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Inspiration | The Beauty Within

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’ve been very negligent with the whole blogging thing. I’ve been leaving it all up to my better half. Once in awhile I would send her links to cool stuff, but that’s been pretty much the extent of my involvement. Well there’s no turning back now…

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all someone shows you something that was never meant to be seen. Like the early sketch of a painting, the complicated tools used to create the simplest tasks. These are often more interesting then the final product. There’s something magical about the thought process, the production method. Along comes Kent Rogowski with his photographic art of teddy bears turned inside out.


Childhood magic lives on, albeit in a slightly twisted way. In his interview with Nicole Pasulka, Rogowski says that his work is more about the childhood icon represented by the teddy bear than about recreating the toy. I beg to differ, but I’m not about to turn my boo bear inside-out to test it.

Found via BoingBoing.

Inspiration | Beautiful minds: A voyage into the brain

Thursday, October 5th, 2006


This is a video excerpt (runs about 5 minutes) from the documentary “Beautiful Minds: A voyage into the Brain” featuring Stephen Wiltshire, aka the ‘Living Camera’. Stephen is autistic and has the remarkable ability to be able to retain visual details — in this case, details from an aerial view of Rome — and put them on paper. (You can buy prints and originals of his work on his website).

Truly amazing.

Inspiration | Pitagora Suicchi

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

After spending too much time watching various videos on Youtube, we found these videos of Rube Goldberg machines that they made for segments on a Japanese kids’ show called Pitagora Suicchi (Pythagorean Switch). A warning though, the music can get annoying and the video’s a little over 4 minutes long.

We’re suckers for these types of things. In my first year of design school I was required to make a similar type of machine that had to be powered by a steel ball and take up no more than 2 cubic feet while running a total of ten seconds. The other requirement was that it light a match in the end. And have a theme. Hard, but in the end, kind of fun. Mine had a New Year’s theme, counted down from ten, played Aud Lang Syne and popped a balloon full of confetti to boot. I’m glad I’m not in school any more ;)