I'd laugh my ass off if I saw one of these guys walking down the street.  [They must be ferried via an underground network from one hip, blood-sucking club to the next.]  However, they'd make excellent 3d characters.  Drapey things are excellent for secondary motion, especially in contrast to the bare skin.

via haute macabre:  http://hautemacabre.com/2010/01/julius/

and fashionisto:  http://thefashionisto.com/blog/2010/01/paris-fashion-week-julius-fall-2010/

I have a new girl-crush on the lovely Zoetica Ebb, a "Godless bloodcrazed pervert and a sexual Mengele" [Warren Ellis]

"What pushes me in everything I do is the notion of fleeting time, a hyper-awareness of mortality...  Some vain desire to make people feel on my behalf, perhaps."

"Much of my inspiration comes from contradictions: Russian Orthodox iconography and the Futurists, Hentai and Da Vinci, The films of Gilliam, Cronenberg and Lynch, the books of Bulgakov, Kafka and Gibson alongside high fashion photography and Rococo. Nightmares, paranoia and sexual phobias paired with glossed lips, fancy tailoring and elaborate hair."

And, just to make her too perfect to be true, she's involved in Dr Sketchy's and Suicide Girls. 

Personal website:  http://www.biorequiem.com/

Modeling Flickr set:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoetica/sets/72157594572340695/

At Suicide Girls:  http://suicidegirls.com/members/Zoetica/news/

At CoilHouse:  http://coilhouse.net/author/zoetica/

At Haute Macabre:  http://hautemacabre.com/author/zoetica/

Interview at Jazma Online:  http://www.jazmaonline.com/interviews/interviews2007.asp?intID=622

...in my front yard?  Why a free shuttle engine, of course.  Nasa is giving them away to anyone who can pick it up.

We were debating whether or not we could get it running so that we could slag vehicles in the backyard on a drunken whim.  The main obstacle (besides Johnny Law and possibly frying the neighbor's pit bulls) would be aquiring fuel:  1,000 gallons per second of a 6:1 liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen mix at 11,000 psi.  Crux42 suggested a field of water-to-hydrogen toy rocket converter kits.  40 or so running for about a decade should do the trick.

If anyone can come up with a better fuel solution, let me know quickly before Nasa discovers Craig's List.

via io9:  http://io9.com/5451549/nasa-giving-away-space-shuttle-engines-for-free-+-to-anyone-who-can-pick-them-up

Too expensive and sold out, but something worth knocking off:

http://www.pixiemarket.com/store/woolmotozipjacketfontsize3bsoldoutfontb-p-1265.html

The Federal Aviation Authority approved Jacksonville's Cecil Field, a former naval air station, for use as a commercial spaceport.  Unfortunately, it's probably too little too late to attract space entrepeneurs.  Lack of infrastructure support for large-scale, high tech manufacturing has already caused Jax to be turned down by the likes of Virgin Galactic.  Other space tourism companies are few and far between, and have 6 other national spaceports to choose from.

So, let's throw a rocket race!

The Rocket Racing League pits horizontal take-off Rocket Racers against each other.  Let's not let our 12,500ft runway and smancy new license go to waste.

http://www.space.com/news/florida-airport-new-spaceport-ft-100118.html

http://www.rocketracingleague.com/