Archive for November, 2006
Evening Sideboard
It is a sideboard or console cabinet that is made from reclaimed black walnut and chestnut. It features through-wedged mortise and tenon joinery as well as a pegged breadboard end, and virtually no metal. The lumber is hand-resawed here in Downtown Los Angeles. The piece measures 49″ x 30″ x 11″.
[Via Design Spotter]
Shards
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University proves once again that nothing in life is either easy or as it at first seems. The full manuscript section tends to have either minute 20kb thumbnails that are virtually impossible to view or >10Mb juggernaut files that have crashed my browser, image program and computer on a few occasions in the past.
[Via Bibli Odyssey]
Pogue’s perspective: megapixel numbers don’t matter
David Pogue has faced his fair share of myth-busting duties, but his latest assignment sure didn’t have to be done in order to convince us that his unanimous discovery was indeed correct all along. While theorists (and those adamant that bigger always equals better) can theorize forever on why additional megapixels should yield clearer, more accurate prints, the reality of the matter is that extra megapixels are typically not much more than a marketing ploy to lure consumers into making an additional purchase. In his latest test, he took identical photos with anonymous 5-, 8-, and 13-megapixel shooters, and then printed them out on 16- x 24-inch poster paper at a professional photography lab.
[Via Engadget]
NãoSaiaComEle.com
Na onda do ‘dontdatehimgirl.com’, uma advogada de Santos criou um site para ‘enquadrar’ os caras que saem da linha com a mulherada. Pra ir parar no site/blog o cara pode ter cometido desde pequenas cafajestadas até crimes sérios, como limpar a conta a conta bancária da ‘vítima’ como aconteceu com a tia da Amber Filgueiras, criadora do site.
[Via ViuIsso?]
Visualização da ciência
A revista Science e o National Science foundation americano promovem, já há quatro anos, um concurso sobre visualização de conceitos científicos. Os resultados do “Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge” foram divulgados recentemente e valem uma olhada. (Vale dizer que um dos vencedores, o projeto Flight Patterns, já tinha sido citado aqui anteriormente.)
[Via Petitpois]
Bert Simons: self-clone
Artist Bert Simons wants you to clone him… - “Since a while I am in my midlife crisis, thinking a lot about the purpose of my life, what will remain and things like that. Since I don’t have a specific talent to make my mark nor even managed to arrange some kids to reflect my existence or even have a beloved one that will never forget me I guess I am just one of many who just will be forgotten..That sucks, but instead of endulging my self into depression I desperatly started looking for a solution and I came up with this idea…”
[Via Make]
Minale Maeda: Table Manners Collection
Minale Maeda’s “Table Manners Collection” is a clever exploration of the intersection of formal dining and fast food. Toasted directly onto a grilled sandwich, the porcelain pattern lends the refinement of fine china to eating on-the-go. Other works by Mario Minale and Kuniko Maeda, the duo behind this Rotterdam-based design studio, include t-shirts printed with a tablecloth pattern—for those of us who would rather eat topless than on a undressed table—and delicately embroidered paper napkins.
[Via Cool Hunting]
A Thanksgiving Special
To honor the American holiday of Thanksgiving, I thought it best to post a link to a site dedicated to finely decorated slabs of meat: behold Till Krautkraemer’s Cheap Tattoo Removal project. Clicking through the site’s gallery left me thankful that Till won’t be carving anything on my table today.
[Via Needled]
Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds
Recently, while trying to implement a few different navigation ideas that a designer had thrown my way, I became frustrated with my weak image editing skills. The design was gradient-heavy, so a traditional approach to navigation markup and styling would require a dozen or so background-image slices to meet the varying colors and height requirements.
[Via ALA]
