Google Building hacked
Zwei Wissenschaftler haben sich in die Systeme von Googles Hauptquartier in Australien gehackt. Ein bisschen schade, dass sie nichts damit angestellt haben…
Two security researchers recently found that they could easily hack the building management system for the corporate giant’s Wharf 7 headquarters overlooking the water in the Pyrmont section of Sydney, Australia. […]
The panels showed buttons marked “active overrides,” “active alarms,” “alarm console,” “LAN Diagram,” “schedule,” and a button marked “BMS key” for Building Management System key.
There was also a button marked “AfterHours Button” with a hammer on it.
Researchers Hack Building Control System at Google’s Australian HQ
Real Estate Agent RAP
Youtube Direktestate, via Geekosystem
Rafael A. Perez Einlage oben erinnert mich ja sehr an deutsche Wannabe-Gangster, aber sei’s drum: „It’s about building a home or positive cashflow“.
Tresor in Tokyo for Rent
Im Tresor feiern kann jeder, in einem Tresor leben nicht. In Tokyo vermieten sie grade einen Tresor als Wohnraum, kostet mit 2200 Dollar gar nicht so viel – zumindest hätte ich mit mehr gerechnet.
As luck would have it a chance to rent your very own bank vault has popped up as a listing on the Real Tokyo Estate website. […] It’s a spacious safe with 26.11 m2 of floor space including the lobby and safe with three chambers. The safe door is the real deal with one of those spinning handles and is dozens of centimeters thick. […]
The vault is located on the basement floor of a building which used to hold an undisclosed bank back in 1991. If I rented it I would just try to crack into it every day. Unfortunately, the rent is exorbitantly set at 207,375 yen (US$2,200), probably to keep nudnicks like me out.
Bank Vault for Rent in Tokyo, Perfect for Aspiring Robbers, 元銀行の本気の金庫、あります
Guerilla Renovierung in München
Goldgrund Immobilien hat zusammen mit der Band Moop Mama hat eine Wohnung in einem zum Abriss vorgesehen Gebäude in München eine Wohnung renoviert und errechnet, dass das Gebäude zu einem Bruchteil der Kosten eines Neubaus erhalten bleiben könnte, inklusive billigem Wohnraum, der grade in München Mangelware ist. Sehr schöne Aktion, sehr unterstützenswert.
Youtube Direktmoop, via Interweb3000
Die Gebäude auf dem Gelände Müllerstraße 2-6 sollen abgerissen werden, darunter das Eckhaus Müllerstraße 6, eines der wenigen erhaltenen Beispiele stilechter 50er-Jahre Architektur und städtebaulicher Fixpunkt an der Kreuzung Corneliusstraße.
Die Stadt München möchte an dieser Stelle neue Wohnungen bauen. Die Kosten für den Neubau wurden im vergangenen Jahr von der Stadt recht vorsichtig mit 5,2 Millionen Euro beziffert. Planung, Grundstücksfreimachung, Abbruch, Außenanlagen, Ausstattung sind hier noch nicht eingerechnet, so dass das ganze Projekt nach sachverständiger Einschätzung mit mindestens 7 Millionen Euro zu Buche schlagen wird. Das Kommunalreferat sagt, eine Erhaltung des Gebäudes sei „nur mit ganz erheblichem Kostenmehraufwand” möglich.
Das glauben wir nicht. Wir von der “Goldgrund Family”, engagierte Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus dem Stadtviertel, glauben, dass die Stadt einen Großteil dieses Geldes sparen könnte, indem sie das bestehende Haus einfach renoviert und erhält. Die Gebäude sind nach Aussagen von Architekten keineswegs abbruchreif. Eine zeitgemäße Sanierung würde einen Bruchteil eines Neubaus kosten. Es ensteht zwar etwas weniger Wohnfläche, dafür aber kurzfristig und billig.
Wir haben schonmal damit angefangen und in den vergangenen Tagen eine der Wohnungen grundsaniert: neues Parkett, neue Küche, neues Bad, und ansonsten einmal schönmachen. Das Ergebnis: eine “Goldgrund-sanierte” Wohnung, nach der sich zehntausende Münchner Wohnungssuchende die Finger lecken würden…
Das Ganze hat einen Bruchteil des Neubaus gekostet. Diese wurden in diesem Fall von uns getragen.
Die Kosten der Modernisierung des gesamten Komplexes würden, nach unserer Einschätzung, maximal ein Fünftel des Neubaus betragen.
Müllerstraße 6 – hier renoviert Goldgrund Family für die Stadt München
Middleclass-Photography thru Photos of Display Houses
Tolles Fotoprojekt namens Suburbia Gone Wild (Website läuft bei mir nicht im Chrome/Mac, allerdings im Firefox) von Martin Adolfsson, der seit ein paar Jahren die Mittelklasse ehemaliger Entwicklungsländer dokumentiert – indem er die Musterhäuser in den Vorstädten fotografiert. Fertighäuser als Metapher auf die Mittelklasse ist nun nicht neu – siehe als prominentes Beispiel „American Beauty“ – zeigt hier aber auch sehr schön, wie unglaublich austauschbar, glatt und leer diese manufaktierte Mittelklasse zumindest äußerlich ist.
Within the past two decades we’ve seen a huge shift in the balance of economic power. Countries that didn’t have a middle class 20 years ago have seen a rapid transformation from an agricultural economy to an industrial-based economy, so much so that a sizable percentage of the population now belongs to the middle class. How does that affect the social groups who have been able to benefit the most from the economic boom? How does that influence one’s identity when the change is so rapid?
Schönes Ding, sucht sich grade Finanzierung für einen Bildband auf Kickstarter:
For the past six years I’ve been photographing model homes built for the newly minted upper middle class in emerging economies around the world. The model home works as a 1:1 scale “no assembly required” model for the potential home buyer that is fully decorated up to and including family photos of John Kerry. The project has been described as a combination of positively amusing and awkwardly eerie, a document of a telegenic standardization that increasingly reflects the constructed world of The Truman Show.
I’ve used model homes as a vehicle to describe the economic and cultural homogenization that is now occurring in many developing countries. The work includes every continent (except Australia) and more specifically the suburbs of Bangkok, Shanghai, Bangalore, Cairo, Moscow, Johannesburg, São Paulo and Mexico City.
Suburbia Gone Wild (via AnimalNY)
Prisons for sale:
In Amerika kann man grade ein paar Gefängnisse ersteigern: “One property, in the Hudson Valley, includes a 16-car garage, a piggery and hundreds of yards of lake frontage. Another offers 69 acres of waterfront land on the west shore of Staten Island, complete with a two-story gymnasium, a baseball diamond and an open-air pavilion.”
Doku: We The Tiny House People – Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters
Superinteressante Doku von Kirsten Dirksen über das Tiny House-Movement und den Leuten, die auf 10 Quadratmetern bauen. Tausendmal spannender als alle Luxusbracken für Komplettpfosten zusammen.
TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her 5-year journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.
We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters
Hong Kongs booming Ghosthouse-Market
Die Meldung ist schon ein paar Wochen alt, gehört hier aber zwingend rein: In Hongkong sind Wohnungen mittlerweile so teuer, dass sich Immobilieninvestoren auf „Haunted Houses“ spezialisieren, die mit Preisnachlässen von bis zu 40% den Besitzer wechseln und deren Mieten sich auch Normalverdiener dort leisten können:
Discounts of between 20-40 percent are the standard for haunted houses with a knock-on for the rental yield, says Eric Wong of the squarefoot.com.hk property website, which has a channel dedicated to the phenomenon. “Hong Kong people are sensitive to ghosts and bad luck,” he says. “They believe in feng shui — if something bad has happened in a home people won’t take it… but Hong Kong is small and very expensive, so if a good discount comes there are others ready to make the investment.” And for the savvy buyer there are plenty to choose from.
Among the hundreds of macabre listings on the squarefoot.com.hk website is the home of a local football player who, crushed by the weight of debt and relationship problems, jumped from his 36th floor flat. Then there is the divorcee whose body was discovered a month after she poisoned herself with the fumes of burning charcoal, or the woman hacked to death and mutilated by her domestic helper in an exclusive apartment block. Such morbid tales are a boon to investors who would not live in a haunted house themselves, but will gladly put it up for rent.
“There’s a group of investors who bid for these places specifically and then rent it to people who don’t mind its bad history,” Wong adds. More often than not those are foreign expatriates — widely known in local slang as gweilos — who are not overly concerned about the history of their apartment. “Gweilos don’t have the same beliefs as Hong Kong people and just want a cheaper price in a nice area,” says Winnie Ng of Rich Harvest property agency.
Buyers target Hong Kong’s ‘haunted houses’ (via historiesofthingstocome)
Irish Artist builds a Home from 1,6 Billion shredded Euro
Ein irischer Künstler hat Banknoten und Euros, die von der irischen Münzanstalt aussortiert wurden, eine Wohnung in einem wegen der Finanzkrise leerstehenden Bürogebäude gebaut. Die Kohle wäre theoretisch 1,5 Millarden Euro wert.
An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the “madness” he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.
Frank Buckley built the apartment in the lobby of a Dublin office building that has lain vacant since its completion four years ago at the peak of an ill-fated construction boom, using bricks of shredded euro notes he borrowed from Ireland’s national mint. “It’s a reflection of the whole madness that gripped us,” Buckley said of what he calls his “billion-euro home.”
“People were pouring billions into buildings now worth nothing,” he said. “I wanted to create something from nothing.”
Reuters: Irishman makes “billion-euro home” of shredded notes, Irish Times: Artist works through €1.4bn to put his house in order, hier noch ein Video zur Aktion
Missile-Base Home-Tour
Das Blog Scouting New York hat eine Tour durch eine ehemalige Raketenabschuss-Basis, die in ein Wohnhaus konvertiert wurde. Wenn ich mal groß bin, will ich auch so wohnen.
I was in upstate New York over Christmas break when I read an article in the local paper about a man who had purchased a decommissioned 1960′s missile launch site in 1995, built a few houses and an airstrip on the property, and was now looking to sell it ($750k and it’s yours! click here!), or perhaps lease it for film production use.
I. HAD. TO. SEE. THIS. PLACE.
Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks (via JWZ)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Missilebase Living Room
Life Inside a Nuclear Missile Bunker
(Youtube Direktbunker, via Laughing Squid)
Die gestern von Joshua Topolsky (ehem. Engadget) gelaunchte Seite The Verge hat ein nettes Special über Leute, die in alten Raketenbunkern leben: Condo at the End of the World – Life Inside a Nuclear Missile Bunker. Falls Ihr NC schon länger lest, werdet Ihr vielleicht feststellen, dass ich fast alle dort vorgestellten Projekte hier schon verbloggt habe, aber ich bin’s ja langsam gewohnt, dass ich im Netz nichts wirklich neues mehr finde. Wie auch immer, Snip von The Verge:
The Survival Condo Project is a nearly 200 foot deep, nuclear blast-hardened hole in which contractors recently built a steel frame, not unlike that of a skyscraper. Once complete, the facility — located somewhere in the middle of Kansas — will offer half and full-floor residential units designed to withstand floods, electromagnetic pulses, and indirect nuclear strikes (among other things) for $2 million or $4 million, respectively. Features include “redundant infrastructure for power, water, air, and food; as well as ‘shared or common’ facilities for extended off-grid survival.”
Bookmarks for July 15th: Astronaut-Training, Half-Life, Donkey Kong, British Wrestling Posters
HALF-LIFE – Singularity Collapse – YouTube
GHOSTRIDERS II on Vimeo
Welcome to Titusville on Vimeo: Welcome to Titusville shows the impact of the 30 year Space Shuttle program on the residents of Titusville, a city that lies only a few miles from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2D Photography Rube Goldberg – YouTube
Leica Lenses (English) on Vimeo: Every Leica lens is hand-crafted and goes through meticulous manufacturing processes to uphold the quality and precision that Leica defines and customers have come to expect.
How It’s Made: The Impossible Project – YouTube: How It's Made takes us through how The Impossible Project manufactures its Instant Film for Polaroid cameras.
John Lasseter – A Day in a Life – Full Length Documentary – YouTube
Silverback Gorilla turns cameraman at Durrell – YouTube: Ya Kwanza the conservation Trusts 27 year old silverback gorilla became adept at snapping close ups of himself with a high definition camera which was encased in an indestructible box and covered with tasty honey and oats.
Let’s take back the Internet! – YouTube: In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a "Magna Charta" moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection.
Online Schools | State of the Internet 2011: Like any classic hero, the Internet grew from humble beginnings as a tiny speck to become the legend that it is today. The very first “instant message” wasn’t even a whole word before it broke the entire system, but it sparked a fantastic fire of possibilities. Now, we can IM friends from our phones while we browse Facebook and send a few tweets about our indigestion from last night’s cheesesteak, perhaps while taking care of that indigestion. We can email our friends in Paris and Tokyo from the MoMA and even send photos to Mom and Dad, too.<br />
Thirty-something years ago, this was stuff for sci-fi nerds.
NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts | Wired Science | Wired.com
Space Shuttle Discovery – 360VR Images
Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization
David Byrne’s 1987 Predictions for the Computers of 2007: I don't think computers will have any important effect on the arts in 2007. When it comes to the arts they're just big or small adding machines. And if they can't "think," that's all they'll ever be. They may help creative people with their bookkeeping, but they won't help in the creative process.<br />
The video revolution, however, will have some real impact on the arts in the next 20 years. It already has. Because people's attention spans are getting shorter, more fiction and drama will be done by television, a perfect medium for them. But I don't think anything will be wiped out; books will always be there; everything will find its place.
The Secret History of Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong is perhaps the greatest outsider game of all time. It broke all the rules because its creator, the now-legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, didn't know them to begin with. It not only launched the career of gaming's most celebrated creative mind, it gave birth to the jump-and-run platform genre as we know it, and established Nintendo as perhaps the industry's longest standing superpower.
british wrestling posters – a set on Flickr
PAS House – A House made for Skating: Imagine a city of the future where skateboards are used as the primary form of transportation and recreation – in and out of your home. A utopia city for skateboarders would mean that a skateable path, like a ribbon connecting everything together, links each building in an unending ability to keep in motion on your board. The PAS House takes this concept and brings it to life through an architectural project mixing a modern single family home with a skateboard ramp structure – all from an environmentally-driven perspective.
The Humor Code: Deconstructing the Science of Funny | Underwire | Wired.com
Tweet to Metal « PRINTERESTING: Last week, to mark the 125th anniversary of the linotype machine, Portland’s Stumptown Printers (with the help of some friends at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry) celebrated with a twitter-based letterpress project.
6 Ways to Bring Civility Online | The Art of Manliness: 1. Remember that there are real people on the other side of the computer. 2. Never say something to someone online that you wouldn’t say to the person’s face. 3. Use your real name. 4. Sit on it. 5. Or don’t respond at all. 6. Say something positive.
Han Solos dead Taun-Taun turned into Studio-Apartment
Schönes Ding von McSweeneys: Ein Immobilienmakler verteidigt den Umbau des Taun-Tauns, in dem Han Solo und Luke Skywalker eine Nacht auf Hoth verbrachten.
At the front of Tauntaun Terrace is a custom entryway completed by our friend the aforementioned and intergalactically-known smuggler, Han Solo. This is Hoth, not Yavin, and greeting visitors in lieu of a predictable blast door is something casual and fun I’ve dubbed “lightsaber chic.” Those handy flaps of skin and fur were carved out by Solo himself using Skywalker’s handcrafted laser sword. The whole arrangement is a lavish, nomadic touch that will forever exude more exuberance than entrails, guaranteed. Are we going to get serious here, or what?
“Noisy neighbors.”
Hmm, I guess not, because this is laughable and borderline offensive to the great Jedi Order. First of all, Obi-Wan’s wandering Force ghost is not “noisy,” he is knowledgeable, wise and dabbles in mind control—so watch the fuck out. Second, the nearby Imperial garrison is best referred to as a local home security force and nothing more. Attempts to brand their courteous cold-weather safety teams as a “malicious occupying force of emotionless, murdering Stormtroopers” will no doubt result in a brief visit from recently-hired security agent TK421 and instant blaster death. Word to the wise: He’s still very sour about the whole Millennium Falcon secret floor compartment incident, so, yeah. Let’s just move on.
A Hoth Realtor Addresses Some Of The Concerns Being Raised Over His Decision To Turn Han Solo’s Deceased Tauntaun Into A Modest Studio Apartment (via Boing Boing)
Sleeper House-Photography
Patrick Young hat eine Galerie voller Fotos vom retrofuturistischen Sleeper House, in dem weite Teile von Woody Allens 70s-SciFi-Komödie „Der Schläfer“ spielten. Von Wikipedia:
Das Sleeper House [wurde] durch den Architekten Charles Deaton im Jahr 1963 entworfen und 1965 fertiggestellt, jedoch anschließend nicht bewohnt wurde. Es wurde durch den Film Der Schläfer von Woody Allen und seine futuristisch anmutende Architektur bekannt.
Nachdem das Haus als Filmkulisse gedient hatte, verfiel es, bis der US-amerikanische Millionär Michael Dunahay es für geschätzte 5 Millionen US-Dollar kaufte und renovieren ließ. Das Interieur wurde ebenfalls komplett erneuert, passt aber in den Stil des Hauses der sechziger Jahre. Das Haus besteht aus etwa einem Dutzend Zimmern, davon fünf Badezimmer, und hat eine Gesamtwohnfläche von 700 Quadratmetern … Das Hauptcharakteristikum wird … durch die Wände gebildet: mit einer Ausnahme sind diese gewölbt. Das Haus ist auch unter den Namen Spaceship House, Taco House, Eyelid House und Sculptured House bekannt. Es liegt im US-Bundesstaat Colorado, etwa 40 km von Denver entfernt, auf 2600m Höhe an einem Hang der Gennessee Mountains. Das Gebäude ist als Deaton Sculptured House im National Register of Historic Places eingetragen.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Die verlassenen, verfluchten UFO-Häuser von Taiwan
UFO House Brings ET Home
Disney Revisits the House of the Future
Yesterland
Wie ich lernte, ein Ufo zu lieben
San-Zhr Pod Village
Plans for Space-Age Chemosphere on Display in Los Angeles
Barney Vincelette: Autist, UFO-Haus-Besitzer, Erfinder von HiFi-Zerstörern
This must be the Place: Chong Gon Byun, Hoarder of very cool Stuff
(Vimeo Direkthoarder, via Ignant)
Schönes Portrait über die Wohnung von Chong Gon Byun, einem Künstler aus Brooklyn, New York. Byun hat seine Bude in ein Kuriositätenkabinett verwandelt und ist beinahe (aber eben nur beinahe) ein Messi. Bei mir siehts es ähnlich aus, nur mit mehr Comics.
Das ganze kommt von Ben Wu und David Usui von Lost & Found Films, hier die Website zum Projekt This must be the Place.
