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A nice ballad about a fella from Compton

Something to play in the office...

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Joan Baez-esque cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton
Nina Gordon, late of Veruca Salt, has recorded a mind-blowing cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton, in the style of a Baezesque guitar folksinger. It's funny at first, then it's beautiful, then it's both. 5.5 MB MP3 Link, Nina Gordon music download page

* Ray, 6/04/2005 04:32:20 PM
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text tree

Neat: ecotonoha via core77

* Ray, 6/03/2005 02:48:55 PM
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When style is not enough

Photos of the rooms at HOTEL FOX are up, organized by size of room (don't miss the Small/Medium/Large/X-Large links). I wish this were the future of hotel design.

Hotel FOX
21 international artists from the fields of graphic design, urban art and illustration have just turned the former Park Hotel, a regular 3-star hotel in central Copenhagen, into the world’s most exciting and creative lifestyle hotel.

61 rooms, 21 artist, 1,000 ideas
Each room is an individual piece of art. From whacky comical styles to strict graphic design. From fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies. You will find flowers, fairytales, friendly monsters, dreaming creatures, secrets vaults and...

* Ray, 6/03/2005 02:32:01 PM
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Stacked

Love Me Slender

11'x28' footprint, 7-story home, one room per floor. By Joe Hagan for the Clerkenwell's.

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* Ray, 6/03/2005 02:25:47 PM
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Phoney Phone

HULGER is the NEW POKIA but more so

This is that old-fashioned-phone-connected-to-cellphone thing. (Nokia pressured them to change names.) What intrigues me is the text at the end of their "History" section: "'Bluetooth' will be coming soon as is VOIP."

Cool.

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* Ray, 6/03/2005 02:15:00 PM
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Classicky

SPA tackles the problem of building a new infirmary at Christopher Wren's Royal Hospital in Chelsea by asking 17th century architects.

* Ray, 6/03/2005 10:32:05 AM
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Why not.

This is real, how-come-I-don't-live-like that stuff. Be warned.

Olle Lundberg and Mary Breuer live on a salvaged car ferry docked to a pier in San Francisco. They make all their stuff out of junk. It's gorgeous.

The Scavenger's Guide to the Galaxy (nytimes)

* Ray, 6/02/2005 01:04:10 PM
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"The Force is not remotely with you."

The Sith Sense, Burger King's cross-promotion du jour. Darth Vader reads your mind. The best skin of 20Q I've ever seen.

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* Ray, 6/01/2005 11:27:53 AM
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Expansion

Eatery furniture confirms obesity trend

Furniture makers are selling bigger chairs and tables to U.S. restaurants, an apparent accommodation to growing customers.

Chili's has begun testing more spacious eating spaces and was looking at installing tables up to 12 inches larger at future Chili's outlets. One chair manufacturer said his company is rethinking size -- as in making products bigger -- because customers are bigger. 'Let's face it, America has an obesity problem,' said Jerry Falk of Foldcraft Co. of Minnesota. (UPI)

So the chairs get bigger, does that mean restaurants won't be able to pack as many people inside? Or will the restaurants, too, get bigger? That could be an interesting and twisted game: try to make a country as fat as possible. Balance capital costs, fat content and human space requirements.

Apropos.

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PS: A follow-up BB post on The Great John Toilet Co..

* Ray, 5/31/2005 03:21:36 PM
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Super Lenticular

Lifetiles are hand-made murals of lenticular glass. Low tech and lovely. Only $700-$1500 per sq.ft., 5 hours to make each tile.

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* Ray, 5/31/2005 02:45:32 PM
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Infinite Periodic Minimal Surfaces

Metal castings of soap bubbles by Bathsheba Grossman. Plus, they're mathematical. Oh yeah. Must be a Yale thing.

Even if you don't geek out on the math you have to appreciate what she's been able to do with casting. Math is pretty.

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* Ray, 5/31/2005 08:50:00 AM
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American Evangelism

For a jaw-dropping peek into non-coastal America, read Soldiers of Christ (Harpers.org).

* Ray, 5/30/2005 07:28:39 PM
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The opposite of shopping is...

Yahoo! Mindset lets you filter search results with a slider that goes from "shopping" to "researching". What a lovely way to understand the world.

Pretty neato, though, despite its reaffirmation of my "everything is shopping" lament.

They should let you define the two ends of the spectrum on the fly.

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* Ray, 5/30/2005 07:18:34 PM
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Your poster design is no match for my kung-fu

Endless kung-fu movie posters for entertainment and inspiration.

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* Ray, 5/29/2005 01:08:18 PM
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