vintage home office

Sadly they don't ship to Australia, but US retailer Restoration Hardware have come out with some really nice looking vintage themed leather office furniture we really like ...

Or for the traveller - perfect for that 10-week steamer trip to Europe ...

And to accessorize -

Good, old-fashioned, hand-tooled leather fun.

mmmm ... woody ... again!

Not the most groundbreaking innovation, but people seem to be astounded and confounded ... lots of "Where did you get that???" comments.

The hard part was choosing what colour woodgrain we liked best, but after that it was just a quick session of snipping and the veneer was on ...

Hey presto - a woodgrain macbook.

Will take a pic of my dodgy 'faux-timber faux-mac' Toshiba at some stage - always good to see the evolution of concept.

polaroid news

Great news ... Polaroid have released a new instant camera, the 300!  We stumbled across an update on the mrjasongrant blog, and are happy to hear.

She's a different looking camera to the classic SX-70 and 600 series we have been collecting, and produces a smaller picture, but good to see nonetheless!

Meanwhile, after years of picking up films for our old Polaroids from US sellers on ebay (and having to curtail our snap-happy ways due to the cost-per-shot factor), we were pretty excited to find that the Impossible Project have released films that are good for both the (easier to find) 600's AND for the SX-70's from a local seller on ebay ...

Could this spell the end of digital photography?

position vacant

Just heard the news of the passing of Mr Malcolm McLaren this morning, at 64 years of age.
Probably best known for his fashion collaboration with Vivienne Westwood in the early 70's via their stores 'SEX' and 'Let It Rock', and his subsequent engineering ot the punk movement in London, he was an archetypical music entrepreneur.

I was a late arrival to (but big fan of) the Sex Pistols, and the aesthetic McLaren gave them ... but I have to say that the work I loved the most (and played to death - sorry mum and dad) was his fusion of B-Boy hip hop and world beats, the fantastic Duck Rock album.

A totally kooky and cool collection of music ('Buffalo Gals', 'Double Dutch', 'Soweto'), it's a record we still play in the store now ...and as for his appropriation of Haring's NY street art style ...




Though he hasn't had too much relevance for you genX and genY kids, he gave us older folk a lot of joy during the 70's and 80's ... might be a nice time to look up some his past work ...

Thanks Malcolm ... it may not all have been art, but it was a lotta fun!

YAY!

It's been an up-an-down couple of years for all of us Poalroid fans ... but it appears 2010 brings glad tidings.  Looks like the comeback is well and truly on the rails.

It's called the PIC-1000, made by the reborn Polaroid company, and is set to be released later this year.

Compatible with the classic 600 film as well as Polaroid 100 film, and will be released in silver metallic finish, AND in the super-classy faux timber that we could never say no to.  We're really glad to have read the news on gizmodo (more product photos on electricpig), and are guessing that the best bit will be that access to 600 films will improve for those of us who have held on to our 70's and 80's instant cameras.

It's a golden age we're living in.

 

just like the Ramones said ...

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.

kids love log!

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.

wood - always good ...

Not 100% sold on the aesthetics of this desk - something a little more mid century, and a touch less ornamental might have been nice ... even a little faux timber - but the concept's right on.

This critter is by Marlies Romberg and titled 'Dear Diary 1.0' - more info on the MoCoLoCo website.