The Boombox Project is created by photographer Lyle Owerko. A great visual archive of ‘ghetto blasters’ and ‘jam boxes’

via Thought of the Week

In Architecture school I spent alot of time with one of these KOH-I-NOOR 5611 leadholders in my hand. Usually loaded with a 2H or 3H lead. Its all metal construction felt heavy in the hand and very very solid. I havn’t used one in years and I think I kind of miss it. You can check out a great collection of leadholders over at leadholders.com, a museum for leadholders.

Lost Formats Preservation Society

The society was founded in 2000 with
the design of Emigre issue no. 57.
It’s sole purpose is to save formats
from obscurity.

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Every year the ID Annual Design Review highlights the best in design across several design disciplines. I took some photos of the items that really caught my attention. Click through the photos to go to the flickr set or go grab the magazine on the news-stand. You can also see the projects on exhibition in NY at Parsons School of Design until September 28th.

Flip up swim fins seem like an idea that should have happened so long ago its absurd. I know televison and movies are filled with frogmen wearing flippers walking all awkwardly and backwards due to the flippers. Will this be gone? Will anyone miss it?

All the objects that nest with each other got their own spread. The bits I liked here were the magnetically nesting measuring spoons. The rest are nice bowls mostly.

Johnson Banks designed beautiful stamps featuring Beatles covers. The beauty is that the stamps are die cut around the ’stacked’ albums, creating custom shaped stamps. Tedious/fun task highlighted - getting the layout to work with the pitch of the stamp perforations.

Resizable interlocking bed is really beautiful and a definitely a step up from the one-size-fits-all metal bedframe. You can upgrade from a bed for one to a bed for two (add another mattress) elegantly

Ribbon stools based on the elegance of an unfurled ribbon made with laser cut, cold hard steel.

Concept project showing the waterline in New York City - Office buildings on Park Avenue - once the polar ice caps melt due to global warming.

Twice a month I get an email from photojojo that shows me a few pictures from my flickr from 1 year ago in a Photo Time Capsule. As things move so fast, and, at least for me, time to reflect and revisit past events seems to be missing from my regular routine. This is why I like getting these emails so much. I can take a peek at a year ago, revisit some memories and generally brighten my day. At the bottom of the mail is a great little form to send yourself a message in the future that will be delivered with your photojojo mail a year from now. A message to oneself feels a lot different than a photo that was meant for both myself and others, but I am interested in reading what I said a year from now.

last week I received my muxtape-to-tape from russelldavies. I still haven’t listened to the tape (I cheated and listened to crusty.muxtape.com

Many thanks to Russell for this little gem of internet physicality.

The undersea cable that make up much of the long haul data transfer on the internets. This map from the Guardian details the incident where a cable was damaged by a ships anchored and internet traffic was significantly affected. Hacker Tourist’s may be interested in the story surrounding many of these cables as reflected by Neal Stephenson in Wired magazine a few years ago.

RFIDs are usually hidden from view within a plastic card, an opaque sticker, or our passport. There is quite a bit of unexpected beauty hidden in the physical chips themselves and they project a level of personality where one expects bland functional uniformity. Ping Mag has taken a look at these aesthetic qualities of RFID chips and have classified several specimens with names such as Weather Satellite, Outer Space and Alien Sketchbook, seen above respectivly.

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I have no commentary on the suitability of the IKEA in Red Hook or its impact on the local neighborhood. I do however like the apartment inside a cardboard box promotion. And appropriately sized.

In Zurich I saw IKEA cabinets walking around to promote a new store.

[UPDATE: It's a hoax. ]Artist Erik Nordenankar placed a customized GPS into a travel case and gave it to the nice folks at the shipping company DHL along with some instructions. Upon its return 55 days later the GPS tracklog produced the above drawing. There is a video and of course some prior art at gpsdrawing.com.

biggestdrawingintheworld.com

my first post to dawdlr went up today. dawdlr is set up by one of the more interesting people around, Russell Davies who describes it as such:

I’ve tried to make dawdlr way slower than twitter. I reckon most people I know twitter about twice a day, so dawdlr is going to update twice a year. To try and get people to say what they’re doing, you know, more generally.

Its been over six months since I posted. I must have missed last Novembers posting by a few short days.