There is a video game artist and dad over in San Diego who decorates brown paper lunch bags for his kids every workday on his lunch break. One can’t help but suspect that this makes the kid’s lunch taste even better somehow. This practice might even encourage the bags to get recycled or archived rather than disposed of so arguably this is even good for the environment.

[Lunch Bag Art]

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 them for our enjoyment. She says that her intentions were “to explore the hidden “brains” of these appliances; allowing us to view these everyday objects from a new perspective.” The series is perhaps best enjoyed while ignoring the titles of each piece. They are spoilers indicating what the original appliance was, ruining the fun of reassembling the components in your imagination.

[Brittny Badger's Flickr Photostream]
[Prints available for purchase]

When it is in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate^® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition: The supermarket tabloid of dictionaries. Thats right, Merriam-Webster has announced this year’s additions to their catalog of linguistic monstrosities.  ‘Ginormous‘ is among them which earns particular disdain from Ohmpage. They don’t list all the additions though as they prefer to just give you a sampler. Presumably this will encourage you to buy a new edition every year. One of the other confirmed additions that we feel compelled to warn you about, believe it or not, ‘crunk‘. If the English language were already dead, this is the equivalent of hiring an necromancer to raise it’s zombie incarnation then killing it all over again with shotgun and chainsaw simultaneously.

Lets keep talking about facebook, shall we? It would appear that the people creating the yearbook for some high school in the USA procrastinated and needed some photos for the yearbook in a pinch. They ended up snagging photos off of facebook to fill out their layouts and once they saw it in print, the students in said photos ended up somehow surprised that photos they post up on a social networking site could be found by somebody more than one degree outside of their social network. Go figure. Firstly, the yearbook editors should be properly sourcing material and not assuming that anything online is there for free use. There are some ethics involved in producing a publication. Secondly the students in the photos shouldn’t be so shocked that others can find their photos if they put them on the internet. Thirdly, is the hard-copy yearbook even relevant anymore; are friend-requests not the new yearbook-signing? Perhaps a sentimental artifact is desired but in that case, is the yearbook in it’s current form the best way to address this desire?

The world’s largest 3D display has been produced at the Delft University of Technology playing off the work of James Clarr. They used eight thousand LEDs and have even gotten 3D duckhunt working on it. It looks quite fun. Maybe they have instigated an arms race of fun and large information displays.