Apartment Therapy caught my attention with this IKEA PS Laptop workstation. It's sold in red or white coated steel for $40. That's about 1 tenth the cost of an eNook. Put a power strip inside and use it to charge and store your gadgets.
The eNook:
I waste a fair amount of time each month searching for and downloading torrents for my favourite british car programmes. So I'm delighted to have found TuningLinx. Here I can instantly watch the streaming video segments of Channel Five's "Fifth Gear". Or, for those who like it, there are also segments of the BBC's Top Gear. Well done!
Categories:Cars Movies
Triton is the name given to any home-made striped-down cafe racer motorcycle made from a Triumph engine and a Norton frame.
To build a Triton, take a Norton featherbed frame and fit a comparatively reliable, and readily modifiable, Triumph twin engine. Add clip-on handlebars, rear-set foot pegs, and lightness.
Images by Guy Palalda
Categories:Cars
These shelves are definitely better than the cinterblock bookshelves we made when I was a student.
Instructables has this sturdy, perhaps over engineered, bookcase design:
And fishbol has this simpler version:
Either way, I can see these being popular with students and others on a budget.
The roof design “is like lifting up a piece of the park and putting a building under it.”-Piano
The Music Concourse in Golden Gate park has gone through some extreme changes in the last few years.
First, the building housing the de Young and Asian Art Museum was demolished and a fabulous new copper coated de Young, designed by Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, was built on the old site.
Second, the California Acacemy of Sciences building was demolished, and its' replacement, designed by Renzo Piano, will be opening on September 27th.
The facade of Africa Hall was preserved. And some elements of the old interior were reproduced in the new building: My favourite, the Alligator "swamp" at the main entrance, has been remade.
Categories:Science San Francisco
Today is pi day in the US, and anywhere with a month/day/year date format (although I understand that the 22nd of July is pi day in day/month/year countries, since 22/7≈π).
Celebrate the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter with some science puzzle fun at the Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St, SF tonight at 7pm.
Categories:Science
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need." -Charles Eames
Found object bench/daybed with storage space. High-density polyethene and chipboard.
Categories:Furniture
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Eames Aluminum Group chairs by Herman Miller.
I fell in love with this chair and ottoman back in 1979.
Back then I was working at the Hub Bookstore on the University of Florida campus, and I'd often wander over to the Students' Union building to have my lunch in the student lounge, where there were a dozen of these chairs. I started coming back just to relax in the chairs!
"Aluminum Group chairs were originally developed in 1958 as a special project by Ray Eames for a private residence being designed by Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard.
"The seat-back suspension was a major technical achievement and represented a departure from the concept of the chair as a solid shell. Wonderfully comfortable, strong, yet lightweight..." -Hive
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need." -Charles Eames
Categories:Furniture
I spent this afternoon window shopping in Hayes Valley. Their are many fine restaurants and art galleries here, but I was looking for cool and clever home accessories. Scandinavian Details, at 364 Hayes, is just the ticket.
Designed for Alessi by Guido Venturini, the Inka Cafetiere is molded in thermoplastic resin, glass and steel.
Capacity: 0·7 litre
Dimensions: 16 cm x 12 cm x 25 cm tall
Colours: Green and Dark Brown
$88 at Scandinavian Details on Hayes Street, or online at Alessi.
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