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The Spun lamp by Evie Group is a versatile fixture that can be used as both a pendant lamp and floor lamp. While it’s pretty as a pendant, my favorite configuration is it as a floor lamp, for its playful take on the classic wooden top.
The Rubber Murf from Nixon has a white/red retro-medical kind of style to it.
Hilarious video of the future of the internet from creative agency John St. Who can argue with the future being determined by popular internet trends?
New print release! The People I’ve Known & The Places I’ve Been is a limited edition print by Ryan Bubnis that is “about all the people, situations and environments that have impacted your life. Good or bad, it’s about the things that have helped shape you and have made you into the person you are today. It’s your story and personal history.”
15% of each print sold will be donated to Teach For America, because of Ryan’s belief that poverty shouldn’t limit your educational opportunities. We should all be given a fair shot to succeed. Read our interview with Ryan here, and buy the print here.
Just incase you think that robots aren’t on their way to becoming our secret overlords, watch this video.
From UPENN:
These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.
Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab.
This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design.
The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.
More information: www.upenn.edu/spotlights/penn-quadrotors-ted
Video Produced and Directed by Kurtis Sensenig
Quadrotors and Instruments by Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar
I have a pair of Pampas and they are by far the most comfortable pair of boots that I own, even rivaling most of the sneakers I’ve owned. Now Palladium makes a color version – Blanc-Hi. The green ones are sick.
Seattle-based design studio, Object, recently released a series of fun, large-scale country and state mirrors. Each mirror has a 3/4″ wood backing, and mounts to the wall with an invisible french cleat.
Gorgeous woodblock prints of – parking lots – ! On view now (until April 7th) at Storefront for Art and Architecture, are sculptures and prints by Lan Tuazon, in an exhibition titled “Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City.”
Parking Lot Landscapes is composed of all parking lots in New York City. Here parking lots are arranged into a series of autonomous islands.
Introducing “The Grasslands” (2011, wool, polymer clay, various sizes, handstitched) from Longoland - by Joshua Ben Longo. Above, Mane Choo and below, Hugga. Definitely take a look at Monster Skin, Big Monster, and the Box series. I’ll be honest, though, A Dictat on Etiquette is my favorite. These monsters are welcome in my home anytime!
Woah. I seriously want this. Multitouch is the one big thing that the Intuos5 pen tablets have been missing. I always have to run the tablet on my right hand and the keyboard on my left hand for all the keyboard shortcuts. They’ve finally solved that and now it’s just a huge trackpad!
