Industrial design will suffer a similar fate as the record industry.

3D printers will allow you to download and print a new toothbrush, vase or chair at will.
Buy, print.
Simple.

You’ll only go to the store to buy objects that your printer can’t print.

Since products will be digital downloads whats to keep pirates at bay?
Nothing.
It’s inevitable.

Piracy will be rampant.

The money you used to spend in getting products will be spent getting newer and bigger printers.
Pool resources with friends in order to get the model that prints sofas and cars!

Let’s not forget 3D scanners…
You’ll be able to copy objects too!

It’ll be as easy as downloading a song or movie is today.

What will be the equivalent of touring and selling t-shirts?
Companies will have to invent a new way to sell their wares.

The middle man (companies that produce) will be cut, designers will sell straight to users.
For a while.

I’ll put my money on the print/scan companies.

Olafur Eliasson quote from Frame #49.
Look through the site…!

The universe implodes…
Jenny Holzer twitters.

Hands down this wins the weirdest thing I’ve seen in 2007.
Inmates in a Philippines prison doing the Thriller dance.

This was my entry for the Lightouch Competition…
Of course I didn’t win, I should listen more closely to Bruce Mau (No.26).
Click for hires, the text is in the second image.

Qbert style console… Gorgeous woodwork by Pieter Maes.

These 4 photos are some of the bleakest and raw I’ve ever seen.
Taken during the battle of Passchendaele during WWI.
Obliterated the terrain, soldiers, and lots of mustard gas mud.

More info here.

Artist Tim Knowles’ hard work is thinking about the concept…
The nitty gritty is performed by mother nature.
Look through his portfolio, its hard to chose one piece only.

I always wanted to see a dissection, but I think I chose the wrong profession…
Fear not, for the internet is here:
Cadaver dissection videos from the University of Wisconsin.
It never seizes to amaze me how complex our bodies are.

Let’s call this marble day:
Mark’s Magnificent Marble Machine

Simple, yet fascinating adding machine.
Man, the binary switches!

Mattia Biagi dips objects in tar from the La Brea Tar Pits.

Need a challenge? Try this unicycle!
Now all we need is a youtube video of someone jumping off a roof in one of these…

The Steve Albini appeared at the 2+2 poker forums ready to answer any questions regarding his profession and experience.
35 pages later it’s still going strong.
Awesome read. Awesome guy.

12 Famous Living Recluses… from The Onion AV.