blueberry cloud cake with slender candles was certainly magic
brilliant design
cake cutter with matches inside
really takes the cake.
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“mama says the word cake like it’s just an ordinary food
which is strange
since everyone knows that cakes are
made of magic.”
-jasmine warga, american author
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terraced lawn with shady trees, designed for busy office workers to take breaks
shanghai, china
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‘design is people.’
*jane jacobs
not sure i would have wanted this in my car
the wrist-twist isn’t my thing
i would have preferred
one of those big old round steering wheels
you could turn with one hand
but the hair is amazing
like judy jetson
in the cockpit
piloting a speeding jet
can’t say that i’m totally surprised
this concept never got off the ground.
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Ford introduced the “Wrist-Twist” steering system for cars in 1965. Despite better visibility, a roomier cabin and allowing you to drive with your arms on armrests it never went beyond the testing stage. You can see a two-minute promotional film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWWYkxQCFfQ
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source credits: ford motor company, midcentury fashion
photos of piano music notes in a bowl of water.
makes you wonder what notes our voices put out
and how it resonates in the people we talk to since our physical bodies are up to 60% water.
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“music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
– leonard bernstein
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source credits: united humanists, cymascop.com
not sure how this all works or fits together
but someone has a vision
it’s interesting
one thing leading to another
i’m guessing the project has grown over time and may still be in play.
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“a building is not something you finish, a building is something you start.”
-stewart brand
What better place to learn your ABC’s and 123’s than inside of a giant building shaped like a cat?
The kids who attend Kindergarten in Karlsruhe, Germany, do so in a giant feline.
Constructed in 2011 and designed by artist, Tomi Ungerer and architect, Ayla Suzan Yöndel, the whimsical kindergarten is in a big white cat building that includes a door for a mouth below a whisker-lined nose, windows for eyes, and a classroom in its belly. For added fun, kids can even ride down its tail that doubles as a slide.
In terms of architecture that inspires a playful imagination, the Kindergarten Wolfartsweier is remarkable for its embrace of an alternative, animalistic design for what a school can be.
“design is where science and art break even.”
-robin mathew(s)
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source credits: Atlas Obscura, My Modern Met, Milk magazine, inthralled.com,
Every fall in Osijek, Croatia – Nikola Faller, academic sculptor and Osijek land artist, creates this magic.
Her drawings are made by raking leaves.
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“every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest.
it is an almost perfect crime,
and almost total resolution of the world,
which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth,
the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.”
-jean baudrillard
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image credits: plava planeta, suzana vida-suz
entering the anna scripps whitcomb conservatory
designed by albert kahn and george mason in 1904
on belle isle, in detroit, michigan
you realize what an amazing vision of the world they had
“architecture is not such a knowledge form, but a form of knowledge.”
-bernard tschumi
kinder quite naturally, know what to do
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“in a time of destruction, create something.”
-maxine hong kingston
j.l. hudson department store – detroit, michigan
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i have always loved boxes
some for nostalgia or beauty
others for their material or design
as my children know
sometimes a box is my favorite part of a present
yes, i have a kept a few or so.
apple – macbook air
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“thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society.
we receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
-erma bombeck
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one specialized group are those who save the boxes created by apple and the used boxes are actually for sale on ebay.
i only recently gave a gift in my macbook air box that i had saved for no reason other than i loved its amazing design.
see the link below for a look into this apple phenomenon:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bw3b/why-people-keep-empty-apple-iphone-macbook-boxes
I didn't have my glasses on.... 