GAD: besiktas fish market, istanbul

located in one of istanbul’s most populated and diverse neighborhoods, besiktas is an
eclectic area with a village-like atmosphere that is in the process of urban renewal.
the besiktas fish market is located on a triangular site. it is an iconic venue where many
locals and visitors buy fresh fish daily. the construction of the old fish market was in very
poor shape and needed to be replaced.

Mai multe si poze: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9028/gad-besiktas-fish-market-istanbul.html

Cumpara carti mai ieftine de pe Amazon

Above you see a (partial) screenshot for the first result if you search for harry potter and have selected the Netherlands as your country. For every result CheapRiver.com shows a table with the prices of the book in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Canada.

The lowest prices are indicated with a green background. Here you see that the cheapest is to buy the Harry Potter Box set in the US to have it delivered to the Netherlands it only cost (on Dec 13 2009) 37.26€ while in the UK it'll cost you 51.03€, Germany 58.99€, France 63.77€ and in Canada this version of the Harry Potter Box is not available. So you see that the cheapest option is more than 40% cheaper than the most expensive one.

Adresa: http://www.cheapriver.com/

Blur studios - acei oameni minunati si trailerele lor

Aici avem cel mai nou trailer cinematic Mass Effect 2.
V-ati intrebat cine face aceste trailere si secvente CGI din jocuri? Se pare ca e vorba de un singur studio: http://www.blur.com/

Map Hole - capace de canal ajutatoare

Map Hole is a new road guidance tool designed to direct pedestrians and travelers to their final destination using existing elements in the urban landscape. It locates the pedestrian with a starting point and provides information on the exact distance or average walk time to the listed landmarks. It sounds intriguing but I feel like I need a cartography degree to understand it. If this were real, you might just enter a city full of confused people looking down at the ground.

Acum cand fura cineva capacul nu numai ca o sa cada oameni in el dar unii se vor si pierde!

Mai multe: http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/11/13/map-hole-points-the-way/

Repo Man

It was snowing hard when the bank called Nick Popovich. They needed to grab a Gulfstream in South Carolina now. Not tomorrow. Tonight.

All commercial and private planes were grounded, but Nick Popovich wasn't one to turn down a job. So he waited for the storm to clear long enough to charter a Hawker jet from Chicago into South Carolina. There was just one detail: No one had told Popovich about the heavily armed white supremacist militia that would be guarding the aircraft when he arrived.

Tot articolul: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/

Vor sa scoata sigla ministerului de pe diplome

"Putem sa scoatem sigla Ministerului Educatiei, Cercetarii si Inovarii de pe toate diplomele pe care astazi invatamantul superior le elibereaza. Scoatem sigla si universitatea iti asuma integral responsabilitatea pentru diploma pe care o da.

In aceste conditii universitatile private ajung la acelasi nivel cu cele de stat. Incantator nu?

Sursa: http://www.ziare.com/Andronescu_vrea_sa_scoata_sigla_ministerului_de_pe_diplome-746618.html

Cum sa contstruiesti o casa

http://cum-sa-construiesti-o-casa.ro/

Accidental am descoperit acest jurnal de constructie. Se pare ca omul a documentat majoritatea constructiei cu probleme cu tot. Chiar acum vad ca incepe sa aiba probleme cu finisajele.

University as we know it

The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs. It is simply cheaper to provide graduate students with modest stipends and adjuncts than it is to hire full-time professors.

In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html

The credit crisis visualised

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.

Crisisofcredit.com

The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit jonathanjarvis.com.

O explicatie chiar buna si simpla cu elemente grafice.