Just beautiful objects
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Bringing the thread full circle here, just check out this mind-boggling automated cabinet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKikHxKeodA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKikHxKeodA
Fotic said:
That makes my heart hurt I want it so much. Any more details?
Sorry for the late answer, this is another "CAD Bike becomes real" by "Duckman" Mark van der Kwaak,a VERY talented CAD designer and bike builder.
Look here : http://www.dbbp.com/ , click "my bikes" and then CADbike #33 "BMW Bobber".
Duckman´s site is absolutely gorgeous, you can get lost there and the link list is immense.
Waynester said:
I think our small blue world..our home is incredibly beautiful.
To quote Carl Sagan &..The Pale Blue Dot
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
These words themselves may not be 'an object' but they are profound and beautiful.
That picture is known as "Earth rise".
This is the pale blue dot one your quote refers to:
Yes, the white pixel top center is "Earth".
In a similar vein, Saturn as seen by Cassini. Stunningly beautiful, and to compliment Sagan's quote, we're the tiny dot you can see just inside the fuzzy outer ring on the bottom right.
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Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 19th August 14:29
Glad the thread has come back to life and I've been reminded to look through it again.
Some of my favourite things:
the Linhof might fall into the functional category for some, but I do find it beautiful too - of all the things I've owned this was one of the best, that had me take it out of the case to look at and play with for no other reason than appreciation. The Leica I've had to fight so hard not to blow a wad of my AVC on (thanks George...)
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Some of my favourite things:
the Linhof might fall into the functional category for some, but I do find it beautiful too - of all the things I've owned this was one of the best, that had me take it out of the case to look at and play with for no other reason than appreciation. The Leica I've had to fight so hard not to blow a wad of my AVC on (thanks George...)
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BreakingBad said:
Excellent thread and some truly amazing examples of design, engineering and beauty.!
There are about 100 things I can think of to contribute but one that always stands out for me is this:
To take something's so "right" and then improve it...
IMO anyway but may offend the purists?
See "Things that are council" thread.......There are about 100 things I can think of to contribute but one that always stands out for me is this:
To take something's so "right" and then improve it...
IMO anyway but may offend the purists?
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