Saturday, December 19, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Green Footstep
The Green Footstep tool allows you to learn how much your commercial or residential building will contribute to global warming. It’s the brainchild of Architecture 2030 founder Edward Mazria and the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Danish Oprah
During her first trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, Oprah is invited inside the Holscher family's home. Watch as she tours the organized kitchen, bright living space and small kids' bedroom. Why Danish people prefer to live simply in small spaces.
http://www.oprah.com/media/20091021-tows-stine-home-tour
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Bobbin Bicycles
rain bonnet!
non-dorky helmet
sailor reflective vest
vintage-esque pannierBike gear that is actually cute! Yeah Bobbin!
Friday, October 9, 2009
comic cliche!
this is TOO funny!
more good ones at Cotton Factory
there's one that says "i'm so vegan i bleed tree sap"
classic
Thursday, October 8, 2009
continuing edu @ MIT
ok, so...i found out that MIT has a thing called OpenCourseWare which are free online course materials in all types of subjects including areas of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, etc. It includes the following classes:
Architecture:
also:
16.982 Bio-Inspired Structures
As taught in: Spring 2009
A smart joint design inspired by a shore bird's morphing wing structure. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Course Features
Course Description
This course is offered for graduate students who are interested in the interdisciplinary study of bio-inspired structures. The intent is to introduce students to newly inspired modern advanced structures and their applications. It aims to link traditional advanced composites to bio-inspired structures and to discuss their generic properties. A link between materials design, strength and structural behavior at different levels (material, element, structural and system levels) is made. For each level, various concepts will be introduced. The importance of structural, dynamic, thermodynamic and kinetic theories related to such processing is highlighted. The pedagogy is based on active learning and a balance of guest lectures and hands-on activities.
MAS.863 How to Make (Almost) Anything
As taught in: Fall 2002
Photo of the MIT Media Lab waterjet cutter at work. (Courtesy of Prof. Neil Gershenfeld and Prof. Issac Chuang.)
Course Description
This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. This course also puts emphasis on learning how to use the tools as well as understand how they work.
11.329 Social Theory and the City
As taught in: Fall 2005
The 2004 Odunde Festival on South Street in Philadelphia, PA illustrates one way that communities tie their identities to urban spaces. (Image courtesy of Annis Whitlow.)
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city's architecture and spaces. It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Logos
Breathtaking & Creative Logos
http://www.noupe.com/ is a pretty good website for Illustrator and Photoshop inspirations, etc :D
Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
cloud lovers unite!
You love lying in the park on a summer’s day and looking for shapes in the cumulus clouds. You think a mackerel sky of puffy altocumulus stretching off towards the setting sun is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. In short, you love clouds. And yet everyone else just seems to complain about them. Are you the only one who thinks life would be poorer without these glorious ‘patron goddesses of idle fellows’*? No, you’re not. There are others like you. And together we’ll fight the sun fascists and their obsessions with ‘blue-sky thinking’.
cloud appreciation society: i'm totally joining. it's based in england and it's about 4 british lbs to join. as a member, you get a certificate and a pin touting your love of clouds (their words: we hope you will frame your certificate, display it prominently and wear your society badge with pride at all times, including when you are in the bath).
baltimore day trip
best trinkets decor shop ever. this was a mountain of lovely stuff.
my dream bathroom.
vegan banana cupcakes and vegan/non vegan other cakes. Nationale
My roommate, Nicole, is friends with the owner of a cute little French shop, Nationale, down the street from us. I found these interesting things on the shop website to share with you...
NATIONALE presents Brickthrough, a showcase of recent cut outs by Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun.
A fragrance of cedarwood, tobacco, and cade.(with beautiful packaging!!)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Cheery Wine
Breaking news....I now have a source of Cheerwine in Portland!!!! There is no longer a reason for the rest of you to stay in NC. Cheerwine is available in a glass bottle (made with cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup) just a few blocks from my house!
Some NC peeps started a biscuit place here call Pine State Biscuits. This morning I had vegetarian biscuits and gravy. Next time....pimento cheese!!!!
ps. check this out
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
the impossible project
all three of us are guilty of loving polaroids...i think it's actually become an obession. get this:
Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, has signed a 10-year lease agreement on the factory building; and has engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide.
The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.
we love you so
In October 2009 Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are will hit movie theaters worldwide.
The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees.
This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality.
this blog has this and other randoms.
Young House Love
Blog about a couple and their housing renovation in Richmond, VA.
Super cute couple, adorable house.
YoungHouseLove
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Real sustainable design
About 12 years ago, Dan Phillips started Phoenix Commotion, a construction business in his hometown, Huntsville, Tex., where he builds low-income housing out of salvaged items.
So far, he has built 14 homes on lots either purchased or received as a donation. A self-taught carpenter, electrician and plumber, Mr. Phillips said 80 percent of the materials are salvaged from other construction projects, hauled out of trash heaps or just picked up from the side of the road.
A chair's back is fashioned out of cattle bones.
Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz
"Ink Calendar" make use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time.
The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are "printed" daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it.
The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the whether on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to, three shades of green in spring or oranges, red in the summer.
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