Archive for February, 2012

The Story of Sushi

I was excited to see that this dramatic story of sushi-and the problems it causes for our oceans- was created for Bamboo Sushi right here in Portland. I eat there as often as I can, and it’s great to see them share their story with the world. As one of the world’s first ‘sustainable sushi [ READ MORE ]

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is an American animated short film by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, created at Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. It also won the best animated short Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. It is completely worth the 15 minutes it takes to watch. Do yourself a favor[ READ MORE ]

Cool Ways to Hang and Showcase Your Bike

Bikes are amazing. Quiet, lightweight and fast, they are the real future of sustainable transportation. But for those of us who have our bikes crowding our small apartments, stacked alongside a wall, waiting for people to trip over them, they can sometimes get in the way. Luckily, a number of designers have tackled this problem. [ READ MORE ]

Theo Gray’s Periodic Table Table

Theodore W. Gray is one of the founders of Wolfram Research and is currently Wolfram’s Director of User Interface Technology. He is a prominent element collector and created a wooden periodic table with compartments for samples of each of the elements. This table won him an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry in [ READ MORE ]

Love from Paper

Josh Ritter is one of my favorite musicians, and has a new single out. Love is Making Its Way Back Home is the song, and the music video is made entirely from cut paper. 12,000 pieces, to be exact. No effects were done, this was all animated the old fashioned way. Nice work, and nice [ READ MORE ]

Transforming Table

Via Architizer: Designer Robert van Embricqs‘s “Rising Table” is the work of an illusionist. As its name implies, the table can be coaxed out of its original flat state to form a self-standing table–a stylish one at that–like some magical apparatus from a past era, handled by the gifted showman who impossibly suspends the material [ READ MORE ]

Timelapse Fireflies in Japan

A stunning collection of photos of fireflies captured in timelapse photography. Makes me miss the summertime. Thanks to t.chin for the link[ READ MORE ]

All Wooden Ride

Photos: Jan Gunneweg Via Treehugger: There’s a lot of wooden bikes out there, ranging from the glue-it-yourself, no-metal kind, to award-winning, high-end designer bikes. But this near all-wooden bike, handmade by Dutch industrial designer Jan Gunneweg, must be one of the most beautiful wooden specimens we’ve seen to date.Made out of solid walnut and weighing [ READ MORE ]

A Good Perspective in São Paulo

Great use of design, color and perspective. love it. Via CoolHunting and Arrested Motion: Five Spanish artists take graffiti and mural painting to the streets of Vila Brâsilandia in São Paulo, Brazil. The favela’s winding streets are given a 3D effect with brilliant colors and words that are legible from specific points of perspective. Boa [ READ MORE ]

Apple Could Manufacture in the US, Most Consumers Wouldn’t Buy

With all of the attention on Apple’s working conditions in China, it’s interesting to know how things started. Long before the giant Foxconn plants, long before scandals about workers becoming suicidal and living in mass communal spaces, things were quite different. Reading the Steve Jobs biography, you learn that Apple began manufacturing in beautiful, high-end [ READ MORE ]

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