January 2009
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December 2008
grain edit · Hotel Neboder, Rijeka, Croatia →
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Oh So Beautiful Paper: Today I love... →
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Sort of a bad day yesterday. Hoping that best friends is better than grumpy, malfunctioning couple. Not sure what this all means. Sort of upsetting. I hope I can get over the lover part, and the friend part can shine through.
Playing Board Games Boosts Important Skills [Mind... →
The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you’ve still got relatives…
Osgoode tightening admissions upon discovery of... →
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Third year student? I bet they were more embarrassed then outraged that a student without a real degree made it that far.
Osgoode Hall law school is moving to tighten…
“I think I realize now that for the last 4 months I have failed to just follow...”
– Me - speech to myself, December 29, 2008
Xeros Residence by Blank Studio →
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Quite the quote.
“I wanted to wrap one material around the entire house—as sort of an architectural lingerie.” Xeros Residence Blank Studio Phoenix,…
S House by moomoo →
moomoo projected this unusual house located in Wilga, Poland.
Desiged for a photographer, the house features a dynamic skin, a curtain that covers the long side of the elevation. The…
Double bike sculpture →
I’m really intrigued by this sculpture by James Angus called “Bicycles.” It’s as if the two bikes are being viewed in not-quite-working 3D vision. The construction just incredible. Via …
Playing Board Games Boosts Important Skills [Mind... →
The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you’ve still got relatives…
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge | Catalyzing the... →
New Interest in Vertical Farms for Urban Areas -... →
Alberta's sexy MLAs steam up legislature - Calgary... →
Shared by Red de Stijl Apparently what’s necessary in our declining economy - MLA porn.
Calgary Herald Alberta’s sexy MLAs steam up legislature Calgary…
I wonder what has happened to me. I think this new year (even though I hate resolutions) will be finding the part of me I lost. I hope its good.
Vintage Apple painting →
Dig the psychedelic service provided by Apple Authorized Service centers back in the day. Far freakier than today’s Genius Bars. Detail above. Joel posted the full painting over at Boing…
On Gingerbread →
This made perfect sense to me →
What is your favourite form of procrastination ?
I’m unable to procrastinate. I’m unable to think about tomorrow.
That answer is from Amelie Nothomb.
I think I might have myself a plan.
homeless,Rachel Pressick,strangers,bus,8,Edmonton Sunday evening, the air heavy with a mixture of ice and exhaust, the temperature a mean -28. I sought shelter in the glass enclosure, and so did he, layered in heavy winter clothing and lugging a backpack. I would soon discover that bag was filled with his income, crunched cans and bottles ready for exchange for nickels and dimes, summing up to...
PREFAB FRIDAY: ‘Puma City’ Shipping Container... →
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Also my favorite shipping container designers. Pronounced LO-TEK, despite where THEY place the stupid hyphen.
Refurbished shipping containers aren’t just useful for
Canadian Idol canceled for 2009 →
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Oh so sad.
The faltering economy has now claimed CTV’s Canadian Idol, a former competition-crushing ratings juggernaut that the network says will not be produced in 2009.
On Boutiques →
First "Make It Right" Homes Complete →
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Its pretty hard to hate someone who’s like the Santa Clause of housing for people who need it.
A year ago, actor Brad Pitt presented lot owners in the devastated Lower 9th…
mind.Depositor custom productivity notebook →
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Haha Hipster PDA, wicked.
Not content with the functional-yet-pedestrian-looking hipster PDA (it’s just a binder clip and index cards), GTD practitioner Patrick…
Bicycle gift guide! DIY Bike projects, tools, gear... →
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That is the greatest bicycle quote ever.
the cheapest gift: your old, flat tires for artistic reuse “When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his…
Mumbai Journal: Boozy and Raucous, a Cafe Defies... →
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Yes.
Mumbai’s Leopold Cafe has become a sort of shrine of defiance against terrorism.
India is trying to block Bangladesh's copycat... →
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If that were true what would happen to those in the miniature world of fine art?
(Stereoscope photo from 1906)
A wealthy film director is spending £40…
DELHI PUBLIC ART: 48 Degrees Celsius →
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I don’t even know how ‘public art’ would happen in Delhi. There’s no place for it to happen! Those yellow dudes are forced to climb buildings to make themselves visible in a…
081213-2 - Doing a lot →
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Rachel quality art! I love it!
Bettie Page, Queen of Pinups, Dies at 85 →
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test test test I’ve shared like 5 items today!
Ms. Page appeared in men’s magazines in the 1950s, setting the stage for the sexual revolution of the ’60s.
Vatican Issues Instruction on Bioethics →
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They’re such babies. They get all mad when it turns out that someone might be able to do something better than God. I’m so going to hell now for that comment.
The text…
HOK LEED Platinum Gingerbread House →
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SUCH FALSENESS. If they didn’t bake the ginger bread in a solar oven or something this can’t make LEED at all!
The competition is ON this year for the greenest…
Scientists extract images directly from brain →
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I remember seeing this on something…but I think it was something to do with the retina..and ghosts possibly .
Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s…
Birthday cake made into the shape of camera will... →
Now instead of having the birthday and trying to capture the best photos, you can do two things at once. This birthday cake was made in the shape of a Nikon D700 SLR camera. Best of all,…
Ontario man builds real-life female android -... →
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Haha, oh this is distrubing.
CTV.ca
Ontario man builds real-life female android CTV.ca, Canada - 3 hours ago “When I was a kid,…
081211-2 - Bricks →
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I love this colour.
Energy-Generating Floors to Power Tokyo Subways →
When the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) decided to invest in alternative energy sources, it only had to look to its users for the perfect source of energy. Recently the company decided…
Hotel is "proud to be dirty and carry a wide... →
Better living through exposure to microbes at the the infamous Hans Brinker Budget Hotel in Amsterdam. After reading Wild Fermentation, I’m all for it!
Tolo House by Alvaro Leite Siza →
The Tolo house, designed by Alvaro Leite Siza, is build on a sharply inclined hill in Penafiel, Portugal.
The house fragmentation, necessary due to the steep topography, transforms the…
Wes Anderson interview →
On the occasion of the upcoming Criterion release of Bottle Rocket on Blu-ray, the AV Club interviewed Wes Anderson. I love this bit about working with Gene Hackman. But Gene, I don’t think…
Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in... →
Oh shit.
3 exposures left in my Holga experiments. Taking photos with film is certainly different than digital (I keep taking it down and looking at the back for an instant result), there seems to be slightly more thought in the photos I’m taking. Slightly. I think I miscalculated turning to the next slide so there might be some awkward double exposures in the first 9 or so photos (oops). Oh...
Using Google maps to enter reports of strange... →
People in Japan who enjoy sharing news about odors can use Nioibu.com to mark their location and circumstances. A few examples: watermelon smell, ferret odor, old lady stench, …