Archive for the 'Design' Category

Flatpack stadium

Posted by eugene on May 28th, 2008

Flatpack stadium to be taken down and reassembled where/when needed.

What a great idea.  They are comparing it to Ikea furniture.  But on the other hand that’s scary.  I’ve never seen a piece of Ikea furniture that was quite as sturdy the second time you put it together.  The Olympic stadium as one of those traveling carnivals that set up in the parking lots of big box stores.  Umm, it’s kind of fun to be scared to go on a structure/ride designed to be disassembled in minutes, but tens of thousands of rabid fans in a ready to be disassembled stadium, might be something to think about.

Early daily photo project

Posted by eugene on May 23rd, 2008

I found this via alltop.  Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid daily from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997 (his 41st birthday and also the day he died).

The actual site of the photographs and some other links about it:

Mental Floss (with some of the photos)

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has a lot of information about the pictures and the accompanying exhibit.

Jamie Livingston’s wiki page.

 

Posters

Posted by eugene on May 22nd, 2008

I used Rasterbator, but PosteRazor is a different look (source image) in creating multipage posters of images.  Though I like the dot matrix Rasterbator style, I’ll make some of these straight image ones via PosteRazor.

I want this

Posted by eugene on May 20th, 2008

equal measuer

available via Amazon (via Amazon via Gizmodo).

I don’t need it (yet)

Posted by eugene on May 19th, 2008

Monty’s a spry 4 years old (and I mean spry, everyone thinks he’s still a puppy given his energy level, etc).  And some crazy guy with barbeque sauce all over his chin (I so incredibly wish I had taken a picture), while petting Monty for an uncomfortably long time, at the Taste of Arlington 2008, said Monty would live an additional 23 years.  Or maybe it was until he was 23.  Either way that’s WAY longer than miniature schnauzers live on par.  I’m not looking ahead to life sans Monty, but no way I’d get this (maybe, I am a sucker for such things):

digital pet urn

That’s a digital pet urn.  Available from pet-urns.com.  Product description:

With a 7” diagonal screen you can display literally hundreds of your favorite pet and/or human memories. Each digital frame includes a battery operated remote control, a large 256 megabyte internal memory, power supply cord, and USB computer cord for transferring photo’s or audio files from your personal computer to the internal memory.

This urn has two compartments which you access from the removable bottom. The 1st compartment holds the digital frame while the 2nd has 95 cubic inches of space inside, accomodating pets from 0-75 lbs.

Maybe if they added video I’d consider it.  But pics and audio only.  Who has audio recordings of their dogs?  Do they expect people to demux their video for audio and upload that? 

via Gizmodo.

The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already—whether by dint of DNA or M·A·C—to look, as is the mode, superhuman. Christy Turlington, for the record, needs the least help.

Emphasis mine.  I love Christy Turlington.

link from Kottke.

How do you feel?

Posted by eugene on May 10th, 2008

twistori

Not just feel, but love/hate/think/believe/feel/wish.

It searches for keywords in summize and loads them into the site.  There’s even a screensaver available.

Follow me on Twitter (if you want).

twistori is based on Jonathan Harris’s We Feel Fine, which is equally, as Michael Bay would say, awesome.  Here’s Harris’s talk at TED:

I’m simply amazed

Posted by eugene on April 24th, 2008

I shouldn’t be because the internet is nothing if not a place for the niche-iest of niches, but I found this link on Kottke that talked about the size of Smurfs and how they lived in mushroom houses when ostensibly Smurfs were “three apples high” or in some rendering knee high on “humans”.  That link led to another link which was a Smurf forum discussing this issue.

Things that amaze me about this:

  • There is a Smurf forum (this shouldn’t amaze me, but it does)
  • That the people on the Smurf forum are serious about the realism of Smurf building/construction
  • That they write things like this:

If Smurfs are three apples tall, how can they live in mushrooms? What kind of mushroom is big enough to house a being about the size of a coke can? This has caused me a great deal of consternation over the last several days. Please help me!

A “great deal of consternation over the last SEVERAL days“!!! Wow. 

Links here:

Kottke’s post via this blog post (JeffRubin.com) via this message board thread (Blue Buddies - Smurf message board)

This means I will soon have a lot less money

Posted by eugene on April 20th, 2008

Or will have to try really hard to practice fiscal discipline.  Especially once they fill out their stock online.

Spectacles for Humans webstore up!

I want some acetate frames.  Maybe some Derome Brenner Jacky 2’s (totally ripping AYN’s as they are one of my favorite model of Jackie’s)

Here they are:

derome brenner jacky 2