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it’s warming up a bit outside so i thought it’d be nice to turn to vases for some inspiration. the moma design store always has some fun options so i thought i’d highlight my three favorite: a gorgeous black slate faceted vase for $125 (hooray facets!), the pallino vase for $65 (the exaggerated rim evokes water) and the joni vases ($72 and $98) that have a simple glass stick to hold blooms in place. click here for some more options. enjoy!

Originally from design*sponge on May 3, 2006, 11:00am

i gotten so many emails about this product this week! livingstones are soft rock-like pillows that are perfect for lounging about. d*s reader annie ordered some from sweden already and says she plans to dot them around her living room for her children. i think they’d be fun for kids and adults alike. click here for more info. enjoy!

Originally from design*sponge on May 2, 2006, 12:22pm

here’s a fun spin on the idea of a fruit bowl or table runner. german designer mark braun sent along “jersey”, a product that, “presents a new way of looking at a tablecloth. the supportive tabletop has a hole in the center and the elastic textile which is stretched around the edges forms a bowl when fruit and other objects are placed into the middle.” fun idea. you can click here to see more of mark’s berlin-based work right here.

Originally from design*sponge on May 2, 2006, 9:54am

sometimes you need some visual drama in a room and british designer ella doran’s graphic roll blinds could be just the ticket. working from her studio in london, ella creates beautiful plates, linens, coasters and other home accessories. i’m really enjoying the window blinds because sometimes a little visual punch is exactly what a room needs. you can find more information on ella doran right here and contact them here for pricing and purchase. [thanks to mav for the tip!]

Originally from design*sponge on May 2, 2006, 10:24am

canada’s gnr8 design just redesigned their site and it’s better than ever- easier to navigate and full of great new pieces. i was rather partial to these great new pendant lamps as well as the playful fence bench and chair. the interlocking pendant lamps are under $170 a piece and are available right here. the cute glass pendants are available for $599 right here and the fence furniture is available right here ($219). enjoy!

Originally from design*sponge on May 2, 2006, 1:26pm

brooklyn is constantly churning out great designers and i wanted to highlight another furniture designer making waves in the scene. small factory design’s curt meissner graduated from pratt with an ID degree and now designs custom furniture for clients from his brooklyn studio. these latest pieces, the pandabox collection, are made almost entirely of eco-friendly materials. curt used bamboo plywood, eco-intelligent© fabric (produced in a no-waste closed loop manufacturing process), re-purposed padding made of shredded denim (blue jeans), doors made of a plastic similar to bakelite that uses recycled paper, uncoated aluminum legs and shelves, and of course, a natural wax finish. he also designed the pieces to be readily disassembled with a nod to future recycling and re-use. these pieces above and below (the little twin cub and the big twin cub) are perfect for storing all of your audio visual needs, or providing some extra storage and seating where you need it. as part of a collaboration with brooklyn’s swigg design, small factory produced these pieces with designer stephanie wenzel and combined curt’s clean industrial look with stephanie’s playful modern textiles. you can find more information on small factory design right here and stephanie’s swigg designs right here. enjoy! [thanks, curt!]

Originally from design*sponge on April 26, 2006, 12:58pm

canadian designer matthew kroeker’s splinter series is a clever seating set made of teak hardwood. splinter consists of two chairs that connect along a broken line of shifted wood. the chairs can stand alone or connect with broken or even edges. fun concept and beautiful execution. click here for more from canadian designer matthew kroeker. [via mocoloco]

Originally from design*sponge on May 2, 2006, 7:53am

d*s reader reka just passed along some great links to some of her favorite scandinavian designers. i really enjoyed the link to järvi & ruoho, a design duo based in helsinki (their name is finnish for lake and grass). järvi & ruoho have a site full of great prototypes that i thought might be a fun window shop- nothing for sale it seems, but this duo is full of potential. i especially love the h+ lamp they designed- it’s simple and modern and a great indication of the sleekness this team of capable of. click here for more info on järvi & ruoho. thanks, reka! [i love the fish print on reka's blog]

Originally from design*sponge on April 25, 2006, 9:30am

i’m listening to kexp this morning and going through this great big packet of milan designers that kristina at 3lc sent me (thanks, kristina!). it’s packed full of great up and coming designers that showcased with hidden art uk this year, so i wanted to talk about a few of these. first up is this is macro, a british design studio run by patrick bek and oliver fowles- their latest collections focus on two major themes: accordion style folding pieces that start flat and expand to create seating or lighting. the second theme is water-jet cut polyethelene foam used in a wide arrange of seating options. i love the fold out pieces because i think they’re such a fun way to reimagine traditionally solid objects like chairs and lamps. comfort may be an issue, but the fold out stool certainly looks lovely. if folding pieces aren’t for you, try this is macro’s water-jet cut pieces- they have a nice tetris feel to them with clean cut edges and an almost block-like quality to them. you can click here for more info. [thanks 3lc!]

[stay tuned today for the winners of the brooklyn designs contest and coverage of the pratt id student show]

Originally from design*sponge on April 26, 2006, 9:27am

i love spain’s luzifer design- fun name, imaginative designs and great finish options for each piece. this design, the hola mastil 10 would be perfect for those of you lucky enough to have a large, open space with high ceilings. nothing like a dramatic lighting statment. click here for more info on luzifer and here for their usa distributor.

Originally from design*sponge on April 25, 2006, 1:52pm

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The net’s been busy this weekend. Here’s a smattering of YTMND clips that best capture the zeitgeist of
Nintendo’s mighty Wii announcement. Few of these are safe for work. You’ve been warned.

• Gonads and Strife remake

(Overall choice award.)

(Most comforting award.)

(Simple. Effective.)

(Whoa. Nintendo ON is like, totally real.)

(Captain Obvious award)

(PS3 and Xbox 360 choice award)

(toilet humor award)

(best sound-track award)

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ytmnd is the perfect outlet for nerdy frustrations –GH

Originally posted by Vladimir Cole from Joystiq, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 1, 2006 at 04:31 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 1, 2006, 4:31pm

A little more than two years ago, filmmaker Deborah Scranton got an offer to embed with the New Hampshire National Guard as they headed to Iraq. She turned it down. Instead, Scranton gave cameras to ten soldiers — and let them shoot the movie. The result, The War Tapes, premiered this weekend in New York, at the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s not only the best documentary to date about the conflict in Iraq. But it just might change the face of journalism in the process.

Most movies about Iraq, so far, have been pretty thin, with little insight into the guys fighting this war, and minimal combat footage. That’s largely because the filmmakers didn’t have the acess — or the patience — to get to the war’s meatiest material.

Scranton leapfrogged that problem by letting the soldiers become her cameramen. Shooting over a thousand hours, in the field and back at home, they took the time to cpature their unit’s unguarded moments, both literal and metaphorical. The laugh-out-loud moments come almost as often as the IED attacks: the ode to guarding septic trucks; the Tarantino-esque debate over whether a severed limb “resembles hamburger, ground up but uncooked.. [or] like a raw pot roast”; the scorpion-spider cage match; the verge-of-breakup moments with girlfriends; the young Iraqi, who stepped into an American convoy a moment too soon.

The War Tapes benefits from a strong dose of luck. Scranton could’ve cast a thousand GIs, and not gotten three soldiers as sharp, as articulate, and as funny as Stephen Pink, Zack Bazzi, and Mike Moriarty, the movie’s main characters. And she couldn’t have known how much action these guys would see — Al-Anbar province in 2004 saw some of the most ferocious fighting of the counterinsurgency.

But an even larger helping of editorial prowess makes The War Tapes a success. Condensing a thousand hours into two hours is tough. Condensing into two hours with a narrative and emotional arc this strong is damn-near-impossible.

In recent years, there’s been a ridiculously cantankerous debate over the benefits of professional journalists versus citizen-reporters. The pros are seen as biased and clueless; the amateurs as, well, amateurish, without the seasoned eye to pick the truly telling moments from the torrent of experience. Take the blogs from frontline troops, for example. The views are a refreshing alternative to what you read in the mainstream press; their anecdotes vital. But getting to that good stuff, sorting out the proverbial wheat from blogosphere chaff, takes forever. Most readers, I’ve found, just give up.

Documentaries like The War Tapes — and Grizzly Man, and, to a lesser extent, Capturing the Friedmans — have found the happy medium between the old- and new-school approaches to news. The citizen-journos collect the facts. The pros craft a story from ‘em. The result may not be what the news-gathers expected — Zack Bazzi was surprised how much of his political views wound up in The War Tapes’ final cut. But, in this case at least, it’s satisfying and truthful and raw. And it’s the kind of journalism we ought to have. With some luck, it may be the kind we get, moving ahead.

Originally from Defense Tech, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 1, 2006 at 04:53 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 1, 2006, 4:53pm

In a recent post I commented on the use of short narrative films as a means to communicate new ideas about urban design and architecture. In other words, once an architect or urban planner has designed his or her cityscapes, buildings, or streets; once he or she has added pedestrians, parks, backgrounds, skies, atmospheres, and weather systems; once there are night scenes, day scenes, aerial views, ground views, interior perspectives, etc. – why stop there?

Edit it all into a two or three minute sequence, give it some music, give it a voice-over, give it some dialogue, put some ideas behind it, etc. etc., and you’ve got a short film that shows off your architectural vision of the city. The buildings within it may never be built – but, if you do things right, thousands and thousands of people you’ve never met will see what you’re graphically capable of.

Now put the film on the internet, anonymously forward it to the Sundance Channel, make more and more of the things, invite all your friends round to come up with more sequences, keep the ideas moving, tip-off Boing Boing, keep sketching, keep writing, pay-off local musicians with wine to compose original soundtracks, and suddenly a group far larger than your own architecture office or postgraduate thesis design class has seen your work.
Ten years later, you own Pixar and you’re producing Indiana Jones pt. 5.

Having said that, of course, Ruairi Glynn pointed out to me that the Bartlett School of Architecture in London already teaches a course in that exact vein – so I went to check out the course’s website. Every image, appearing here, was produced for that class.
Here, then, are some architectural filmstills. What happens next?
What’s the plot?

[Images: All images are student work taken from the website of London's Bartlett School of Architecture. The images were produced for a cinematic urban design class taught by Nic Clear; in order, the images are by Nicholas William Henderson; Ho Yin (Benjamin) Lam; Kar Kei (Bianca) Cheung; someone named Duggleby; and Abigail Yeates – please contact me if you'd like your image removed or more accurately recontextualized].

(Earlier: Paris 2054. Elsewhere: NYC considered as a film set, from the
New York Times
).

Originally from BLDGBLOG on May 1, 2006, 10:53am

Xeni Jardin:

“Radiating Places” is an archive of photographs documenting street art in the abandoned town of Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Shown here, a mural by Kim Köster. “The determining factor is absence,” begins the artists’ mission statement. Link (site built in Flash), via Wooster Collective (Thanks, Reverse Cowgirl!)

Reader comment: Daniel Cuthbert — who just returned from Pripyat — says,

Just wanted you to know, it seems that 70% of these “images” are fake and have been added using photoshop. They werent there 5 weeks ago when i was in Pripyat doing my story.

Originally by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on April 30, 2006, 5:15pm

Mark Frauenfelder:

I remember seeing this in 1980, in my friend’s dorm room. It was thrilling to see my favorite band for the first time. Before that, I was pretty much limited to the pictures of The Clash that appeared in Creem and Trouser Press. Bedazzled has the video. Link

Originally by Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing on May 1, 2006, 2:16pm

a growing collection of collaborative photo arrangements or “grids”. individual users collaborate by placing images next to another. the decision of what image will be placed (& next to which one it will be placed) will depend on the theme or goal of the grid. Gridlove is a collaborative visual game in which images are placed next to each other related by color, theme or form. images can originate from personal collections, or be directly retrieved from Amazon CD cover art or Flickr.
see also infoscape.
[gridlove.com|thnkx Anson]

Originally from information aesthetics on May 1, 2006, 4:28pm

Rob writes in with how to make radiographs on Polaroid film - “The neat discovery is not that you can buy x-ray machines off eBay. The neat discovery is that you can use Polaroid film to image x-rays!” That pretty much says it all. “ - Link.

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Originally from MAKE Magazine, ReBlogged by George Hotelling on May 1, 2006 at 02:58 PM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on May 1, 2006, 2:58pm

Despite all the fabulous development in hybrids and alternative fuels lately, we all know that the best ecological choice you can make is to ditch the guzzler altogether and ride a bike! It’s cheap, healthy, and sometimes even faster (if you live in a hectic city like I do). Unfortunately, biking isn’t always practical for a great many people who either live too far, have poor bike infrastructure, or just don’t have the information to make it seem feasible.

That said, certain transit agencies are starting to tackle the first of those problems by making room for bikes on trains and busses. It’s an ideal solution for long distance commuters who might live a mile or two from a train station and also work a mile or two from a station on the other end. In the Bay Area, the various transit agencies have done a decent job in this regard. How about your neck of the woods? It seems to me a great way to give people more options - making both transit and biking easier.

Because I live here, I’ll give a little breakdown of what’s available around the Golden Gate. After the jump, tell us what’s going on in your area…

(This post continues on the site)

Originally by Nick from Treehugger on May 1, 2006, 1:47am