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stabbim — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 02:03:54 +0000

Nice timing. I just finished that show a couple of days ago. :)

Let's compromise: (reply)

Ragashingo — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:37:38 +0000

Give us a [twitter] tag that is simply the [img] tag. :p

Already implemented (reply)

Beorn — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:20:45 +0000

Take a screenshot. ;-)

Artificial salt pans, I guess (reply)

ZackDark — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:04:27 +0000

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Fun Fact (reply)

unoudid — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:49:26 +0000

Bean Bag chairs are unintentionally one of the deadliest pieces of furniture. The filling can pose an extreme choking and suffocation hazard. Such is the price of living in style

You mean a Sacco? (reply)

unoudid — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:07:25 +0000

The Sacco (aka bean bag chair) was designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro, three designers who had come to the Italian company Zanotta with the idea of creating furniture by deconstructing its form.

They noticed that workers would sit on bags of styrofoam while taking their breaks or smoking. After observing this, they came up with the idea of putting a nice shell around the loose bag of foam/pellets to create this new piece of furniture.

Designed: 1968
Materials: Polystyrene Pellets, Leather/Synthetic Leather/Fabric

The Sacco is a design that is in numerous museums around the world including the MOMA Design Collection

Some fun reading:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bydesign/the-sacco-bean-bag,-style-icon-of-the-1960s/5140268
http://www.ganzomag.com/sacco-beanbag-zanotta.html

Like a salt pan? (reply)

Funkmon — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:43:13 +0000

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Tell me about bean bag chairs. (reply)

Funkmon — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:41:04 +0000

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Salt mines are a weird concept to me (reply)

ZackDark — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:35:43 +0000

I've been to salt farms, though, and they made a lot of sense.

Beorn (reply)

breitzen — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:09:46 +0000

I know you don't do anything else, so feature request to embed tweets!!! ;)

Glad you asked (reply)

unoudid — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:09:13 +0000

The Strataca Salt Museum is home to the Underground Vaults & Storage Gallery which houses the original film negatives for many of Hollywood's greatest movies. Another portion of the storage gallery houses many original film props and costumes including the original suit for Agent Smith in The Matrix

The image below shows Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith sitting in an original Eames side chair that I have talked about before.

Keanu Reeves who plays the protagonist Neo in The Matrix series can be seen sitting in a modern version of the Barcelona Lounge Chair by famed German architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Meis designed the Barcelona Chair as part of the bigger Barcelona (German) Pavilion project for the Barcelona International Exposition of 1929

http://www.archdaily.com/109135/ad-classics-barcelona-pavilion-mies-van-der-rohe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion

The Barcelona Chair Info
https://www.knoll.com/product/barcelona-chair
https://www.knoll.com/knollnewsdetail/design-deconstructed-barcelona-chair

Original Sketch for the Barcelona Chair

Did you know? (reply)

Cody Miller — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:06:06 +0000

There's a huge salt mine underneath the city of Detroit?

Ostensibly where Portal 2 takes place if I recall correctly.

Covering over 1500 acres. Here are pictures. (reply)

Korny — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:02:11 +0000

http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2001184_2159947,00.html

A very safe mine as well. Few injuries.

Assuming no evil coverups.

If Portal 2 and Resident Evil 7 have taught me anything, it's that salt mines are great for nefarious purposes...

Covering over 1500 acres. Here are pictures. (reply)

Funkmon — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:54:00 +0000

http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2001184_2159947,00.html

A very safe mine as well. Few injuries.

Relevant - Just made my day. (reply)

dogcow — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:37:48 +0000

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The Salt Museum (reply)

Ragashingo — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:36:53 +0000

Any old miner's chairs you could tell us about down there?

The Salt Museum (reply)

unoudid — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:36:09 +0000

In case you are ever in Hutchinson, KS there's a really cool tour you can do of some old salt mines.

http://underkansas.org/

Did you know? (reply)

squidnh3 — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:28:27 +0000

There's a huge salt mine underneath the city of Detroit?

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unoudid — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:10:21 +0000

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CruelLEGACEY — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:58:28 +0000

;)

https://twitter.com/cwspellowe/status/831887739381510144