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Unlikely to keep a library card for very long, artist Brian Dettmer
dissects books to expose the beauty inside. With X-acto
knives and tweezers, Dettmer pulls away layer after layer to reveal their internal organization.
Call it creative destruction.
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Consider Google's predictive searches––with a rankings based on what other users most frequently
search––as a source of data on human behaviors, emotions, desires, and opinions.
This one does load the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' window with a bucket-full of irony.
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Looking for a house to rent for the upcoming World Cup in Joburg, or an internet start-up space in trendy Noho? Then make iStopover your next mouse destination.
That is, if you still believe an office is necessary.
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Equal parts bravado and denial.
The headline says, "Every cigarette we smoke makes fatty deposits stick in our arteries."
But I'm unconvinced scare tactics have ever been proved effective as a smoking-cessation strategy.
And outright smoking bans are nothing new: In 1590 the Pope enacted one barely after Sir Walter Raleigh taught Europeans how to light up.
In 1632, Massachusetts became wary of the fire
danger from smoldering butts, so it banned outdoor smoking. Connecticut
followed suit in 1647 when it dictated that citizens could only smoke
once a day, and even then one couldn’t be a social smoker, since the
law dictated that smokers could only burn one when “not in company with
any other.”
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Handy little site for logo designers this. Type 'apple' into the Trademarkia.com search box and it'll show you every apple-related logotype ever registered.
Which just goes to show, however hard you try, you can't trademark and apple.
Get your trademark processed here for $159 plus the USPTO.gov fee.
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From digital to analog. The entire contents of Wikipedia as a 5,000 page book.
Bit less handy than the internet version.
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Somerville Road in Worcester, England, has the dubious distinction of being statistically the most accident-prone street in the country.
For an advertising campaign, Confused.com, a car insurance comparison
website, decided to wrap 'Accident Avenue' in 1,500sq meters of bubble wrap.
The stunt took eight men more than 12 hours to complete with cars, gates, trash cans, lamp posts and even garden gnomes all wrapped up to highlight the dangers of driving in Winter.
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1802.
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French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing
on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
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his recent installation at Curve in the Barbican Center in London Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though
aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars
and other musical instruments.
As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
Be transported.
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Jinyoung Jo, a talented car designer at Hong-ik University in South Korea, has created the 'Fiole' concept car for Chanel.
The design is "centered on simplicity of lines" and a classic black and white color scheme in the best tradition of Coco's tailored suits.
Car nut Karl Lagerfeld doubtless exerted his influence on the ultra-aerodynamic three-seater coupe featutring Chanel's famed interlocking C's on the front grille.
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