I'm up....

So my last final is tomorrow. I've been absent from here, busy busy, pretty much for the last eight months.
However, I will make a valiant attempt to start posting again.

I'm moving to a new apt in the next few weeks.
New apt means new things,
ridding of old things,
and rearranging.

I have to purchase:
1 dresser
1 new bathmat
1 storage cabinet
1 over toilet cabinet
As we will be losing a linen closet, a coat closet, and regular closet space.

However, everything must be inexpensive enough that we could leave them should we have to move again. Goal is to go overseas in the next few years. Looks like it's a trip to family dollar or IKEA....

so generally

i try not to want want want....

however, after being bombarded by blasts of green design and ecology and such... and after a self reminder of the book "Alas, Babylon", i think I would like to save up for a scooter when my car payments are over.

Pros:

CHEAP

cheap insurance!

CHEAP GAS!

supa sweet.

Cons:

suck in rain

getting run over

having to pay for leathers, helmets, the how-to-ride-a-motorcycle class

cargo room

However, after a long time of annoyingly researching, i found this baby:

The 2007 (or '08) Yamaha Vino... Quite possibly the best bang for the buck.

Speed up to 60 MPH, 115 MPG (!!!!!!!)

....and '07s are being clearanced for a whopping $1299.

SO THEORETICALLY,

cost of scooter+cost of take moto class+leathers+helmet+gas for a YEAR=

WHAT I PAY IN GAS A YEAR.

*s i g h*

that $300 car payment is looking mightly annoying now.

fun stuff!

Good morning!
Fun stuff time! Today is all about stuff used in WRITING.... I want to go home and make a pen vae right NOW.






Yes, this is a flavored Bic cap...


just, erm, in time for Easter? It's a flocked pencil!!

posters

I love posters... I always have. A poster makes a statement of what you are about and how you want people to portray you. I, however, want that statement to be "I have cool design posters"... LIKE THESE:

The first, the Vitra Design Museum Collection, I have been lusting over for years. Yes, furniture=lust. Available for $50 at DWR.

Second set is the Love Your Earth poster pack from Designboom.com ($38). Also pictured below are the Illustrated History of Rocking Chairs and the Illustrated History of Folding chairs, each $10 at Designboom.com. This is a big, blatant hint to anyone in my family or friends that feels that I have been good and they want to get me something for Valentine's Day. Screw candy!

I need stamps.

NOW. Congrats USPS, you have officially made me an enthusiast. Now my spiral binders from my youth will be complete. These are two designers that changed my childhood from the moment I stood back (about age 7 - second from top, far right) and REALLY looked at the chair I was laying in that I loved so much...


(From USPS.com)

In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public.

FOR JOHN

Michael Osborne Design
Design firm out of SF... does a lot of wine bottle design. However, the website itself seems to be more adventurous than the actual product branding.

What I'd like to know is what design firm is that CLEAN? What are the hoods for? Lighting? You can't really tack up ideas to something curving toward you.

How about DEM Apples?

Not to be cliche... but come on.... Steve Jobs!

Macbook air. Less than an inch thick.
Time capsule. 1TB wireless backup
mini chips... movie rentals!

I'm not taking time to hotlink it. Go to apple.com. I'm not going to be the broken record, i am just obligated by its awesomeness.

HOWEVER, this does bring the thought.... is the MB Air really worth it? Discussion leads to this:

CONS:
No optical drive, 1 USB, no firewire, price is that of a macbook pro. and the cost of the solid state upgrade (which is hundreds less for students, FYI)

PROS: light, pretty, fast.

So who would really use it? Travellers? Would someone spend the $ to get it versus a macbook pro($100 less than a MBP), and then upgrade to get an external optical and a USB splitter? Isn't that missing the point? I'd love some feedback, cause the feedback i'm getting now is from PC fans forced to use macs for graphics.

lotsa pasta

It's expensive... but SOO beautiful. From Alessi. Not pictured is the lid.

For the office that ALMOST has everything...

Pricey? Probably. But for an executive with no dibs on the thermostat, it's a price worth paying. Now if only it could double as a sweater shaver...

(From Wired)

Battling over control of the office thermostat / air conditioning tends to be a passive aggressive flashpoint in any place of work, so even though this will undoubtedly set off some environmental alarms, the C2 climate control definitely fills a niche. Replacing the role of a regular personal fan, the C2 from Herman Miller allows users to adjust the surrounding temperature up to a 40 degree increase, and an 8 degree decrease, taking 72 degrees F (22 degrees C) as the starting temperature. The aforementioned environmental issues does raise the question of how far this technology should go, especially since office unity can't be that great if an issue as trivial as temperature can't be agreed upon. Still, we're not one to complain about having things easier in our work environments: not that we'd know anything about working in an office.

sorry blogger, but you've been trumphed.

Due to the tragic, tragic loss of my last bag (Timbuk2 Blogger), I've been painfully researching my next laptop bag. It was down to the Timbuk2 Detour ($150) and the Timbuk2 Hacker ($120). I know that sounds like a lot, but I'm forced to carry a lot of art supplies and a laptop back and forth, and I will eventually have to carry and SLR to school on occasion.

The Detour seems nice, its slightly less (I snooped around, found it for slightly under $100), and slightly less cub ft. But I was in love with the hacker... I just couldn't find it for under $120.

THEN I FOUND THE HACKER on Academic superstore... for $75. Its a winner. Can't wait to order it! (click on images to make em bigger)

nothing like some pixel snackies to tease one's hunger...

ok that was meant to be way wittier. Either way... tasty idea.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/genkigecko/sets/72157603516653952/
I suddenly want a play dough extruder.