sarah sosiak

model city

Downtown San Francisco, looking across Union Square from an elevator in the St. Francis.

descent

Escalators in a London tube station.

presidio parkour

Photos from a Parkour session in the Presidio yesterday are up on Flickr.

victimless leather

The Victimless Leather exhibit at the Design and the Elastic Mind show. A tiny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. I'm glad I saw it before the museum had to kill it:

Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, had to kill the coat. “It was growing too much,” she said in an interview from a conference in Belgrade. The cells were multiplying so fast that the incubator was beginning to clog. Also, a sleeve was falling off. So after checking with the coat’s creators, a group known as SymbioticA, at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at the University of Western Australia in Perth, she had the nutrients to the cells stopped.

-- NYTimes

well, that's one less unexploded ordnance in the neighbourhood

Photo by Jim Herd/SFCitizen (via SFist)

Now I know what happens when your neighbours find a live WWII mortar shell while cleaning their garage.

Full-on bomb squad, bomb-removal robot, police barricades, warnings to go inside and stay away from the windows, etc.

Bizarre.