Ohmpage

We surf hard so you don’t have to. Ohmpage brings you content covering the intersection between technology and culture. Relax. It’s good for you.

Name
Raj Patel is a technology culture blogger and architecture professional in Toronto. Editor of Ohmpage.
Name
Jess Henderson is a self-professed culture sponge based in Toronto with a soft spot for food, music, and fashion.
Name
Court Sin is a multidiciplined designer at a top Toronto architecture firm, an artist, and contributing author.
Name
Sachin Hingoo lives in Toronto and is a dedicated follower of tech culture, video games, and film.
Hi. Welcome to Ohmpage. We try to deliver content we find interesting ourselves and encourage our readers to participate. We're undergoing some changes for 2010, expanding the site to include more voices and variety by adding new contributing authors. We've got a new site design and as always are encouraging reader participation. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us about our content. Ohmpage is fully independent and run on a volunteer basis. Much of our content is syndicated elsewhere on the web and we are lisenced under the Creative Commons. If you would like us to review your product or content or if you would like to advertise with Ohmpage please email us about it.

Penguin Books Publishing Company

Have a look at Amy Fleisher’s work. Among other things, she’s done a series of work for Penguin Books to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. She’s made a fun little series of book covers featuring the penguin books logo thematised to that particular book’s content. It’s quite cute and playful yet as a graphical device it gets right to the point. I would be nice to see a few more examples to really show the potential of the idea though.

[Amy Fleisher]

lego monkey photo

The Philadelphia Zoo has just opened a new exhibit featuring some animals … kindof. The difference is that the animals are made of Lego brand toy building blocks. Thirty Four endangered species have been built by Sean Kenney and placed in zoo enclosure habitats. The zoo has commissioned five more Lego-certified builders for future exhibits to be held this year as this one is already proving successful in drawing the crowds and raising both awareness and revenue.

[Creatures of Habitat]

Review: Halo Legends

HaloLegendsLogo_thumb
Halo: Legends is one of those ‘is it an ad?’ compilation movies (see Batman: Gotham Knight or The Animatrix for other examples of this) which takes a popular character or mythology from one universe and hands it over to several artists to re-interpret.  Halo: Legends does at least as good a job as the aforementioned examples at extending the backstory of Master Chief and the Covenant, using some stellar animation and surprisingly mature storytelling (for the most part) to both excite existing fans and bring new ones into the fold (coincidentally right before the release of the upcoming story-driven installment of Halo called Halo: Reach). The film is split into six parts; each one a distinct short film with its own plot, while using Master Chief and the Halo universe as a common theme.

Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops

caffeinated-maple-bacon_largeThis is the most x-treme confection conflation in the illustrious history of food and food-like products. Its organic sustainably farmed bacon and I know you’re already on board but wait, theres more. Its got a touch of Vermont maple syrup flavouring. But wait.  Theres more. It’s in convenient on-a-stick lollipop form. But wait! THERES MORE! It’s also double Caffeinated for that extra punch to the brain you’ve been looking for. Ambrosia is for peasants. This is truly the food of the gods.

[Lollyphile]

Time: for poor people.

day_and_night-thumb-500x519

Some people think that telling the difference between day and night would be one of the easiest things you could do and being able to afford a $300 000 a mere piece of jewelry would be one of the hardest. This watch is not for them. Behold the Day & Night watch by Romain Gerome.  For those who see telling the time as a peasants hobby and for whom it is always spend o’clock.  It originally sold for $300 000 but sold out within 48 hours of launch so you’ll have to resort to the second-hand market to obtain one, likely with significant markup. But hey, if markup is of concern to you then this watch was never for you in the first place. Right?

[Romain Jerome]

Toronto, Canada
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada