its never too late for love and and compassion…. o.k. we stole this one like everything else… but a good one. may mankind one day learn that to solve their problems, they need to use their brains, and not their lower abdomens. amen… or that matter alahoakbar! by xy
David Bowie latest album Blackstar: a little space oddity and a little ashes to ashes, and all bowie
david bowie blackstar album
david bowie’s latest album “blackstar” will be coming out 8th of january 2016. a little “ashes to ashes”, a little “space oddity”, and all good – at almost 10 minutes long! now that’s not a music video but rather a short film! by sv
yeh, we agree! we should get rid of all those Syrian refugees
like this guy! steve jobs’ father was a syrian immigrant from city of homs. don’t we all wish he would have stayed put! i mean these immigrants just come to america and leach-off of us good americans. about time we stop that folks. go donald trump! by dd
how bad can it get: a suburban nightmare of fashion comes to life
pink pom poms? someone approved this?
what in the world is going on here? one of those porcelain figurine must have been the source of inspiration here.
ok this one is quite sophisticated…. sort-of like one of those cheap chocolate boxes from duane read.
i’m feeling terrible for ruining the look of TS with such images, but i had to say something…. do you ever wonder who actually creates these horrendous victoria secret annual “fashion” shows? i do… i imagine if you would give four suburban 6-year old’s a set of primary colors from kmart, and ask them to envision a “dress-up show” with unicorns and angels and as many colors as you like, they would probably come up with something slightly better than this. what victoria secret adds to the mix is perhaps an adult pervert, on a supervisory role, to insure those horrendous lingeries, in those color combinations, make it onto the naked bodies of some of the top models. most of which are undoubtedly laughing all the way to the bank after a quick shower. i’m not sure how bad this can get year after year, before they actually reconsider the outcome. but as long as people praise this stuff, i suppose well be stuck at looking at beautiful girls dressed like “the image of a cheap prostitute” in the mind of an old fat man. this is not to say that this could not be done well, but for starters they gotta dispose of the kindergarten dream-team. by ars
most people don’t really want the truth
this animation should be all it takes to knock some sense into the nutty minds of everyone suffering from being blinded by the current pseudoscientific trend. it’s about time we have a renascence of the age of enlightenment where empiricism and scientific rigor overcomes the mumbo jumbo of ufo-logists and parapsychologists. if anyone is still “skeptic” towards the skeptics after seeing the video, please rewind and see it again. if still in doubt… choose your own punishment and buy one of the two following items: why people believe weird things or the $530 spiritual nourishment. by kt
Quote of the day
and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see. cause everybody on the island was saying: look at me! look at me! – laurie anderson by lb
nemo special ops power drill
in these james bond times what is better than to plan for an early christmas gift, super villain style. if you or your better half is planing an underwater heist or just a random pool repair, nemo power tools got what your looking for. the nemo special ops power drill is salt water resistant down to 100m and comes with a 6ah battery. get yours now at nemopowertools.com by kt
girl on a motorcycle: anke eve goldmann and her BMW R69S
anke eve goldmann with her BMW R69S back in 1957
girl on a motorcycle starring…
anke eve goldman as journalist and bike enthusiast who wrote for moto revue in france. she was the first woman to ride a motorcycle with a one-piece leather racing suit, made for her by german manufacturer harro, which in my opinion, stated the S&M craze ; ) she was the source for the character rebecca in the book titled the motorcycle (1963) by andre pieyre de mandiargues. that book was made into a movie, the girl on a motorcycle, later staring guess who? marianne faithfull. by dd
This is kind of cool
californian designers rekonect unveil this innovative and utilitarian notebook with removable and re-arrangeable magnetic pages. perfect for the indecisive designer, or the frustrated writer. by lb
thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season
an audio of thomas stearns eliot reading his 1920 piece gerontion. the poem represents the view of a “gerontic” or elderly man and his modernist views on religion and sexuality amongst other topics. although the line “thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season” is a metaphor for age, i thought it would be rather fitting for this peculiar new york weather we’ve been having. plus, i cannot think of a more satisfying way to hear eliot read than by the genius himself. by sv
steve jobs leaves apple, puts jony ive in charge, and that’s when everything starts to go downhill
ok here’s another rant on apple. yes its still better than most things out there (thanks to steve that is). and no they have not invented anything new, that is useful ever since steve left us (ok, in fareness they did change the name of iphoto to photos. that was major! and they did add the “selfie” feature/folder to the latest OS. now that’s wow, i’m sure it fooled the millennials into thinking innovation). now all this we can live with. but somehow it appears as if a bunch of complacent idiots have taken over the asylum at apple breaking things that worked, and ruining the most basic principles of product design and UI. our latest grievance is about the iphone 6s. i mean what sort of an idiotic design intern would place 2 alternate functioning buttons on the opposite sides of a phone, or any product? the sleep button was always on the top right, it worked, they now moved it across the volume button. so now each time we try to turn up or down the volume the counter force pressure on the exact opposite side puts the phone to sleep and vise versa. i mean this does not require a genius like steve jobs to be there. i’m assuming jonathan ives approved this, or worse even came up with it, but to let the product go into production and not see this basic principle is daunting and shameless, especially from a company like apple who invented modern intuitive UI/UX. i simply can not forgive them for this. i know how hard it is to keep up with apples legacy of greatness, so ok don’t, but at least don’t fuck the shit that was already working guys.
On another note, jony boy fancies himself to be dieter rams reincarnated:
braun T1000 radio (1962) and the mac pro (2006)
braun T3 pocket radio (1958) and first-generation iPod (2001)
braun infrared emitter (1970’s) and the isight camera (2003)
but you know what, you can’t just copy greatness and end up with great things. the shits gotta work jony, pretty will only get you so far… by xy
turning the tables
designed for the soulful sound of vinyl. these contemporary record players combine the latest in audio technology with timeless materials. by lb