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Stuff that caught my eye.
Jul 01
Jun 29
When Traffic hits a paywall….
Jun 28
Mansel Phillips, (Head of IT at Carmarthenshire County Council) shows Tonia a couple of his cawl spoons and critiques the spoons that Tonia made.
Cawl, the national stew of wales was traditionally eaten with wooden spoons in some areas of wales. The spoons that Mansel shows in this video were made by his wife’s uncle who died about 15 years ago. His hobby was making spoons. I made my first spoon, a love spoon about 10 years ago. A couple of years ago I took Welsh Classes, and this caused me to think about ‘Welsh identity’ and became curious about the more domestic, everyday version of the handmade spoon, like the ones I saw in an antique market in Llandeilo. I then started experimenting with carving spoons.
Apologies for the camera shake, it was sat on the table, clearly not a winning strategy. This was a test of the new JVC Everio GZ-HD300. The cropping to exclude Mansel’s head was deliberate, I wanted to film Mansel’s hands in automatic mode because I was interested in concentrating on the handling of the spoons.
Jun 27
Lowri Davies Ceramics
Jun 26
Jun 21
Spoon rack
Jun 20
» The internet: Everything you ever need to know
John Naughton gives us the nine key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age and speculates a bit about where it’s taking us…
Jun 16
Jun 09
Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore.
Above: what happens when you upload a video to YouTube, then rip it from YouTube, and repeat that process again, a thousand times. The final digitally-distilled product bears little resemblance to the original, and becomes something of its own. YouTube user “canzona,” whose personal website is here.
Designed by artist Sarah Kornfeld, oceanographer Wallace J. Nichols, and futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan, the display explores the relationship between people, plastic, and the environment.
Jun 01
The surprising truth about what motivates us .
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
May 30
Leonid Nikolaev, a member of Solidarity, Russia’s leading opposition group, staked out a street corner until he saw a VIP car pull up. Pulling a blue bucket over his head, he ran up to the car and over its roof. What would be seen in many countries as a funny stunt was seen as a daring provocation in Russia, and video of the event spread virally over the internet. The car’s owner, reportedly a member of the FSB, Russia’s secret police, was not amused.
Miriam Elder in Moscow - guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 May 2010 17.11 BST
Cory not drinking the kool-aid over the ipad either…
