August 2010
1 post
“Everything changes,
Everything is connected,
Pay attention.”
– Jane Hirshfield
March 2010
2 posts
Math and WWI
The first five configurations were all unbalanced, in the sense that they each contained at least one unbalanced triangle. The resultant dissonance tended to push these nations to realign themselves, triggering reverberations elsewhere in the network. In the final stage, Europe had split into two implacably opposed blocs — technically “balanced” but on the brink of war.
The only way I like...
February 2010
0 posts
Going to School in China
Class is in session, its English class. Repeat after me.
I bet the girls picked this one!
Lets learn about this middle aged English couple.
Smartest kid in the class :)
Some Math, some English..
Some Art.
100 + 100 = 200. Not. 100 + 100 = 200. Not.
We visited a school in one of the shanty towns of China, on the outskirts of Beijing. It was close to zero degrees, and the...
January 2010
1 post
HOMECOMING
Starting out with some thoughts. They’re in points because somehow that seems to make them look more important.
(a) Took a break from tumbling because I wasn’t sure of how many people were actually going to suffer from the incredible loss of a few links, and then when I counted up the numbers on the ridges of one finger, I realized, that taking a break would only mean just that -...
November 2009
1 post
September 2009
16 posts
becasue stormtroopers like to have fun
The captions are genius, the pictures even more so. Gosee.
Dear Reader.. the Dear Leader.
Kim Jong Il. The man behind the rubber stamp ‘democracy’ of North Korea. The man, who i recently learned (thanks Vic) was a patron of the arts and cinema and had a keen interest and many an opinion on how they should be crafted.
From his masterpiece of literature, On the Art of the Cinema (1973),
The task set before the cinema today is one of contributing to people’s...
the prison experiments
Conducted in the 1960s, the Milgram experiments presented a deep challenge to American ideas about the power of individual character and free choice.
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The Milgram study is one of the twin towers of experiments in the “situationist” tradition, studies that reveal the extent to which our circumstances and environment influence human behavior. The other is an equally controversial study...
do the math, nerd.
(via Buzzfeed)
That interrupting Kanye
Everyone knows what Kanye did. (That thing where he interrupts Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMA’s and tells the audience that Beyonce has the best video?)
But this meme is hilarious. Looking for more. Because Imma a pop-meme lover.
B Flat
The great Internet Philharmonic Orchestra.
Watch/Listen/Play. Here.
once upon a tweeting tharoor
This has gone far enough. And there’s one post that says it all, local blogger hero - Amit Varma, of India Uncut.
This is a bizarre controversy. A couple of days ago, in response to a question about whether he would be travelling economy class, Shashi Tharoor tweeted:
… absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!
It’s always nice to see a minister be...
Little People
Little hand painted people, left in London, to fend for themselves.
You must have heard about the Little People project. I might have even written about it before. It’s all very simple.. The artist makes little people, and then installs them around the city. And that’s it. Street Art + Stories + Simplicity.
Split ring key
Scott Amron’s done it again, another witty little piece of product design. A blank key that you can have cut to match your own keys – simple. Acting as a nifty replacement to your currently cumbersome key-ring that you’ve been stuffing in your pocket for way too long.
Because good design is very simple.
(via Its Nice That)
Learn something everyday
I did.
Here.
style rookie
The Style Rookie is a 13 year old blogger who writes about fashion - her own quirky unbelievably kooky sense of putting things together as well as about the world of fashion. She visits Fashion Week and gets gifted things by Christian Siriano.
This is how she describes herself :
Tiny 13 year old dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats. Scatters black petals...
A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City
As someone who has used a bicycle to get around New York for about 30 years I’ve watched the city—mainly Manhattan, where I live—change for better and for worse. During this time I started to take a full-size folding bike with me when I traveled so I got to experience other cities as a cyclist as well. Seeing cities from on top of a bike is both pleasurable and instructive. On a bike one...
'rappin paper
Hop over here for links to download, or read about how Matt (guest blogger @ Noisy Decent Graphics) came up with this brainwave.
Typo_tache
Freddie Mercury, Tom Selleck, Hulk Hogan.
This is a personal poster project celebrating the varying perceptions of typography, in this case the symbolic correlation between brackets and moustaches.
Ryan Dixon
Money
My money is beautiful. Like having a flower, a tree, the sky, ‘Gioconda’, These are beautiful things, But my money is beautiful, too. It lies in my pocket and I can touch it – It’s little and much loved. It’s so enchanting without being coy, I can show it to you again and again, And I can fix it to my buttonhole like a tulip. My money, My money … This is a colourful performance, This is a...
August 2009
6 posts
nokia a.k.a neelkamal
Lets call a spade a spade. But lets also not assume that every Toyota car or Neelkamal chair is an exercise in the ordinary, the uninteresting and the downright mundane.
In a recent article in Time magazine, Nokia has been called upon for its lack of innovativeness.
“You know who are the winners when you have huge innovation,” says Pierre Ferragu, a London-based analyst at...
savage chickens
(Just felt a need to continue with the Star Wars theme..)
More Savageness here.
Wheres Yoda?
L to R: Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2), and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker).
women on top
Somewhere under the layers of negligence is my killer feminist spirit, that responds by nodding vigorously at articles like these.
The sexy new discussion in policy circles around the world, thanks to the recession, is whether a significant shift of power from men to women is underway — or whether it should be. Accounting giant Ernst & Young pulled out charts and graphs at a recent...
story of consistency
story of an inventor
The story of Benjamin Franklin. By the wonderful Maria Kalman.
Check out those daily goals. Love it!
July 2009
24 posts
the toaster project.
I’m Thomas Thwaites and I’m trying to build a toaster, from scratch - beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99. A toaster.
Besides taking helicoptors to oil rigs to access oil to create plastic for the toaster, and other adventures with a microwave, the project has a story to tell..
The contrast in scale between between...
business guys on business trips
More here. I think the website name is funnier than some of the strips, but yea.
desparation
Josh Sommers (co-creator of the image) says,
This image is a collaboration between myself and my flickr friend Patrick Van’t Hoff. Patrick photographed the backdrop for this shot, including the tree stump and clouds. I am the model in the shot and did the post processing and photoshop editing to produce the final image. You can see more work from Patrick at...
WatchHave you always wondered how other people do the same work you do? Its like professional voyeurism. Of the good kind!
See how Mattson Creative came up with the Mottsy logo by capturing his screen through the whole process of designing it.
I recently completed a logo design for Mottsy – an innovative, online printing company. The client was really interested in the creative process and asked me...
one small step
Its the 40th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing. So much about it all over that place, but I really like this article ‘Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing’..
This month marks the 40th anniversary of humankind’s first steps on the moon. Auspiciously timed is Craig Nelson’s new book, Rocket Men—one of the most detailed accounts of...
lions in the house
When Bernhard Lukas, Arno Lindemann and Bent Rosinski started their own ad-agency, they were looking for a logo that contained something personal from each founder. They discovered a particular point: The length of their names were proportional to their actual heights and were proportional to each other (60%, 100%, 80%). And thus, the concept for their corporate identity was born: Size...
its back. (in a jiff)
strawberry swing
Colplay releases the video of Strawberry Swing on 20th July. Skip here to see the trailer, which looks simply lovely.
its time for some marc johns
Over here, at his new blog.
variations on normal
Beacuse some ideas are begging to be shared. Dominic Wilcox, here.
because you can never have enough blogs mocking...
Named the company after yourself? Have an extremely firm idea of what kind of lighting situations your face looks best in? It would be wrong of us to label Kevin P. Kauffman a self-obsessed control freak based on the evidence of one photo. But he is.
Going on the fabric bunching you can see on his left sleeve there and the close proximity of his face to the camera, there’s even a strong...
The thoughts and things of alexander Hulme
Growing bamboo to form the shape of a hanger.
This above ring is made from a hollowed-out Indian 5-rupee coin. And it sold for 200 times its original value.
Visit Alexander Hulme’s site here, to see more.
Gandhi's Last stand
Last image of Gandhi before (or after) he was shot.
Nehru announcing Gandhi’s assasination to the public at Birla House.
Not much more, but I found it here.
xoxo
Clever advertising campaign for Panamericana School of Art and Design encourages people everywhere to test their creativity.
The objective is to draw as many things as possible that originate from X’s or O’s.
Here.
why women cry
Easily the funniest compilation I’ve seen in a while.
Headaches.
Sudden paralysis.
Foolish shallow dreams.
Finding out Ringo is married.
See the whole lot here.
here comes the wolf
You’ve definitely heard about it. You’ve also tried your hand at it. (without really knowing what you were doing or hoping to find) You’re a bit confused about how it might help you. You want to know more. (Or at least I did.)
What might Wolfram’s system do that Google can’t? Say you wanted to know how much cholesterol and saturated fat lurked in a slab of your...
bulls in the china shop
What you’ve missed if you’ve not been keeping posted on the China story..
About 200 ethnic Uighurs, who are a Muslim minority, faced off against police to protest over the arrest of 1,434 people over Sunday’s unrest.
Groups of ethnic Han Chinese have now armed themselves with batons and stones and have gathered in Urumqi.
Beijing and the Uighurs blame each other for the...
optically disallusioned
THE optical illusion of the month (or week or day or year, whatever you deem to be an appropriate length of time to apprecitate the coolness of this one)..
You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. So I loaded...
“Eternity is very long, especially towards the end”
– Woody Allen