{ Translator II: Grower is a small ‘rover’ vehicle which navigates around the periphery of a room. It hugs the room’s walls and responds to the carbon dioxide levels in the air by actually drawing varying heights of ‘grass’ on the walls in green ink. The Grower robot senses the carbon dioxide (CO2) level in the air via a small digital CO2 sensor. | RAAF, Grower, 2004-6 }
In 1936 (…) a Wisconsin manufacturer was puzzling over an easier and quicker way to dry clothes. The idea was a crude, heated box with a rotary drum that could spin clothes dry. Brooks Stevens, a rising industrial designer before the world knew it needed one, told the manufacturer there was just one glaring problem.
“You can’t sell this thing,” Mr. Stevens said. “This is a sheet metal box. People won’t even know what it is. Who’s going to pay $375 for what looks like a storage cabinet? Put a glass window on the door, get some boxer shorts flying around in there, put it in the stores and it’ll take off.”
“That,” Mr. Stevens said, “was the beginning of the clothes dryer.”
Brooks Stevens also designed the first commercially successful steam iron and the first automatic wringers for washing machines. He was the first to design refrigerators with colors other than white.
{ NY Times | Milwaukee Sentinel }
photo { Patrick Chuprina | PhotoshelterPrints }
On the last day of every golf tournament, Tiger Woods insists on wearing a bright red polo shirt. Woods says the habit is merely superstition, but new research suggests that his fashion sense might actually come with athletic benefits.
A paper published this month in Psychological Science reports that referees and umpires subconsciously favor competitors in red uniforms. The experiment was clever: the scientists showed 42 experienced tae kwon do referees video clips of five different male competitors. Each clip featured one athlete in red and another athlete in blue. At first, the referees were shown the original videos, and asked to score the match. Then, they were shown the same clips but with the colors digitally swapped, so that the athlete originally wearing red was now wearing blue. This single alteration had a significant impact on the outcome, with competitors dressed in red scoring, on average, 13 percent more points than their opponents in blue.
To see each other truly, to love each other only,
Without deceit, diversion, without shame or lies,
With no desire eluding us, never remorsefully,
To live as one, give the heart to every moment’s flight;Se voir le plus possible et s’aimer seulement,
Sans ruse et sans détours, sans honte ni mensonge,
Sans qu’un désir nous trompe, ou qu’un remords nous ronge,
Vivre à deux et donner son coeur à tout moment;{ Alfred de Musset, Sonnet, 1849 }
photo { fake AA ad, Carroll Gardens, NY | stereohell | related: She’s got jungle fever }
#4 please cut out the DRM crap, and price your products reasonably.
#6 Stop creating new features and make your software fast, stable and straightforward.
#17 Why does Photoshop cost as much as a pre-owned small car? Drop the price please!!
{ Dear Adobe, Top 50 | Continue reading | Photoshop Evolution }
{ Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hanne, 2003 | wax, horse hair, epoxy resin, wood }
{ Berlinde De Bruyckere, Speechless Grey Horse, 2004 | polyvinyl, resin, skin of a horse, cord }
{ Berlinde De Bruyckere, In Flanders Fields, 2000 | horseskin, polyester, wood, metal }
{ Berlinde De Bruyckere, Lost, 2006 | horse skin, epoxy resin, iron, ropes }
{ Charles Burns, Black Hole cover: Girl Underwater, 1995 | Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC, September 5 through October 12, 2008 | more }
{ Seidl Confiserie ad, 2008 | “All the nuts in the world in finest chocolate.” | Serviceplan München/Hamburg, Germany }
{ Maurizio Cattelan, Bidibidobidiboo, 1996 }
related { more advertising devastation }
“Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy,” Juergen Teller says, “which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.” (…)
“What’s really depressing is not Juergen’s pictures, but the mindless objectification of women as clothes hangers who pose and wear clothes, but there’s nothing to the picture apart from that it’s a sales tool,” says Dennis Freedman, the creative director of W.
photo { Pamela Anderson photographed by David LaChapelle }
The time women spend putting on make up and getting dressed works out at 3,276 hours (136 days) over their lifetimes while men only devote 1,092 hours to looking their best.
A survey of 1,000 women also showed that 67 per cent thought that the time spent getting ready was actually a chore.
{ fake American Apparel ad, Kenmare st, NYC | more }
