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January 31, 2013

Goodbye, Liz Lemon.

I will be watching the one-hour finale and mourning. Thank you, Tina Fey.

And, oh - my heart. Liz Lemon & Jack Donaghy.

And just Jack.

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Flat Life Clock.

A two-dimensional image performs as if it were the three-dimensional object. Here, magic, humor and surprise combine into a fully functional military time clock.

Designer: Finn Magee
Material: Printed PET and Electronics
Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.5 x .25 inches
Cord - 119.5 inches

AREAWARE: Flat Life Clock

January 30, 2013

I've been dying to post this, but I wanted to see if it actually worked first. It did! I sent one of these off to my friend Tina last week, and it got there today.

This is quite possibly the greatest way to send snail mail ever. Well done, 16 Sparrows. Well done.

Place your message in the supplied pouch, put the stamps on it, and pop it in the blue mail box on your corner! The bird will arrive at its destination to the delight and awe the recipient. Included in the kit:

1 Pigeon (plastic, not real folks!)

3 Pigeon Post message forms 3 mailing label pouches

Instructions on how to mail

Postage for one mailing

16 Sparrows | Pigeon Post

(Thanks to Olga Nunes for posting Pigeon Post on her twitter feed! Lovely girl.)

January 29, 2013

Plank Shelf.

If I actually ever put my phone down for more than 15 minutes, this is where I would want to leave it. So pretty.

Plank Shelf | AHAlife

Brand logos by Antrepo.

Minimal and beautiful.

The pared-down logos found on vintage Japanese cameras inspired Istanbul-based design consultancy Antrepo to create conceptual minimal logos for web brands like Facebook, Google and YouTube...

See them all here:
Dezeen: Made in Japan brand logos by Antrepo

(Thanks for the tip, Jason Reimer.)

Live abroad in your own home.

These murals by PIXERS are breathtaking. Select one of their designs (FYI - they're not all travel-related) or create your own. Daaaamn. So cool.

Not long ago, in a country where the average temperature is more suited to a polar bear, where the food is washed down with melting icicles and sarcastic smiles never disappear off people’s faces, there were two guys who had a different perception of the reality.

During one, particularly heavy, December night spent in the company of Mr. Jack Daniel’s, they realised just how sad and ugly were the walls surrounding them. They later noticed that it wasn’t just their walls that were mutilated by miserable copies of famous paintings, the atrocity happened all over the country!

“F*ck! I can’t look at yet another Mona Lisa!!” exclaimed one to the other, this time accompanied by Mr. Johnnie Walker. The following day PIXERS was born and the world became a different place.

PIXERSIZE.com - the most pixersized shop on Earth

(via the always-brilliant Inhabitat)

January 28, 2013

Minakani Lab – Animals Wallpaper.

How amazing is this wallpaper? Wow.

Minakani Lab: Animals Wallpaper

Comma Workshop quilts.

I think I posted these before, but I don't care. I could not be more in love with Comma Workshop's quilts. COULD NOT. I covet every single one.

Collections @ Comma Workshop

January 25, 2013

100 designers. 100 tiny wooden cars.

These wee wooden cars make me happy.

100 Designers Each Create a Wooden Toy Car : TreeHugger

(view all of them here)

Bear braid rug.

Ever since I saw this in Dwell magazine last year, I've wished someone would make one of these. A perfect illustration by Craighton Berman.

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Big idea.

I love it.

Poorly Drawn Lines – Big Idea

January 24, 2013

Storing sonnets on a double helix.

All it took was a couple of guys having a few pints and figuring out that you can use DNA as a hard drive.

They started with a text file of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. In the computer's most basic language, it existed as a series of zeroes and ones. With a simple cipher, the scientists translated these zeroes and ones into the letters of DNA.

And then they did the same for the rest of Shakespeare's sonnets, an audio clip of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and a picture of their office. They sent that code off to Agilent Technologies, a biotech company...

The idea of storing data – text, audio and images – in DNA to save space is beyond mind-bending.This statement alone gives me vertigo.

If you took everything human beings have ever written — an estimated 50 billion megabytes of text — and stored it in DNA, that DNA would still weigh less than a granola bar.

NPR: Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix : NPR

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Massive Chicago Warehouse Fire Leaves Building Shrouded in Ice.

There must be a word for something so simultaneously beautiful and disturbing.

Laughing Squid: Massive Chicago Warehouse Fire Leaves Building Shrouded in Ice

Brooklyn Toile wallpaper.

I'm completely mesmerized by this wallpaper, commissioned by Mike D. of the Beastie Boys.

Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys decided he wanted a Brooklyn inspired toile wallpaper that would line the walls of his Brooklyn brownstone. The vision was to pay tribute to all things Brooklyn in a way that would appear to be a traditional French Country Toile, but when you step to it the pattern reveals elements and vignettes that make up the truth about Brooklyn. Mike approached Vincent J. Ficarra and Adela Qersaqi of Revolver New York to help execute his vision artistically and Flavor Paper to produce the design as wallpaper. Due to the level of detail and shading in Vincent’s design we decided to produce the Brooklyn Toile as a digital print, but stay tuned as it may be revised into a hand screened print soon!

Brooklyn Toile captures many angles of life in the King’s borough from Coney Island to Hasidic Jews to Notorious B.I.G., the design covers many of the aspects of daily life dealing with subways and pigeons in a poetic way. Go on and get some!!!