Ora ilLegale Clock

The easiest clock to change for daylight savings. Ever.

It is going to be produced by these guys. Good luck finding any other info on it. Let me know if you do.

Melli Compact Lounge

Whew! Thank god someone created an awesome first aid kit that fits in to modern decor. Wait…it’s filled with what now!?

*rushes to get credit card….*

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Candykiller

Quality of line? Candykiller has it. And then some.

Over 40 – May 2009

It was a work month for sure. Too much time in the office. The garden is coming in nicely and we are eating a lot of artichokes. We went down to Humboldt for the three day weekend for roller derby and an awesome BBQ. An acquaintances dog got sick and passed away. That is three friend’s dogs this year alone. Have to admit I got choked up over all of them. Rest in peace, Kenya, Scout and Dogmo. I also cleaned out the refrigerator and found a lost bottle of our wedding wine. That was a total score. I also boxed up every CD I own and put them in the attic. I now have 35,038 items in my iTunes (845 artists and 2538 albums). And we took the canoe down 10 miles of the Umpqua. SO fun!

Saturday Morning Animation – A Kiss From Tokyo

I really love the style of this little short; the textures, the music. It all works very nicely. My only complaint is that I wish it was longer. Well worth watching in HD here.

Japanese Man Hole Covers

Once again the Japanese have shown the importance of detail in the usually overlooked items one passes by every day.

First here is a set of over 1,300 covers over at Flickr.

Don’t have an hour to waste? Fine. Just check out these choice gems over at Quazen.

Saturday Morning Animation – This One Time…

Tiny Art Director

Dad has four-year-old daughter. Daughter asks dad to draw something. Dad draws. Then, daughter critiques drawing. Then dad posts the crtique and drawing on his blog. Brilliant!

The Brief: A mama snail and a baby snail
The Critique: I’m sorry to say that you’re worser than me. You gotta learn to draw as me. You just don’t draw so well. Why do you think that is? It turns out that I’m the good draw-er. It turns out that you’re the art director.
Artists Note: The critique is on the initial sketch, and compares to hers. She actually likes the painting.
Job Status: Provisionally Approved, pending addition of jumping fish in the lake

Dude’s got a book deal, too.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Architechture Collection

So I am seeing these awesome Frank Lloyd Wright Lego collections all over the blogger word. I really want the Falling Water one above but that one does not seem to be for sale yet.

“The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”

With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium. Builders of all ages can now collect and construct their favorite worldwide architectural sites through these artistic replicas.”

Would someone find the Falling Water one for me and send it to me? Thanks in advance!

Saturday Morning Animation – Stop Motion With Wolf and Pig

1300 printed photos were used to make this little gem.

(Hat tip to Jamey for sending me the link. Hey man!)

Lawn Scrabble (OMG!)

OMFG! I am TOTALLY going to build this. The only problem I could really see is that it would be easy to remember the wood grain on the back of the letters so you can pick the letters you want. And that is only a problem for NEW players. Buck a point, anyone? Mwuhahahah!!

The awesome bar has just been raised.

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Visiondivision Dubai Statue Submission = AWESOME!

Right now, I am not on board with this whole Dubai thang. If Dubai wants to have any credibility with me it will greenlight this. As their submission to the Thyssenkrupp Elevator Architecture Award (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?), VisionDivision submitted a design for a gigantic animatronic eunuch storyteller to be placed in Zaabeel Park in Dubai. That’s right: a giant animatronic eunuch storyteller.

You had me at giant animatronic eunuch.

The idea is that the statue represents al Hakawati, an ancient Arabic storyteller. It’s arms and head move as it recites ancient Arabic stories that are broadcast through speakers that are placed throughout the park. The proposal calls for a children’s library in the base and numerous other rooms throughout the body of the sculpture including a gold room, a crystal cavern, a green room and a room full of fish tanks. Take away the children’s library and you got one helluva strip club there.

The only question is, how could this NOT win!? Look, if it doesn’t, I invite the VisionDivision guys to set this up on my front lawn. No charge. Only instead of ancient Arabic stories it will make it recite crazy non-sequitur jibberish. Or Henry Rollins spoken word stuff. Or how about if it just shouts, “Hi, neighbor!!” every three minutes? Oh, the fun I could have…

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Saturday Morning Animation – Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware

Oh, Chris Ware. How I love your strange self-loathing comic books. And an animated Quimby Mouse for This American Life – Live? Yes please!

Music: “Eugene” by Andrew Bird. Animated by John Kuramoto.

Will Govus Photography

Will Govus. So young but making some beautiful night images. Using a twin-lens reflex with long exposures he captures misty scenes in his Georgia town lit by ‘natural’ artificial light. The results are very atmospheric.

He has a Flickr account too…

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“Stare at the Monitor All Day…”

I can relate….

Poster by Shaz Madani via FFFFOUND