youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com is an open blog dedicated to pointing out those things that give you that feeling of ‘haven’t I seen that somewhere before?”…
The new Banana Republic store that just opened in London this March put up 2 window displays that are definite “inspiration” of my work without my consent (the only thing they changed are the colors). A friend who was in London took these photos thinking it was my work….and emailed me to check. Take a look:
Image has always been an integral part of Grace Jones’ music career, her visual identity being almost as important as her voice. The artwork for her latest album, Hurricane, designed and art directed by Tom Hingston Studio, knowingly works the conceit of the popstar as visual commodity: in this case featuring life-size versions of Jones made out of chocolate.
At In-N-Out you can order custom-made food. Some customizations are available at no additional cost; those that use inventoried items such as cheese, meat, and buns cost extra. While it’s not on the printed menu, there are buttons on the cash register for these items. You can pretty much order anything you want, as long as they have the ingredients (e.g., putting onions in a milkshake). While the “secret” menu is listed on the In-N-Out corporate site, it is far from complete.
Also, keep in mind that since you can customize anything, you can feel free to order whatever you want and create your own “double-secret personal menu”. Get a 0×3 with four slice of tomato on a double toasted bun and call it a “cheesy wiki”. The following are just the custom orders that are popular enough to go by well known names.
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Aptera Motors has rolled out the first pre-production model of the 2e, an all-electric three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200 mpg and goes 100 miles on a charge. It’s a significant milestone for the Southern California startup, which plans to put the first cars in driveways by Halloween and looks like a contender to win the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize.
There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer of 2007.
This week is CES. While the economy might be a bit flat (understatement), there are still plenty of new products being announced at the show. This one in particular caught my eye; The Casio EX-FC100. It’s a $400 point and shoot which packs in 9-megapixels, 30fps @ 6-megapixels (1080p HDTV is only 2-megapixel), 720p HD Video and up to 1,000 fps @ lower resolutions.
In december 2007 I sketched around a single theme for a while as a personal side project. I tried to envision what a huge -vertical- seaside city would look like in a world where dry land is very precious. This city would be situated on a huge pillar in a ‘cavity’ in the sea; possibly an inactive volcano crater of some sorts. I assumed a level of technology of western European countries around the seventeenth century. Naturally I had to take some huge liberties with the actual mechanical possibilities of these constraints to make a city in a hole in the sea work, not to mention a vertical city.
I’m bringing in the new year with another tech entry. In any case, yelling at your drive won’t help performance at all. In fact, it will hurt it. Sure it’s only 5ms worth, but regardless, vibrations are bad.
