March 2006
Proper Furniture Placement
Tue, 03/28/2006 - 17:26 — AnonymousNeed Help Re-Designing a Room?Visit Our “Design Online” pages for affordable help.www.cottageflourishings.com• "There just isn't any other way to arrange my furniture."• "If I rearrange things, they just won't look right."• "I've tried moving the living room furniture around every possible way I could think of, and it just never looks any better. It isn't ever comfortable, either."Chances are you've said these same things to yourself. There's one basic reason why you might feel unhappy with the arrangement you have, so I suggest that you take another good look at your living room right now with the following question in mind: Is all the furniture pressed against the walls?Who can't recall a living room with all the big furnishings pressed agai...
Console Yourself
Wed, 03/01/2006 - 01:00 — AnonymousReview: Xbox 360
Enthusiasm for Microsoft's Xbox 360 seems to have crested. Go ahead and surrender, if you haven't already.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Mosque
Wed, 03/01/2006 - 01:00 — AnonymousMeet Singapore's international style of Islam.
...Cash Crops and Community
Wed, 03/08/2006 - 06:40 — AnonymousNow that we are all well versed in the aspects of sustainability inherent in the practice of dumpster diving, we have begun to appreciate patterns that have evidenced and the community fostered as a natural byproduct of the experience. Let me elaborate.Our biggest d-diving "cash crop" is Odwalla juice. For those of you who don't know, Odwalla is a brand that makes fresh-squeezed, 100% natural juices and smoothies. They are very good, but often get tossed before they expire because they are so highly perishable (what with the lack of preservatives.) The first time we discovered an Odwalla bounty, we came home with 68 bottles of it. They sell for $3.50 each in the grocery store, so that's $238-worth of Odwalla! We've discovered that Friday is the night they toss the Odwallas, so diving is always an integral part of our Friday nights.There is a creative challenge that comes along with every dumpstered bounty to cook and eat our findings before they go bad. We've had loads upon loads of applesauce, pasta sauce, salsa, guacamole... all home-made from fresh 'reclaimed' produce - a term coined to be consistent with the language of sustainabiltiy we are all gaining fluency in. Recently the creative surge has found us enjoying such delicacies as orange-basil dressing, cold mango cu...
Urban Foraging
Fri, 03/10/2006 - 06:15 — AnonymousHarvesting food from your local urban environment doesn't have to be restricted to just dumpster diving. The folks over at Fallen Fruit are creating maps showing the location of fruit trees and sharing information about what is available and where. Seems like a great idea, sharing food, creating community, reducing waste, but I wonder what the people think who tend to the trees only to find them ransacked at harvest time. While there often seems to be excess fruit on neighborhood trees, and no one wants to see this go to waste, there are some interesting personal property and stealing vs. foraging issues to consider. What's in a dumpster has clearly been discarded, but what's hanging in your neighbor's yard hasn't. Better yet, since towns and cities plant trees as part of their overall development plan anyways, why not make use of the permaculture principle of stacking functions and plant fruit trees and other edibles in public spaces instead. Creating basins for these plantings in place of beds surrounded by raised curbs would allow for irrigation with rainwater and help address problems of stormwater runoff. Excess fruit could be ga...
I may be a user, but I ain't no abuser
Sat, 03/25/2006 - 06:38 — Anonymousrule number 1:Always check dates,and then eat it anyway.But know what kind of sick you're likely to get.There's a big difference between the week old sick, and the 3 year old sick.Rule Number 2:Wear a hat,What would your mother say if you caught a cold?Let's not go there. Rule Number 3:Don't forget, you're not beating the system,you're using it. Without the system you'd be dead,hungry, or growing your own damn food you lazy sod.
...不街頭，搞街頭 by MURA
Wed, 03/15/2006 - 06:52 — Anonymous圖一圖二圖三umm..老實說，要寫一篇關於「設計與街頭文化」方面題材的文章，還真不知道怎麼下筆，我看起來一點都不街頭，遑論寫關於街頭文化的東西了。街頭文化很多，我挑裡面的塗鴉來說好了。因緣際會的認識了一個熱愛街頭塗鴉的人，也透過他開始接觸這塊我從未想過會碰觸的領域，當我第一次看到書上有著充滿個人特色，及透露出個人意念的牆面塗鴉時，第一個念頭是，他如何畫的？如何在不打草稿，及短時間內畫出這種讓人注目的圖像？充滿著自由，隨性，但表達卻是嚴謹；又無謂的圖像，這也許就是早期塗鴉帶給街頭的意象(圖一)。等到後來越來越多設計者也慢慢接觸這塊原是次文化的產物時，它崛起了，設計者將它更加趨於服務人群、滿足人心，讓它站上文化的頂端。原本不修邊幅的筆觸以及隨性的線條，有如在課本上無聊畫畫的圖像，被修飾的更加完善，變的更討人喜歡，這就是設計開始融入塗鴉。(圖二)我覺得街頭塗鴉原本應該是門藝術，因為就像藝術家一樣，它是一種表達自...
我不是「塗鴉藝術家」！by Filter017
Wed, 03/15/2006 - 07:32 — AnonymousWOW~YO YO STREET MUSIC by MURA
Wed, 03/15/2006 - 08:03 — AnonymousGorillaz街頭文化刺激著當代的時尚潮流、社會、藝術、設計、廣告及音樂等等，隨著次文化抬頭，到處充斥著在台面上本來不被接受的藝術，逐漸的，這些藝術、文化融入了社會漸而茁壯。如果從音樂領域大體來看街頭文化，大家最直接的聯想一定是Hip Hop，穿著寬大的衣褲，嘴裡喊著 Yo-Yo-Check，隨著音樂馬不停蹄地唸著社會現象，唸著懷才不遇，唸著他女朋友跟別人上床；隨手捻來皆可看見反體制的思想，音樂不再只有古典樂和爵士樂氣質的薰陶，連反叛也不再只有那些頭頂著誇張的五顏六色，身上洞越多越屌的龐克所獨佔—我們都知道punk不以高超的技巧取勝，吉他之魔、吉他之神都只能有一個；重點在於他們的歌詞寫的是對社會的批判，對生活的不滿，只是一種闡述，一種宣洩，透過幾個簡單的和絃重重地刷，反覆再反覆，我們聽到的都是他們滿腔的熱血，正和當下流行的rap同出一轍，反反覆覆地，其實都在大聲吶喊著他們的不滿，對社會的觀察，以及來自生活的體驗。在台灣我們不...
