For all you writers out there….

Game link here. This is where the shrine-blog takes it’s namesake. In this game, which is interactive fiction, you play as silk collectors trapped on a roof and it’s up to you to find a way off. Silk? They are looking for spidersilk left after giant mutant spiders died off twenty years ago in this near-future game, the spidersilk is fused with wood to create organic skyscrapers in Asia.

The game is also a spin-off of an indie movie called Ghosts With Shit Jobs.

http://nomediakings.org/category/ghosts_with_shit_jobs

The plot? Basically, in 2040, a documentary is released for Asian audiences that showcase how the poor Westerners scrape out a living in Toronto, Canada.

Oscar is a digital janitor in his 20s/30s, and has to manually cover up logos for copyright reasons in the future’s answer to Google StreetView maps. He doesn’t really know why he’s on a show about bad jobs, because he thinks his job is pretty great — he gets to see history come alive in front of his eyes, like the garbagemen who fancy themselves like archaeologists. But the long hours and loneliness are getting to him, especially since the death of his mother.

Gary and Karen are baby-makers in their 20s/30s. They assemble robot baby dolls for the children of the wealthy in Asia. They’re so indistinguishable from real babies that the crying, diapers and feeding of a half-dozen units at once is driving the couple a little crazy and straining their relationship. Both of them are hugely overqualified for the job, but while Gary has a reasonable ten-year plan, the more ambitious Karen would do anything to be making battlebots now.

Anton and Toph are silk collectors in their 20s. Twenty years ago a herd of gigantic spiders ran amok over the eastern seaboard after a genelab outbreak, leaving behind buildings swathed in spider web silk. Although highly toxic and difficult to collect, people like Anton and Toph risk their lives to get it — it’s worth its weight in gold as an ultrastrong building material. Anton, the enthusiastic and delusional older brother, loves the idea of becoming famous for collecting the Tower silk. Toph, the more intelligent younger brother who actually does the collecting, knows it’s a deathtrap.

Serina is human spam in her 20s/30s. She makes a living by mentioning brands and products in casual conversation, and is credited based on their status and wealth. Because of the life she’s chosen, she’s disconnected from friends and family but protected by a lipstick-sized tazer and her “people” in the Nigerian cartel. A chameleon and professionally skilled at reinvention, her good humour and friendliness is only skin deep — beneath it is a cold and ruthless survivor.

And in honor of Hindenburg Wednesday, we now take you to the present and future. This slideshow discuss if zeppelins are the future of air travel. They started coming back in 1997…click the pic to learn more.

Dudes, today is Hindenburg Wednesday.No, this has nothing to do with architecture but the airships are the bomb and they fly.So this shrine-blog will also cover technological marvels. So the dude in the pic, is Joseph Spah. You know how he survived the crashing of the Hindenburg? He was an acrobat and jumped out.

Click on the pic to learn more about this awesome and brutal guy.

Wow, this is pretty cool. A functional floating art installation. Click on the pic to learn more. This is the artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_%28artist%29

Click the pic to learn more.

Thinking of what kind architecture posts, I’m gonna make on this here shrine-blog. Thinking a mixture of traditional architecture that is updated for the twenty-first century, such as the pics depicted above. And crazy conceptual ecofriendly skyscraper building designs/existing buildings.

We are surrounded by the built environment day in and day out, but how many buildings still turn your head, make you scratch it or even turn it upside down (your head, not the building … well, not most buildings anyway). Over time we have collected some of the most crazy architectural designs and creative engineering marvels from around the world and grouped them by type, theme and (as always) adjective – from the remotest and most unattainable luxury private island architecture to hidden rooms and doors that may be lurking in your own house.