Archive for January 2009

Bed Head After-Party

In Design, Odd, Things on 28 January 2009 tagged Design, hair, packaging with Comments Off

I have a pack­aging thing. I love pack­aging design. This comes in espe­cially handy to pass time when doing some­thing I really don’t love, like hav­ing my hair cut. All that sit­ting still and not fid­get­ing and mak­ing small talk about Christ­mas (come on, people, it was a month ago. Try harder.) and hav­ing to sit in front of a mir­ror for an age when, for the most part, I’m vam­piric about mirrors.

A big chunk of hairdresser income comes from selling over­priced hair product, and over­priced hair product gen­er­ally has bril­liant pack­aging in order to make people like me buy some over­priced hair product they won’t use but will gaze at lov­ingly.  Depend­ing on the tar­get mar­ket,  pack­aging ranges from classy to fun to, err… this:

… oh come on, it’s not just me, is it? Is it?

‘We’re All Gonna Die — 100 meters of existence’">‘We’re All Gonna Die — 100 meters of existence’

In Photos and Videos, Websites on ‘We’re All Gonna Die — 100 meters of existence’">25 January 2009 tagged photo, photography with Comments Off

This is an awe­some pro­ject: ‘We’re All Gonna Die — 100 meters of exist­ence’.

The images is 100 metres long, and there are 178 people in the pic­ture. All were shot from the same spot on Warschauer Strasse in Ber­lin in the sum­mer of 2007.

T-Mobile at Liverpool Street Station

In Odd, Photos and Videos on 19 January 2009 tagged advertisment, video with Comments Off

Well. That just never hap­pens at my bus stop…

Like, embarrassing.

In Quotes on 15 January 2009 tagged guardian, Quote with Comments Off

I have respect for broad­sheet journ­al­ists because they haven’t suc­cumbed to degrad­ing them­selves, to writ­ing pidgin Eng­lish with all these ter­rible col­lo­qui­al­isms, the phras­ing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

- Peaches Gel­dof

On the buses — Leith Walk to Newington

In Photos and Videos on 15 January 2009 tagged bus, edinburgh, video with Comments Off

Edin­burgh from the num­ber 14: from the top of Leith Walk to New­ing­ton, via North and South Bridges.

Dropbox = Awesome

In Websites on 5 January 2009 tagged 2008, software, website with Comments Off

Drop­box is, per­haps, the single best web­site ever. Everever. Even more so than Tesco.com and they bring me food, so you know this isn’t a decision I’ve reached eas­ily. Sync doc­u­ments on dif­fer­ent com­puters, with a web-based inter­face for those pesky com­puters that won’t let you install any­thing, and a deleted doc­u­ment recov­ery facil­ity for those import­ant documents/essays you may pos­sibly, poten­tially, per­haps have deleted in a fit of insan­ity and can’t recover from your OS even with the aid of vari­ous doc­u­ment recov­ery tools. Not that I would ever do that.

Addi­tion­ally, the pub­lic folder allows you to drag in any doc­u­ment and get a pub­lic link to share in seconds — per­fect for those moments you just need to share a photo of a sleepy ham­ster but just don’t have the energy to type in a URL and click an upload button.

Get Drop­box