So, stressful Wednesday this will be referred to from now on. Not going into it, but needless to say I’m not a fkn happy chap. People tell you something, tell it you wrong, then it is denied, meaning you have to fly to London at great cost, they deny it was wrong in the first place. Anyway, everyone gets landed in shit at some point. Just seems to be more than often with me.
OK, well stopping the bull shit now. This is something awesome. It’s a web gallery of the new office for Googles’ Swiss operation in Zurich. I work in the creative industries and know the value of a great place to work. The way “stuff” can help to propagate ideas and make them flourish. Needless to say this place looks amazing. The picture above is an example of their informal meeting areas. I would settle for one of those Taxi things.
Thing is, if you can get this kind of idea of an ideal work place past a boss who thinks that a 4m square desk with nothing upon it except a monitor, is needed to display creativity, then you are a genius. If your gaffer understands the concept of inspiration then try. You might just end up working in a place that looks like a giant playground, like these lucky bastards.
Anyway, feeling bitter about stuff at the mo, so click the pic above to go to the picture gallery that the kind (and somewhat braggy) people at Google Switzerland have created for our visual delight.
Help keep the children of the world fed, keep them warm and loved by using design as a giant edible blanket in which to wrap them.
Once in a while a piece of art comes along which strikes you as original, clever and downright good looking. In this instance, a fella has written some code/witchcraft to use malware (the nasty bits of software that do nasty bits of work on your computer) to create a beautiful and organic image to represent the nasty bit of software itself.
Dig deeper into his site and you will find that he also grows something which he calls “spam plants”. These use more code/witchcraft to take spam messages and grow them into more organic looking and in some cases beautiful images.
It kind of reminds me of those art images based on fractals which did the rounds in poster stores in the 1990’s. But there is something wonderful about these images, something which makes you want more. The uniqueness is interesting to me and the way in which they seem different each time you look at them is equally as enthralling.
Just one thing strikes me about this though, and that is that this guy has to have been sent a virus and spam at some point to get this going, so god help him now his project is public, as he will be doubtless bombarded with the stuff we spend our online lives trying to avoid. Take this one step further and imagine loosing the work to a virus itself… Hope he has a picture called, “My back up” On a serious note though, good work Alex, stunning images and an original idea. Nice.
Design is the fabric of the universe, it wraps us all, keeps us warm and makes you feel snuggly. It needs washing occasionally though, so be careful it doesn’t shrink.
OK after that shark post, I’m gonna stick to terra firma, and show you these great cushions from the French firm called Smarin design.
These awesome home accessories are made to look like stones and can be stacked up like you used to do on holiday when you were a kid, thus making many different combinations to use as couches and chairs.
I know not everyone wants to look like fred flintstone did their house in a changing rooms special edition, but I really think these would be a great addition to a room. They make them for outside too which would look great by a pool (like ours) or just cast around a patio terrace.
OK, Mom, I lied about the pool, but hey, I can dream.
Thanks, lets use design as a tool to make the world a better place as we know it really needs it.
cheers for now.
Filed under: Design, Life, stuff | Tags: health, ocean, safety, sea, shark, sharks, swim
There’s something great about finding a scientific experiment going awfully wrong whilst surfing the inter tubes on a Sunday afternoon… and this one is no exception.
Turns out that over the last few years there has been some development in the shark versus human battle that goes on in the seas off the coast of Australia and South Africa. These developments are the deployment of anti shark devices designed to ward off those greedy sea monsters are actually attracting them.
The devices emit an electrical field which, far from repelling the oceans’ top carnivores, attracts them to the point of fresh flesh feeding frenzy.
The inquest into the death of a scientist studying cuttlefish in 2005 heard how he was issued with two of these anti shark devices, which he might not have used… Even better is that the University staff who gave him them also warned him of the health dangers of using them. Irony of irony. Health and safety that you bastard, as my friend, Darren would say. Seems that they didn’t anticipate that the actual health risk would not be a minor risk of electric shock or dropping them on your pinky toes but to induce an attack by a great white shark. Didn’t see that coming did you.
Since then the university has actually tested the devices, numerous tests actually drawing interest from sharks and one resulting in the device itself actually being eaten by a 4 metre long female great white.
Anyway, goes to prove that, as humans we have no damn business in the ocean what so ever. Not never. Not never ever. I’m never paddling again, even off the coast of Holland.
Cheers for now, I’m off to design an anti Lion device which will result in certain death for those using it on the bloody BBC programmes in that safari park they film at.
Bye for now!
So here’s a thing. This guy, the artist Carlos Aires, has produced these great looking figures from the wonderful audio medium that is Old Vinyl. It’s a sad thing to see the greatest recording medium in history going to the grave, but then in a way that looks so cool it isn’t a problem again. Oil based music media Karma restored.
Anyway, just a little post, cos I’m busy but thought it was cool enough to put on here… Go to the website to see more and see how cool they are.
Cheesy bye for now.
