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yup. i went alll out on this one...

honestly.. if you only knew the ammount of effort it takes for me to save and upload these beautiful photos in some sort of order.. my computer is so sad and abused plus blogger and i do not get along.. i only can put two photos up at a time plus they come up in backwards order.. if that makes any sort of sense... haha.. no fun.....

anyho.....

start reading here..

andreas samuelsson is a serious artist...

'Andreas Samuelsson is a Swedish illustrator from Stockholm. Working with cut papercollage mixed with watercolor and computer graphics in sharp colors. His ideas tendsto turn into geometric forms, stilistic symbols and handwritten letters.He has recently been working for clients such as Adidas, Dagens Nyheter, Arkitipand New York Times and producing limited prints for "If You Could" in London andAnalogue Books in Edinburgh. In 2008 he finished his first childrensbook called"Red, Green, Blue and You" for Rollo Press in Zürich.'

sure. simply his work is going to make you smirk and this.. what more could you ask for??

please go to his site.. and take a btr look

nitenite

andreas samuelsson

ps- found via apartment therapy & bloesem

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i would love this a lot... royal revelation

its funny... i will admit that i am not a huge 'car guy'.. but i do like to look..

lets start with some reality.. i will never own this car.. i think describeing the one-77 as a car just does not do it justice.... no matter what i write here will not explain how interesting this 'project' is as well as aston martin does in their video... so if you have any interest in design it is fun to see how their whole project and team work... watch

as informative/interesting/wonderful the video is... it defintially leaves you starved to see it in action... hear it.. haha.... i guess it is effective... becuase i know i will be back on the aston martin site in jan09 for the next release video...

goodness the team at aston martin have things together.. everything is presented just perfectly.. thank you.

goodness i want to see it on the road....
my chances are slim in person... with only 77 to ever be produced.. ever. each one a little different to the next absolutly customized to everything about you.. it really is fun to think about... sadly i do not have an extra $2mill laying around this year.... sorry.
maybe i will get lucky and see one in miami
aston martin
aston martin
aston martin
aston martin

'one-77 expresses all the know-how that aston martin has collected in recent years. it is the expression of all the beauty we could bring to a car, its an expression of all the emotions that we can bring in the car and by this, it is an expression of what aston martin stands for'
Dr ulrich bez.. ceo
aston martin

poor guy out in the snow

i sneezed

please take a closer look and just imagine how creepy this was...

love that dknob.. and the frame prints are great as well..

she got a donk

its funny becuase at work i think i make reference to this guy about once every 2nd day.. you tell telling a little old lady in the rehab gym that we are going to turn into popeye... why not.

getting stuck behind this asshole was horrible.. yeah.. keep smiling!

farm

its nice to know that if it even happens to me there are beautiful options... i dont know the details but i am going to try and find out more on the designers... it really is amazing.. i would guess maybe a vanier (how to spell?) over a carbon or something.. anyho.. looks like a successful aka (abovekneeamputation)

it is going to happen to all of us

good pup

print idea andrea?

the farm

ffffound

i really enjoy these steps... well.. i guess especially when i pictur them leading into a little loft space at our place (that sort of rhymes..)

i got this little photo by caroline off a site/shop i found today called smarts&crafts.... and really.. the name seems to describe the shop/the people quite perfectly.. i especially like their little photo theme projects where people take a little snap ansend it in for them to post .. its fun..

so please go take a peek

smarts&crafts

special special

and i am not sure where i was on here (here = internet) i came across someone who was in halifax and happened to go to bud the spud .... it was real interesting.. she snapped this photo and had some info about the couple that run it.. and have run it for something around 30 years... congrats!! and damm thoes fries do look good... but i will be honest and say that i have not eaten thoes fries since i was about 6 b/c they are way over priced (i guess in my extremely cheap opinion)

i have seen a few great products come out of the fawn&forest studio.... and well.... these little yoyos are so perfect....

here is what they have to say about them...

'Each YoYo is one-of-kind and has its own unique character. They are made with various sustainably harvested woods from our own tiny forest! The wood is carefully selected, hand cut, meticulously sanded and finished with natural shellac, then assembled with the utmost care. The strings are 100% cotton, professional Yo Yo strings! Each YoYo measure approximately 2" diameter.
Before leaving the shop, they must pass rigorous testing by Ben himself, to insure that you will receive a quality product that works like a charm! Varied woods. '

sounds nice...

and why would you not want to from them?? so go take a peek! their shop is so full of products... they have fatboys too!! ha

fawn&forest

i can definitally picture a few of these hanging out in our corner vertically... i think it would look amazing..... fallen limb hunt starts now...

i really wonder how many obama prints are out there... its amazing really

this one is from Lance Wyman who in my opinion is one of the most amazing designers out there... his site is so amazing... he has this beautiful spiral of all of his work from his students to the present.... it is perfect...

huge projects on there like the mexico 68 olympics... which you have seen on here many times now...

so go go go

Lance Wyman

oh... and if you have a little time to burn check out this link which has all of the (well..... about 700 or so) front pages from newspapers around the world after obama was elected... its an interesting gallery

goodness... not a bad backyard at alll is it?

Dan Heinfeld, president of LPA Architects in Irvine, set out to build his family’s home and from the looks of the photos... he was extremely successful!

we WILL be buying a dslr in the next week or so.... before andrea goes on her big trip... and we really have a few big decisions to make.... they are a lot of moula! any hints would be great!

i stumbled across some of jon burgerman's work today... welll the wallpaper project (above).. so funn

when i see work of this style i always wonder how the illustrator goes about doing it.... and here are a couple of little snaps i nabbed from his site..... speaking of the site... please go.. it is just stuffed with work to enjoy... so go!

jon burgerman

i really love chris ware's work... dont you?? i am not a huge comic book person... well not at all really.. but there is something about his format and style of illustration that really is attractive... i have been searching for a poster of his for a while...

chris ware

ps- if you like his work.... which i am guessing you do... follow the link for a HUGE archive of (close to) all of his work... njoi

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1/2 yellow onion diced
2 cloves garlic minced
1 medium sized carrot diced
1 cup of peas (we used frozen)
2 eggs scrambled
1 handful of chopped cilantro
2 1/2 cups cooked jasmine rice
1/2 to 1 lb. meat or tofu
3/4 cup pineapple juice
1 1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1/2 cup tamari
2 tbsp. yellow curry powder
Cook meat or tofu, set aside.
Cook scrambled eggs, set aside.
Cook onion, carrot, pea, garlic, & pineapple chunks, set aside.
Fry rice for 1 minute
Add the veggies back in.
Add pineapple juice, tamari, and curry powder.
Add meat, egg, & cilantro
Garnish with cashews, green onion, & cilantro.

i am excited for andrea to get on the plants come this spring... exciting

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careful chris

our new pet

sash's basement

what a pick

itsanice

welcome to the neighbourhood obama!!
congrats!

andrea does not do too bad with our ittle camera.... but it is still time to get a new one.....

anyone have any hints for dslr's please send me a little note

jonathan

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great colour from maxalot

dutch famers know how to get to work!! these photos are from tulip farms in northern holland.... it would be so amazing to fly over this unexpectenly wouldnt it?
yes.

it just looks so good to me for some reason...

here we have our new little toy for the savannah streets...

so happy

cannot wait to give the touradatown

seeya...

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i just love to find projects like this....

its amazing to see the potential for design to influence interaction...... i mean as a kid i was never too tooooo excited to see the library bus (yes.. we had one in halifax) but if this thing rolled up no matter how old i am i would be running to it like the ice cream truck (i do hope they serve ice cream/snacks in there!!!)

the project is by Peter Thuvander and Martin Hedenström out of Sweeden who are with Muungano and won the Swedish Library Bus of the Year award for this library bus. this is a yearly event? wow.

beautiful stuf!!

ok... get as pumped as this kid about a little photo find from moi.......

the above really looks funny to me... maybe funny is not the right word...

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if you love colour... a little imagination and a spec of geometry....

you will love maya hayuk

i promice!

maya hayuk

if you know me you know that i am a huge fan of goodwill.. fan is not the right word... sorry... maybe more of a regular... in any event.. love goodwill or any thrift shop for that matter.....

i think this is a wonderful add to promote and encourage people to head to their local goodwill for their halloween costume..... the miller group out of la put this together and i think it is clever.... and that rhymes..

if this is what our future has instore... i think i am going to be ok with it.... andrea and i (welll.. more andrea doing the work.. haha.. love you!) have done our very best to fill our beautiful balcony with greenery... and it looks great..... getting into our 'winter' now in savannah has slowed it down a bit but things are still looking nice....

anyho.. a little info on the above building from designboom....

'the EDITT tower, singapore has been designed by architects T R hamzah & yeang. the building was created to revitalize an urban, non organic site where the natural ecosystem was completely destroyed. designed for retail exhibition and auditorium use the building features planted facades and vegetated terraces. other ecological features of the building is that it has a rainwater collection system where over 55% of grey water can be reused and sewage waste can be recycled to create compost and bio gas fuel. through a system of solar panels the EDITT tower will achieve an energy self sufficiency of 40%.'

thanks designboom

the headporter lesson day pack is for people who study a lot....

well... not really more like people who like to spend a little too much on a backpack... but they are still great.....

just a concept... but fun to think about i guess.... but what is funny is that i cannot remember the last time i actually put a cd/dvd/disk into my computer.....

i like chairs.. yup.

ride

here we have a couple of beautiful close-ups from the work of casey ruble...

she has an amazing sense of colour and pattern and i love how to sort of contrast each other...

she has a lot of work up on her site so please go and take a little lookseeeeee

casey ruble

i have something in the making...

living comments can be fun....

its called a fiddlehead... if you ever come accross one.. pick it.. throw a little butter in your cast iron put it over a medium flame... toss your beautiful fiddle heads in there.. some s&p....
yum.
take care
jonathan

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willyoulookatthat

look at that amazing woodwork.... not really my thing by not bad for a party house in mexico right???? hmm... what is that guy in all black doing there??

wow.... what a beautiful pool... i imagine it just comes alive at night

and why is there private zoo with many of the most exotic animals in the world??? this place sounds too good to be true....

well.... i guess it was.... a drug cartel is mexico owned the place and yup..... the fun ended for the team..... sorry guys........
check out the ninja stare the guy with the gun has...... it must be so amazing to be a photographer for a group like the telegraph...
go read the story.. it is crazy

little bike crazy right now.... and i was thinking about it... i beat the shit out of my bike EVERY day... to and from work... rain or shine... +++++++ you get the idea.... one day i will create my dream bike... but for now it is fun to have a few beaters to thrash around on

old mail is just beautiful.... my envelope collection is easily up in the 100's by now... impressive right?? ha.

fun and simple.... does not get much better...... sort of reminds me of when i was a kid and use to keep my spare change in split tennis balls....

Dominik Langhammer created this for the German team Loony Design

that really is one intimidating car.... and yes.. the designers from audi deserve a little pat on the back... but to be honest... the photo makes it so impressive.....

so........

thank you scott chu for taking these wonderful photos... it must be so fun to chase these amazing machines around and snap photos.... i wonder what he likes to drive?

scott chu

i sure wish i had a pair of these when i got hit (at least as far as the story goes.....) well.. actually.. i dont really see myself wearing anything like this.. and i am sure they would want something out of this world for them... but good idea from Billy May