Design and Artifacts
From Tokyo, a round up of Good Design 2009 winners. The automatic meat
freshness indicator is clever and useful. I want a couple of the lamps
listed second. There’s cute, clever, and head scratching further on.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/08/photos-good-design-2009/
I love tea in the morning. The joy of watching this little shark float
around in my cup would make it even better.
http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/30/cool-tea-infuser-%E2%80%9Csharky%E2%80%9D/
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Food
Too bad this didn’t show up earlier in the summer. Maybe we should
plan to build a pizza oven next yea r… at Martin and Carol’s house.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/08/26/howto-build-an-outdo.html
Taco trucks get some attention from a serious food writer.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/08/eating-los-angeles/
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Infrastructure
I don’t know how serious these guys are about the naming conventions
but the aerial photographs of highways interchanges are great
dizzy-making fun.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/05/18/dont-pluck-the-cloverleaf-a-field-guide-to-highway-interchanges-part‑1/
Fire hydrants are tempting targets for painters.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/08/26/ha-amusingly-defaced-fire-hydrants/
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Culture(?)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal takes a look at science reporting.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623
David W has a go at the RIAA and copyright madness. The situation is
so out of hand that the satire is subtle. (No, really.)
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/08/30/riaa-wins-dmca-case-now-illegal-to-decompose/
As I have mentioned before, Hello Kitty turns 35 this year. The CNet
Gadgettes (oh gag) had a little contest. Hello Cougar.
http://www.cnet.com/2300–12552_1-10001381–1.html?tag=mncol;txt
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Images
I adore Tom and Jerry cartoons. But there is a distinctly psychotic
edge that is never far from the surface. This re-rendering of a comic
book cover captures it nicely.
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/james-powell-covers-tom-jerry-97.html
Drop dead sexy thighs. On a robot.
http://insomnio.org/post/173169516/robots-for-geeks-photo-by-hunyaga
Three years work in Kingston Jamacia by Peter Dean Rickards. The
whole book is available on line as a PDF. The portraits define a
nation and the landscapes define a time in that nation. NSFW — one or
two nudes and lots of guns.
http://afflictedyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/afflictedyard_2003-2007.pdf
Ending the morning with music by Tom Waits and video typography, no
I’m not kidding, by Jackie Lay, And a side of Toast.
http://vimeo.com/3046034
Until tomorrow.