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Disassembled household appliances

Disassembled household appliances
Brittny Badger completed her Thesis project from the Hartford Art School this May and it’s pretty nice. With a BFA in photography and a minor in visual communication design, this comes together nicely. She has taken some household appliances and disassembled them. Most of us have done that at one point, but Brittny has done us the favor of shematicly laying out out the resulting components and photographing...
Posted by on Sep 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments

The Hand Drawn Map Association

The Hand Drawn Map Association
When people draw maps by hand the results can often be both charming and telling. There is always an element of character to the maps as they have a personal bias beyond just objective visualization. They’re off to a somewhat slow start and seem to have a contemporary focus rather than historical but the Hand Drawn Map Association is archiving some examples. We agree with them that the stories behind the maps...
Posted by on Sep 18th, 2008 | 0 comments

Lego for Adults

Lego for Adults
Don’t worry. This post is ‘safe for work’ despite what your imagination may be telling you. Apparently there is a book called “Lego for Adults” available online to purchase which outlines how to build weapons out of Lego. One of the actual shooting guns is features on the cover to whet your appetite and the book itself even features a slide-action magazine-fed crossbow pistol. This book...
Posted by on Mar 8th, 2008 | 1 comment

Etch-a-clock

Angela over at Make has hacked together an etch-a-sketch which automatically draws the time. This opens all kinds of doors for etch-a-visualization. It even erases itself every minute! Whats more, she’s actually done a good job of fabricating the thing in to a nice clean looking package, rather than a mess of wires and hardware. Very elegant. It doesn’t take long to etch in the current time so with the...
Posted by on Jul 25th, 2007 | 0 comments

Language hacking

Erin McKean, over from Verbatim, had recently given a Google Tech TalkTM about hacking the english language in order to invent a new word. Funnily enough, a video of her Google Tech TalkTM is available for viewing up at Google Video. Sadly nobody asks her about ginormous or crunk. Sharing:
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