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Konono N°1 – CONGOTRONICS
You can almost hear the raw hacked electricity humming across and amplifying their music… “KONONO N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a…
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USWM at Cabaret
United Steel Works of Montreal are playing at the CABARET PLAYHOUSE on Thursday June 22, 2006 w/The Kent Boys — 5656 Avenue du Parc, Montréal, Qc at 9 PM. A…
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Balaklave Submarine Base
From what babel fish has pieced together for me … “The Balaklave Submarine Base in the USSR — Constructed between 1957 and 1961 — it is also a high-level atomic…
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Waves in Prince Edward Island
Jesse posted some of photos from last years trip to PEI. He’s made the pilgrimage quite a few times to meet up with family. Everytime but one there have been…
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One year
Seems the anniversary of my first year of having fun with WordPress has passed. 400 posts in one year — I wouldn’t have bet on myself to ever publish that…
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999 Design Classics
An awesome set of books to own … Great page layout – great design – and inspiration for years ! “A three-volume set containing the ultimate selection of design classics,…
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Electrici-Tree
Very nice idea, although lacking a bit of gracefulness a tree branch contains. “Electrici-Tree is a three-branch daisy-chainable rubber extension lead. Cast from real tree branches. Magnets in the back…
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Lighter Bike
A lovely re-assembly of an object — How to create a mini motorcycle out of a lighter. I know one or two people who will be working on this for…
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Inverted Graffiti
Sad that the cops still want to bust this guy… “A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes for money…
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Jes at The Wall, NH
Jesse catching a great fast right on Saturday afternoon. Our first weekend back down to New Hampshire. Overall it rocked – a bit rainy but — we found a new…
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Emigre Ceramics
Something that I’ll return to one day, hopefully along the lines of hand-fired Raku… “Ceramics began for me as a distraction to the tedious aspects of typeface design work. The…
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Wall shacks
Woke up this AM ready to go for our first weekend down in NH/ME. Checked The Wall Cam to see how today looks as Jes and Steph are already down…
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In the Line Up
A podcast that has grown on me.. “In The Lineup” is SurferMag.com’s LIVE talk radio show hosted by Online Editorial Director Scott Bass and co-hosted by a smattering of SURFER…
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Japanse Kitchens
One of the more interesting slideshows from the NYTimes… “In Tokyo, where land can be prohibitively expensive and plots unbelievably small, flexible space and multipurpose rooms are not just design…
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Red rain
“As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state…