Monthly Archive for November, 2007

It Takes a Long Time To Become Young

Published by Sean 2 years, 9 months ago in Art

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso — “It takes a long time to become young.”

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The Licorne Nuclear Test

Published by Sean 2 years, 9 months ago in Photography and Science & Technology

French Nuclear Test Photo 4

These pic­tures were taken in 1970 when the French mil­i­tary tested a num­ber of nuclear bombs on the French Poly­ne­sian islands of Mururoa and Fan­gata­ufa.

French Nuclear Test Photo 1

Con­tinue read­ing ‘The Licorne Nuclear Test’

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The World’s Most Expensive Wallpaper

Published by Sean 2 years, 9 months ago in Fun

Money on Walls

The No Name Pub …

started in 1931 in Big Pine Key, FL as a gen­eral store, bait and tackle shop. In 1936 the store added a room and started serv­ing food and beer. In the 40’s the store added a Brothel but it soon closed because “the fish­er­man were bet­ter look­ing than the girls”. In the 70’s and 80’s the Keys hit their prime because of Jimmy Buf­fet pop­u­lar­ity. With that came peo­ple and their money (lots of funny money flow­ing through the keys back then) and that money started being put on the walls, dol­lar bill by dol­lar bill. Thirty years have gone by and the results are the pic­tures you see below. They esti­mate there is over $750,000 in sin­gles hang­ing on the walls and from the ceiling.

You can see two other bars with sim­i­lar dec­o­rat­ing tastes over at Wall­Street­Fighter: Money Pubs: Home of the Worlds Most Expen­sive Wall­pa­per via bornrich.org

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Making A Soccer Ball

Published by Sean 2 years, 10 months ago in Science & Technology and Sports

Inside a Football Factory

For pro­duc­tion method geeks: Ever won­der how a soc­cer ball is made? For those of you who sus­pected it was lit­tle more than a strong bal­loon, think again. Check out these pho­tos from inside the Adi­das fac­tory, where mak­ing a soc­cer ball looks only slightly less com­pli­cated than build­ing a missile.

The process looks quite inter­est­ing. And if this isn’t your thing, maybe take a peek at a dia­mond encrusted soc­cer ball cur­rently on ebay for about $3500.00.

Inside a Soc­cer Ball (Foot­ball) Factory

Update 2010-06-14: Here is the pro­duc­tion process of the offi­cial 2010 Fifa Word Cup football.

I think there’s some sort of rule out there stat­ing that no one, even Amer­i­cans, can call the sport “soc­cer” dur­ing the World Cup.

Con­tro­versy aside, watch­ing the actual man­u­fac­tur­ing processes behind Adi­das’ new World Cup ball are pretty fas­ci­nat­ing. From the ini­tial hand-stitching and blad­der inser­tion to the cre­ation of the decals and the final bond­ing, the entire process has been cap­tured here and edited down to four and a half minute

via: Core77.com

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