while I was away

so I’ve been busy for some time now, and haven’t posted anything here in ages.

Long story short the new Flux Factory building is officially open for business, and once again I can look at the project and say one of the reasons why it is a success is ME. I made it happen. It ate two months of my life so hopefully it’ll pay off, otherwise I’m not sure I’ll ever invest that much time and energy in anything again without some sort of guarantee (or lots and lots of moola).

Anyways, while I’m parsing through literally thousands of feeds and emails in an attempt to catch up, here’s a selection of visual memes and intrigues that I missed while away:

I soooooo want this!

this puts things into perspective:

a building in Shanghai fell over. more images and articles here.

a K9 glory hole:

I dare you. I triple-DOG dare you!

I lived in Hong Kong for 3 weeks in 2000, and was always intrigued by its duality of East and West. A crazy city even by my standards, but I’ve always been a little nostalgic for it, and of course I love pixelmaps:

I lived somewhere to the left (north) of this area:

see the entire pixelmap here.

some politicians are taller than others:

it’s the fine print that matters:

Tomoshirinkata
what is your Ninja Name?

A- ka
B- zu
C- mi
D- te
E- ku
F- lu
G- ji
H- ri
I- ki
J- zu
K- me
L- ta
M- rin
N- to
O- mo
P- no
Q- ke
R- shi
S- ari
T- chi
U- do
V- ru
W- mei
X- na
Y- fu
Z- zi

why not to fall asleep at parties:

they’re actually constructing a giant robot in Tokyo: