Tootfinder

Zip, zoom and soar in L.A.’s extraordinary new playground for bike riders
On the wavy, asphalt track that almost looks like a modern sculpture emerging out of a grassy field, kids and adults on bicycles zoomed around, showcasing tricks and testing their endurance.
Since it opened in September, the site
— billed as L.A.’s first pump track
— has quickly become a safe haven for bicyclists to ride, connect with others and, most important, have fun.
A pump track is…

What to know about riding your bike on the Inglewood Pumptrack
Eliot Jackson, a professional mountain bike racer, is the brainchild behind the Inglewood Pumptrack, a space for cyclists to ride, connect with others and have fun.

The #SpaceSyntax Lab seminar at the #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture has three more exciting speakers lined up for May and June 2024, talking about urban regeneration, housing and spatial cultures.
Seminars are online on zoom, Thursdays at 4pm BST and open to all!
M…

Space Syntax Lab Seminars: Autumn 2023 - Summer 2024
This academic seminar series features researchers sharing their findings, discussing their ideas and showing work in progress from The Bartlett's internationally renowned Space Syntax Laboratory.

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Herd of American bison grazing on Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, Fort Collins, CO. May 2019

There is no “away”.
https://sketchplanations.com/there-is-no-away

There is no "away"
It's a phrase I always grew up with: you throw rubbish and trash "away" and take what you don't need to "the dump" or "the tip." However, a comment in a nature documentary made me reevaluate: "You can't throw anything away. There is no 'away'." Unless we're throwing a leaf or some grass cuttings back on the lawn, it matters where what we've used ends up. It doesn't go away—it goes somewhere, and eventually, that somewhere will catch up with us. This is why I think "the garbage dump" is bett…

Jesus, the full-sized high-res version looks incredible in-zoom.
Blender Eevee is amazing. It does this in like two minutes (on my amazing graphics card).
13000,12000 image? No problem. Just give me two minutes of locking the machine up completely and then.
Bang.
Incredible detail on the zoom: from a flying-saucer model that's placed 5 kilometers away from the window model up front.
So all the detail ought to be there in the print: at least in the space-ship and foreground, if not in the stock-image background.
If they'll let me upload an image more than 121Mb big?
Is that big for print? I have never dealt with print this size
It locks my machine up for two minutes to render that. I keep thinking it's crashed.
I dunno if it's using the GPU or not.

the Dr Evil reference in this post amuses me
in the movie Dr Evil at first proposes to hold the world ransom for “one! meellion! dollars!”; after one of his henchmen explains that a million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days, he revises the ransom to (dramatic zoom) “a hundred? billion? dollars!” (trumpet fanfare)
https…

The Space Syntax Lab at the #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture #UCL is holding a bi-weekly online seminar on zoom to present latest research findings on the relationship between configurations of space and social outcomes, curated by my colleague @…