Showing posts with label "Cool Stuff". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Cool Stuff". Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Busy as a one-eyed dog in a smokehouse...

A rammed earth subcontractor bellied up on me and I decided to put together a crew and self-perform it...

All 276,725 pounds of it...

I've been busy with other/life/work type 'o stuff...I think the anniversary of this blog even came and went...

These are the first two of a total of seven walls...

ALX_0466

Friday, October 15, 2010

21st Century Enlightenment

Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today...in a cool animated video...

Brought to you by the folks at The Renaissance Society of America [RSA]...

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Art in the city during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games


Art in the city during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
Originally uploaded by L. Z.

Cool photo of a cool "thing"....I ran across whilst researching rammed earth construction in the Flickr Pool "Natural Building"....

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Wall of Rock of Eye

Wall of Rock of Eye
[Foto by AlexTangoFuego]

A post-it note, half-crumpled on the kitchen island, from being stuffed into my pocket, scribbled with "rock of eye...things you know but you don't even know you know..."...from a Pierce Brosnan line in the film "The Tailor of Panama"...tailor-speak I suppose...bespoke speak...which led me to dig out from my office bookshelf "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell and dust it off...and in Googling around to write this post, one of my de/re/pository posts, led me to this...

Rock of Eye

There was to be a tango tie with the whole "rock of eye" thing, but it never manifested in my mind, or I forgot the tie, or I forgot to remember...must not have been important...

BLU

Something cool I ran across somewhere...check it out...click on the image to go there...

BLU

Sunday, February 22, 2009

KUT 90.5 Radio Austin

Austin, Texas Skyline
Photo by alex.tango.fuego...

NPR and some of the greatest music you will find on the radio...from the University of Texas at Austin...Sunday night, as I post this, is world music programming...

This page has various listening options - live feeds/players for your computer, and even an iPhone streaming app, which is pretty cool...

http://kut.org/togo/listen

Here's their "about" info from their website...

ABOUT KUT

The official KUT mission is “to be the most trusted radio source for news and music in Central Texas.” In real terms, that means we strive every day to bring you insightful news coverage and music that gets us fired up. This page includes a lot of information that we need to share with you. But what we want you to know is that our entire staff is devoted to bringing you the best news and music in Central Texas every day—every hour, every minute that we’re on the air. (Scheduled to be an in-studio guest? We’ve got helpful info for you right here.)

KUT Austin and KUTX San Angelo are licensed by the FCC to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas and operate as a department within the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Friday, August 1, 2008

Roof Sex

If you are easily offended by rough roof sex...then don't watch this...especially in front of your kids...turn the volume down...

I found this to be hilarious...as much as the sex scene in the stop motion superhero animated film...I forget the title....oh yeah....Team America/World Police...

Thursday, July 31, 2008

GINA from Beemer







P.S. Note that this post is not about a $250k concept car with a 600 horsepower engine. It's about creative design, creative thinking, and not just thinking outside of the box, but thinking in an environment where there is no box.

Superlightweight fabric skinned vehicles are thinking in the right direction.

"There is no box."