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superflat platform art

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

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This superflat mural is showing in the London Underground.  Each of the arches has a different part of the scene.  The artist is “chiho aoshima, born 1974, tokyo, japan. she uses computer technology to create detailed and complex images of fantasy worlds. hybridized creatures are participants in the composition’s narrative as well as elements in a decorative scheme.” More at designboom.

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dreamlands

Monday, November 27, 2006

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“Aurora borealis casting it’s glow over Seltún geothermal area in SW-Iceland.”
By Helga Kvam, All Rights Reserved.

Visit Helga’s flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkvam/308089177/

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The Cloud

Friday, November 10, 2006

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The Cloud by Monica Forster is a portable room that can be used as a relaxing workplace retreat, a unique meeting place, for meditation, or as an ideal escape for creative brainstorming. A space of its own that can be used within any space, Cloud instantly defines an area and a mood apart.

Easily transported from place to place, when the Cloud is unpacked, a silent fan continuously keeps the chamber inflated as long as required. The room inflates in three minutes and stays inflated until its folded away into its connected carrying bag. Cloud is entered and exited via a self–closing slit door alowing ample ventilation. The Cloud is made of rip-stop nylon and includes the carrying bag with integral fan unit.

This combines so many elements that I’m drawn to into one functional environment - beyond object.  It’s meditative, ethereal, and draws from camping technology (rip-stop nylon, portable).  These concepts work well together.  Camping in my tent has always been highly meditative and creative for me.  At one point many years ago, we even had our tent set up in our living room as a getaway and sleep spot. 

See it at UrbanPeel.

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A Good Day for America

Thursday, November 09, 2006

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The Democrats finally make the move to regain power and I couldn’t be more excited.  My parents live in Northen Virginia so it was a victory on many levels.  San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House.  She’s also the first speaker to post to a blog. 

In 100 hours, the top five oil companies will take in $4.3 billion in profits.

In 100 hours, $1.1 billion will be spent on the war in Iraq.

In 100 hours, the public debt will grow by $4.9 billion.

In 100 hours, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies will gain $2.6 billion in profits.

In 100 hours, the top CEOs will earn an average of $2 million each.

In 100 hours, a minimum wage worker working 8 hours a day will earn $171.67.

And if all goes as expected, in less than 100 hours my sixth grandchild will be born.

I want my grandchild to be born into an America where government is for and by the people. I want my grandchild to be born into an America that rewards and values hard work. I want my grandchild to be born into an America where you are not labeled a terrorist coddler when you honor the Constitution.

I want my grandchild to be born into an America where if the U.S. Central Command judges the situation in Iraq to be near chaos, with “violence at all-time high, spreading geographically”, if the top intelligence agencies tell you that the war in Iraq is inspiring the very terrorism it was purported to prevent, and if four highly respected military newspapers say of the Secretary of Defense that “his strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised...[he] must go” that you fire your Secretary of Defense and change the course.

I want my grandchild to be born into an America whose government honors its duty for accountability and oversight.

I want my grandchild to be born into an America that inspires innovation, that leads with dignity and diplomacy, that rejects fear mongering, and whose leaders start each day remembering that the Constitution begins with the simple but revolutionary phrase “We the people,” which announced to the world that here, the people rule.

You can see her full post here - One Hundred Hours.

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Rumsfeld resignation summarized in Mac OSX screenshot

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Via Boing Boing

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Karl Lagerfeld Bearbricks at Chanel

Sunday, October 15, 2006

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Another art-meets-couture spotting caught on camera.  These Karl Lagerfeld Bearbricks are on display here in SF at the Chanel store, Maiden Lane, Union Square. 

Posted by emily chang on 10.15.06
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