Flinders Street re-design proposals

Six finalist designs were revealed for the future of Flinders Street station recently, and personally I think they all look awesome. There seems to be some negative response toward changing the dated architecture, but one of the main reasons I love Melbourne is it’s mix of old and new (the new is the best bit) and with the northern side to be kept as is for most of them, I would much appreciate a revamped platform system. A lot of the designs seem to want to utilise more vertical space too, include some really cool rooftop park proposals, and one of them look like they belong in fiction based centuries from now. Continue reading

Vsauce is sauce-ome

Being a blog I’m supposed to share cool things, right? Well here’s one of my favourite YouTube channels that takes pretty broad questions and meditates on possible answers via popular culture, science, and facts, without ever really reaching a single, absolute answer. The format is clever too, essentially a montage of images, videos, and graphics to illustrate points – in particular the use of single words that fill the screen to illustrate the beginning or end of a train of thought. Definitely worth checking out.