David Lidsky's Blog, page 3044
February 26, 2015
Naked Models Drenched In Honey Become Works Of Art In This Stunning Photo Shoot
Photographer Blake Little may not be able to use amber for a new series, but the material he went with is still pretty sweet. (Sorry.)
Honey: good on biscuits, in tea, and, apparently, for drenching naked people from head to toe.
What Happens When A Photographer Spies On Unsuspecting Tourists
Hiiiiiiiii.
If you've lived in a major city, you know how annoying it is when a clueless tourist steps into your path, inadvertently jamming a camera in your face. But what happens when you turn the camera on tourists themselves? In his series "Down the River," Paris-based photographer Adrian Skenderovic posted himself on a bridge crossing the Seine, and watched tourists float past, capturing them in their natural vacation state. "I was interested in analyzing the behavior of the tourists, the position of their body, the relation they have between each other and the emotion of the moment," he tells us in an email. The results are actually kind of sweet.
You Can Eat KFC's New Coffee Cup
Your stomach is KFC's newest landfill.
Most coffee cups are made from paper or plastic. But KFC Britain has a strange, potentially better idea: Serving coffee in sweet, edible cups.
How A 15-Year-Old CEO Is Bringing Eyesight To Those In Need
Lillian Pravda is the CEO of Vision For and From Children, which helps people without access to vision care. Pravda is also just 15 years old, and her organization has already provided eye care to more than 24,000 people.
"With respect to the concept of 'paying it forward' or 'giving back,' I like to say: 'Just give,'" she says. "And even if you only help one person, it sure makes a different to that one."
Lillian Pravda is the CEO of Vision For and From Children, which helps people without access to vision care. Pravda is also just 15 years old, and her organization has already provided eye care to more than 24,000 people.
How One Startup Is Elevating Camping With A Tree House You Carry With You
After a design theft in China and amid a growing market, how the tree-tent company Tentsile is making waves in camping and ecotourism.
Alex Shirley-Smith was a tree house architect. In 2013, fed up with designing custom-made suspended abodes that bordered on the extravagant for his wealthy clientele, he returned to earth and decided to find a new way up. With a friend, Kirk Kirchev, he set to work designing a tent that would perform much the same function as those houses: lifting people above nature and, he thinks, elevating the whole experience of camping.
4 Crazy Predictions For The Future Of Health Care: Human Augmentation, Hacked DNA, And More
In the next 20 years, we'll see groundbreaking research, from bionic exoskeletons to smartphones that diagnose cancer, start to change our lives.
Look across all the research and innovation taking place in biology and medicine now, and you can only imagine what health care could be like in 20 years. From implantable sensors to bionic exoskeletons, gene sequencing and precision drugs, we're in for some big (and mostly positive) changes—potentially.
London: The World's Most Fun Place To Be A Pedestrian?
A design competition for a new Thames River crossing suggests that walking around London is about to get really exciting.
If recent proposals are anything to go by, London will one day be the world's most fun place to be a pedestrian or a cyclist. Sure, the city nixed recent plans to allow commuters to travel by trampoline, but other plans in the works are almost as pie-in-the-sky.
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How To Design The World's Biggest Airport Terminal
How do you make an airport terminal that spans 173 acres feel like anything but a monster? Zaha Hadid attempts the impossible in Beijing.
Beijing's new airport is going to be a monster. At 7.5 million square feet, it covers about the same amount of space as 130 football fields put together—all within one terminal building.
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Here Are All The Crazy Ways Humans Are Changing Nature
As humans reshape the planet, animals and plants are adapting in odd ways.
A new photo series titled "A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World" documents the ways humans are changing the natural world. Shot and edited by Robert Zhao Renhui, whose work explores the ethics and morality of man's relationship to nature, the images catalogue how animals and organisms evolve in response to the modern world.
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Where Do Pricey Museum Sleepovers Come From?
Weirdly, institutions aren't making tons of money off this global trend.
Last August, New York's American Museum of National History held its first-ever adult sleepover. It was a risky venture, opening up the museum for nighttime guests, but the inaugural sleepover sold out within three hours. Seeing how successful the event was, the organizing committee began a regular grown-up sleepover series in December. All of the dates are sold out through June, giving 150 adult patrons, who are willing to shell out $350, a boozy evening among childhood memories.
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