Posts Tagged ‘charm-astronaut’
Japan’s high-detail coffee, booze, food, and fashion simulacra
Writing in the WSJ, Tom Downey describes what he perceives as a new shift in the way that Japanese food, coffee, cocktails and fashion relates to the outside world; according to Downey, the ideal now combines the much-vaunted Japanese attention to detail and precise copying with a kind of remaking that produces a “replica” Brooklyn
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Japan’s high-detail coffee, booze, food, and fashion simulacra
Bringing a 50,000-ton forging press back to Life
Alcoa’s 50,000-Ton forging press in Cleveland is “one of the great machines of American industry.” Built in 1955, the “Fifty” broke down three years ago, and Alcoa considered scrapping it. But it’s back in operation. Tim Heffernan has the story in The Atlantic. A forging press is — begging the forgiveness of the engineering gods
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Bringing a 50,000-ton forging press back to Life