magpie's shiny things

http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/anti-domestic-violence-ad-changes-when-you-look-at-it/

vin­tage ads — all a lit­tle weird. some are down right grue­some . OTOH
i’ve always loved the Chase and Sandborn one.
http://www.retrocomedy.com/2009/07/15-creepiest-vintage-ads-of-all-time.html

Glass and fiber and spin­ning wheels. You only need to watch the first
minute or two of the video.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/02/andy-paikos-wunderka.html

There are bad books — there good plants.
http://www.tokyopistol.com/goods/honbachi.html

Spend some time with David Cathro’s 3‑d ren­der­ings. the vehi­cles are amazing.
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=257566&set_id=302532

Carry this lit­tle bin­go card along on your next ride to the Starbucks
(>= 100 miles from home)
http://www.davezilla.com/2009/07/02/starbucks-bingo/

I pro­pose that we pur­chase a good cou­ple dozen of these for the next
Gather. Tent find­ing on Friday night will be soooo much easier.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/tired_of_roughing_it_the_solar_concept_tents_got_you_covered_13938.asp

hap­py 4th y’all (try to keep all your fingers!)

Design notes:

Some clever and some cute. Car design car-toons.
http://www.core77.com/blog/cartoons/coretoons_unsolicited_proposals_to_detroit_13929.asp

Minimally processed fur­ni­ture. Even I could build this.
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/quicktake_this_saw_and_build_me_a_chair_13914.asp

Warren Ellis has found the ulti­mate vehi­cle for snarky authors (and
Buck Rodgers fans.)
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7497

With the Tim Burton ver­sion of Alice in Wonderland in the works some
old­er but no less piquant visions of Alice are reap­pear­ing. Here is
Annie Leibovitz doing Alice for Vogue in 2003.
http://cyanatrendland.com/2009/06/15/alice-in-wonderland-by-annie-leibovitz/

An aes­thet­ic ide­al in kegera­tors. Let’s try a lit­tle hard­er folks.
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheers-its-kegerator.html

Two imag­i­nary worlds:

A cas­tle by the sea in Japan.
http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a‑paper-craft-castle-on-the-ocean/

The most com­plex mod­el RR I’ve ever seen. And it’s ‑analog-
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/06/model-trains

The mon­sters of the world:

I am not the only one with a Jellyfish problem.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/07/japan-fears-massive-jellyfish-invasion-this-year/

Jabba the Hutt as a kidlet.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/07/japan-fears-massive-jellyfish-invasion-this-year/

Just a reminder:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/06/30/funny-pictures-evil‑2/

more tomor­row,

I have class today so this is all you get:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/deco-gundam/

Just becuase it’s so impor­tant that this exists.

The cof­fee shop edi­tion. (No inter­net at home.)

If you’re bored and have a lot of time and remem­ber play­ing D&D (what
ever hap­pened to Eugene Mosier?) and like Tolkien.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612

Space Stations — now with more Windows. Home remod­el­ing with wicked
tough design constraints.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/26jun_cupola.htm

Today’s inter­view with a design­er. Building space suits.
http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Space-Suits-Past-and-Future.html

When you don’t quite get that design thing right. Not so trailering.
(This site is a good time waster.)
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/06/29/epic-kludge-photo-trailer-rental-is-for-suckers/

Maybe fix­ing things the right way. Urban roof tops made useful.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/toronto-green-roofs-mandate/

I love Eva Funderburg’s ceram­ic creatures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/genkigecko/sets/72157616991543550/

Insanely pop­u­lar inter­net meme invades Safeco. Cheezburger night with
the Mariners. (yurk)
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/06/29/funny-pictures-cheezburger-nite-seattle-mariners2/

more — maybe bet­ter — on Thursday.

Five on the going some­where theme.

Two trans­porta­tion devices. Similar design feel — rad­i­cal­ly different
experiences.

Black and white and plas­ti­cy and wonderful.
http://www.bikeexif.com/lazareth-1000-fzr-compressor

Black and white and plas­ti­cy and dorky. (It’s real future might be as
a basis for bet­ter wheel chairs.)
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/29/i‑real-toyota-updates-futuristic-tricycle

Not what we are look­ing for in an elec­tric motor­cy­cle (but Mission One
gets a mention.)
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/help-me-honda/

Shoes I am unlike­ly to wear but would con­sid­er adding to the art collection.
http://www.cpluv.com/www/gallery/ChrisCork/16168/

Adam K. lets us know that he also enjoys ran­dom adven­ture touring.
http://apelad.blogspot.com/2009/06/laugh-out-loud-cats-1172.html

Three for the art gallery.

A sin­gle pho­to from New Orleans
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueherondesign/3486392646/sizes/l/

Amazing sur­re­al pho­tos cre­at­ed with­out com­put­er assis­tance. I think of
the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland like this. (Possibly NSFW but
it’s very arty and you’d have to look real­ly hard.)
http://fabrikproject.com.mx/blog/?p=6117

Main image tech­ni­cal­ly SFW but OGM giggle/squick. (In gen­er­al Atomic
Sex Kitten is very NSFW but very hap­py pr0n.)
http://www.atomicsexkitten.com/2009/06/rock-n-roll-ventriloquist.html?zx=f38a69a76d07892d

Two on design.

A sim­ple graph­ic that describes the con­text for flow in gam­ing, and
life in general.
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/06/games-and-flow.html

Several design­ers dis­cuss the dif­fer­ences between sin­gle user
screen/mouse/keyboard and multi-user MS Surface inter­face design.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/microsoft-surface-feature.ars

And one more, a place to go and pon­der that even with all the modern
geo-tech we still have mys­ter­ies. (yay!)
http://atlasobscura.com/places/devils-kettle

more tomor­row,