Tech and Design
These solar panels make alien flower art at night. Austin, what you
been drinkin’?
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sunflower_leeds_14354.asp
Seattle has a couple of abandoned big box stores. Other parts of the
country have more. Many of them have clear or translucent roofs.
Here’s a proposal to reuse those spaces for food production. Instead
of buying consumer goods made in China we would be able to buy food
grown locally.
http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/01/a‑new-business-model-a-productive-suburb/
I think I like the picture of the little girl with her bug catcher
pendant more than the object itself. I know several sprogs who would
love one of these portable biology labs though.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/08/how-to_bug_catcher_necklace.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954
Silly is a good thing early in the morning. I don’t drink bagged tea
but I’d fall off my chair giggling if one of these decorated tea bags
appeared in my cup.
http://www.holycool.net/2009/08/tea-party-series-from-donkey-products.html
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Images
A mixed up set of pictures today.
From Shanghai, Maleonn creates elaborate sets and costumes for his, I
like the term used in the blurb, fables. This series of circus
performers carries an almost cinematic overtone. Click through to his
website for much more.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/crazy-chinese-circus-maleonn
From Russia, more gentle, apocalyptic-cartoon illustration. Anton Semenov.
http://designlenta.com/2009/08/19/anton-semenov-gloom82/
Brandon Bloomaert (Germany) builds creatures from waste paper and then
stages scenes that remind one of old vacation snaps.
http://www.diskursdisko.de/2009/08/brandon-blommaert-ecostation/
A very different looking almost stencilesque set of illustrations from
the French designer Maloo. A couple are NSFW.
http://www.pixelelement.com/pretty-cool-illustrations-by-maloo/
A series of stills from the movie Metropolis along with a nice summary
of the movie’s style cues.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/60098
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Misc Cultural Bits
Too sweet. Life size Candyland game being built in Lombard St.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/19/life-size-candyland.html
The impossible Cool brings us Bud Ekins. The guy who jumped the bike
in the Great Escape. (look him up in wikipedia)
http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/post/165764519/ekins
Finally, why can’t my school trips have ended with all the nasty girls
getting eaten by a crocodile? Revenge by paper automaton.
http://www.cool4cats.biz/page16.htm