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Ahhh ... a break from woodgrain, but still keeping it natural.
This supercool bit of shelf-candy is a Rock Radio, designed by Guus Oosterbaan ... a man of ideas with plenty up his sleeve. Simple and clean - just 3 plugs at the back (speaker, antenna, power), and the cracks are deliberate - better reception.
As much as plastic has changed the world and given us plenty of fun stuff, we still say science+nature=joy.
WOW!
This is pretty nuts - a wooden ipod mini, fully functional, made without glue.
Pls check out Josh D's flickr set for more photos - including the matching dock and i-trip transmitter.
Will wait for the ipod touch version - though the risk of splinters may deter some ...
Okay - let's all just remember who our friends are.
Today was the big launch of digital radio with hype a'plenty - like any of us have a radio that will give us the cd quality sound that digital can deliver. Don't get us wrong - we love a new gadget if it gives us something exciting. Still, nothing keeps the consumers consuming like a bit of forced obsilescence.
And our clock-radio isn't susceptible to any virus either ... good luck world.
There's nothing we love more than fallen timber, repurposed effectively.
We love these bowls we saw on sub-studio - it's a really nicely curated blog too. Go visit sometime for pretty pictures.
So - does it make you a better person, or just a fool with persistence?
Latest update on the rat-race - the rats are still winning.
Rummaging thru our scrapbook again, and came across these great log lamps ...
Sorry - can't remember who makes them or where they are from, but they are pretty neat. We probably lean a little more towards 'mid-century modern' than 'cottage rustic', but a couple of these would look at home in an all-white minimalist interior ... oooh yeah!
While we're at it - these ipod docks from woodtec on etsy are rather good - he makes usb sticks too.
So long as we're all sticking to using the wood we find on the ground, and not cutting down living trees (yup, this timber's recycled - used to be a forest), then everything's good.
The VW van holds a place close to our hearts - drove and loved a '71 kombi for about 10 years, and when the time came we upgraded to a 21st century VW transporter. Can't imagine life without a van ...
We came across this concept on eco-chick.com via re-nest - and designer Alexandre Verdier has taken it to a whole new level.
The hybrid engine, the solar panels, the luxury living - we are about ready to move in ... but the faux-wood paneling is the clincher. If we ever feel the need to spend $125,000 on a car/small house, this one's on the shortlist.
Well, we finally got the John Brack exhibition at the NGV yesterday ... once we were there we didn't want to leave! The sheer volume and variety of the work on display was amazing.
Read in a recent interview that his wife Helen Brack felt that his best work was the precise, surrealist pieces of the 80's and 90's, but we fell pretty heavily for his 50's and 60's period - the colours, the cartoony qualities, the modernist content ...
Highly recommend a visit if you are in Melbourne with an hour or 2 free ... genius!
They weren't selling, so we'll be have to be content with prints in our loungeroom for now.
It's the knowyourproduct dream ... a sunken lounge.
In fact, we could probably live in a cardboard shack under an overpass so long as we got a 'converstion pit' of some kind set up in there - with a stone fireplace for those chilly scrabble nights ...
Scratch that - would prefer not to live in a carboard shack given a choice. Architects of the 21st century should be reviving this (the sunken lounge, not the sub-freeway location) - bring back the split-level.
One of these days we are going to fly to LA, rent a big truck and just keep driving 'til it's full. Then we'll rent another truck.
A set like this could put you off drinking tea forever ...
