4 Design Lessons from the Flip
We’ve noticed there becomes a point where the features in a product set no longer help the user, instead becoming a hindrance to its usage. Video camcorders reached that point, opening an opportunity for someone to come in with a better product that has only those essential features. By studying how the Flip takes advantage of this opportunity, we can all learn how to make better designs by doing more with less.
I Will Possess Your Heart
From their new album Narrow Stairs which was released yesterday.
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better
Thom says, ” This is the sexiest song ever written”.
Goodbye To The Normals
Everything Has To End Somewhere
A beautiful song from Things in Herds at the Fence Homegame festival in Anstruther, April 2007.
Dear clusterflock
What should be in the clusterflocksockpuppet video?
I’ve warned the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets that we’d like to commission a video and help sponsor them in their efforts to bring their show to The Fringe Festival. The Socks have responded:
You little beauties. We’ll pull out the stops for you!
Love The Socks
I can scarcely contain my glee, people! This is a chance to be a modern Medici of the Sock Puppet arts, and we’ll most likely be the only blog that has a sock puppet PR video. Contribute funds or just your ideas.
Dear Clusterflock
Are moustaches attractive?
Saturday Night
Strong contender for the greatest photo of all time.
Lulu de Kwiatkowski
LULU is a sumptuous first monograph on artist Lulu de Kwiatkowski’s colorful, dreamlike, and autobiographical handmade collages.
Clusterflock/Scottish Socks Video
Ok, people. So far Deron, me, Cindy, and Sheila are hip to the idea of getting The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre to create a custom video for us. They need funds to help pay for their trip to Edinburgh and we need adorable puppets to speak our names in Scottish accents, talk about clusterflock, and basically be our bitch. Anyone else interested in pitching in?
Socks Video Star
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are looking for help to get them to Edinburgh for The Fringe Festival in August. For $200 they will create a custom video for you and upload it to YouTube. I’m thinking a clusterflock socks video could be brilliant. Anyone interested?
Good Thangs: Green Thangs
In honor of Earth week, I’ve decided to show a few things that are “planet friendly” and also beautiful.
Pretty Bird Applique Necktie by Sugarlust
Recycling at its best here. These ties are just lovely and you can feel good about having these hanging on your neck. Now how many things can we say that about? [$15.]
Handmade wooden spoons by Live Wire Farm
These spoons are carved by hand and sanded from Vermont timber and are finished with a food-grade mineral oil. Yes, they’re made from trees, but these fall under the category of good design that lasts. These won’t end up in a landfill like that cheap vinyl tube dress you’re too fat to wear anymore. [spoons range from $10 to $50.]
Warm & Fuzzy Nesting Bowls at Modern Dose
A set of three hand-made fuzzy nesting bowls made from felted, crocheted wool. So much classier than the beer koozy made from your hair that your college boyfriend made. [$65.95.]
Students Freak Out When They Go Tech-free
For one week — five days, really — a class of college students was assigned to unplug and live a tech-free life.
No cell phones. No iPods. No computers, TVs or video games. It was enough to make a “millennial” weep.
Dear Clusterflock
What have you done recently, or will be doing in the near future that scares you?
The Rather Difficult Font Game
Traffic Jam Scene from Imaginary Vampire Film
Salvador Dali and Chocolate
Fifteen beautiful seconds of oddness.
Please Make It Stop
The beamz™ unleashes the musical creativity that’s harbored in every soul.
It’s worth watching the whole thing.
Polaroid: A Personal Reminiscence
Now that Polaroid is discontinuing its most famous instant film, a former camera girl recalls her love of the snapshot. Above, David Bowie, 1980.
Good Thangs: For the Guest Bath
I found a few things for your hall bathroom that are sure to give your guests something to ponder while they pee. Sure, they are a bit left of center, but there’s nothing wrong with that unless you’re talking about your boyfriend’s aim.
One Man Hang by propaganda
Size really doesn’t matter, but you get some big extra points if you can hang a towel on it. Sadly, this type of strength and consistency can only be found in molded plastic items like this towel hook. Naughty Mr. P also comes in white, blue, and orange. Now if only the real ones did. [$12.50.]
Butt Face Soap at FunkyBathroom.com
I don’t think these need any explaining. Use this decorative and utilitarian soap instead of a dish of those cheap-floral-scented mini rose “turds”. Yes, leave the BUTT side up. Matching towels also available. [$3.49.]
Skull Hand Towel by Kathy Steig
Those little surprises and unique items are what creates home decor that says, “You”. This is why for nosey guests I’ve stocked the medicine cabinet with 20 tubes of Astro Glide, a roll of electrical tape, a garlic press, a snake bite kit, and a disposable Elizabethan collar. These adorable skull hand towels convey a similar “Don’t Fuck With Me” theme. I believe Cindy has them in pink. [$20.]
Becks Gets The Midas Touch
Reportedly, Mr. Beckham has been gifted with a gilded iPod touch (the top-end 32GB model, no less) by his English teammates after participating in his 100th appearance for the national club.
Guess Who Might Star in the Magnum P.I. Movie
How Green Is Your Renovation?
I read this article on the plane to California last week and thought it had some good information from a group of green-renovation experts. Our renovation is almost complete, but I know there are still some things we could do to save energy and improve our indoor air quality (like taking off our shoes at the door).
I don’t like carpet and this quote solidified my decision to not put it in my home:
For one thing, if you’re concerned about indoor air quality, most carpets off-gas volatile organic compounds [VOCs] inside the home, and they collect dirt. As a former remodeling contractor, who has torn out old carpet, I can tell you: Old carpet weighs much more than new carpet.
Justine Ashbee
These drawings are executed purely by hand, using Sharpie pens. I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate, elegant precision.
Remix Nude For Radiohead
Radiohead have broken up the band’s new single “Nude” into pieces for you to remix. Buy the separate components or ’stems’ (bass, voice, guitar, strings/FX and drums) off iTunes and remix your own version of the song. You can do this by adding your own beats and instrumentation or just remixing the original parts. More information is available here.