Pancake Lettering
Three great obsessions taste great together: pancakes, lettering and photographing your food!
Read more →This site's a compendium of people, places, ideas and things I love (at least noticed) and want to share. About Emily
Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Urban Design
How can indigenous wisdom be used to develop sustainable architectural and urban design strategies? Exploring Maori design principles with New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.
Read more →New Zealand Types
Last weekend I stumbled on Helvetiki, this witty marriage of the ubiquitous hei-tiki of New Zealand and Helvetica of the world by Matthew Moriarty at Crawlspace gallery.
Read more →Apollo 13: Mission Control
On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, experience the drama of Apollo 13: Mission Control, an innovative play that puts you right in the action.
Read more →Reboot and Reset with Bruce Sterling
Objects are printouts – not treasures, not things to stocpkpile. Our posessions are frozen social relationships. Think of them as hours of time and volumes of space. Reassess the objects in your space and time. What is most important?
Read more →Links du Jour: Being Here in the Long Now White Cloud
Links of the day:
- New ZeaLAND Day
- Robert Thurman and Danny Hillis on science, ethics and religion
- A short history of the Internet by Robin Chase
- Google Wave
This is my brain on XMediaLab
Links and notes from XMediaLab in Auckland, a combination think-tank and creative workshop with a focus on the design, development and business of digital media ideas across multiple platforms.
Read more →Furniture Typeface
Furniture Typeface by Cody Haltom, created for High Fashion Home in Houston.
Read more →Painting Workshop with Max Gimblett
Max paints like Tibetan Buddhist monks debate, animated with kinetic punctuations. He describes it as automatism, “one stroke bone” and “all mind and no mind”. Think very clearly of what you want do before you start, and then let go and free your mind while doing, “a little like making love.”
Read more →Wild Thymes, Honey
I’ve been seduced by a terroirist network known as New Zealand Artisan Honey, made up of passionate beekeepers producing honeys in small, quality batches from specific varietal sources among some of New Zealand’s most spectactular locations.
Read more →Linking and thinking about collaboration and mobility
Looking at C,mm,n, a sustainable collaborative mobility concept; “Anatomy of Sharing” interview with Robin Chase; and Adam Greenfield’s 14 Elements of networked urbanism.
Read more →Phonetic Alphabets: S as in Summertime
I’m not sure whether it was “S as in Summertime” or “X as in Xylophone” that pushed my father over the edge, but by the time I finished talking with tech support, he was about to explode.
Read more →This Website Was Blacked Out
If you tried to visit this site earlier today, you would have found it blacked out with the message below. Delighted to return it before the day is out, due to success of the blackout campaign for raising awareness. Kudos to Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and the Creative Freedom Foundation for their swift and effective blackout campaign [...]
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