Robot Nixon

“All hail robot Nixon”, and other similarly inspiring quotes are shining example as to why Futurama is infinitely entertaining. (No, I shouldn’t be working – I’m on lunch).

Light Bulb to Oil Lamp

An oil lamp made from an incandescent bulb

The incandescent bulb has passed into the domain of old technology with the recent adoption of compact fluorescent bulbs by every day consumers. So what to do with those old bulbs? Inspired by Sergio Silva’s piece I set out to…

Earth Imagery as Inspiration

An Northwest of the village of Tiski in the Sakha region of Russia When I moved to Alaska and started flying around the state I was awestruck at the vascular textures on the terrain created by the seasonal transformation of…

Super Happy Fun Time Friday

Stephane Tartelin’s portfolio – I don’t think I’ve ever seen gesture drawings exude so much attitude. Twiddla – An quick online white board app with chat and a few extra surprising features. Honibe – One teaspoon-sized serving of dried honey…

Lisa Stevens’ Ceramics

I follow Lisa (aka c-urchin) on Flickr for her tiny ceramic creations that resemble tiny sea creatures, but from time to time she posts a photo of something that is truly stunning. This time it is this amazing vessel from day 141. The texture is gorgeous:

You can see more of her work at Flickr or see what is available on Etsy.

My Google Reader is Borken!

Someone please tell me that I accidentally changed a setting in Google Reader that made it start loading web pages into inline frames when I click on post titles... and I can change back to my old setting ...NOW... Whose crazy idea was that anyway?

TED’s BigViz

Two visual cartographers, David Sibbet and Kevin Richards sketched the TED presenters and their ideas as they were delivered. This work was compiled into a book available for download as a PDF. You can also view a video about the…