Industrial designer/architect Giovanni Pagnotta’s bold creations capture the benefits of the ultimate lightweight material carbon fiber in his furnishings.  His prototype line of carbon fiber furniture demonstrates what can happen when a material is taken to extreme limits of its strengh-to-weight ratio. His products are layered in plies of carbon fiber to create an extremely thin profile. The Z5 chair for example (chaise pictured below) weighs a mere 14 pounds, with a maximum thickness of half an inch, yet can carry 3,000 pounds with no indication of impending structural failure.  For the price, that chair better see a lot of a*s!

The Intel Shell was imploded this morning at 7.30am in Austin

If you follow the real estate development market - you know that Austin TX is the bright spot of the country—so much so it was featured in the NY Times just a week ago… as cranes dot the skyline in about 8 hrs from now this building - known as the Intel Shell will come down… Intel started and left abandoned the building shell and all the city tax incentives in 2001 when tech boom turned to tech bust and they cut their losses. Now the site will become the new federal courthouse. I know, I know why do we need a new courthouse - well the existing one is outdated and overburdened - and our greed obsessed city council couldn’t find a way to stop the courthouse and get another highrise condo development on the site (like the 3 on the surrounding adjacent blocks...) Those condos are much better cranking out the revenue than a few judges, white collar criminals and the suburban lawyers who defend them.

So tomorrow at 7am, I my friends and neighbors and a couple of those judges, a few senators, a bunch (i.e. hundreds) of local who’s who and an army of media will watch from a nearby rooftop as this building implodes… it should make for great video - so give me a little time to get home with the camera to get it posted…

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