I need more walls

Hand printed trompe l'oeil wallpapers by Deborah Bowness

I want to go there:

Place of interest one: WAX Partnership
(This place reminds of that time the press was spinning stories about David Bowie being stalked by a giant pink rabbit)



Place of Interest two: Atelierdorp
Collaboration heaven, albeit probably through clouds of toxic resin fumes. What could be better than nightly dinner parties and 18hour model making days? I want to go there.
via Core77

the end of: too much time on my hands?

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I was sitting on the subway today on my way home when this song started playing on my headphones. As I sat there during rush hour, I couldn't help but think what the video for this song looked like, and lo and behold, it was exactly how I imagined it would be (especially the special effect motion-trailing during the intro....amazing!)

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chaaanges

Click for link to video. [by Lorcan Finnegan]

Spring is almost here, although you can barely tell through the freezing wind, sleet, and snow. Hopefully this video will make the rest of your cold, dark, wintery week a little more colourful.

{cue "Changes" by David Bowie now}

Lady Chair

I was planning on adding this project to my portfolio, but that may take a few more days as I wrangle with Photoshop to put someone sitting in the chair for scale and context. In any case, after Solidworks crashed on me about 18 times in two days (no wonder I left this chair unfinished for 5 months), I figured I might as well preview it here first before I get distracted by other things (like b-day, interview, apartment hunting, new job, and the design collective)

"Feminine movement, gesture, and posture must exhibit not only constriction, but grace as well, and a certain eroticism restrained by modesty: all three."
(p. 68, Femininity and Domination, Sandra Lee Bartky)

The Lady is an observation and socially-driven chair design. The design is constrained and inspired by the way in which women sit and how they became to sit by the social conventions of femininity. Lipstick rouge-stained oak with a laser-cut baroque pattern, the Lady takes up a small footprint and becomes an extension of the lady sitting in it. Whereas women tend to sit more forward in their seats, the Lady has a considerably more shallow seat, encouraging this sitting tendency while diminishing space footprint.

In other words, basically I had this idea for a chair after I noticed how whenever I sat (and most other women), I was only occupying about 6 inches of the edge of my seat, while the back 8 or so inches were left un-sat. Since I am easily absorbed/distracted by what is in front of me, in most scenarios, most of my chair is left jutting out behind me while I perch on the edge. By cutting down the seat depth (from an average seat depth of ~16" down to 7") , the sensation of sitting on the edge is still there, while a more "lady-like" posture is encouraged due to the lack of slouching space.

My mom would be proud that her insistent reminders about sitting up right during my childhood actually did sink in.

the Weakerthans

the Constantines

Two point five Weakerthans

One Weakerthan

The greatest thing about purchasing tickets when they first become available is that after three months, you virtually forget about the show up until the afternoon of and then it becomes a wonderful surprise when you suddenly have a concert to go to that night!