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- 3D, beauty, dj, short film, trailer, video
A long glass tube in a forest is not what you’d normally call an office, but it’s home to to architecture practice Selgas Cano in Madrid. A mind-bending idea, executions and photos — I wonder if someone in Singapore would set up something similar on the slopes of Mount Faber or something.
[Via Ouno Design]
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- architecture, forest, glass, spain, tube
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- astronomy, galaxy, hubble, light-year, space
That’s a nice looking retro-styled camcorder from Sanyo, isn’t it?
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- camcorder, eye-fi, japan, retro, sanyo, style, USB
Super talk by Alain De Botton, though it seemed very short. His latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, suddenly looks pretty interesting to me…
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- failure, job, society, success, work
This video has been around for a while and it’s a delightfully executed piece of work featuring Noel Fielding (of The Mighty Boosh). Despite being a big fan of the song and video, how I never got round to linking this earlier completely escapes me.
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- horror, kasabian, music video, parody, retro
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- computer, excel, installation, office, powerpoint, support, technical, virus
Incredibly funny toys but not the best things to see when you’re fasting.
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- cute, pose, restaurant, sad, sushi
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- funny, pi, poster
XML is a specialized alphabet that can capture any kind of computer file as a regular text.
›› USA Today really know their shit, don’t they
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- bullshit, definition, newspaper, technology, xml
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- adobe, after effects, application, crash, funny, video
If you saw or read Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, you’d be familiar with Fred and George’s joke shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. For the movie set, four designers (including Nicholas Saunders) spent almost a year imagining and doing up some beautifully crafted packaging for magical products for the young wizards and witches.
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- colour, graphic, harry potter, magic, package, weasley
Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me… Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
›› Sage advice from Michael Caine
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- advice, calm, duck, life
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