Happy Inside
Amy Lombard photographed awkward moments in IKEA stores, a book with her series is being published. She’s now raising funds with pre-orders. See more.
12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group
I think this is my favorite story of 2011.
image out of context
30 for Thirty Days, the latest post…
I’m still following the prompts from someone I know, sort of.
I am in need
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
I am in need of a nice big dresser mine broke so now I dont have one and all my cloths are on my floor and so if anyone has one or to they dont need please email me sooner the better thanks
My favorite public bathroom
in Chicago is in IIT’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center, designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA. I’ve loitered in it twice within 24 hours — and I’m staying and working three miles north of IIT.
I think Deron wants to move in. Whether into the bathroom or the Center generally, I’m not sure.
I saw Deron in Oslo
At Akershus Castle.
KinectFusion
At SIGGRAPH 2011, Microsoft Research demonstrated some absolutely phenomenal 3D scanning with their Kinect device:
This is all with a $150 video game accessory. The multitouch demo at the 7 minute point is especially impressive.
dear clusterflock
Post a photo of your fridge.
The Bradbury Building
Another thing Amanda did while I was in Los Angeles was give me a tour of the city that was both incredibly personal and instructive. The most amazing moment was how she handled taking me to The Bradbury Building. It almost feels unfair to describe it — so you can get a glimpse of what the experience was like — because that’s the opposite of how she handled it. She just said, I’m going to take you by The Bradbury, and we parked, and then we walked in.
dream name
Austin Derwatt.
tweet of the day
spam name
Owne Chamber.
Civil Defense Planning
So I’ve made arrangements to fly to Texas for cfsIII and am thinking that it would be helpful to have a rough layout of the property with special emphasis paid to structures and to their points of entry or exit.
My concerns are: Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, and the Mummy. Also, possibly, the Living Dead.
When I was around eight or so, I worked out plans of action in the event that on my way home from school I was pursued by any of the above. There is really a lot to consider, and I would hate to be caught unprepared.
A Toilet Room.
Natural Food Conservatory. Niagara, New York. [Between 1900 and 1906.]
More archival images of bathrooms, please.
(Note: The Natural Food Conservatory was one of the names of the company that made Shredded Wheat cereal. In 1928 the company was sold to what became Nabisco.)
from the comments
I can tell you where a paragraph of information is in a book I have read based on the shape of it, but not the exact wording.
from the archives: March 18, 2010
Damn, this was fine.
Like you’d expect, it started out good and the comments made it all more betterer.
searching for the house of Ruben Bustes
Daryl, Sheila and I saw something today we think is the setting for a story. Driving through an old Oak Cliff neighborhood, looking for the house of Ruben Bustes (that’s a story in itself), we came across a one story ranch on a corner lot. The back was fenced with low chain link fortified inside with cactus. Inside the yard was another fence, also fortified with cactus, that housed a small dog house. I think that’s all we’ve got. Please tell us what it means.
from Sheila’s email
I send my friend a link to a live Google map of overnight shelters in Tokyo. I don’t know why. He lives in Dallas.
Jeezo. It looks like a map of the many aftershocks. I had to escape the media and watch the spider chow down on an ant.
Cat-Library™
This would solve all my problems. All of them.
(Via Dylan, who got it from Charlie)
from the spam
Wow whethered you go to college.
Tiny Yellow House #2: “Gypsy Junker”
A recycled portable cabin-shack-fort-bunkhouse (“semi-viable housing”). As featured in the NYT: The $200 Microhouse.
Refreshing the Resort
The general manager of our neighborhood resort:
We gave the resort a “refresh” as we modernized the overall look of our Inn rooms. Overall the results have created quite an impact, while keeping with the rustic country motif in an underlying modernized quaintness.
We were here, we were queer
(Reuters) – Two undertakers in the northwestern German city of Cologne are trying to tap into the gay market by selling coffins adorned with images of male nudes.
OFFER: 2 Gallons Purple Sherwin Williams Paint
I have a friend who wanted to paint her master a light purple color, but she didn’t like it. Let me know if you’re interested asap! Thanks!
Must be willing to drive to Dubuque.
Miniatures (II)
The Leo S. Singer Miniature Room Collection at the Palm Springs Art Museum consists of 12 miniature interiors that depict the theme of laundry, a subject with special significance for Mr. Singer.
