Ten Thousand Cents
from the universe
“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Three times, within about 30 minutes, I came across this quote while randomly surfing. I’d never heard it before tonight, but it’s something I’d like to keep in my brain. One site attributes it to the Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules. Another attributed it to a guy I couldn’t retrace my surfing to find. And it’s linked one everybody and their brother’s blog at the moment.
Damn.
We missed the inaugural Office Convention for our favorite TV show, the Office. 4,000 people showed up! Gotta go next year, b/c after that it’s gonna get crashed and ruined by people that don’t get it. Just like what happened to Buffett.
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Awesome. If you’re ready to get rid of Oriental Trading Cards monthly, or Brogan’s for Bimbos, this is the place to kill them both.
Concept cars from Honda
The first pic I saw of this car, it didn’t have the headlights on, I thought, where are the lights?? Doesn’t look terribly safe. This is one of those things that’s so new and alien, your brain struggles with, it looks like X, but it’s missing things X usually has. So maybe it isn’t X? I can’t even decide if I think it’s ugly or not! It’s silicone, and changes colors.
I think it’s hilarious. It reminds me of Scrubbing Bubbles. “We work hard, so you don’t have toooooooooooo…..” Or a bug (click the pic to see additional images, including funky upswing doors), or some anime character. I bet the engineers had a field day coming up with this one.
I also like the new hybrid sports car they came up with - the Honda CR-Z.
Manhole covers from Japan
I totally dig when design finds its way to utilitarian, taken for granted surfaces. There are several pages of these guys - click the ==> sign at the bottom of each page to scroll forward.
Interesting note from electro plankton on the symbols that look like swastikas:
“…it’s a Buddhist symbol that was used long before the Nazis.”
week 4
We’re doing the Atkins diet again. We’ve been very very good - even at the fair last week. No funnel cakes or fudge or french fries. It’s coming off slowly. We extended the induction diet past the normal 2 weeks and aim to stay on it at least another week. Feels like we’re cavemen - Grumba eat meat. Hilti get plants. Cow gives cheese. *celery crunch*
visualizing time
On my accumulated list of things I really want to do is to curate a show for which the only theme is “Time”.
Weirdly, this showed up in my RSS feed list yesterday. Icastic, a visualization specialty firm, asked people how they visualize time. There are some truly beautiful entries, like the one at left.
It’s also interesting to see the age/gender/profession of some of the entrants. The younger folks have some unexpected angles that I identify with, as well as ones from engineering minded folks. The ones I submitted haven’t shown up yet.
