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I also have a website and a journal.
I post pictures to flickr, bookmarks to del.icio.us, and day-to-day minutiae to twitter.
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Know any Savannah gardeners?
I do! I do! I’ll try to see if she’s up for it. I’m assuming this is for Senior Studio? Keep us updated on your progress!
I made an animated GIF of my brother practicing his drumming, just for fun.
Scenario -
Imagine being stranded after a major disaster in a major city. Most of the city’s power is out, the water is undrinkable and food is scarce. As we’ve learned in the last few years from many a sad sad experience, most people just aren’t prepared for conditions following a natural or otherwise major disaster. What would you take with you? What would be the ultimate 72 hour survival kit?
First prize is a Wacom Intuos 4 drawing tablet, 2 runners-up get Alias Sketchbook Pro 2010.
Sketch/Design Competition: 72 Hour Survival Kit | Industrial Design Sketching and Drawing Tutorials
A list of tactics to use if contacted by a telemarketer, courtesy of Ze Frank. Example:
In an outrageously excited tone: “Thank god you called!!!” Explain that an online psychic told you that your future lover would randomly call disguised as an asshole.
1973 Volvo P1800 ES
 is on its way.](http://22.media.tumblr.com/SqHZoTWKZp7kaurjdXdyxJ02o1_500.jpg)
Instead of hiding your outlets behind furniture… (from David Friedman)
My dream home has these walls. Wait, forget that, [WiTricity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiTricity) is on its way.
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Picture of the day - New Scientist
This toaster was built from scratch by Thomas Thwaites, a design student at the Royal College of Art, London, as a project in extreme self-sufficiency and to highlight the effects of mass production we take for granted. Using a £5 ($8) toaster as a model he spent a 9-month period, gathering the raw material by hand from mines across the UK and processing them himself. He smelted the iron ore in an old microwave. The final product cost close to £1200 ($2000), more than 200 times the cost of his shop-bought model. The toaster will be on display at the RCA Summer show in London this week, where Thwaites hopes to “toast [visitors] something”. (Image: Daniel Alexander)](http://5.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkp6cfev0mkSWQysPo1_500.jpg)
Picture of the day - New Scientist
This toaster was built from scratch by Thomas Thwaites, a design student at the Royal College of Art, London, as a project in extreme self-sufficiency and to highlight the effects of mass production we take for granted.
Using a £5 ($8) toaster as a model he spent a 9-month period, gathering the raw material by hand from mines across the UK and processing them himself. He smelted the iron ore in an old microwave.
The final product cost close to £1200 ($2000), more than 200 times the cost of his shop-bought model. The toaster will be on display at the RCA Summer show in London this week, where Thwaites hopes to “toast [visitors] something”.
(Image: Daniel Alexander)
“Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.” Interesting project at Eyebeam. More here: Window Farms
I love Eyebeam
DJ Stout over at Pentagram suggests cigarette packaging designs that “embrace the restrictions and make cigarettes look truly dangerous.”
Where There’s Smoke… | Pentagram via Rob Walker
