hehe! I was just admiring some of twocreate’s work and had a laugh at the russian space pen they made for Worldwide Co, under their two dimensional design category…

two create™.

(I can’t find the pencil - link please quinton? I do really like the site though… the content and the site itself! helvetica..! - Jeremy) Oh - Here it is!

If hadn’t spent the whole day designing graphics I’d spend all night trying webdesign after catching some sick-as inspiration at web creme.

Web Creme | Web design inspiration

I regards to Jeremy’s previous post about those “boosted” headphones, i reckon boosted totally ripped off these panasonics which were released ages ago.  I’m betting these ones sound alot better though ey. Might just have to grab me a pair!

AudioCubes.com - Panasonic RP-HTX7 Retro Piano Painted Headphones -

Quin showed me this - the Boosted Stiloso Rojo Retro Headphones in Better Red. Very nice, but I wonder what they sound like? The product description mentions an ‘iPhone compatible’ jack, so maybe they’re low imedance, specifically designed for driving from portable players. Or maybe they just include an iphone-compatible jack…

Via Quin.

This was on the 28 bus going into Perth the other day. For most of the journey I sat reading it, and silently questioning its existence. Who wrote those words? Are they are real motherfucker? If they catch you, what exactly will they do to you?

I also questioned its effectiveness because as I stared I began to feel irresistebly compelled to scribble something juvenile in cheeky response - like “okay”. Or “Thanks for saving my soul TransPerth”, but I didn’t - If I had it might have raised some crazy chicken-and-egg conundrum. The tone of the writing seems to fluctuate between an exasperated, tired, “we’ve had enough” sort of feel, to sombre, “It doesn’t even, like, really matter” to a slightly aggressive and quietly hilarious “so do you hate the world, or just yourself?” to your standard high-school leaflet “your life, your choice” sort of ultimatum.

It thoroughly entertained me for 20 minutes so I took this photo.

I don’t know how effective it will be on the ‘graffidiots’ - because I think they’ve 1) fundamentally overestimated their audience - that article is wayyyy to long and who can be bothered reading that? and 2) graffiti-ists don’t really do it for the ‘guts’, I think, they do it for the same reason dogs piss on trees or people start useless blogs - they’re trying to make themselves visible. My solution would be to use shatter-proof glass which can’t easily be scratched, or to install some sort of microphonic scratch-sensor on the window that alarms when it’s triggered.

As for it costing loads of money, well, I don’t know. A plexiglas panel has only gotta cost about a hundred bucks or so. I think they real waste of money is probably the riduclously retarded and utterly stupid smartrider system, the actual expense being to great a number to fit on the internet, not to mention the cost of 20 train ‘cops’ to slouch all day at the Perth station and harass me because my Student Card with Photo is not sufficient to demonstrate that I am a student.

That’s all…

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Can’t read? Click = enlarge.
Via Digg

Lewis picked me up yesterday and we went and did what I can only describe as rummaging around in a large bin urban scrummaging at our old high school looking for things to remove. They really cleaned the place out .. If the rain/little bastard hooligans hadn’t got to the bin contents first, I think there would have been a lot of stuff they could actually have donated (like PCs and g3 powermacs and imacs, even a few emacs, and about 5 electric pottery wheels..)
Score : 1 x analogue mixing board, 1 x analogue lighting controller :
Click to enlarge : (yup, cameraphone pictures)

Gizmodo has, for whatever reason, made a 3 part video of a tour inside the lego factory. Pretty awesome to behold. Lots of robots!

There’s now … 867 creative businesscard photos in dailypoetic’s flickr stream…

Just watch.
Pay attention around the 35 second mark as the feathers fly from the pelican’s bill!

Via Lewis

Holy shit weburbanist, go, go! Another piece on unusual and clever living room furniture.

Via Digg

Quin sent me a link to Gin’s Myspace Page a few days ago and it was sitting in a firefox tab, having been forgotten. Each time I started firefox, though, this track would play and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from..

Here is like, a little bit of stolen copy from the MySpastic page.

Gin Wigmore is a distinctive singer/songwriter, whose sound is driven by a startling voice; her delivery succinctly described by a critic as ‘whiskey and dry’ and whose self-penned songs provide a refreshing new take on life as a ’20-something’ and yet relate across the generations.

Geographically, Gin tracks from Auckland to Buenos Aires to Sydney. Vocally she runs from Macy Gray to Blondie to Edith Piaf. Musically she moves between Feist and Broken Social Scene to Neil Young and Fiona Apple, while lyrically she moves from sorrow to sunshine.

Via Quin.

Quin hasn’t seen this yet so..

I was surprised to see this is actually made by Rollei, and not just a crappy revival of a vintage-looking design - although this is miniaturised (are 1920s design registrations/trademarks even still valid?). The assumption then would be that it produces images which are (aside from the obvious limitations of film vs digital) pretty similar to the original - and I’m wondering if [one of the reasons] they shrunk it was because of the difference in size between film and a CCD sensor (requiring them to shrink the distance of the sensor from the optics, as in a modern dSLR). I would be worried that it was some kind of pinhole camera (the article specifically says ‘autofocus’ which starts to ring alarm bells) but it says it goes down (up?) to F2.8. Nice.

Interestingly (perhaps) I have an old Kodak (I think) camera which I intend, one day, to fuse unnaturally with the guts of a broken olympus digital camera.

Here’s all you need to know.
Via Neatorama

This is just a test, posting from my iPod using the free wordpress app and wifi :)

SUPERCAPACITORS!!
Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels : TreeHugger

There’s some lovely concept cars here, similar to the lot I last posted. Inhabitat » RCA Unveils Sleek Sustainable Concept Cars

Via Notcot

Confusing? Certainly. Entertaining..? Well - yes.

Just watched this on Neatorama, and I have to now say, ha ha ha. Windings!

There’s a blog and a link to some lovely photos of transistor radios on The Cosmonaut blog - The Cosmonaut: Transistor Radios

Everyone loves these oldschool slash moderne aesthetics, particularly me.

Thanks Quin..

We never wear pink for the dead. on Flickr - Photo Sharing.

Its nots just the photos in Hillary the mammal’s photostream I like but their curiousness when in context with their titles :-)

Here’s a panorama I just made; click to enlarge, click more to see the location.

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Weburbanist comes through with the goods again :

8 Highly Unconventional Modern Bedroom Furniture Sets

OK, so I didn’t see it coming this time..

I lol’d.

Same deal; sally cooler than me, sally show jeremy YouTube - Worst Fight Scene Ever.

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The Bristlebot is another Evil Mad Scientist creation, though it’s quite cute and non-threatening.
I have one of these motors somewhere - I will try and dig it out! Edit : Found!

Check out the linked page for a video of it in action (and a lot of boring instructions)

Those crafty crackers at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories came up with this a few months ago - a sawn off USB flash drive. So it’s like, your cable has been ripped apart!
They gave some DIYish instructions and I like the idea so much I even found a similar (identical?) flashdrive on DealExtreme.
However, I give to you : (Click to Enlarge)

I do like Fred stuff actually - sometimes they come out with witty little things.
Via Gizmodo

FunnyOrDie has some 1930s ads - not a lot, but here’s a highlight :

This is something that I remember from waaaay back when this were all fields - it’s the biggest subwoofer in the world (?). It’s so Italians can listen to Jazz apparently!

Honestly, have a look at the page - the horn is big enough for some Italians to stand around in, and 16 woofers are required to displace such a huge volume.

Click these pictures to enlarge (below) or just go straight to the page.

Via MakeZine.

“Batman throughout History - A Gallery of Batman Images from the 1930s to Current”

Quin found this on eBay - It’s a Ducati Camera.. Ducati as in the motorbike. Ahh, those Italians. Pretty crazy no?

Can’t beat 1950s metal manufacture and finish though.

VINTAGE DUCATI SOGNO HALF-FRAME 35MM RANGEFINDER CAMERA - eBay

Click the more tag to, you know, read more.
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expanding on Jeremy’s previous post heres another gallery of super nice half-frame photography: drvmmmer’s flickr stream

Weburbanist has this cool feature on Transforming Furniture!

Recently been meandering through Lina’s photostream. It’s got some real gorgeous lo-fi portraits.

Came across this brilliant page - But haven’t looked into it properly yet. I really should - my vector skills are not so..well.. skilful..
(It’s OK - I have Photoshop..!)

Vector Illustration: 60+ Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials, Tips and Best Practice

Popular Mechanics has this story on the Top 10 Backyard Inventions of 2008.

Quinno pointed me to Acha.Baba’s photostream :

The video I’ve been waiting for since I heard about it two days ago :

It’s filmed with lasers - specifically, LIDAR - a laser scanning system that captures the 3D point data of everything it ’sees’ (including Thom Yorke). This means there are no cameras involved (just a laser, really) and so it’s not actually filmed. It’s all just 3D data. Which means you can do this crazy shit and manipulate the video in real time, moving the camera around and zooming in and out. Like this :

(Click this image!)

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Gizmodo also posted this video which shows the (sort-of more boring) making of :

There’s a gallery of pretty cool future car designs (if that’s your thing) from the Faculty of Transportation Design, Pforzheim University over at the hilarious site speigel.de.

Image Gallery

Sativa are a (UK?) producer of hemp products including lovely soft bags :

I was looking at a nice padded laptop messenger bag in a shop in Lake St with Zoe but can’t seem to identify it on the site. Pretty pricey bags but really nice - much better than in the photos..

Jeff is another young perth designer who is now travelling around and doing his thing. Hi Jeff!
He has a blog and here’s a nicked photo of a surfboard he used as a canvas :

Had enough of the iPhone? How ’bout this bluetooth headset?

From Instructables via HAD

Basically too cool for me to find myself, Sally showed me.
It freaking erases itself then draws the time every minute.

Credit

Haha. Still funny. Click for large version.

Holy shit - now we all know Banksy’s TRUE IDENTITY. Finally!

download flexhaus.PSD

OK - Lewis showed me this today..
It’s (obviously!) a skeleton made out of cassette tapes.
The artist is Brian Dettmer and the skeleton the beast is/was on display at the Museum of Surgical Science. Apparently it was made by heating the tapes and - I imagine - pressing them into molds. Pretty similar to making Vinyl Record bowls.. which Lewis also made..

(Via IconicResult.com)

California Soul

and also wanted to test out the audio player plugin!

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More stuff from Etsy..

Someone was talking animatedly about this - I think it was you, Steph..

Via LaughingSquid of course.

Flash blow-outs suck, DPS has this short guide to avoiding them…!

Integrated flashes suck so hard that it’s hard to avoid it when you’re taking night shots and there’s something close up, and something far away. I got a bigger flash to experiment with (er.. above) but it doesn’t have P-TTL - so it’s very much trial-and-error (or just experience, I suppose)