I'm setting up a terminator-style thread for stuff we see around that catches our eye.
Note to the Eurotrash; in US university parlance, '301' denotes higher-level classes.
1922 varnished paper house and furnishings
http://boingboing.net/2017/02/21/1922-house-and-furnishings-mad.html
Angel-Oak-Tryon-North-Carolina
Originally part of the Western Cherokee Nation, some say that the area where Tryon now stands has been inhabited since the Ice Ages! The Blue Ridge Mountains provide a beautiful backdrop for this town. Tryon grew into a bustling town during railroad days and is now a popular destination for outdoorsy people and horse enthusiasts. The town symbol, the statue of a horse named Morris, has been watching over Tryon since 1928.
Here's the real Angel Oak. It literally dumbfounds you when you start walking up to it and realize it's still at some distance. The drip area is off-the-scale. Branches are as big as tree trunks of punier specimens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Oak
I am not sure if this fits the theme of this thread or not, but this tiny house on a trailer is incredibly well thought out. A couple in Alaska built it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHjJd4tkvSU
>fits
Absolutely. I love tiny homes (but not the stupid-crazy prices people are paying for some of them). I was thinking about architecture, products, etc. I'll see if I can find the design that first made me think 'we need a thread on this' ...
That place is (much) bigger than my 1st flat!
http://newatlas.com/house-morrillos-doors-cristian-izquierdo/48025/#gallery
I'm surprised the "tiny house" concepts haven't been incorporated into many new trailer houses. Yes, it's a trailer house, but even people who can only afford a trailer house deserve effective space usage.
Is this intended to be an architecture-focused thread? Or any thoughtfully-designed objects?
"Thoughtfully designed" is a great way to describe my intent.
As I was driving through my little town today, I noticed that there are a lot of little houses that are not much bigger than shotgun shacks. One could easily buy these for not a lot (literally $5,000 to $10,000) and turn them into "tiny houses" for seniors or young families. Who says the tiny house has to be on wheels?
>Who says the tiny house has to be on wheels?
Local building codes, mostly. Putting them on wheels de-regulates them.
> first made me think 'we need a thread on this'
http://i.imgur.com/AAxCjJ5.gif
Microsoft Surface Studio (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/review-microsoft-surface-studio/)
My issue with Microsoft *anything* is I always have to fight the damn thing to make it work. There is always *something* about the operating system that isn't intuitive and I have to spend hours fighting the system to try to figure it out and make it work. Or, I have to spend an hour updating the damn thing when I don't have time to update, when I just need to work.
It is always that way.
MS has a hard job in that they always need to produce an OS that is made for the masses, it needs to provide for the power user and be foolproof enough doe grandma to use without getting too confused. Overall it seems more functional to me than the MAC OS, but I don't use either much.
http://boingboing.net/2017/05/04/induction-coil-bakelite-chess.html
Blackout curtains with trompe l'oeil cityscapes
http://boingboing.net/2017/05/05/potemkin-village.html
I really like those.
https://imgur.com/Ic312AZ