Even at the recommendation of someone I completely trust, I was reticent to let Michael Ferguson work on The Airspace. This gut feeling was predicated by the fact that Michael is a roommate of Airspace senior editor Eric Harsh. They had been living together for some time, The Airspace had been operating for a couple months, and yet there hadn’t been a thread connecting the two until April. It took only a brief conversation with Michael to change my opinion entirely.
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The Hebdomadal Revue is a collection of the best articles, videos, recordings, images, etc. the editors of The Airspace found in the previous week. The Internet is filled with awe-inspiring things made by people from all across the world. The Revue is an attempt to tap into that syncretic wonder and bring it to our readers—it’s also a great place to blow off steam on a Sunday.
Read More...After a day spent wandering around the Louvre in Paris, France, studying the idyllic nude bodies of ancient Greek statues, photographer Léo Caillard got to wondering about the nature of clothing. Each of the statues represented the maximization of human perfection—the human body taken to the extreme. But most people don’t have the ideal Greek [...]
From the Hoover Dam and the Burj Khalifa to the Panama Canal, concrete underlies the greatest of modern architectural achievements. But modern concrete, it seems, doesn’t hold a candle to Ancient Rome’s. A little history for you: the Romans were the first to engineer concrete in mass, and it was upon this concrete that they [...]
“Balloons. That’s right. Balloons,” says the voice of a young girl in a video for Google’s latest endeavor: bringing the world online with massive balloons. The initiative, called Project Loon, comes from Google X, the experimental lab within the company whose sole purpose is to dream up big, borderline insane, ideas. Google X created self-driving [...]
Thonis, the legendary port city that served as an entryway to the Egyptian empire, was long considered to be a myth. The tales of its immense power and vast riches conflicted with the evidence of its existence—mainly that there was none. Cities of such grandeur do not typically disappear off the face of the earth. [...]
Kanye West says the darndest things. On his unrelenting quest to become his own species of hip-hop artist, he has established a reputation as irreverent, controversial, and unapologetic. Though he makes time for public grandstanding by claiming a US President “doesn’t care about black people” or interrupting the VMAs, he remains mostly quiet when it [...]
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