WHY OPEN A WATCH FACTORY IN DETROIT?
Why not accept that manufacturing is gone from this country? Why not let the rust and weeds finish what they started? Why not just embrace the era of disposability? And why didn’t we buy a warmer coat before we moved here?
Through two Detroit winters, we’ve asked ourselves these questions. And worked not to find our answer, but to build it.
Because we don’t think American manufacturing ever failed for being too good. Our worst didn’t come when we were at our best. It happened when we thought good was good enough.
It’s a tall order to return to form, but we’re up for it. We’re starting with the reinvigoration of a storied American brand, and a storied American city. Because we believe in the beauty of industry. The glory of manufacturing.
We know there’s not just history in Detroit, there is a future.
It’s why we are here. Making an investment in skill, at scale. Creating a community that will thrive through excellence of craft and pride of work. Where we will reclaim the making of things that are made well. And define American luxury through American quality.
Sun Land Motel by kevin dooley on Flickr.
White Buffalo Republic makes the coolest and best satchel messenger bags, in my humble opinion. Their bags are handmade in Guatemala. WBR describes their bags as “unique, simple, useful, handcrafted works of functional art.”
I was lucky and able to get mine on eBay for $46.99 (plus $13.58 shipping). WBR sells their goods both through their website (http://white-buffalo-republic.com/) and on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/missionnw/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686).
Los Angeles Theater by darylfurr on Flickr.
Trombone Silliness (Trombone slide POV filmed with a GoPro sport camera)
Browsing by Nikonsnapper on Flickr.
Sun Land Motel by kevin dooley on Flickr.
IMG_5122 by Maskington San Francisco on Flickr.
‘Orphan’ Alien Planet Found Nearby Without Parent Star
Astronomers have discovered a potential “rogue” alien planet wandering alone just 100 light-years from Earth, suggesting that such starless worlds may be extremely common across the galaxy.
Image: This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR2149, at 100 light-years away the closest such “rogue” world to our own solar system. It does not orbit a star and hence does not shine by reflected light; the faint glow it emits can only be detected in infrared light. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/R. Saito/VVV Consortium
The free-floating object, called CFBDSIR2149, is likely a gas giant planet four to seven times more massive than Jupiter, scientists say in a new study unveiled today (Nov. 14). The planet cruises unbound through space relatively close to Earth (in astronomical terms), perhaps after being booted from its own solar system.
“If this little object is a planet that has been ejected from its native system, it conjures up the striking image of orphaned worlds, drifting in the emptiness of space,” study leader Philippe Delorme, of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble in France, said in a statement.
Orphan planet, or something else?
Delorme and his team discovered CFBDSIR2149 using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, then examined its properties with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The newfound object appears to be among a stream of young stars called the AB Doradus moving group, the closest such stream to our own solar system.
Scientists think the AB Doradus stars all formed together between 50 million and 120 million years ago. If CFBDSIR2149 is indeed associated with the group — and researchers cite a nearly 90 percent probability — then the object is similarly young.
And if the discovery team is right about CFBDSIR2149’s age, the body is likely a planet, with an average temperature of 806 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius), researchers said.
There’s still a slight chance that CFBDSIR2149 is a brown dwarf — a strange object that’s larger than a planet but too small to trigger the internal nuclear fusion reactions required to become a full-fledged star. Additional observations should help decide the matter.
“We need new observations to confirm that this object belongs to the AB Doradus moving group,” Delorme told SPACE.com via email. “With a good distance measurement and a more accurate proper motion, we will be able to increase (or decrease) the probability that it is indeed a planet.”
The new study was published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
(Source: ikenbot)
Galaxy Soho by Zaha Hadid Architects
The Galaxy Soho complex by Zaha Hadid Architects stands in central Beijing and is a 330.000 m2 office, retail and entertainment complex that will become an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing. [Via Dejoost]
