Objectified

I just read about an interesting film airing on PBS:Independent Lens called Objectified. It about contemporary industrial design. Looks interesting.

Check it out here.

There is a quiz to see what object you are here. I'm a Spork!

I've been lax in posting, even though it is the daily post month. Oh well, I warned you it would happen. I've been busy hosting my friend Kara, and planning for the Thanksgiving weekend-long feast on the Oregon Coast.

In the meantime, here is an amazing paper art stop motion video:

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Charlotte Gainsbourg "Heaven Can Wait" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

New Charlotte Gainsbourg video, featuring Beck. Pretty trippy video. I haven't heard of her before, but I might need to check out the new album.

archinect shirts

These new shirts from Archinect probably only make sense to all the CAD monkeys out there, but I thought the idea was clever. They are like a secret handshake, if I saw someone wearing them I would instantly know that we were in the same club, albeit a sad, click click click on the screen sort of club.
I love the insulation and the concrete hatch.

Damn, my secret is out.

marriedtothesea.com

Bacon Martini

Add this to the list of things I will be enjoying in vegas, the Bacon Martini from the Double Down Saloon

Mr E-T

ramen snacks

For the record, I would like to state that I have a long history with eating ramen noodles straight from the packet. Sometimes I would sprinkle on the seasoning, but more often than not I would just crunch away on the uncooked brick o ramen. As the college years wore on, I discovered that ramen also had miraculous powers in avoiding (or at least minimizing) raging hangovers. The secret was, rather than collapsing into bed, you grab the biggest glass of water you can get your hands on, a packet or two of uncooked ramen, and you head into the great outdoors for a stroll around the block. My theory is that the water diluted the booze, both of which were then sucked up by the ramen, which slowed the absorption of alcohol into the body.

I'm no doctor, but I think I'm on to something.

What I never understood is that nobody shared my love of raw ramen. Come to find out, I've been in the wrong part of the world.

Thanks to the wonder that is Uwajimaya, I have come to realize that the Japanese have a rich appreciation for ramen based snack products. Sadly I can never remember my favorite brand, so I can't show you a picture. I can show the crazy new product that I tried tonight, the "everyone says GOOD GOOD EAT" ramen disks.
I want to go there

Twitter

So here's the thing...I joined twitter about a month ago. I didn't really join to tweet anything, I figure blogging more than I can keep up with so why feel guilty about slacking on one more thing. I joined so that I can read other people's tweets, particularly some of the design and food aggregating websites I follow.

As a result I keep getting messages telling me that so and so is now following me, and it turns out that so and so is a company. Whats the deal here? Are people selling my info, or are other people watching the twitter accounts of some of these sites and then sending messages to people that join them? Is this a whole new area of marketing that I never knew about?

For those that are interested, I'm listed as aufgefallen. As I said, I don't really tweet things. I don't understand the codes that people use, and it makes me feel like an old man. Maybe I'll have @californiakara give me a lesson or two when she comes to visit.

If you know of any interesting people or sites I should follow let me know.

the bare essentials of chuck

I'm not sure, but I think I love these shoes. They haven't been released yet, but Coolhunting posted about them today. They are a limited release designed by Terence Koh (asianpunkboy) for the Converse 1Hundred(red) line.
They have a striking, paired down simplicity, but I'm not sure if it works. I love the lack of eyelets on the shoelace holes, but why the white eyelets on the sides? I've always assumed that those are for ventilation, but let be honest with ourselves... nobody is going to throw these on to hit the court. These are for strollin, not for ballin. Maybe the vent holes were required, as they are a recognizable design element in all chucks. However, he was able to remove the contrasting stripe that usually runs around the top of the rubber sole, not to mention the diamond pattern in the rubber. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much, possibly its a white on white thing, the fact that white leather and white metal are never going to match, and this shoe is all about simplicity. If you are stripping it down to the bare essentials, why leave the vents?
All that aside, I do love them. The real reason I won't be purchasing a pair is the $150 price tag. I love chucks (I bought a new pair this weekend) and maybe I'm being naive, but I think of chucks as a sort of "people's shoe" the shoe for the masses. I just can't bring myself to pay four times the cost of a normal pair.