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I love the packaging of this cereal. Lush use of American Typewriter. The porridge isn't bad either.
What I packed for a weekend away at the THINK 2008 conference.
Not pictured: 2 pairs black socks, 2 black underwear, 2 black tshirts, swimsuit, electric shaver. Everything fit into the Boblbee backpack.
Also not pictured but worn rather than packed: high grip stiff rubber sole shoes for general all terrain traversal and buildering, black jeans, belt with solid heavy buckle, shirt, hoodie, coat. And carried in pockets: Canon SD1100IS camera, BlackBerry Bold, iPod nano (2nd generation) with earphones.
The Oyster card is a contactless smartcard introduced by Transport for London in 2003.
TFL weren't the first to take this approach but the card remains one of the best examples of the mass adoption of RFID technology.
This is a macro shot of my Howarth S2 oboe (handmade in 1989).
The craftsmanship evident in such musical instruments is rare. Howarths of London make some of the best British oboes and cors angalis and their instruments are the first choice of many British professionals.
The African blackwood out of which the instruments are made is seasoned for many years, before being shaped on a CNC mill to very precise design specifications. All the instrument keys are handmade and fitted to the instrument by hand. The instrument is tested and tuned, and final adjustments are made by highly skilled craftsmen, all of whom are players.
So, though my photograph doesn't really capture the hours of careful workmanship, let alone the years of experience, of the people who made the instrument, and though my oboe is a product of centuries of instrument making techniques and technology rather than something new, it's certainly something (along with the skills that made it) that I believe needs preserving for the future as an example of beautiful design and craft.
My Blue Peter badge. From the good old days when ID cards were not required to gain the badges privileges.
A symbol of honesty, its path to corruption paved by the internets fickle black market auctioneers.
For dconstruct's stasis chamber: a banana, specifically a delicious Cavendish banana, the one that went extinct in 2015.
Clever future-people! Please clone this fruit - it's a design classic (iconic styling, great usability), it's nutritious, and it's tastier than the bland efficiency-gruel you slurp down the rest of the space-week.
Oxfam were having another one of their camera sales, and as soon as I saw this Zeiss Ikon I fell in love.
It's in full working order too, just need to track down a manual for it.
Before GPS, Tom Tom and Google Maps this is how you orientated yourself in the world.
Contribution for the 2009 dConstruct Time Capsule competition: 2009.dconstruct.org/capsule/
A sign for our times. Actually, this is a quote from Herakleitos (c.535 BC - 475 BC): a Greek philosopher, known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe.
Quite appropriate that the graffitti'd message, by its very nature, has inbuilt impermeance.
Behold the Kitchen Burger, from The Flying Steamshovel pub in Rossland, BC.
This was the post-ride snack after the best day on a mountain bike I've ever had. From this angle it obscures the boy Alex - the menu should have carried a serious warning about this meal. Frightening.
To be fair, it was absolutely top shelf stuff - highly recommended if you're hungry, over 6 feet tall and have the constitution of a lion. I was, I'm not and I don't. It defeated me.
Nice sentiment, shame about the execution!
Quote by W R Lethaby reproduced at a book launch organised by the Society of Designer Craftsmen (who really should know better... )
Lethaby's influence is significant because of his role as a precursor of the early modern movement. His belief in good, honest architecture; that 'a house should be as efficient as a bicycle', is viewed as having influenced the German modernist pioneers.
Paradoxically, it also speaks volumes about the mis-use of DTP programmes!
This is a silicon chip wafer that I was kindly given to me at BarCampLeeds2009. Each of these shiny bits is the internals of a chip. I recommend looking at the full size image and zooming in.
Rickenbacker 4001 (1977)
Ibanez Roadstar II (had it ~20 years now)
MXR Distortion+
Ashdown ABM EVO head + 4*12
power down. log off. unplug.
have mercy on your thumbs.
browse the world wide something else.
send some not-so-instant-messages
undo. hit cancel. be together.
make face time.
Target Bot-E is an autonomous Lego Mindstorms NXT robot that explores its environment and detects hits on its large rear panel. Once the panel has been hit 3 times the robot stops and displays the time taken to score the hits on its display.
A front free wheel and rotation sensor built from a light sensor that watches the rotation of a black and white block to count rotations. If the robot gets stuck the free wheel and connected blocks stop turning, the light sensed by the sensor stops changing and the robot determines that it has got stuck and tries to free itself by reversing and turning before continuing its random exploration.
This little colorful glass cube caught my eye in the gift shop at the San Francisco Museum of Carft+Design. I love how the colors blend. I can stare at it for ages.
Red box often found in rural locations in the UK. Consists of red metal and perspex or glass windows. Inside is an object mounted on the back wall with black plastic shaped like a banana with a metal wire leading from it and a some buttons with numbers on it.
Not sure of it's intended use, probably dates back to the last millenium. Possibly an abandoned urinal, or maybe a historical communication device.
The far above normal amount of radiation coming from the high density of electronic gadgetry, combined with high levels of caffeine and Web2.0-speak in South Park and environs have apparently resulted in an accelerated rate of mutation and resultant evolution of indigenous creatures.
Here we have an example of the previously thought fictional Ceti eel in larvae form traversing rough terrain apparently composed of recycled plant materials. Note that It is possible yet highly unlikely that this is an actual Ceti eel. Parallel evolution is the more probably explanation.
Note in particular the outstretched pincers.
WARNING: If you see this creature do not approach. Do not attempt to collect. If it jumps on you brush it off quickly. Do not let it approach your face and especially your ears.
If the creature crawls in your ear get someone to help you seek medical attention IMMEDIATELY.
I love the simplicity within LCD displays. The constraints that the designer has to work with, a grid of squares, on or off.
Resolution isn't everything, I hope there's still a place for them in the future.
(submitted as an entry for the dConstruct Time Capsule)
Networks, touchable displays, augmented reality. These are all great things, but please future people, make sure you keep pen and paper around.
(submitted as an entry for the dConstruct Time Capsule)
I probably should have posted a photo of my laptop for the dConstruct contest. It's quite amazing how one little machine can contain your whole life story, isn't it? But I couldn't resist the Spice Rack Kitchen Radio. It's fully transistorized!
July 26, 2009 - Magnolia, aka Bird aged 3.75, is spotted taking a photo of her Nana and baby sister, Grace, with her Dad's old camera phone.
In 1995 I won this in Fresher's week at university. Back then only pimps and drug dealers could afford mobile phones so this (at around £100) was the closest thing to affordable, portable communication.
You were limited to receiving short messages (no sending) featuring numbers (no letters). You had to devise codes with others to get messages of any significance through but mostly it just entailed sending a phone number to call back.
I remember getting a message through from a friend whilst walking along Cromer Beach, Norfolk. The notion of being contactable practically anywhere was mind-blowing.
I got my first mobile phone 4 years later.
Contribution for the 2009 dConstruct Time Capsule competition: 2009.dconstruct.org/capsule/
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Yup, Ed went outside today to play with the flowers. Unfortunately, he got a little carried away.
Yup, it's another lame "you have twenty seconds to comply" gag. There'll be a lot more of those over the next 198 days. Sorry.
I had other versions of this photo where the flower was properly in focus, but I preferred the composition in this one.
UPDATE
I just entered this as an entry for the dConstruct Timecapsule competition, because I'd like to see machine and nature working in harmony in the future.