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Thomas Crapper would be proud…
“The box pops up from its convenient 14” flat pack to a rigid reusable box, you pop in a degradable poo bag, do your business, seal and then dispose.”
Ah to be the designer tasked with creating the happy little poo peeking out at us on the cover… from the Creative Review blog.
John Maeda on Philip Johnson’s Glass House
In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site (there are actually several buildings on the property in addition to the Glass House), shot over a couple picture perfect spring days.
Sam Baker at Piney Woods Performances
Wishes-to-Remain-Anonymous-Girlfriend and I headed up to Piney Woods Performances in Conroe last month to see Sam Baker, a relative newcomer with songs and a story you just have to hear to wrap your head around. James Coumbe, who hosts Piney Woods with his wife, has some videos up from the night on YouTube. This isn’t […]
Totally Looks Like
From the folks who brought us icanhascheezburger comes the spin off totallylookslike. I am not proud of the time I’ve just spent looking through the site and I will never ever get that time back, but if I traveled back in time to 30 minutes ago, could I look away, knowing what I do now? No, I could not.
the Dirtbombs
I have discovered the Dirtbombs and now I am a better person.
Ben Stein on the Economics of Love
AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.
Ben Stein, Lessons in […]
Everyone Will Be Lonely Eight Months From Now
Slate’s Everyone Will Be Lonely Eight Months From Now: The weird science of stock photography, notes the somewhat disturbing phenomenon of stock photography shops potentially trendsetting the nation’s mood.
A while back, a friend of mine—a guy who does a lot of directing work—was asked to shoot some rather odd film footage. It was all brief […]
McCain Thinks He Might Learn to Use the Internets
Wired caught this little gem in the New York Times’ interview with John McCain, McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is) -
He said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get […]
Font-geek Humor
via ffffound and todayandtomorrow
Handwritten Typographers
Cameron Adams hit upon a pretty interesting notion with this question -
If we strip away the monitors, and the printing presses, and the typefaces … how would William Caslon have written on a post-it note?
Not satisfied with the thought alone, he took it one step further and mailed away to these imminent typographers […]