so it's a good option if you need to display data in many formats. In this case I've included a doughnut chart sample.

Bar charts are also available from Chart.js, but if I can use the native Bootstrap components I tend to avoid including anything else.

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We would simply walk into Mordor for these limited edition Lord of the Rings prints by Matt Ferguson.

[luamado]

Back in November I had the opportunity to attend the Dublin Web Summit. With over 614 speakers in 9 stages, 700 investors, 2,160 exhibiting start-ups a...

I wrote this :D

[adobegripes]

Illustrator Smart Guide snap accuracy changes depending on your zoom level.

Surely the smart guide to snap to page edge should ALWAYS land on the same value no matter what the zoom level.

This inaccuracy means this function can no longer be trusted for accurate work.

Note: align to pixel grid was off and the page was actually 200mm wide exactly.

[fastcodesign]

How Yelp Brought A Sprawling Campus Feel To Downtown SF

Yelp’s new headquarters in downtown San Francisco has the qualities of a sprawling tech campus squeezed into a relatively narrow Art Deco tower. The offices, by San Francisco-based interior designers Studio O+A, spread across 13 remodeled floors in the historic Pacific Telephone Building, a 26-story tower built in 1925 and originally home to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph (later Pacific Bell).

The sizable new space speaks to Yelp’s grand ambitions and rapid growth (despite controversy). Since the company signed the lease in 2012, it has gone from 500 San Francisco employees to around 1,200.

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Cats in the Night, An Art Print Featuring 8-Bit Versions of Famous Cartoon Felines

[buzzfeed]

14 New York City Bookstores You Should Visit Before You Die

[itscolossal]

LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air

[wetheurban]

ART: Sky Art Illustrations by Thomas Lamadieu

Genius French artist Thomas Lamadieu has illustrated a series of scenes in the sky directly onto photographs of urban landscapes.

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Brilliant: Dinah Fried cooks and photographs meals from beloved books — Moby-Dick (above), Little Women, The Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, and more:

Reading and eating are natural companions, and they’ve got a lot in common. Reading is consumption. Eating is consumption. Both are comforting, nourishing, restorative, relaxing, and mostly enjoyable. They can energize you or put you to sleep. Heavy books and heavy meals both require a period of intense digestion. Just as reading great novels can transport you to another time and place, meals — good and bad ones alike — can conjure scenes very far away from your kitchen table. Some of my favorite meals convey stories of origin and tradition; as a voracious reader, I devour my favorite books.

See more here.

[enochliew]

Mona Pavilions by Fender Katsalidis Architects

Bold, diamond shaped steel frames anchored to the ground by large, off form concrete blades. Weathered timber clad boxes to the rear slip between these steel structures.

[megablaziken]

I went to the Met today

[threadless]

“Fowl Language" by Zach Terrell

Happy Draw a Picture of a Bird Day, chickadees!

Need a little inspiration for your bird drawings? Check out these bird tees!

[tedx]

Prosthetic limbs that match your body … and your style:  Industrial designer Scott Summit uses 3D printing technology to create individualized artificial limbs that users can choose and personalize to fit their unique style.

In a talk at TEDxCambridge, Summit explains how this process not only gives users autonomy over the aesthetics of their prosthetics, but also makes for artificial limbs that factor in the quirks, curves, and uniqueness of a user’s body, eliminating the need for prosthetic-wearers to hack their artificial limbs — with socks, bubble wrap, even duct tape — to feel comfortable. Watch the whole talk here»

Above, photos of some of the creations made by Summit’s design firm, Bespoke Innovations.

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