If only the Spaceblooms were flying now…

Today we are leaving for the mountain. 5 days of snowboarding in Madesimo. May the force be with all of you next year. Thanx for reading and for making it worthwhile. Happy Holidays. See you in a few days. Go through the archives or something…

To most people the weather boils down to a simple question: Do I need a Jacket?

Steve form Metropolis Tokyo Mag sends this excellent article on Chindogu, the creation of unuseless objects. Thanks!

I completely recommend the books written by the master Kenji Kawakami:

101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu

Two months ago I read The Long Tail, a great article in Wired mag. The piece turned out to be so good, the writer, one Chris Anderson, got a blog and a book in the works…

Take a great game like Max Payne 2, blast people around to get the right look of the blood on the floor, take screen caps of all this and call it art. The White Room. Duchamp would be proud.

For the modern hippie in all of us: The redesign of the legendary VW Westfalia.

I’ve been thinking of witty things to say about Earth Erotica, but nothing springs to mind. They are just lovely to behold; SFW if a geologist.

I’ve seen the Asimo the Honda robot walk a million times… Cool, but I just kept thinking about the engineering inside. Nothing prepared me for “the run”. Running makes it more human…

The other day I was looking for a way to destroy CDRs that did not involve pliers…I once saw that you could microwave them. After a bit of research I found the necessary info and proceeded to try it. I put the CD on the glass plate, and turned the timer on. After 2 or 3 seconds of nothing a blue bolt made me jump back while hyperventilating. The CD was completely destroyed rendering it useless. Perfect. Looking for more microwave experiments I came upon “The Plasma Grape”. Haven’t tried it yet, but now I know more or less what to expect.

On another note:
How do you destroy your CDRs?

Rootburn writes just what I was thinking. He even coins a word for it: Digital Photo Effect…
Too much of a good thing?

Sam from the UK sends this video which serves as perfect accompaniament to the Winnebago Man. Not that fantastic really, but it helps get your juice going before the morning coffee. NSFW. Lotsa swearing.

I have seen the future and it involves saving time on your daily commute:
Shit while driving to work in a turbine powered PortaPotty.

Mesu Dishes are quite nice, but I’d use them as measuring cups, not a weight watching gimmick.

Nothing like some good ol’ Crane Accidents to get you started on this Tuesday morning. Take me straight to the galleries.