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The people behind the Lomo have come up with a cunning plan to ship more of the little blighters by giving you the chance to design a makeover for the little black box. Skip over to the Lomo website for a template to download and you customise. They are looking for an original new skin for the Lomo LC-A+ which will actually be put into production (and then sold). First prize (apart from the design being made) is a trip to the Lomography HQ in Vienna, hotel and flight included plus you get 5 cameras with your design on it. So you had better make it a good design!

http://www.lomography.com/magazine/competitions/2009/11/11/the-lomo-lc-a-plus-customisation-competition-submit-your-entries-here

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I know I posted a link to this Flickr Group earlier, but I just love this little VW van with its sign saying “Lunch Bier”.

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Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers series continues with new work, including Lightbulbs. This photo collage represents the 320,000 lightbulbs that equal the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the US per minute, due to inefficient household electricity use. Jordan’s work is a frightening wake-up call that is based on waste, consumerism, planned obsolescence and the ravages to our environment. The work consists of large, detailed prints put together by using thousands of tiny photographs. The importance of the individual among the collective is made visually clear, and the sheer overwhelming nature of these problems cannot be escaped.

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BBC – BBC Four Programmes – Art Deco Icons.

Had plenty to of time to waste this afternoon so I  watched three episodes on BBC iPlayer of a mini series that has been running on BBC Four for the last few weeks about art deco in Britain.

The series is introduced by Historian David Heathcote, who, apart from needing a haircut, really knows his stuff about art deco and gets all enthusiastic when he comes across deco details. And there are plenty in this mini series. The first episode was about Claridge’s, the up-market hotel in Mayfair created by the D’Oyly Carte family, yes the people from the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. The second episode covered London Transport and their art deco makeover of the network. The third episode was about Casa Del Rio, a remarkable art deco fantasy set in rural Devon of all places. Slightly silly but at least it brightened up my afternoon.

David Heathcote got to spend a night at Claridge’s and at Casa Del Rio, both lovely places to stay I expect. Both seemed to be excuses to have lots of cocktails of which I thoroughly approve so good for him.

There is a fourth episode lined up, about the Orient Express, where I expect our hero, still needing a haircut, will ply his way across Europe drinking cocktails and taking our minds off the awful recession by showing us shiny stuff.  Well worth a watch on iPlayer if you can get to it from where you are.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nj89c

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The common housplant becomes superhero in this living air filter by ANDREA. Pop over to Inhabitat.com for more information. Is that an aloe vera inside?

What do you do if the plant starts to outgrow the little glass lid?

http://www.andreaair.com/

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Ready….FIGHT!!!!

 

 

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Yes, that’s right. It’s being billed as a development PLATFORM and not just a bike. The Mavizen TTX02 is fully connected in a way that bikes are not today. It ships not only with a chassis and drivetrain, but with an open source Linux OS, web server, USB-based system bus, and WiFi connectivity. http://www.mavizen.com.

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Grain Edit have linked to a Flickr group specifically for designs and logos on the side of vehicles. http://www.flickr.com/groups/autografik/. Fab.

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