A while back, someone at NASA came up with a crazy experiment to test the toxicity of drugs; give them to spiders and see what kind of webs they spin. I guess the idea was that the more toxic the drug, the more deformed the web would be. The results are a bit surprising, with caffeine, one of the most commonly ingested drugs, yielding one of the most disturbed web structures. But this is all old news.
Fast forward 15 years, and this dude (Guillaume Le Houx), made bowls out of them. No, not that kind of bowl.
Now I’m just going out on a limb here, but a vessel that is 90% empty space is going to have a hard time holding things, which just happens to be a bowl’s primary function. The results are pretty cool looking, but unfortunately they’re just concepts for now.
If you’re looking for some more scientific reading here’s the NASA article.
Danny Kuo has come up with a brilliant idea to turn vertical space into storage space. His staircase shelving unit is part cuiro, part step stool, allowing you to access the top shelves easily, and without the need for those cumbersome, rolling library ladders.
A sleek, staggered shelving unit like this would be a welcome addition to my pad even if you couldn’t climb on it; being able to scale your cabinets like King Kong is just icing on the cake.
A truly epic homage to 80s cartoon intros by animator Will Goodan aka the Prime. I guess that explains the “Primetime, all the time” slogan at the end of the video. Now if only I could explain everything else.
Believe it or not, this is a time-piece. What you’re looking at is 4 clocks telling the exact same time, joined at the hands. As the time changes, so does the pattern of interconnected parallelograms. Dubbed The Parallel of Time Clock, this piece by Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects is a pretty abstract take on telling time. Sure, it looks great, but I really hate to think about having to adjust this bad-boy during daylight savings.
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Just twenty four hours ago, I would have been hard-pressed to imagine the love child of the Michelin-Man and a Chia Pet. Now, thanks to Lucyandbart, I don’t have to. If it’s not already obvious, the pieces above are actually two photos of the same piece, titled Germination.
Call the collaborative work of Lucy McRae and Bart Hess strange or grotesque, but it is undeniably fascinating. With works more sculpture than fashion, the duo have been transforming the human body with surprisingly low-tech media like bath bubbles, balloons, and construction paper.
If you’re anything like me, and by that I mean chronically impatient and compulsive, you might like boxoh. Not only does it consolidate shipment tracking for services like FedEx and UPS, but it plots the transit route on Google maps. It even creates an RSS feed for your package and lets you share the location using twitter or facebook.
Plus, it makes screw-ups like this all the more embarassing.
I swear I’ve wanted a WWII era bike since before Garden State was even a twinkle in Zach Braff’s eye (not that anyone would ever believe me). So, you can imagine how excited I was when I just happened to see one cruising around downtown Toronto. A bumper sticker directed me to militarybikes.ca. Yes, that’s right. They’re for sale.
This CJ750 is actually from 1966, but the model is a pre-war design. It even comes with a machine gun rack, which is mostly cool because it helps me justify buying a machine gun to put on it. Plus, with this I’ll be one step closer to dating Natalie Portman.
Yesterday was awesome. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and let me grab a few pictures of them. There are a lot to go through, but I’ll try and get a gallery online within a day or two. Don’t forget to drop me an email (adam@convoke.info) so I can get your names and send you the rest of the pics.
As yes, the age old argument of the best pair of jeans. Well, I pick my jeans off the Red Tag rack. Levis 510s are the brands “super skinny”, but don’t let that fool you, these aren’t the painted on tightness of jeans you will find with other brands, they do have some room to them.
Neither I nor Adam are purveyors of washing your jeans unnecessarily. So what we’ve found over here after rigorous testing in the CONVOKE labratories is that a nicely well worn in pair of 510s will fit you like a brand new or just washed 511s, which is right in that sweet spot for jeans. I pretty much wear these jeans every day (about 95%) and they’re still going strong after over 8 months of abuse, showing the quality that your plain old Levis have, and at $75 they really are a steal.
Go grab yourself a pair, throw on a white T, and… strut. It’s just that easy.
