As a lifelong reader I’ve been wary of digital books. I thought that the enjoyment of reading was somehow attached to the physicality paper. I was wrong.

Last month I downloaded the kindle app to my iPhone and bought my first e-book with single click. No more visiting bookstores, or waiting for the Amazon box to arrive. I had an immediate neurotransmitter rush. Instant satisfaction.

I imagined that books were different than music or movie files. I now recognize it’s part of the same system. 10 years ago nobody knew that you’d be carrying around your whole record collection in your pocket. Now I can have my library too.

Reading on a device has made me read twice as much as before. I can whip out my book while standing in line instead of playing backgammon. I can search. I can highlight without ruining my copy.

I’ve read 5 books in less than 30 days. I’m addicted!

I usually read in bed and actually prefer reading on iPhone’s minuscule screen than holding a heavy book while adjusting a book-light and flipping from one uncomfortable position to another.

I know what your thinking: Get a Kindle, or an iPad. No! I like the small form factor and the lightness.

In 10 years paper books will be like vinyl records: only for romantics and the hardcore. So jump on the bandwagon, and read more. I know I will.

More evidence: E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon.

1. I hate your baby, dog, hot wife, fancy car or vacation. Seriously. It was fun for a day or two… Now I’m sick.

2. I kept re-reading comments I made. My paranoia and self-consciousness were maxed-out.

3. I look dumb.

4. You look dumber.

5. I’m constantly reminded why we stopped being friends in the first place.

6. I don’t want to re-live my whole life every time I log-on.

7. Photos lost their meaning. 350 vacation shots? Really?

8. I don’t want Facebook cataloging everything I do and say. Wake up!

8 1/2. I’m tired of trying to be cool. Fuck Fellini too by the way.

Our houses are dead.
Devoid of life.
Like stuffed animals , with gleam-less eyes.

A few plants here and there, their only purpose: decoration.
Leaves and water talk to us.
listen.

Bring mountains and oceans indoors, let’s invite Nature in for a long stay and have it work for us. Plants can provide food, medicine, and clean our air and water.

Sell nature as a product.
Everybody’s doing it anyway.
I am green, you are green, we are all together.

Make store aisles and fast websites that sell the latest tweaks in vegetable design.
Hybrid things that fuse together tech and nature in a seamless product.

Have a nasty cold?
Brew some WindTunnel Tea© from the wall.

Little Fan On the Prairie Bowl© absorbs airborne pollutants and gives air a fresh outdoorsy smell.

Huh? What’s that? dry air?
Turn a creek into a waterfall with your FullFlo Sofa©.

Grow your own.
Tweak seed DNA to transfer and store information.
Plant a seed, grow data.

Inpired by Our Lonely Ficus who did not survive a grueling 3-week balcony stint, after selflessly enduring a hard Milanese winter while we swam in steamy Brazilian beaches.

I miss him. (the tree)

I find it ridiculous that Pantone sells accesories that barely match their own color codes.

From their website:
Pantone, Inc. is the world-renowned authority on colour and provider of colour systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of colour. The PANTONE Name is known worldwide as the standard language for colour communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer. With 40 years of experience, we are the worldwide market leader in colour communication and colour technology for the graphic design, printing, publishing, textile and plastics industries.

To sum it up: they know color, right?
Ahh, – NO!

On the mug there’s a label with the following:
Pantone Colour identification is solely for artistic purpoises and not intended to be used for specification. Refer to current Pantone Colour publications for accurate color. Whaaat?

So do they do calibrated color or not?

You are hurting your brand selling products that make a promise and don’t deliver. I know that one of the hardest things to do is color match in different materials. But come on…

A coffee mug with a disclaimer is bullshit.

my other Pantone post

This is my kitchen clock bought 11 years ago in Ikea for nothing.

I snapped-off the second hand, it drove me nuts.
Fucker’s noisy, no wonder he ended up in the kitchen.

The graphics on it are heavy handed and sloppy, but it gives me reassurance.
It makes me think of a soviet era nuclear bunker.
How’s that for tranquility?

This year I vote for transparency.
Let’s build a better future.
The one we project blows.
I’ll help.

Before material tech advances to the immaterial we’ll have seamless transitions between bodily surfaces.
Seamless joins frameless and shiny as another check-mark in our search for superficial (aesthetic and otherwise) resolution (closure and otherwise).
Aircraft makers realized early on that gap-less glass and metal solved aerodynamic and structural issues…. and if it flies it swims.

Crystal dissolves into wood into transparency and opaqueness.
A sponge melts into cold hard marble.
This translate well to touch…

The non-seam hides a secret inside a balloon of slick dripping lust pleasing our human need for softness.

isolate the structure.

Apply a Droste Effect filter.
New, exiting compositions materialize that can be used as a basis for something else.

The underside of a table
The inside of a helmet
A pattern on a tie

It’s a pity that the F1 rift has been bridged.
I eagerly awaited a new powerful top of the world car competition that would emerge from the wrecked championship.
Now, we’ll have an edgier crisper version of the same old boring thing.

The most talked about theme today is cars.
Limit technology? Push it? Is this piece legal?

Pilots while important, have been relegated to the “we already know your amazing fucking talent, but the difference is the cars” corner. Will they become redundant?

We want a simple competition:
Daring pilots, fast cars, and the advancement of car/machine tech.
Let’s involve universities!

The cars///

1 Unlimited engine/s:
Gas, electric, hydrogen, whatever.
Efficiency and economy will grow Darwinianly alongside a strong ecological element that everybody wants.

2 Teardrop/wedge shape:
Clean aero, no spoilers.

3 Mystery area:
The area under the car is open to any aerodynamic invention.
Do as you please, don’t risk the pilots life by design.

The secrets of the underside will infuse the season with a fresh razzle dazzle of teams hiding shapes by painterly deceit. Think of it as the sailboat race-like mystery encircling fin-keel profiles.

4 Four open wheels:
Set at regulation distance between themselves.
Slick tires, no rules on manufacturing.

5 Aerodynamic/energy generating wheels:
No protrusions outside the tire rim.

6 Electronics and mechanics:
Traction control, ABS, active suspensions and whatever they come up with next.

7 Last but not least: Safety.
Develop better airbags, decelerators, and protectors for crashes.

F1 should entertain us while pushing technology forward.

I’m interested in making objects by hand that have a digital/computer/engineering quality to them.
Even if you don’t measure much, a clumsily put together polyhedron still has a calculated look.

Why don’t woven baskets look like computer models?
Could they?
Is there an aesthetic line that has not been crossed by artisans?

It probably has a lot to do with the material.
An out of context polymer still displays it’s associated connotations.
Plastic makes you think of factories and mass production.

It’s a culture clash, put together by a digital artisan.