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you thought we wouldn’t notice.

January 31st, 2009
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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:

Design, Links

Grace Jones : Hurricane

January 28th, 2009
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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.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/grace-jones-in-chocolate/

Design

In-n-Out Secret Menu

January 23rd, 2009

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.

-http://daviswiki.org/In-N-Out_Secret_Menu

Read more…

Wellness

Objectified

January 23rd, 2009
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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?

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com

Design

The Car of the Future : Here in October.

January 23rd, 2009

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.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/1st-pre-product.html

Automotive, Design, Tech

100 Meters of Existence

January 23rd, 2009
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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.

visit the site: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Art

Famous Artists Cartoon Course Lesson 7: Pretty Girls

January 23rd, 2009
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You must build the forms as an architect plans a house

Art

January 20th, 2009

Friendly FiresSkeleton Boy, directed by Nexus Productions.

via booooooom.

Misc

Wally : Sail, Power, Yachts and Ski

January 18th, 2009

MarriedToTheSea

January 13th, 2009
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No historical accuracy is implied or intended in Married To The Sea comics.

humor

CES: 1,000 FPS point and shoot Casio

January 7th, 2009
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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.

Tech

To all college grads…

January 6th, 2009

Project Indigo : vertical

January 4th, 2009

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.

http://www.jessevandijk.net/g_08_76.html

Architecture, Art

Don’t yell at your computer.

January 2nd, 2009
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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.

Tech, humor

It not getting up, it’s about getting down.

January 2nd, 2009

I’m not sure which is better, 322ft over a football field or 10 stories up, and down.


Misc

Rogue Antivirus Dissected

January 2nd, 2009

Here’s a little background info on Antivirus 2008, which isn’t antivirus software at all.  Get a load of how much money these guys are making.

http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/rogue-antivirus

Tech