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You are currently browsing the grinding.be archives for August, 2009.
Hanoi City Coal Breaker
Deep in the mountains of coal country lies this rusting hulk. Once the largest coal breaker in the world it could process raw coal through the entire facility in an amazing 12 minutes. Some information states it opened around 1932 and closed in either 1964 or 1978.
Just two of many awesome pix in Hoodwatch‘s fantastic flickr set.
Powerbocking with jumping stilts
Want to jump 6 feet in the air or run extra fast? Then get into powerbocking with a pair of these jumping stilts:
via Next Big Future
Karl Schroeder on ‘Rewilding’
The following speech by Karl Schroeder is an excellent summation of the future we’ve been documenting here, the world that lies just around the corner:
His thoughts on, well I guess you have to call it Nature 2.0, are a nice progression on some of Kevin Kelly’s ideas in his book Out of Control.
via BoingBoing | Futurismic