Super Happy Funtime Friday
Image by Anita Gould on Flickr Why is it that we look forward to summer all year, to the vacations we will take and the beautiful weather, but seldom take much time off save a week or two? Despite the…
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Category notrant
Not everything is worthy of complaint.
Swurling, Tumbling, and Stumbling
There is a theme(me) emerging among the services that allow you to easily aggregate online services you use together. Swurl, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, they all evoke images of wild flailing and unbalance. How appropriate that they are reflections of our online…
Oscar the Mouse
Meet Oscar. He (she?) is the mouse that lives outside of my window. The bedroom in this new house is in the half-exposed basement. Oscar showed up after breakup this spring and is getting pretty fat and happy living off…
Enable Comments on Shared Items from Google Reader
Problem: As more and more people I know start sharing their reading from Google Reader I find that I want to comment back on the things they are sharing. There isn’t a super-easy way to do this yet (that I…
Fairbanksans Messing With Google’s Street View Cameras?
Google’s Street View cameras were allegedly sabotaged in our little town of Fairbanks, AK recently. While it is unclear the actual circumstances surrounding the incident, it is hysterical to think there is some group of clandestine Alaskans running around thwarting…
RISD Alumni Art Sale
This Saturday, 03 May 2008, is the Rhode Island School of Design’s Spring Alumni Art Sale (whew, say that 10 times). Since I live in Alaska I won’t be going, but am delighted to be able to look through some…
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).
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…
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.
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…