One of our favorite shots of Thrush’s 510G aircraft, powered by the GE H80 engine, flying low over the fields of Georgia.
I was initially wary, but GE has been killing it with these posts.
Wheels on Flickr.
Hm. on Flickr.
Octodoodle, yos on Flickr.
Women Seeing Women
International Women’s Day, March 8“Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” —Susan Sontag
Hanna Putz (featured in the first slide of this preview) nurtured her awareness as a photographer, starting out as a model in front of the camera. Echoing Sontag’s sentiment, she has looked for ways to shake up the “permanent posing” of her generation. In creating portraits of friends who had recently given birth to their first children, she noticed a remarkable shift in awareness. “Their attention is mainly on their child, and [they] are also in some kind of a transitional phase, as they are adjusting to the new role that has just been given to them,” said Putz in an interview with BJP.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Newsweek & The Daily Beast features work from 15 talented women who represent a range of remarkable awareness as lovers, daughters, mothers, and foremost artists.
(via newsweek)
3D-printed implant used to replace 75 percent of man’s skull
A 3D-printed implant was used to replace 75 percent of a man’s skull in a surgical procedure earlier this week. The prosthetic was constructed using an additive printing process, and was implanted following manufacturer Oxford Performance Materials receiving FDA approval to use the technology last month.
I wonder how sounds sound to this person now.
These are the students, and they are all Cooper Union. They are there to address the Board of Trustees, which “votes” today to determine if they end the 100+ years of tuition-free undergraduate education at the school.
The only problem with the fact that the students showed up is that the Board didn’t show up. After telling these same students that the Trustees are dedicated to communication and transparency on Friday, they have moved the meeting to a secret location, where no one has to meet anyone’s eyes. That’s character.
It may seem to be a tangent, but it’s also of note that all the students fit in that huge staircase, which has no function except (with the help of three elevators) moving this many students into the tiny classrooms at the edges of the building.
The reason there’s so much empty space has to do with zoning laws that were designed — in spirit — to prevent a building this large from going up. By keeping a small number of usable square feet, but embedding it in a monstrously large unusable shell, the Trustees and the architects were able to meet the letter of the law (encouraging modest construction) and still find a way to spend $175MM on the building.
Coincidentally: it’s a building that had part of its construction contract assigned to a family member of the Board of Trustees.
So here all of the students in a staircase atrium, a space deliberately designed to avoid function. But it had a function today. Or it would have, if the Board of Trustees had demonstrated any signs of principle, and showed up to the building.
After all, they built it.
