Check out this trailer court in Holland… damn! The trailers seem to be stacked on old containers set on end… with some I-Beams here and there. Wow. Good luck getting this one through your Community Development dept! How do we get cities to allow this type of creativity in the USA? It becomes [...]
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best trailer park in the world…
Posted in architecture, art, city planning, tagged container housing, cool trailer, cool trailer park, pre fab housing, prefab, prefab modern, recycled housing, shipping container housing on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bicycle Sink by Benjamin Bullins
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A friend sent me the link to Benjamin Bullins art. I particularly like this Bathroom sink he designed.
Exactitudes: an amazing distillation of trends
Posted in art, Uncategorized, tagged cool hunting, cultural anthropology, fashion, hipsters, music fashion, non conformists, punk, styles, trend forecasting, trendforecasting, trends, trendwatching, trendy on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Exactitudes is a site that cuts straight to the center of things. Distilling various trendmongers down into clear and exact categories. Sometimes with audio if you choose their “slider view”. Everyone thinks they are being so different… yet we are all just conforming. I dare you to be truly unique… it’s quite difficult. “Technohippies” shown [...]
Play video in the moving spokes of your bike!
Posted in art, bicycles, tagged art bike, Bicycle advertising, Bicycle wheel video on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently discovered Monkeylectric.com . They make LED lights that attach to your spokes to create crazy patterns as you ride… BUT THEY ALSO make an insane bike wheel video player using the same LED light type set up… that plays low res video on your spokes as you ride. Kinda hard to imagine… so [...]
What is truly cool?
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles, california cultural anthropology, tagged advertising history, beat culture, beatnik, Bicycle culture, Bike Snob NYC, california modernism, cool, cool advertising, cool hunting, design history, Eric Meyer, Eric Meyer Simple, gerald rupp, gerry rupp, hip, hipster, History of Cool, History of Modernism, History of Simple Shoes, Jazz age, Lucille Meyer, Lucy Meyer, modernism, morro bay, morro bay history, Simple, simple shoes, trend forecasting, trendy, what is cool on March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is a really long post. You may want to get a cup of coffee first. You may actually not care at all… but it would have been my mom’s birthday a couple of days ago… So I thought I would write about her… and the concept of the word “cool”. Lucy… in Florence Italy… [...]
meet artist Eric Staller
Posted in art, bicycles, interesting autos, tagged amazing art, art car, crazy art, Eric Staller, modern art, performance art on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Staller created this amazing art car years ago. The lights are computer controlled and create a vibrant visual display. Down a bit further is a link to the video of this car in action. I am still amazed by it and his many other creative endeavors.. Check him out! He also made these clogs… [...]
Societe Anonyme Inc.
Posted in art, tagged da da, graphic design, man ray, marcel duchamp, modern art, modernism on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
awesome graphic from the “Societe Anomyme Inc” or effectively…”corporation inc”! (“societe anonyme” is french for “Corporation”) Founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp to sponsor lectures, concerts, publications and exhibitions of or on Modern art. Such a funny name… and really nice art. Dirty colors are nice.
Jeff Shelton is a supergenious!
Posted in architecture, art, california cultural anthropology, city planning, tagged architectural details, architecture, beatnik, California, mexican tile, spanish colonial revival architecture, spanish tile, tile roof on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Shelton is my favorite moorish/spanish colonial revival style architect… BY FAR! He makes FUN buildings. Take Gaudi’s assistant Josep Maria Jujol, mix with Dr. Seuss, toss in a bit of MC Escher… and then stir in a bunch of tile… more than a bunch actually. I think Jeff must have some sort of back [...]
Nice picket fence in Los Alamos, CA
Posted in architecture, art, city planning, tagged picket fence, victorian details on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the little spacers on this picket fence. Also the moulding and the base. Together they make this fence totally different than every other picket fence I have seen. I think it is the spacers that really kick this thing to the next level… they are an interesting small detail… that create an ambiance [...]
pismo beach, bikers, abalone, and dinosaurs… the connections
Posted in art, california cultural anthropology, city planning, motorcycles, tagged bikers, California, cool architecture, harley, indian motorcycle, pismo beach, roadside attractions on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A nice 1920′s signpost… advertising Pismo Beach… and I am guessing these guys are the masons that built the sign judging by the level and the trowel. Pismo for those of you who don’t know… is home of the Pismo Clam… and they are using Abalone shells as decoration…. odd… so maybe these are [...]
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