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Went to a really interesting lecture earlier this week. The speaker was Bruce Mau – introduced as “arguably Canada’s best designer.” Don’t know about that, but he was very thought provoking.
I’ve added a new saying to my “is this a hill I want to die on?” – “What do I need to get over this hill.” Love it!
Mau worked with his studio and a series of grad students to produce an exhibition called “Massive Change” that ran at the Vancouver Art Gallery back in 2004. Hard to distill eactly what the exhibit was about down to a sentence so check out the website.
“Now that we can do anything, what will we do?”
A bit too “Utopia building”? You tell me.
I love the name of this site – I Am Bored. An entire site dedicated to stupid things to do when you’re bored.
Like Punch the Ice, for instance….
I’m a fan of the Rick Mercer Report – I loved the season finale of a couple of weeks ago that had Rick and Jan Arden riding a bull. Or his report prior to the Turin Olympics – brave man tried the bobsled, luge and ski jumping. Funny stuff.
I appreciate his irreverant take on the current state of Canadian politics. Sometimes you just have to laugh.
Check out his website and make sure you visit the Photo Challenge page. I may just have to rev up the PhotoShop and submit myself something myself.
Magnet receptive wallpaper – really. So you can put up the wallpaper and then buy magnets to “accessorize”. I’m not entirely sure why you’d want to do that but it does look pretty neat.
No – not me! It’s a line of very cool ties for your guy. Brought to you by the folks from SkinnyCorp. Also responsible for Threadless. The idea is that designers can submit their own t-shirt designs and the best ones actually get made.
Kristina – I think you should submit the “I’m Awesome” t-shirt…
The nominations are in for the 2006 Webby Awards – awards for the best of the web. Way too much Flash for my taste but there are some interesting sites to check out.
Now you can get a house to go with all that IKEA furniture. BoKlok is a house in a box – flat packed and ready to assemble. This is apparently big in Sweden and the UK where they suffer from a lack of mass construction. Given the boom in Calgary, could BoKlok be coming here?
Here’s a site for those stamp/card making fanatics amongst us. This one was brought to my attention by my good friend and soon-to-be-former-sister-in-law (trying saying that one three times fast!) who is definitely a stampfan.
Pre-pixelated t-shirts – just in case you ever decide to go on a reality TV show. (Heaven help you…)
I’d forgotten that this existed. This is truly bad art – so bad it’s funny. Enjoy!
