Who doesn't love figurines!!

Just discovered this blog today.

I want inspire cool sketchs to make a book

Take Away Shows

I've been getting my music fill from blogotheque's Take Away Shows. Here is their run-down:

Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session. Of course, what makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectingly. Besides, we do not edit the videos so they look perfectly flawless, instead we keep the raw sound of the surroundings. Our goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks. Spontaneity is the keyword.

My personal favorite is Fleet Foxes performing Sun Giant/Blue Ridge Mountains.

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

A Short: Full Employment

With the way the economy is headed who wouldn't take an entry level job as zombie hunter. A short film called Full Employment, directed by Thomas Oberlies and Matthias Vogel, two scientists from Germany, explores the future of employment with a twist. I wish I could find a full length version of the film, but check out the trailer, in German, no subtitles, but you'll get the point.

A Short: Short Term 12

Saw a short film called, um, Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. It just won Best Narrative Short at SIFF. The film's log line is : It's about kids and the adults who hit them. Honest, funny, and sad. An array of emotions all with 20 minutes or so.

A Short: The Blindess of the Woods

The Blindness of the Woods, a short film directed by Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenco, is an erotic tale of a blind woman, a lumber jack, and a bear whose yarn entangle in the cold Swedish night. I saw this film at shortfest this week at SIFF. Hilariously wrong, will never look at yarn the same way again.

A Short: The Archivist

I saw the The Archivist, by James Lees this weekend at the Seattle International Film Festival's Shortfest. The Archivist is about one man's obesssion to perserve love forever. The inspiration for the film came from working at a butcher's shop.

A Short: The Apology Line

The Apology Line, a short film by James Lees is "a short documentary about the 'apology' line where people can anonymously call and confess to absolutly anything over the phone... The apologies are uncomfortably honest, sometimes funny, occasionally shocking, but always facinating." What would you apologize for?... Jeremy, I'm sorry I still have one of your clamps.

REnt you Room to designer

Interesting idea that I am not sure how I feel about yet, but i am curious, if people would feel more comfortable renting out a room to someone who said they were a designer vs someone on couch surfing? or feel more comfortable is someone was giving some money?

linely posters

Chikuno Cube

The Chikuo cube, is made with ultra fine bambo powder charcoal   and sucks up the orders in your  fridge.  

Library lending out more than books.

I was inspired at the library the other day, When I found out a lot of Vermont libraries rent out more than just books, they are renting gardening equipment, tents, portable stoves, snow shoes, fishing rods, etc.  Which I think makes a lot of sense, and kept me thinking what items, we store all the time and use only one and twice a year.   Does everyone, use there bike everyday, what if you let other people use it when you were not? 

Mattias Klum : National Geographic Speaker Series

I'm seeing Mattias Klum, a photographer for National Geographic, speak about the destruction of Borneo's rainforest. "Klum's expose of rampant logging and the burgeoning oil palm plantations is a call for all of us to examine the roles we play, often unknowling, in the demis of one of nature's last Edens." - National Geographic Speaker Series (check to see if they have events near you).

Kiva: microlending

I'm funding farmers in Cambodia who want to buy cattle. "Empower another human's livelihood by lending money to people in the developing world to further their business plans... In about three and a half years, Kiva has funded 145,000 plus impoverished entrepreneurs with more than $60 million... two loans are made every minute."
- Eric Rumble, Adbusters

DIY Community Workshop now in Portland

They've done it again, they've stolen our ideas...TechShop is a DIY community workshop in California, now in Portland as well. Wasn't this our grand plan for bringing DIY to the greater community? I think it was. I still think we can do it better...their website sucks and their facilities just look like a warehouse with tools in it...where's the design?

Stand By Me - Beautiful International Version

I don't know how to post videos on this thing..

Click here to watch this awesome video!

Bonnaroo 2009 Lineup

Check out this summer's Bonnaroo lineup - one of the most stacked and diverse lineups to date

European Hostels Go Upscale

New York Times Travel section shows photos from the new stylish hostels found in Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Berlin, and Urbany.

MUJI. US ONLINE STORE!

Muji finally has an online store for the US! Also check out Muji's gobal store website, really cool video calendar (click play muji) featuring their products. (thank you katrika!)

Duffel

Duffel is a visual trip planner, a passion project by Jack Cheng and friend Will. You can drag and drop ideas and plans from anywhere and invite people to collaborate. I just started using it to plan a trip to South America, so send me links and I'll add them to my itinerary.

Hampstead Heath

I love this photo by joathina.

"Your movie made me physically ill" - Objectified audience member

"Objectified: The New Design Film That Sickens, Inspires" an article in Fast Company. It discusses how the film not only celebrates industrial design but shows us the "legacy of our consumer-driven culture."

Henrique Oliveira

Henrique Oliveira collects discarded plywood from the streets of Sao Paulo and creates these massive spatial installations. He has become one of my favorite artists because he has found a way to combine elements of sculpture, painting, and architecture all into one upcycled work. simple and beautiful. Check out his 'tridemensionals' here, here, and here.

A Broke Down Melody

Just bought the film, A Broke Down Melody. The film "explores the times, travels and experiences of a tribe of surfers who search for the spark of life and look to pass it on to the younger generation." It features music from Kings of Convenience and Beta Band.

Radiology Art

Radiology Art is CT Scans by artist and medical student Satre Stuelke of things like Big Macs, iPods, and other cultural objects .

Judge a book by it's cover

Based on the book's cover guess it's Amazon rating. It's harder than you think, my advice: really ugly book covers = 5 stars. Designers suck at this game.

Portfolio Design

Greig Anderson's Portfolio is awwwesome!

Tent City?

Quick, somebody call Greg.

My Life With Cables

Jeremy, this NYT post reminded me of you for obvious reasons. Check out the rest of Christopher Niemann's illustration portfolio.

scared

Sixth Sense

A 9 minute video about the development of a cool interactive device. Hits on technology and interface seen in Minority Report and Jeff Han's demo of the Microsoft Surface Table.

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Hello:)

I love checking Alex Ostrowski's website for graphic inspiration and insightful sayings like ANYTHING I CAN IMAGINE I CAN DO, LEAVE EARLY WALK SLOW, or my favorite, DANCE IS EXERCISE. What a design boost...

One in 8 Million

One in 8 Million is a collection of New York City characters, Christian the architect who suffers from vertigo but has to ride his bike over the Brooklyn Bridge, Michel the wedding wardrober, Melissa the urban taxidermist. Every week one new story is added.

kids, bike to scooter.  

Concentrated Awesome

If I weren't completely devoid of rythm i would have had a blast with this.. i still did it just hurt a little.. have fun.

Inspired Day

Taragh describes her blog as "inspiration from my daily life." Have an inspired day and sign up for an acting class (see above... that could be you too!).

light bags

ikea solar lights

Ikea has some new solar lights out.  I think its a good resource to get some pretty cheap ikea solar lights and make cooler lights.  

for carey and ginger beer lovers

How to make your own ginger beer.  

Tokyo! (you have to yell when you say it)

3 directors, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho explore life in Tokyo! with 3 short films. Joon-Ho says "I noticed that people in Tokyo try very hard not to talk to anybody while they are walking on the streets-they kind of shrink, I wanted to take that to an extreme." (-mallory rice)

Naked People

An interestingly addictive... experiment? Check it out... they're naked.

plywood

These two brothers use Rhino, to model the funiture and use a CNC machine to create the parts to be laminated together.  

turning 325 dollars into 102,000

I  have got a chance to meet some interesting people who are making a living making high end funiture design.  Here are some pics that are inspiring me to make  furniture.  

Project Chaboo: collaboration and community

Tomita Designs invites designer and fine artists to collaborate with Ken Tomita to reinterpret and customize his bamboo Chaboo design. (Thanks Nicole!)

kid robot LTD?

Smells like smith ltd to me...

like at cat

sorry for not posting for a while it has not been leting me put up pictures, and who just wants to read without a picture, well i dont.  

How to remember stuff.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I thought this was an interesting blog post called How to remember stuff by Jack Cheng. He writes,"My short-term memory has been getting worse. A friend kindly suggested that I’m just getting old,which I guess is in some ways true. But I don’t blame aging brain cells. I blame the Internet." I blame post-it notes for not being stickier.

www.neave.com

go play.

This site is full of fun shit, kinda reminds me of ze frank.

Upper Playground

A cool site with artist interviews, products and what not.

Droog in NYC

Droog opened it's first US store in NYC last week. Let me how it is if anyone gets a chance to go. Their US online store is coming soon.