SteamSHIFT

Japanese girl’s blog (just looked interesting!):

(Via Wooster Collective / A Celebration of Street Art.)

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this is really fantastic. christiana yambo over at censtron wanted to show

us how to make a wave vessel — a television-turned-audio oscilloscope machine.

their documentation shows you how to take an old

television set and hook it up to your stereo for audio/visual effects the likes of which most people only see in

winamp. a switch on the side of the tv allows you to choose between two visualization modes.

you can see a video of the wave vessel in operation on their site, complete with a ‘you spin me round’

dead or alive soundtrack. my opinion: pete

burns looks much better on the wave vessel.

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(Via hack a day.)

cardboard folding chair: “cardboard folders

THE OFFICIAL ‘HOW TO BUILD A CARDBOARD CHAIR’ GUIDE !

excerpts from designboom’s folding chairs competition, judged in summer 2003. (see info)
folding/unfolding designs / turn cardboard into a seat, cutouts, folded, lifesize standups and becoming flat again.

enjoy!

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Exactitudes (for anyone who insists they are unique! )

BT: Without getting into some big thing about this, yes I agree we are unique; but our similarities are often the basis for our understanding of our shared humanity (thusly respect for others etc.)

Hotel des Arts | San Francisco

In June 2004, START SOMA launched an art gallery in HOTEL DES ARTS - a boutique 51 room art hotel in the heart of Union Square.

The San Francisco Examiner included a nice feature story on our inaugural opening.

According to the article, San Francisco’s first art hotel is a ’slick, gallery-type space showcasing the talents of local emerging artists’, notable for its focus on ‘edgy, affordable, original art’.

shipping containers

Heartily recommend reading this very funny article which actually had me having to suppress a few out-loud chortles at work!

Yongfook.com - The Japanese Food Blog Now With 42% More Death Wish

“Anyway today I will introduce another form of Evil, perhaps more evil than the above mentioned Evils by a factor of 9.

This is ‘Happoshu’, or as I tend to refer to it, UnBeer.”

(Via Yongfook.com - The Japanese Food Blog.)