Daily dose of imagery

2005-12-18

Daily dose of imagery by Sam Javanrouh
“…is a simple view of my day to day visual experience, or my personal photoblog.
I post one photo a day on this web site.”

Well… look at his titanic archive (may take some time to load).

Categories : photo

How to survive a bad manager

2005-12-15

Change only happens when the person wants to change.
You can make suggestions, or bring things to their attention, but people only make changes when they choose to.
It is never in your control.”.

“…The worst work experiences I’ve had forced me to recognize a very important thing: work does not have to define my life.
Work can be at the center of everything if you choose, but there are many other ways to live happy, fulfilling, meaningful lives.”.

(Scott Berkun)

See also: Right for the wrong reasons.

Categories : psychology

Modern music

2005-12-10

Three easy pieces:

Rega Planar 3 Rega Planar 3.

Synchronous motor turntable.

The platter is hand crafted from floated plate glass 12mm in thickness. The tonearm is an RB300.

Lexon Tykho Radio.

design Marc Berthier.

AM-FM rubber portable radio.

Selected for the Permanent Collection of MoMA and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Lexon Tykho Radio
Tivoli Pal Tivoli Audio PAL
“Portable, weather resistant, audio playback system and AM/FM Radio”.
Categories : design

Alternative Needs Transportation

2005-12-09

Alternative Needs Transportation or A.N.T. is a one-person shop run by Mike Flanigan.

Mike is dedicated to building bikes for transportation that have the right combination of function and style.”.

See also: Broadway Bicycle School (Cambridge, MA) :
“…is a unique, collectively owned, full-service bicycle repair shop.
We teach people how to fix their bikes in addition to selling new and used bikes, parts, and accessories.”.

Categories : design

Ecce Lomo

2005-12-08

Ecce Lomo
“A personal photographic portfolio, with lomo, holga and polaroid snapshots.”.

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Categories : photo

Planet Sinclair

2005-12-03

Planet Sinclair, by Chris Owen.

The Web’s biggest Sinclair-related archive:

Executive Calculator
“…The Sinclair Executive was the world’s first pocket calculator.
The advert described it as being “as thick as a cigarette packet”, reflecting Clive Sinclair’s stated belief that One must always bear a packet of cigarettes in mind as the ideal size.

…battery life was only a few hours and the machine could be physically dangerous. If it was left on, the batteries had a nasty habit of exploding and blowing the machine to bits.”.

C5 electric car
“Possibly Sinclair’s most famous product (albeit for quite the wrong reasons).

…Exactly a decade before the C5 fiasco, Sinclair was nearly brought down by another disastrous product: The Black Watch.”.

Categories : technology

The Eagle Transporter

2005-10-10

The transporter Eagle spacecraft pages: a masterpiece of Roberto Baldassarri.

The Eagle was used in the TV series Space 1999 (1975-1978).

The biggest reference guide for Space 1999 is the catacombs.

eagle blueprint

Killmotor Hill

2005-10-01

“In 1902 Scrooge McDuck tried to drive his car to the top of the hill, but that effort was too much for the car”s motor and it stopped.
Immediately after that incident Humperdink Duck renamed the hill and gave it its present name.
During a period of six months the same year Scrooge raised his Money Bin on the hill.”

“The most recent informations provided from Don Rosa… is that Scrooge McDuck died in 1967 100 years old.

How are Huey, Dewey, and Louie related to Donald?
An answer from the Disney Comics Characters pages:
“One day Donald gets a letter with the following text:

“Dear Donald, I am sending your angel nephews Louie, Huey and Dewey, to stay with you while their father is in the hospital.
A giant firecracker exploded under his chair.”

These and more (surprising) informations in Who’s who in Duckburg, a guide to the most frequently used characters in Barks’ and Rosa’s works.
See also: The lives and times in Duckburg.

Categories : illustration

Free Daily Newspapers

2005-09-08

“The reinvention of the newspaper“:
in 2005, european free tabloids have a circulation of 13.8 million.

My favourite is Metro: 32 pages, full color, news, sport, tv, wheater and more, free; also available on the web, Metro newspapers are fully downloadable in PDF from Readmetro.com.

Categories : communication

43 Things

2005-09-06

“What do you want to do with your life?”
Write down your goals:
make myself happy, simplify my life, become a Jedi, get a real job, make a difference in someone’s life, stop procrastinating, and, and, and…43 Things.

Categories : online culture