- Cowboys & Angels – just so I don’t forget – I have found a decent haircut in San Francisco Just in case you’re looking.
- A really good photo pool on Flickr details lots of Dieter Rams design work Dieter Rams is the guy that Jonathan Ive cites as one of his largest influences on Apple products.
- Fascinating article on the art of Hugh Ferriss who did bizarre and monstrous architectural illustrations and concept-work… He’s like the HR Giger of architecture. Insane, epic stuff.
Author: Tom Coates
- Canon’s launched the new Digital Rebel – XSi or 450D – and it looks pretty nice I was a bit disappointed to see no upgrade to the 5D. I don’t know that I could afford the 5D, but I wanted to see what it was going to be like before I decided to upgrade.
- The last remaining speaker of one of Alaska’s native languages has died… The most depressing thing about this story is that she has seven living children, none of whom learned how to speak it because it was considered wrong to speak anything but English.
- New clips from BSG Series Four are out, complete with insane spoiler action if that’s the kind of thing you’re into Don’t quite know how they’re going to resolve this one, but it definitely can’t wait to find out.
- The Oscar nominations are out with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood leading the charge I have a sneaking suspicion that There Will Be Blood will end up being the film with the longest life, but No Country for Old Men astonished me. A truly extraordinary film. I hope it wins.
- New York Times cartoon critique of the major US campaign logos The ‘Kerry Edwards’ logo of a few years ago comes in for particular ridicule.
- Insane electronic contact lenses contain the material required to create a small display in LEDs Apparently never been tested or powered up on humans, but rabbits wore them without ill effect. Not sure I like the idea of rabbits with super advanced contact lenses staring at me, but there you go.
- Insane Tom Cruise Scientology video I’m guessing everyone’s seen this by now but just in case you haven’t….
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I was talking to someone a while back who said that they’d talked to Urban Mapping and didn’t see what their future was. Madness! It’s bloody hard to come by data that is profoundly useful! Data is the important bit, fools!
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I love this site so much. I don’t get to play in it every day, but I pretty much love the times when I do. They last ages. I can spend a couple of hours in Ffffound easily!
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Fascinating for making me uncomfortable about the people who made my last suit, making me despair of IBM and raising an eyebrow at the Aryan origins of the company that bought BBC Technology a few years back…
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I’m really looking forward to getting a new flat and it being a nicer canvas upon which I can elaborate. I haven’t really spent any time on a home in years. This will be a nice change, hopefully.
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Hard to disagree with the sentiment here. Stunning and extraordinary buildings doing amazing things, revealing again humanities fascination for large structures with some aspect of replication or organic form. Yum.
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The end result will be… I don’t know how to describe it. I think I’d have to see it to get a sense of whether it’s a gigantic folly or something organic and beautiful.
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Fascinating little design experiment that asks illustrators how they’d respond to such a question, and then collates and publishes their illustrations in a serial publication. I’ve bought a couple of their prints recently.
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For a start they’re all gorgeous, but more importantly they’re pushing all my maps and geo buttons right now, what with Fire Eagle and everything.
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I wonder what kinds of books they sell. I wonder what kind of use these buildings will be put to next when the book shifts technologically in whichever way that change will manifest.
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Very exciting – and quite an interesting photo. Don’t look at it unless you’re up for some potential spoilers though!
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You should watch this video. I managed to just get Cal to actually squeeee when watching it. Still, the car’s all wrong. Good voice though!
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I’ve been interested in this subject for a long time. We used single transferable voting at University for some stuff, but I really like the ‘approval’ system described here. Here are ten candidates I’d be okay with. Nice.
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Really enjoyable. Definitely worth exploring in more detail.
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Weird when this happens to people you’ve met. If you’re not familiar with the name, Bram created BitTorrent.
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Cal and I spent quite a lot of the break over Christmas and New Year obsessively playing Rock Band and World of Warcraft and ordering in the odd pizza. I actually think they sound quite good. Full marks for trying guys!
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Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean ‘movie’ then why confuse them?