Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Bowerbird seduces with interior design
here is the excerpt from Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zmfTr2d4c
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Football Ad
There is something in the news about the ad being a curse on the main stars. Bah!
Its fun.
Its fun.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Faces of Design 2010
From the website:
"we are now presenting the 34 proud winners of the Awards. Their profiles are currently being distributed to over 1.000 key decision makers in the world of design, and additionally, the top three candidates are about to be introduced to a company of their choice in person, through the Faces of Design network."
"we are now presenting the 34 proud winners of the Awards. Their profiles are currently being distributed to over 1.000 key decision makers in the world of design, and additionally, the top three candidates are about to be introduced to a company of their choice in person, through the Faces of Design network."
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Storage
This is quite an interesting post from Scott Adams via Kottke.
Its got some elements I'm exploring in my thesis.
"Everything we create becomes a de facto data storage device and brain accessory. A wall can be a physical storage device for land survey data, it can be a reminder of history, and it can be a trigger of personal memories.
A business is also a way to store data. As a restaurant owner, I was fascinated at how employees came and went, but their best ideas often stayed with the business, especially in the kitchen. The restaurant was like a giant data filter. The bad ideas were tested and deleted while the good ideas stayed, most often without being written down.
When you design a flower garden, its main purpose is to influence people's minds in a positive and peaceful fashion. A flower garden is a brain reprogramming tool. It jacks into any human brain that enters its space and reprograms that brain in a predetermined way. We don't think of it in those terms, but the process is nonetheless deliberate."
more here
Its got some elements I'm exploring in my thesis.
"Everything we create becomes a de facto data storage device and brain accessory. A wall can be a physical storage device for land survey data, it can be a reminder of history, and it can be a trigger of personal memories.
A business is also a way to store data. As a restaurant owner, I was fascinated at how employees came and went, but their best ideas often stayed with the business, especially in the kitchen. The restaurant was like a giant data filter. The bad ideas were tested and deleted while the good ideas stayed, most often without being written down.
When you design a flower garden, its main purpose is to influence people's minds in a positive and peaceful fashion. A flower garden is a brain reprogramming tool. It jacks into any human brain that enters its space and reprograms that brain in a predetermined way. We don't think of it in those terms, but the process is nonetheless deliberate."
more here
I hope he's wrong
Right up until Mesut Özil's awesome strike last night, fans throughout Germany were preparing for the worst, and the DFB also demonstrated pessimism and efficiency in equal measure by booking flights home for today. But they needn't have worried about crashing out in the World Cup, as their fate had already been decided. By a psychic octopus.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
modern ruins
"The Newest Wonder of the World: The Ruins of Modern Greece
Facilities Built for Olympics Go Unused; A Preference for Smoking Over Sport?"
Wall Street Journal
via Kottke
Facilities Built for Olympics Go Unused; A Preference for Smoking Over Sport?"
Wall Street Journal
via Kottke
trouble in sugarville
"Desperately Seeking Sugar Daddies
Looking to give up her day job but maintain a steady income, the author joined a Web site where rich older men shop for girlfriends. Is that so wrong?"
From Vanity Fair
"For a first date, things were going fairly well. We were at Megu, a pricey Japanese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, eating perfectly cooked Kobe beef. My companion, a wealthy finance type, was telling me all about himself and posing questions that suggested he was interested in me. Then, matter-of-factly, he said, “Whether I met you on the site or at the Standard, you’d cost me at least 10 grand a month.”"
Looking to give up her day job but maintain a steady income, the author joined a Web site where rich older men shop for girlfriends. Is that so wrong?"
From Vanity Fair
"For a first date, things were going fairly well. We were at Megu, a pricey Japanese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, eating perfectly cooked Kobe beef. My companion, a wealthy finance type, was telling me all about himself and posing questions that suggested he was interested in me. Then, matter-of-factly, he said, “Whether I met you on the site or at the Standard, you’d cost me at least 10 grand a month.”"
Monday, June 21, 2010
My favorite video of all time...
It was directed by Herb Ritts, acclaimed fashion photographer. Simply breathtaking!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Toronto Urban Planning
"The Streetscape Manual is a reference tool for those involved in the design, maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of Toronto streets. The Manual clearly defines the City's streetscape design goals and expectations along all arterial roads."
Monday, June 14, 2010
Open your trash can...
A documentary on food waste...
From Dive - Living off America's Waste
"Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food.
Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to simply throw away excess food rather than do something helpful with it? Whatever the answer, the contradiction is profound: good, edible food is being thrown away in the very same communities where people are going hungry.
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it."
From Dive - Living off America's Waste
"Grocery stores around the country are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food.
Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to simply throw away excess food rather than do something helpful with it? Whatever the answer, the contradiction is profound: good, edible food is being thrown away in the very same communities where people are going hungry.
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it."
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Small bugs don't eat big bugs...
This should help: Herbal Armor Insect repellant...
Apparently all natural... remains to be tested. Good way to stay away from all these horrible chemicals like DEET
Found it here
http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=4684
Apparently all natural... remains to be tested. Good way to stay away from all these horrible chemicals like DEET
Found it here
http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=4684
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Spots
Some interesting spots to check out:
Tons more coffee spots here
"Red Tea Box
696 Queen W, at Euclid, 416-203-8882. Tucked away behind one of the best bake shops in town, this intimate tree-shaded terrace and coach house feels more like the south of France than west of Bathurst. Spectacular pan-Asian bento boxes and fizzy lemongrass lemonade only prove the point. Warning: no reservations. Unlicensed.Negroni
492 College, at Palmerston, 416-413-0005, negronipanini.com. If the sexy pressed panini – fresh buffalo mozzarella with tomato and pesto on ciabatta – and two patios don’t draw you in, the $20 bottles of Italian red sure will. And don’t forget to save room for house-made peanut butter ice creamArt Square
334 Dundas W, at McCaul, 416-595-5222. Over the road from the Frank Gehry reno of the AGO, this Euro café-cum-art-gallery is an official Illy outlet featuring a short card of crepes and house-made truffles. Bonus: one of the prettiest secret courtyard patios in the city. Open daily 10 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement."
Tons more coffee spots here
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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