Among the many different things I get inspired by, great architecture is something that has come along most recently to me. Spending lots of time in Rotterdam you can’t help but get involved in it in some way or another, be that walking amongst it or actively viewing the many exhibitions at the NAI.
One of the Architects who has consistently amazed me without fail, every time I see her work is Zaha Hadid. Amongst a hundred other big name architects, her work stands out to me more often than not and I was happy as Larry to see there is a show dedicated to her at the design museum in London. Hopefully it won’t be as shite as the Jaguar E-type exhibition I went to a couple of years ago.
I won’t start on the design museum, this isn’t the right time, that might be saved for a post when the bad air is being outed. (But hopefully that fucking chair exhibition will have changed, or (more prefereably) will not be there next time I go – and the space wil be used for something more useful/inspirational instead.)
I would urge anyone who is interested in design at all to check out her work, her ideas are great and if you can get your hands on the book of her work they produced a while ago, it would do you the world of good, like Thomas Heatherwick, you can’t help be envious, in a good way, of what she makes.
The show is on until November 25th 2007, and if you go to the Design Museum site (click picture to go there) you can check out the details for it.
Design is the glue that binds the stuff of the universe – make sure you don’t come unstuck, keep the joins glued real good.
YEAH! – back to form, check this out!
It isn’t real, (yet!) but I reckon that there are a couple of million people out there waiting for this mobile to pop up on the networks. Reckon the laser burning thing from the video might be something one or two of the UK providers object to! (click the picture to go to the page to see it in action)
It’s only a matter of time before this sort of thing becomes real and the driving force behind it will be the chavs out there who will not only use it to speak txtr language to each other, and rob people blind. Jesus, there I go again.
Better leave it there, thanks for reading. speak to you soon.
Cheersioly
Filed under: Football
Hello again, how’s it going?
Been off the blog for a while, as I’ve had loads to do, but hey, like I need to apologise to you!
Anyway, just a quick post of something which made me laugh a little bit. Those of you who grew up in my era, and those who grew up after it with a great ability to reminisce about times gone past will remember the fantasic Eric Morcambe and his diminuative side-kick Ernie Wise. Most shows they used to end up with the pair of them skipping off into the distance with their theme tune playing away.
Then I saw the picture above on the BBC website.
Made me laugh.
Well, football is back in less than a month and hopefully it will be a season based upon talented players, playing a game which we enjoy rather than a bunch of fucking rich people buying success and threatening law suits. (And still I ask McCabe to pack it in.)
Cheersy bye!
Filed under: Life
First post for a week cos I’ve been back to Sheffield for a while, away from the computer.
Kind of scary watching the events of the flood waters unfold on the national news being 400 miles away in the flattest lowest country in the world, most of which is below sea level, we had no flooding here, a few puddles yes, but no flooding.
I went down to Meadowhall on Tuesday night to pick up a few things, but never realised the extent to which the flood waters had been actually inside the shopping centre. Most of the bottom floor is still closed and the food court is apparently closed for 3 months, due to contamination – but having eaten there before, it might not be the flood water, just the food itself.
Still one thing remains in my mind quite clearly. Some of the shops are closed and some are open. Now that isn’t a problem to me, but some of the ones that are open are mixed in with those which are still closed. For those of you who don’t know the shopping centre, I should explain that, the whole centre “dips” in the middle by a good 6 or 7 feet in a gentle slope out from the centre. Now, up to pretty much halfway up the slope in both directions, the stores are closed. Then it gets strange for me.
A row of closed shops, to me, indicates the extent of the flood water. Then there should be shops open above this “tide” line, right? But, there is an open shop, then two more closed ones. So either the water was selective in which ones it attacked – but my understanding is that water, being a bunch of molecules and ruled by gravity and other physics laws, is pretty much indescriminate with it’s selection of victims, but that seems to conflict with this evidence.
So, has water started to attack those brands which it feels inethical in their trade – or are some stores getting new carpets in an insurance scam?
That’s my own cynical view on it, maybe there is an explanation, but after more than 10 years of the centre being open, maybe this is how a bit of refurbishment is being paid for… or are we seeing a new kind of terror in the UK? That of liquid terror, how long is it before the water in your body turns against you? Be afraid, be very afraid!
Red Bull in Europe is known for its’ sponsorship of extreme sports events, the beer, Becks is more the arty farty tipple. (and a very nice one it is too)
It seems that in the US Red Bull is trying to get in on the arts with the project above.
Not just flowers, but many different items lovingly sculpted in the artist’s favourite medium… Tin cans. I know, tin cans. But seriously this is worth checking out for a bit, really clever stuff, some are a bit poo I will admit but there are some real gems in there.
Now I remember when I was a kid, I cut my finger on a ringpull and got shoulted at by my mom, who was more concerned that I got blood on the table, than the remnants of the finger which was hanging off my hand. Kind of makes me think that if I tried to do anything along these lines then I would end up in the A+E of my local hospital with two shredded hands trying to explain how I managed to drive myself there without crashing the car and without passing out through blood loss.
So fair do’s to the artists involved in this project, you’ve chosen your media well, but can you draw a horses’ head? Eh? Eh? Can you? Yeah, thought not!
Design is an oasis of inspiration in the desert of life. (Camels poo in it, Nomads wash in it and it’s probably a mirage anyway. So just go thirsty, yeah?)
Being a designer and spending 90% of my waking hours infront of these infernal machines. Or so the website tells me upon arrival. It’s probably about right.
Whilst looking for a little something more interesting to put on my desktop as wallpaper, I ‘ve stumbled across this site which is basically an online exhibition of desktop graphics, from designers around the world.
Some of the images are great while others are brilliant. Some are just stunning.
Take your time to wander around this site checking out the last three years worth of desktops exhibited, it is going to be a great way to spend some of that 90%.
OK more to come, but when you have downlaoded some of the desktops from the desktopography site, sit and admire them. These pictures will give you a reason to keep your desktops tidy.
The desktop is the battleground and many a war has been won there. (I have no idea what that means.)
OI OI.
Been a few days since I posted last time but I’ve been distracted by that bloody work thing. You know how it goes, they give you something to do and you do it. Then they give you something else to do and you do that. Then, you guess what comes next?
Anyway, I’ve been working my ass off for a few days and other commitments meant that time on the computer and adding to the blog has been limited to say the least.
So here is the first in a line of things that I hope will not only align my blog Karma after the last rant about USB stuff that really has no purpose.
Here’s a nice little thing which is great to know in the current climate. Al Gore will approve.
The premiss is brilliant, you can plug in things into the Solar device and the cheeky little blighter charges your plugged in thing for you. Simple, green and more importantly – a gadget.
I can only see one downside to this little thing though. It seems that they only make it for the RAZR phone or the iPod nano. Cool if you have either of these items, but I have neither. So, on I go creating my own ozone hole and carbon footprint the size of a small developing nation. If only I had bought one of those tiny iPods.
The lord giveth gadgets, and the lord taketh away gadgets. In this world of ying and yang, I can’t help but think I have a pocket full of yong.
Laters. Innit.
Just when you thought it was safe to plug something back into your USB ports!
It seems that this might be the one thing that tops the USB letter opening hub/alarm clock I posted here a few days ago.
WHY do you need a computer to play against you? I really have to say this has no point what so ever. You actually play darts, yet this takes out of the game the only part that helps you burn any calories – the bloody maths. How does this beat actually using a real dart board and real darts? If it brought the darts back to you after you have thrown them, or it was laser guided or something, maybe this could be useful/fun, but please.
The only way this could get more pointless is if it was an inflatable dart board. I can’t articulate my derision toward this product right now.
Awwwww, look at it… I had managed to make goodness after the camera in the last post, but now I’ve gone a step to the dark side with this shit. Better keep looking for something cool to realign my blog karma. Grrrrr.
OH MY GOD! I WANT ONE!
This rocks, I’ve found something on the internet that has made me happy! Check this out, for years I’ve been taking photos that I never got round to stitching together to make a decent panorama and now it seems I’ve found the answer to my problem!
There’s been loads of those 360º panorama cameras around for ages, and lord knows I saw my fair share at photokina last year, but they are all pretty much on the too tippy top side of the price band I want to look at paying. This little puppy, however, is meant to be around $149US, about a thousand bucks less than the ones I was playing with last September!
Thinking that when I buy one it’ll be used three times then not ever used again. But those three uses will probably be fun.
Stuff is the eleventh commandment – thou shalt use things you have no need for yet thou shalt enjoyst it verily.
