'tis the season

SATURN and the empty-space-shudders

Gas Giant
5 times more voluminous than the Earth
An average of 1.43 billion kilometers from the sun
It's nine rings mostly composed of water ice, rocks, and dust
The largest of its 62 known moons: Titan

incredible photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft, found at Wired magazine here.

want want want

Yago Hortal.

Mitsura Koga

„From Stones, serendipitous finds I picked up on the seashore I make work pieces. (...) Whenever I come across stones, I ask them what processes they went through. (...) I add special care to natural objects with the hope that the artificial process counterpoints the naturalness more. Vice versa the process seems to me to search for the position of human beings in nature.“

- Mitsuru Koga about these Sea Stone Works

You should probably write more postcards.

There was a brief story in the New Yorker about a man living in the city with his wife, who has regularly been receiving anonymous postcards since 2003. Hundreds of them. They are usually black and white photographs with some pun about the image, and his name is always misspelled - but in a different way each time. Creepy? Maybe. But especially since they appear to be utterly harmless, I can't help but applaud the writer of these postcards for his or her discipline and generosity.

Speaking of postcards, people used to put infrastructure on postcards, like the ones collected in this book Boring Postcards, which looks even more boring in German:
I think there is no such thing as a boring postcard. It's not like you have to look at it for a very long time. What would an exciting postcard be? One of bronzed butts lined up on the beach in matching day-glo thongs?

Obviously, they should have called the book Interesting Postcards, but tooting your own horn like that just doesn't fly. Look at the great things inside:
Highways are cool. It's too bad the author of this book didn't just come out and say he agrees. Another place where people appreciate highways is the Infrastructurist. An amateur's guide to exploring how homo sapiens make their habitats functional. And what they call these highway intersection-formations:

The Clover Leaf.

The Full Y.

The Spaghetti Bowl. (I'm a fan.)

Matthew Barney, I still have a crush on you.

Apparently. Every time I look at the wall of straws in the recent Tara Donovan post, I just think, "My, this is nice, but it just reminds me of Matthew Barney. He has a way with whale blubber." Unfortunately there are precious few images of gloopy lipids online.

Tara Donovan (coffee cups cont., sort of)

Styrofoam cups, straws, and stickers! Who would have thunk it.
Images from Ace Gallery.

Nudibranch

(Pronounced "noo-dee-brank", as I just learned, although I still prefer the "brantsh" version I'm used to.) Everybody should be aware of these mollusks.

On a different note, I will try to start linking all the images to their original contexts to be fair to the originators. Often I just save screenshots and use them way later, but I will do my best. Here goes:

Knitting and Noodling (Combination of the Previous Two Posts, In a Way)

Phat Knits by Bauke Knotternus from the Netherlands. I believe this was his final project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Furniture for my imaginary Dream Palace.

How things will go...

...and where I hope to celebrate my brithday in the future. I apologize for not being able to trace where this photograph came from. I've been saving it for a long time, on the old hard drive. Do click and see it in big.

ROSA MOSA

No comment necessary besides: Amahzing!
Well, and perhaps that this is an austro-nippon duo, just because that's interesting.

Haque Design + Research

This is a gorgeous project / system by haque design+research. I did think of it first, or at least, by myself, but it never got past a very crude doodle stage. You know how it is. when I saw this a the design museum in London my eyes almost fell out! Inside each balloon are l.e.d.'s and a circuit board which allows the colors to be remote controlled by motion sensors using feedback from the handles that maneuver this giant thing!!
It's beautiful.
to see more or watch a video go to:

http://www.haque.co.uk/openburble.php
http://www.haque.co.uk/burblelondon.php