No need to grow one when you can just crochet one! too funny!

Makes me want to get creative with the timeless bricks…

We’re moving offices and have desk space available in a relaxed, gorgeous art deco style office overlooking Pitt Street in the city.
Desk and internet for $90/wk commencing end of August. Ideal for creative or marketing type, IA, content writer, developer or someone starting a business. Spread the word & let me know if you’re interested.

Just finished reading ‘The Werewolf of Paris’ by Guy Endore and old forgotten classic. Here are a couple of lovely literary morsels…

” There are mornings on which one wakes with the shreds of a dream cobwebbing the cogs of our daytime minds. One was asleep and in a different world. One was sunk in a different medium. Slowly one comes back to daylight and its world suddenly to make one conscious of a strangeness in our usual world, a strangeness that is so fleeing that no one has ever succeeded in analyzing it. But who is there who has not experienced it? ” PG60.

Pete Nelson’s treee houses are every child’s dream come true….

Really nice ink animation by Mate Steinforth.

Long live the handicrafts!! and yet more hand made creations to start of the new year. Meredith Dittmar has some pretty amazing works created using polyurathane foam, fiberglass resin & polymer clay. Horray for FIMO!

Apparently Adobe has terminated approximately 8% of their workforce. Their excuse is directed at the global economic downturn as well as the slow demand of their software products.

Their first excuse I can accept however, poor demand on their products is a lame excuse specially when you try to see the value of their upgrades from a consumers point of view.

When I heard that CS4 was released I was slightly annoyed, given that I’d only less than 9 months ago purchased 3 copies of CS3 for the computers at work. I like to keep up to date so my instinct was to see what’s new and whether it was worth upgrading.
I couldn’t see any great value in features and I don’t actually think it’s worth the upgrade. Sure there are a few features that sound cool but when I weight up the money I have to spend on upgrading three computers and the value that the new features will add to our workflow the odds are stacked against upgrading. At least for me.

I think part of the problem is that they’re trying to get updates out into the market too often and when they do release a new version their marketing campaign doesn’t help designers understand the value of the new features in an effective manner that doesn’t take up too much of their time.

They need to take some tips of Apple!

So so cool…Looky Book is a site that lets you flip through the pages of a whole lot of childrens books. Whilst I find it incredibly inspiring to see that the publishing industry in the UK and US are doing online, I find it incredibly frustrating that the Australian publishing market is totally oblivious to the power of the web in promoting books.

It seems that they are so attached to the notion of paper that pixels are almost seen as evil. Instead of embracing the digital medium as a way to build reading communities online and using it as a marketing medium they cling to their ‘old ways’ and ignore its potential. When oh when are they going to wake up and smell the pixels?

I’ve always been fascinated by the shapes, textures and colours of fruit and vegetables. Clever, little, natural inventions that come in their own packaging; like an orange and banana. And the details such as the intricate star shape that you find inside an apple if you cut it the wrong way, the millions of tiny circles that you can see in the inside of an orange peel, and the way in which you can divide a banana in three perfect segments without using a knife, and specially the onion with its papery layers that enclose layers upon layers of tear inducing pungence.

On the odd occasion when an abnormal shaped vegetable or fruit stumbles my way I’m always driven to place it in the plastic bag and take it with me. I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only weirdly inclined one in the world, I just came across Mutatoes a lovely collection of no-standard fruits and vegetables found in Berlins farmers markets. The images of the capsicums are just beautiful.