Sweetie week, day 5: Spiegel im Spiegel

Kona says: “I’m away teaching a residential course this week. I’ll leave you with a collection of eclectic treats from my online favourites. Enjoy!”

Sit down, close your eyes, and just listen. Relax and breathe. Better?

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Sweetie week, day 4: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests

Kona says: “I’m away teaching a residential course this week. I’ll leave you with a collection of eclectic treats from my online favourites. Enjoy!”

Ordis 2007 from Theo Jansen

I would love to see one of these “in the wild”. At once completely whimsical and totally practical. Gorgeous!

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Sweetie week, day 3: Multicolr Search Lab

Multicolr Search Lab

Kona says: “I’m away teaching a residential course this week. I’ll leave you with a collection of eclectic treats from my online favourites. Enjoy!”

Multicolr Search Lab

This is weirdly but utterly compelling. Wonderful procrastination fodder!

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Sweetie week, day 2: The Interface Hall of Shame

Interface Hall of Shame

Kona says: “I’m away teaching a residential course this week. I’ll leave you with a collection of eclectic treats from my online favourites. Enjoy!”

The Interface Hall of Shame

It might look dry, but some of the examples of appalling interface design in this extensive gallery are utterly hilarious. Recommended for anyone who has felt like throwing their Windows installation out [ . . . ]

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Sweetie week, day 1: Muto, by Blu

Kona says: “I’m away teaching a residential course this week. I’ll leave you with a collection of eclectic treats from my online favourites. Enjoy!”

MUTO: a wall-painted animation by BLU.

As a child, I loved the whole idea of stop-frame animation, and making a short manually-animated film is still on my list of Things To Do.

This one from BLU [ . . . ]

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A holiday treat: paper art

Paper

Image by Ann-Kathrin Rehse

As a kid, I loved making things from paper and cardboard. I developed a cunning technique of scrunching up paper then wrapping it in clear sticky tape to make relatively solid shapes, which could then be joined together into little creatures etc. I even used this technique to construct a horse with an internal wire frame and a string [ . . . ]

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