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Sketches by Grupo Aranea

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, contemporary art, illustrations, land art

Spanish architects and multidisciplinar thinkers Grupo Aranea use to draw beautiful sketches: I can’t help posting some of them on Socks. More here.


Best poll ever

by fosco lucarelli

fun, pills, world weird web

Who will succeed Kim Jong Il as North Korea’s supreme leader?


This building may cook you

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, urban chronicles, world weird itself

The otherwise uninteresting Vinoly Vdara Hotel building in Vegas hides an odd feature: it can actually cook you. For an unfortunate confluence of angles (*), the curvy south façade collects and bounces sun rays directly to the hotel’s swimming pool, melting clients shopping bags and even burning their hair. Las Vegas Death Ray, they call it.

“Pintas told the Review-Journal that at midday Sept. 16, after a brief dip in the hotel pool, he was sunning on a recliner. He was on his stomach, relaxed, eyes closed.

But suddenly, the lawyer became so uncomfortably hot that he leaped up to move. He tried to put on his flip-flop sandals but, inexplicably, they were too hot to touch. So he ran barefoot to the shade.

“I was effectively being cooked,” Pintas said. “I started running as fast as I could without looking like a lunatic.”

Then he smelled an odor, and realized it was coming from his head, where a bit of hair had been scorched. It was about 12:20 p.m., as best Pintas can recall.”

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* : Via: Things Magazine

The Bold and the Beautiful in 6 minutes

by fosco lucarelli

pills, world weird web

All the seasons in 6 minutes. Sorry: just in italian.
But it’s Beautiful, indeed.

Timothy Saccenti, director and photographer

by fosco lucarelli

contemporary art, movies, photography, sounds

Timothy Saccenti is a photographer and director who lives in New York city and works worldwide.

Blonde Redhead “Not Getting There”

Battles “Atlas”

Chairlift “Bruises”