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Okay, so this is where I want to live. Saw it posted on midcenturymodernist.com, and they spotted it on a Flickr feed from someone called 'The 10 cent designer' , who has taken some beautiful interiors. Look at her set called 'other people's houses', and you'll see more of this place from the same shoot.
PLAN59.com is a gorgeous website dedicated to the commercial art of mid-century America. High-quality jpegs, gifs, tiffs and the occasional vector graphic. I mean, just look at how solid and chunky these images are. The whole thing is a sort of Jetsons meets High Society, with a bit of Breakfast at Tiffany's thrown in. Love it.
Oh, and be sure to sweep through their genius blog.
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Often in job interviews or talking to people about writing, they ask "so which writers do you really admire?"
The answer they're looking for is usually along the lines of: "Oh well personally I admire Will Self for his scathing cynicism and joyous vocabulary; I would like A.A. Gill but he comes across a tad croneyish; that said, the political sketchwriting of Matthew Parris always raises a chuckle."
What I actually want to say is: "I read The Sun every day. I love it. Dear Deidre is one of the most hilarious columns EVER!"
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Sometimes nature makes its own version of an Anthony Gormley installation. In this case, it's waaaay better... (look at some other of Lomokev's photos from this link, they're really rather good).
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Turns out he fiddled with the water to make it look more blue, but it's still a good picture.
So what if it's metro, there's something incredibly satisfying about kitchen gadgets that actually work. Thought, inspiration and practicality in one fell swoop. I came across these two on the Charles and Marie website - an expandable funnel, and its brother, the sieve. Assuming, of course, I spelt sieve right. seieive. Link.
Quite why anyone would want to spend $12k on a Brompton in a box is beyond me. Still. It looks quite snazzy. Link.
I do love Flickr. You see the world through other people's eyes, and it changes the way things look. Take some time to admire this New Yorker's set of 'objects embedded in asphalt'. Link.
Creative Review always finds the best stuff, and their recent post on Aussie collective the Glue Society is no exception. The team put together four biblical events as they would look if captured by Google Earth. Link.
Above is The Crucifixion. There's also Eden, the Ark and Moses parting the Red Sea.
Well worth a look, Alison Jackson gets better and better. Some of it is weaker than I'd like - not too keen on the de Niro lookalike as he's just not good enough - but mostly it's borderline genius.
http://www.mbfala.com/Jackson/Jackson_Confidential.html
This inventor has had no formal training in flying and his helicopter has never flown higher than 7 feet of the ground. In an interview, he talks about how the machine works:
“You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin. The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rmp you press the joystick and it takes off,”
Mubarak is ambitious however and has embarked on a new project to build a better helicopter that will be able to make 3 hour flights. He hopes to get support for his project from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and other Nigerian government bodies.
(as seen on www.afrigadget.com)
Design Boom stumbled on this little (biodegradeable) beauty. Cutlery made from starch that just pops on top of your pens. Whether you're allowed it on aeroplanes or not...
Saving The World's Rarest Amphibians
TheZoological Society of London's EDGE program is dedicated to the conservation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered animal species that "have few close relatives on the tree of life and are often extremely unusual in the way they look, live and behave, as well as in their genetic make-up." EDGE has just launched a conservation and fundraising initiative focused on amphibians. Here is the list of the first ten amphibians that the group is working to protect:
1) Chinese giant salamander, (salamander that can grow up to 1.8m in length and evolved independently from all other amphibians over one hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus rex) seen here, photo from International Cooperation Network for Giant Salamander Conservation
2) Sagalla caecilian (limbless amphibian with sensory tentacles on the sides of its head)
3) Purple frog (purple-pigmented frog that was only discovered in 2003 because it spends most of the year buried up to 4m underground)
4) Ghost frogs of South Africa (one species is found only in the traditional human burial grounds of Skeleton Gorge in Table Mountain, South Africa)
5) Olm (blind salamander with transparent skin that lives underground, hunts for its prey by smell and electrosensitivity and can survive without food for 10 years)
6) Lungless salamanders of Mexico (highly endangered salamanders that do not have lungs but instead breathe through their skin and mouth lining)
7) Malagasy rainbow frog (highly-decorated frog that inflates itself when under threat and can climb vertical rock surfaces)
8) Chile Darwin’s frog (a frog where fathers protect the young in their mouths, this species has not been officially seen since around 1980 and may now be extinct)
9) Betic midwife toad (toads that evolved from all others over 150million years ago – the males carry the fertilised eggs wrapped around their hind legs)
10) Gardiner’s Seychelles frog (perhaps the world’s smallest frog, with adults growing up to just 11mm in length – the size of a drawing pin)
(seen on www.boingboing.net. Link to Zoological Society page, Link to EDGE program)
Don't delay, get Rubbish today.
Have a gander at Proud Creative - very nice guys, very good designers. They recently won a few prizes for the rebranding work they did on S4C.
