Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 11:20 PM -

My buddy Bert finally has a website: Wing Nut Designs Metalwork.

I'm still messing with the code, and don't have a mac handy. If it blows up in one of those browsers, let me know.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 12:49 AM -

From ear to hand: William Weaver on translation. You've probably read a few of his works.

Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 11:50 PM -

  1. Keizou Hoshino at Flying Megalopolis.
  2. More Masato Tanaka. And one here.
  3. liquordelic - Tacji Kikuchi. (Because nothing says "Art" like an annoying Flash website...)
  4. ROGMA6. Pens.
  5. Atsushi Hayakawa / Coppers Hayakawa.
  6. VATARU Art Bags.
  7. Super Nervous Information Office of Zettai Shonen.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 10:21 PM -

Just a little something to give the google spider a kick: Mike Gibbs - Artful Living, aka www.artfullivinginc.com. I used to build furniture upstairs from Mike's shop. He's good people, even if he did move to Calgary.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 5:08 PM -

Architecture and the Sixties: Rem Koolhaas saying such interesting things.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 4:40 PM -

Fantastic. If you're going to build a nixie clock, it really shouldn't rely on ICs.

Friday, July 8, 2005 - 8:25 PM -

A history of Swedish Cinema. I can't read it, but I can look through the pictures to find such wonderful things.

Monday, July 4, 2005 - 12:50 AM -

Josh Stippich has updated electronluv. Yow.

Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 3:14 AM -

"I am not a number."

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 12:36 AM -

Evelyn Glennie: Touch The Sound.

"Deafness is poorly understood in general. For instance, there is a common misconception that deaf people live in a world of silence. To understand the nature of deafness, first one has to understand the nature of hearing."

Two more.

Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 2:40 AM -

City Of Children video trailer. Kenji Yanobe.

Monday, June 06, 2005 - 10:54 PM -

Finding through loss: PostSecret.

Friday, April 22, 2005 - 1:36 AM -

  1. Keith Edimer casting giant water lilies. Links to a couple of pics at the bottom.
  2. "A neo-Christian Karaoke machine/computer cathedral with kinetic gargoyles leading an imperial theme song sing along." Wot 'e said. Eddo Stern.
  3. Sarah Sze. I don't know where to begin. There used to be some large images of The Letting Go online. Just amazing. Hit gimage (google image) for more, like this at wcma.org.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:47 PM -

Google Maps are the new blogger cat pics.

Satellite image of Philosophers Walk in Toronto

Above the Bloor St entry of the Philosophers Walk behind the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto there is a beautiful dragon lamp that no one notices. It's invisible because when you leave the Walk you're moving into the peopleflow of the busy sidewalk, and as you enter you're making sure there are other people inside so you won't be mugged. You never look up.

Anyone else get vertigo from seeing the north side of buildings in the upper hemisphere? Makes me feel like I'm leaning forward too far. I'm not managing to shake convention.

Another fun sat shot is the new Seattle Public Library. First, I can't find it where it should be, and second, that area is a collage of three different viewing angles. Serious Cubism.

Monday, April 18, 2005 - 4:51 AM -

One of the best ones I got was just listening to two guys who came on their skateboards. "Wait, wait, wait -Come here!" I could hear the other guy still zooming around on his board. "What is this thing?" They put the quarter in, and "Whaaaa... Uhhh.. I, I, aah Whoaaaa-yaaggghh, uunnnnh...ergggghhh." This went on for minutes -no words, just these sound utterances. They couldn't verbalize what they were seeing. An incredible response. I just cracked up and was rolling on the floor.

Good interview with Carl Cheng, maker of the Art Tool.

Friday, April 1, 2005 - 4:44 AM -

  1. Bruno Taut: "If it seems out of place in the present state of the project, this may well mean, not that the colors have been wrongly used, but that the surrounding buildings are unfinished."
  2. Yoshifumi Nakamura on what makes a residence.
  3. Speaking of Shigeru Ban. One, two (and here without the js ca-ca), three.
  4. Don't forget to try other languages. Baumhaus.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 11:39 PM -

  1. Airliner as playground, one and two, at Aviation-Top-Pics.
  2. Airliner as classroom. Bonus curiosity: note the cantilever chairs and two types of folding desk.
  3. Pics of Kengo Kuma's Bamboo House at the Commune by the Great Wall. From this thread in the PushPullBar forum, which looks like somewhere I will get lost in for a very long time.
  4. Interviews at RA Focus: Architecture. Ando and Kuma.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 2:10 AM -

  1. AVRO Triplane in the Featured Aircraft of the Large Model Association.
  2. Eden Flybot, also at the LMA and Ian James Wood.
  3. Freedom Flies.
  4. Mapping UAV safety stats.
  5. Another from Lemonodor. Do follow that last link. Wonderful.
  6. Violin by Arlie Regier. Also here.
  7. Aluminium violin of Alex_E.
  8. Pizza cutters of Frankie Flood. One, and two.
  9. Greg Gehner at Transit Forge.
  10. Kevin Asher at Mindjack.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 4:05 AM -

  1. Kazuo Harada, "the sound of iron" and at the Highway Gallery.
  2. Katharina Fritsch, Rattenkonig. One, two, and three.
  3. Tatsuo Miyajima. Cruddy website, but hard to find better pics.
  4. We need more girbras.
  5. David Opdyke at Roebling Hall. Poke around the nav under his name for more.
  6. Masato Tanaka. Very slow server, so look at this link for a taste.

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 5:14 AM -

  1. Nice touch on a nice Eichler.
  2. A terror of trundles.
  3. The Little Golden Hippopotamus. "Reconstruction of baroque tenement house. Views and sections of front elevation, window and portal." at republika.pl.
  4. Queen of Camera. Hiroshi Araki.
  5. Scroll a bit. Yes, that. A tiny tube amp for iPods by zvex. (Yup, that's a flash intro by mumbleboy. Hit refresh to view the set.)
  6. The Snow Show, Lapland 2004.

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 3:10 AM - (Sleep? Phah!)

  1. What's the lettering on the pulltab rivet for? (Well, heck yeah I think too much about design.)
  2. Ryota Kuwakubo, Bitman. VideoBulb at Cool Hunting. Love his work and I've got to remember to visit more often.
  3. Amir Zaki at the James Harris Gallery. Homepage.
  4. Stephanie Syjuco at the James Harris Gallery. Homepage.
  5. Casey Keeler at the James Harris Gallery.
  6. Banksy rocks.
  7. Is Chris Onstad the top webcomic merchandiser or what? Hotsauce and lip balm.
  8. Ahh, little fluffy clouds. Good times, good times.
  9. "The Commune by the Great Wall is an ambitious attempt to create a distinctive voice for contemporary architecture in China. Ricky Burdett reports." S-l-o-w server, but they have Shigeru Ban.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 4:53 AM -

  1. All right, how many of you have at least one piece of lego on your desk? Hands up. Thought so.
  2. Siren by Greg Johnson, at the Mathews Collection
  3. No information. Random small town car show image.
  4. Burning Man, of course. True americana.
  5. "This ain't no rockabilly car club. We're punk rock goddammit!"
  6. Yes. Yes I do miss the eighties sometimes. Poodle with a Mohawk.
  7. Surgical balloons.
  8. Styling and the Experimental Car. Mute the movie and put Future Sound Of London's Lifeforms on the headphones.

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