Plastic Moon

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This private residence located in Tokyo and designed by Japanese architect Norisada Maeda Atelier takes “working from home” to the next level. It includes the home owner’s dental practice on the ground floor, which is accessible from an entrance separate from the owner’s home space. Its steel structure has a white tile finish that gleams in light (which is probably the inspiration for the house’s name) and the molding forms the spaces of the structure. There is a music room, lounge, bedroom, and basement and the top floor includes a kitchen along with a swimming pool that looks beautiful at twilight and sunset.

 

 

 

 

 

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Karen O’Leary: Cut-Out Maps

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Charlotte, NC-based artist Karen O’Leary reimagines the map as an exchange of negative and positive space. Deftly cutting maps of New York, Paris and London with razor precision, she leaves delicate webs of streets as land and water are cut away. Negative space demarcates land, while meandering grids of paper represents streets. In a recent interview with The Jailbreak, O’Leary said of her work, “I love the idea of a completely familiar object made new and even more beautiful.”

I have always been fascinated by maps, and these lacy depictions of real places showing just the roads are captivating to look at.

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Olympus EP-2 announced | News | What Digital Camera

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Olympus has announced the second model in its Micro Four Thirds PEN range, the EP-2.

The new model arrives in an eye-catching black finish, and sports a range of new features aimed at extending the functionality of the device.

The EP-2 feature an accessory port on the model’s rear, which offers support for both the new electronic viewfinder, a feature requested by a range of customers, while also offering support for an external microphone.

Again I can’t afford one but if anyone has any spare money please buy me one. KTHNXBAI.

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New Retro-Futurism design | Samal Design

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“Sphery chair lounge”: Multy sphere chair lounge reminds us of the classic traditional button tufted chair but rethought in the modern way with using recyclable soft poly materials. It has metal understructure. Large palette of colours and personalisation are available.

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New Work: Litl | New at Pentagram | Pentagram

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“Litl is an innovative new web computer, or webbook, that marries the communication functions of a laptop and TV. Small, portable, and equally at home on a kitchen countertop or a living-room coffee table, the webbook is designed for families with multiple users who like to keep in touch and socialize. Litl is always connected to the web (with access to Wi-Fi) and flips upright like an easel for TV-like viewing of photos and video. It has no hard drive, files or applications of its own, but instead runs on the “cloud,” using web-based applications like webmail, Google, Flickr and Facebook.”

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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman – Pete Gilbert

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MoCo Loco “goes the other way”

Get yourself over to MoCo and have a look. Their new design is fantastic, although different to most web sites. Their pages “go the other way” and extend off to the right. When you scroll the page moves left rather than up. Or do I mean right rather than down? Whatever. I know, it’s been done before and it doesn’t always work, but here it works really well. I really like it.

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Kitamoto House by Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda

Kitamoto House by Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda.

This is the interior courtyard of a house in Kitamoto City, Japan. An unusual mix of arched ceilings and windows at ground level. More at Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda’s website.

WordPress Mobile Themes – Fantastic

I dont even know how I missed this, I usually read the blog articles on the WordPress.com Blog, but must have been looking the other way when this one was announced. I must have even enabled it yesterday when messing around in the settings, because I had ONE HELL of a surprise when I went to my WordPress.com blog on the iPod Touch and got the new cut down theme for iPhone, Android etc. This is significant, as more and more people browse the Internet from mobile devices it is good to be ready for them when they come, and boy are they coming.

There is more on the subject here on the WordPress blog. The stuff they keep on putting into the WordPress.com blog platform is amazing.

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Core-Toon: What will Dyson do next? – Core77

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