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Jeff Mangum’s “Two Headed Boy” live at The...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:51:21 -0500

Jeff Mangum’s “Two Headed Boy” live at The Knitting Factory, NY, 1998

jakelodwick: Love this site E.gg Timer. Just go to...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:05:37 -0500

Love this site E.gg Timer.

Just go to e.ggtimer.com/5min, replacing 5min with the amount of time you’d like it to count down from.

About Tomorrow Lab®

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:02:24 -0500

8226:

Tomorrow Lab is a creative testing ground of ideas and products for a better tomorrow.

Morals:

1) Progress is deliberate and iterative.

2) Insight requires exploration and experimentation. The products of Tomorrow Lab are these results.

3) Problems are approached from many angles and solutions have a variety of outcomes: a website, a service, a product, a policy.

4) Solutions are developed with and for a unique set of circumstances, people, and place.

5) Connectivity, both in process and result, is emphasized as a democratizing agent and as a catalyst for good design.

6) Honesty, urban density, local life, the internet, and the reduction of ‘me’ are our ways out. Tomorrow Lab takes interest in these things.

melissacullens: Just another day.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:13 -0500

melissacullens:

Just another day.

waxandmilk: “My Sharona” via yimmyayo

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:52:57 -0500

waxandmilk:

“My Sharona”

via yimmyayo

IMG_1187 (via Armchair Media)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:48:16 -0500

IMG_1187 (via Armchair Media)

bmdesign: A Talk With Thom Mayne - Yet another reason to move...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:08:51 -0500

bmdesign:

A Talk With Thom Mayne - Yet another reason to move to New York and study at Cooper Union.

lookbothways: haters gonna hate

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:04:54 -0500

lookbothways:

haters gonna hate

Armchair Family Feast (via kennyferguson)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:02 -0500

Armchair Family Feast (via kennyferguson)

"Wassail! wassail! all over the town, Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown; Our bowl it is..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:39:43 -0500

“Wassail! wassail! all over the town,
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;
With the wassailing bowl, we’ll drink to thee.”

- Wassail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neri Oxman auto-reblog melissacullens: git it, hot/smart women...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:38:10 -0500

Neri Oxman auto-reblog

melissacullens:

git it, hot/smart women everywhere.

dopeboyfresh:

This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe - Neri Oxman - Gizmodo

sreikanth: What would you like to design next? Nothing in...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:36:46 -0500

sreikanth:

What would you like to design next?

Nothing in particular. I mean, that question itself is categorizing the object of design, isn’t it? It’s like going to a little boy and asking, “Do you want to design a car?” or “Do you like home electronics?” If someone asked me to design something, I would only design it if it was something that other people would say, “You’re really going to design that?!?” I’m not interested in designing something that is design-ey. Or maybe I’m just not interested in doing design-ey design. I like something that feels like maybe it was designed, maybe not, but just makes me say, “Hey, that’s nice!” Lately I’ve been designing things like the runners on the ceiling and the wooden pieces that fit in to connect the wall and the floor. When those small things are designed nicely, the whole space becomes really beautiful. I’m also working on designing soaps and Japanese paper. I want to design the unnoticeable. (via Theme | Human/Object Relations: Naoto Fukasawa)

"I used to think that being creative means to start from zero and build up something new, but..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:36:23 -0500

“I used to think that being creative means to start from zero and build up something new, but recently I’ve begun to feel that what designers do is kind of like a clean-up. For example, the reason why Japanese Zen temples are so beautiful is not so much because of the architecture or the gardens themselves but because the temples are cleaned up well. Cleaning up is to take good care of the borderline between the natural and the artificial, and that process, if continued for a long time, brings forth something like a faint shoreline between what’s natural and what’s man-made. That littoral strand is really where the essence of beauty lies in Japanese gardens and Zen temples. I think that is similar to what we do. Here’s another example. When you typeset a sentence, you don’t need an unusual font. All you need is a simple font, with each and every letter carefully considered, and that is enough to give the typography its power. It is just as how each and every leaf on a tree grows in consciousness of the sunlight and also how each and every hair on an animal’s skin grows according to its own will. A fine coat of fur on a live animal is so beautiful, but once the animal is killed and stuffed, the beauty is gone.”

- Kenya Hara.

Theme | Human/Object Relations: Naoto Fukasawa

(via sreikanth)

waxandmilk: A Good Day t-shirtby Grotesk

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:34:34 -0500

waxandmilk:

A Good Day t-shirt
by Grotesk

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:12:05 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

stephenkennedy: sreikanth: Japanese cooks who have special...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500

stephenkennedy:

sreikanth:

Japanese cooks who have special skills prefer knives without any ergonomic shape. A flat handle is not seen as raw or poorly crafted. On the contrary, its perfect plainness is meant to say, “You can use me whichever way suits your skills.” The Japanese knife adapts to the cook’s skill (not to the cook’s thumb). This is, in a nutshell, Japanese simplicity. (via Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics)

via images.gfxartist.com

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:01:46 -0500

via images.gfxartist.com

"That’s what we were going for— a summer jam. So while people keep saying it sounds like..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:58:00 -0500

“That’s what we were going for— a summer jam. So while people keep saying it sounds like Atlas Sound is trying to sound like Panda Bear, when I was making it I was actually kind of thinking about LEN— this Canadian band nobody remembers. I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about. Like, what was that song, Primitive Radio Gods [“Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand”]? That song’s great! But people don’t talk about this stuff anymore. They act like nobody before has used samples in an ambient way or cut up a song and layered it with electronic elements.”

- Pitchfork: Interviews: Atlas Sound

Early Spring in NY on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:08:59 -0500

Early Spring in NY on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Screen shot 2009-11-16 at 4.48.37 PM (via SayHolaToTravis)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:50:41 -0500

Screen shot 2009-11-16 at 4.48.37 PM (via SayHolaToTravis)