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McLaren F1: Reborn

Way back in the early 90’s, I was an absolutely huge fan of Formula 1 (zeolot is the more accurate term, but I’ve grown up a bit since then), religiously staying up until the early hours of the morning to watch the entire F1 race season broadcast live from its respective country. The fascination went [...]

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Cosmic Motors

Cosmic Motors – The Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy: Long being a fan of automotive in all its guises, I was suitably impressed by the concept art put forward by Daniel Simon in his book “Cosmic Motors – The Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy”. Simon’s design philosphy strikes a visual chord [...]

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Work for Food

This amusing anecdote was sent to me by Travis this morning. Visually depicting the Career Evolution within your atypical ad agency, it offers a visual contrast  to my commentry about Digital Agency Structure a couple of weeks back. Diego Zambrano works for R/GA in New York.
http://twitter.com/workforfood

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Star Trek advance screening Austin Texas

WARNING: Star Trek fans ONLY should read on ! This is seriously geeky stuff here.
This is just plain cool. Leonard Nimoy makes an impromptu appearance a few hours ago at a Star Trek fan night in Austin, Texas prepped up to watch a remastered edition of ‘Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan’ and instead, via [...]

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Mercedes-Benz: F-Cell Roadster

I spotted this on Wired this morning – a new fuel cell powered Mercedes-Benz in concept stage. Harking back to the original 19th Century horseless carriage, the F-Cell Roadster is MB’s effort at wielding industrial design with cutting edge technology. Simply put – I think it’s stunning.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/03/the-past-is-pre.html

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BBC Book List

[Thanks to Kate M for this one, which landed on my Facebook page]
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read – even those you’ve read more than once!
Make [...]

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The Last Supper – Battlestar Galactica

Recently the season & series finale of Battlestar Galactica aired globally. As part of the massive push to promote this much anticipated event by Sci-Fi.com geekdom and represent the interests of the general mainstream public, the series producers commisioned a photo shoot that portray’s the characters in the seminal “Last Supper” painting, as immortalised by [...]

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Top Gear as portrayed by XaliaS & SIR Community

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Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – “Aer OBAMA”

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Lego Death Star – I want one.

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