Category Archives: Eye Candy

When We Tested Nuclear Bombs. An absolutely fantastic collection of photos from the nuclear test program. Beautiful to look at, terrifying to contemplate the ramifications in context. It’s harrowing to think that one of science’s greatest achievements could undo so much of science’s achievement.

Gird your greyscales

August 12, 2009Curated, Eye Candycold_war, submarines, urbanismAdam Keys

Logan Hicks has some really great subterranean photography going on. (Via Infrastructurist)

And if you like that, you’d probably also like some Russian submarines, their interiors, and their underground bases.

While we’re dwelling on intriguing/depressing concrete structures: one dude’s home built into a former missile silo and the Oak Ridge plant where the materials for the Manhattan Project were refined.

A slide in the workplace

June 29, 2009Curated, Eye CandyawesomeAdam Keys

The Red Bull headquarters in London has a slide going between floors.

I want to go to there. Photo credit: Alexander K.

Underwater volcano go boom

March 20, 2009Curated, Eye CandyvolcanosAdam Keys

I think one of the first things I decided I wanted to “be” when I was a wee lad was a volcanologist. I’d still love to go to an actual volcano, preferably active. Thusly, the pictures of undersea eruptions near Tonga from the Big Picture are, without a doubt, spectacular.

Eye candy for everyone

February 2, 2009Curated, Eye Candyinfoporn, nasa, tufteAdam Keys

Scaling and scale models. So much great imagery here, you’re just going to have to click the link and check it out. Sculpture not your thing? Try Round trip with Endeavor, the space shuttle hitching a ride on the back of a 747. Then there’s the always great Feltron Annual Report. The paper prototype for Shaun Inman’s homebrew Wii game is also awesome. If you’re still unimpressed, Punch card is pretty clever.

Coolest building in downtown Dallas

January 21, 2009Curated, Eye CandyarchitectureAdam Keys

Check out the rest of The Urban Fabric’s stuff, he’s done many great pictures of downtown Dallas.

Awesome people, hacker spaces, double basses, dictionary

January 15, 2009Code, Curated, Eye Candy, Musicawesome, double_bass, pro_tipAdam Keys

Brian Oberkirch is a big fan of people who are doing awesome stuff on the web. Me too! I’d add to his list: Ryan Tomayko, Greg Borenstein, Garrett Dimon, _why the lucky stiff, Jeremy Keith, Robert Hodgin, J. Chris Anderson, and Christian Neukirchen. My list, like his, is incomplete, so make your own!

A hacker’s space in Kansas is renting an underground bunker to house their activities. Recommended joke: those guys wouldn’t know a hacker’s space from a hole in the ground.

This image and story makes me want my double bass really badly. Don’t miss the story; it’s fantastic.

Pro-tip: go ahead and add refactoring to your system dictionary. You won’t thank yourself later, but you won’t curse the machine either.