Micro compact home

2005-12-28
micro compact home “The micro compact home is a lightweight, modular and mobile minimal dwelling for one or two people.
Its compact dimensions of 2.6m cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances.
…The tiny cube provides a double bed on an upper level and working table and dining space for four or five people on a lower level.
The kitchen bar is accordingly arranged to serve these two levels.
The entrance lobby has triple use and functions as a bathroom and drying space for clothing.
Storage is provided off each of these four functioning spaces.”.
Categories : design

Art-e-zine

2005-12-27

Art-e-zine: patterns of paper, photos, paints, inks, stamps, altered books. Play with art. Don’t try explain.

Right: Sew Vintage Punk by Charlotte Kemsley (detail). Sew Vintage Punk
Categories : art

The Cubes

2005-12-26

The Cubes “spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.
…In this office, you’re the boss!”.

The corporate protester “should not be allowed on company property under any circumstances.”.
Don’t care, he costs only $4,95.

Categories : design

361°

2005-12-19

Poetry. An unusual, special text: 361°.
Extract: Piero Selmi, poet and my good friend.

Categories : books

Daily dose of imagery

2005-12-18

Daily dose of imagery by Sam Javanrouh
“…is a simple view of my day to day visual experience, or my personal photoblog.
I post one photo a day on this web site.”

Well… look at his titanic archive (may take some time to load).

Categories : photo

How to survive a bad manager

2005-12-15

Change only happens when the person wants to change.
You can make suggestions, or bring things to their attention, but people only make changes when they choose to.
It is never in your control.”.

“…The worst work experiences I’ve had forced me to recognize a very important thing: work does not have to define my life.
Work can be at the center of everything if you choose, but there are many other ways to live happy, fulfilling, meaningful lives.”.

(Scott Berkun)

See also: Right for the wrong reasons.

Categories : psychology

Modern music

2005-12-10

Three easy pieces:

Rega Planar 3 Rega Planar 3.

Synchronous motor turntable.

The platter is hand crafted from floated plate glass 12mm in thickness. The tonearm is an RB300.

Lexon Tykho Radio.

design Marc Berthier.

AM-FM rubber portable radio.

Selected for the Permanent Collection of MoMA and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Lexon Tykho Radio
Tivoli Pal Tivoli Audio PAL
“Portable, weather resistant, audio playback system and AM/FM Radio”.
Categories : design

Alternative Needs Transportation

2005-12-09

Alternative Needs Transportation or A.N.T. is a one-person shop run by Mike Flanigan.

Mike is dedicated to building bikes for transportation that have the right combination of function and style.”.

See also: Broadway Bicycle School (Cambridge, MA) :
“…is a unique, collectively owned, full-service bicycle repair shop.
We teach people how to fix their bikes in addition to selling new and used bikes, parts, and accessories.”.

Categories : design

Ecce Lomo

2005-12-08

Ecce Lomo
“A personal photographic portfolio, with lomo, holga and polaroid snapshots.”.

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Categories : photo

Planet Sinclair

2005-12-03

Planet Sinclair, by Chris Owen.

The Web’s biggest Sinclair-related archive:

Executive Calculator
“…The Sinclair Executive was the world’s first pocket calculator.
The advert described it as being “as thick as a cigarette packet”, reflecting Clive Sinclair’s stated belief that One must always bear a packet of cigarettes in mind as the ideal size.

…battery life was only a few hours and the machine could be physically dangerous. If it was left on, the batteries had a nasty habit of exploding and blowing the machine to bits.”.

C5 electric car
“Possibly Sinclair’s most famous product (albeit for quite the wrong reasons).

…Exactly a decade before the C5 fiasco, Sinclair was nearly brought down by another disastrous product: The Black Watch.”.

Categories : technology