why are skulls so beautiful?
(Source: nevver)
why are skulls so beautiful?
(Source: nevver)



This project is overwhelmingly fascinating to me. Created by Julijonas Urbonas, a designer, artist, writer, and engineer from Lithuania, it’s a roller coaster designed to create the most pleasurable and perfect death imaginable.
I’d say this would be my perfect way to die.
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”
View Larger An X-Ray of the suit that Alan B. Shepard wore on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
— Stefan Sagmeister (via hamburglr)
(Source: brainpickings.org)