THE POSITIVE FUTURE

drawingarchitecture: ‘Presentation drawing, City by the Sea...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:43 -0400

‘Presentation drawing, City by the Sea mural (south wall), Midway Gardens.’

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Pencil, color pencil, gold ink, watercolor, and crayon on tracing paper.

(via Brain Pickings)

smarterplanet: City Forward: An Award-Winning Lesson in the Use...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:28:27 -0400

smarterplanet:

City Forward: An Award-Winning Lesson in the Use of Open Big Data | Citizen IBM Blog

Sponsored by IBM, the City Forward website can be used to compare a selected city’s characteristics and challenges to others around the world. In the process, users can identify trends, pinpoint similarities and get ideas for how a city may be improved. These city stories then can be shared and discussed within the City Forward Community.

Completely free of charge, City Forward connects to the work done by Smarter Cities Challenge teams around the world. The website provides data for more than 100 cities, and offers both city leaders and the public the unique ability to consolidate multiple data sources. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) recently recognized City Forward with its 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Webby Award.

futurist-foresight: A magnificent Birdseye view of this solar...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:28:10 -0400

futurist-foresight:

A magnificent Birdseye view of this solar power array in Seville, Spain.

jeroenapers:

Hoe het veld met zonnepanelen van de Gemasolar Power Plant nabij Sevilla er van boven uit ziet. Heel vet!

(via cjwho:)

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futurist-foresight: Our daily Shuttle...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:26:27 -0400

futurist-foresight:

Our daily Shuttle magnificence!

distant-traveller:

Shuttle Moon

As a gorgeous full Moon rose above the eastern horizon on February 7 2001, the Space Shuttle Atlantis streaked skyward towards an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station. Watching from Orlando, Florida, about 60 miles west of the Kennedy Space Center launch site, photographer Tony DeVito captured this digital image, one of a series of pictures of the shuttle’s fiery climb. While foreground street lights flickered on and a clear evening sky grew dark, the shuttle’s path just grazed the bright lunar disk. On this mission, STS-98, Atlantis carried the U.S. Destiny laboratory module to be added to the expanding orbital outpost.

Image credit: Anthony DeVito

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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:00:20 -0500

gracebello: scribnerbooks: An action shot goes a long...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:46:20 -0500

gracebello:

scribnerbooks:

An action shot goes a long way

Demonstrate how a book works.

smartercities: Namaste Tower: A Welcoming Gesture Of Green...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:45:57 -0500

smartercities:

Namaste Tower: A Welcoming Gesture Of Green Design | Earth Techling

Looking more like a giant sculpture than a working skyscraper, the Namaste Tower currently under construction in Mumbai, India, is expected to be as green as it is beautiful to behold. The building will also incorporate a renewable energy system to help produce hot water, abundant greenery in the common areas and several passive systems to help reduce energy demands.

Global E-mail Patterns Reveal “Clash of...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:35:36 -0500

Global E-mail Patterns Reveal “Clash of Civilizations”
technologyreview.com

The global pattern of e-mail communication reflects the cultural fault lines thought to determine future conflict, say computational social scientists.

The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise - The Atlantic

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:32:18 -0500

The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise - The Atlantic:

This article in The Atlantic is from last year, but with the recent news of Bitcoin’s ATM in New Hampshire and the digital currency’s surge against the US Dollar, I’ve become increasingly fascinated by alternative economic infrastructures, and found this prescient piece a good primer to share.

http://bitcoin.org/

Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agents Will Shape the Future – Is Your Company Ready?

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:28:30 -0500

Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agents Will Shape the Future – Is Your Company Ready?

futurist-foresight: An innovative 3D...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:27:21 -0500

futurist-foresight:

An innovative 3D pen!

phraznikov:

itscolossal:

Behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that lets you draw 3D sculptures in real time.

http://pitvipersunglasses.com

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:08:50 -0500

http://pitvipersunglasses.com

JUST AN EXPLANATION:

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:38:14 -0500

I’ve just moved house to a fantastic shabby chic thing called a “terraced maisonette” in the Battersea area on London, hence all the furniture and home ware stuff. We’ll be returning to our regular programming shortly. But “Positive Future” definitely nails the sense of things at the moment…

homestilo: bar cart | Bohman & Sjöstrand photo

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:35:39 -0500

homestilo:

bar cart | Bohman & Sjöstrand photo

drawingarchitecture: The Lost and Found Power Station Fiona...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:07:28 -0500

drawingarchitecture:

The Lost and Found Power Station

Fiona Tan

vintageluxe: via: my scandinavian home

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:04:35 -0500

vintageluxe:

via: my scandinavian home

Walking on Water

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:55:00 -0500

Walking on Water:

Browse a few pages from yachting photographer Kos Evans’ new book Walking on Water… some stunning images… what a life!

Photo

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:49:28 -0500

"I would probably never get anything written if it weren’t shooting next week. I’m a terrible..."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:41:21 -0500

“I would probably never get anything written if it weren’t shooting next week. I’m a terrible procrastinator, which means the adrenaline of last-minute panic is my friend. (It’s all that kept me afloat in school, I’m sad to say. My attention has a disorderly deficit. There was no acronym for that when I was little.) But you can create deadlines of your own. Friends are good for this. Make yourself mutually accountable—you have to deliver such-and-many words by this-or-then time, as do they. You might not always (or ever) hold to these, but they can help you remember that your writing may matter to someone besides yourself.”

- Joss Whedon (via gracebello)

vintageluxe: source: wsj via: habitually chic

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:39:51 -0500

vintageluxe:

source: wsj via: habitually chic