walnut house: certificate of appropriateness application and IKEA
September 1, 2010 – 10:54 am | 4 Comments

Today we’d like to share the Certificate of Appropriateness application for the Walnut House that was turned in to the Historic Preservation office yesterday.  As we mentioned on August 18th,  we had a very productive …

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Is it art? I don’t know, but I think it’s cool.
April 6, 2009 – 8:00 am | No Comment
Is it art?  I don’t know, but I think it’s cool.

OK, so I am not really sure what this thing is, but it makes for some really interesting images.  Could it just be a fluid 3-D sculpture ?  Check it out.  My favorite liquid is …

For your Friday listening enjoyment.
April 3, 2009 – 3:33 pm | No Comment
For your Friday listening enjoyment.

It is amazing what you can find if you have time to actually surf the inter-web.  This is  Sigur Ros doing an acoustic version of Vid Spilum Endalaust in a restaurant in Paris.  The video …

Peel P50
March 26, 2009 – 3:21 pm | No Comment
Peel P50

With recent imports to the United States of the Smart Car and the Mini Cooper, I wonder if we’ll see anything quite as small as the P50, built in the early 1960′s by The Peel …

The Story of Stuff
March 23, 2009 – 7:52 am | No Comment
The Story of Stuff

I was flipping through a copy of Body + Soul Magazine this weekend and I came across a little article on Annie Leonard. If you are not familiar with Annie Leonard, she is a …

Film the blanks
March 13, 2009 – 8:44 am | No Comment
Film the blanks

We’re really digging these abstract movie posters over at Film the blanks.  Looks like the idea was to simplify the posters down to there basic elements and colors, and leave the details missing, almost like …

Who is Dieter Rams?
March 12, 2009 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Who is Dieter Rams?

Dieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.
Rams studied architecture at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden as …

A TV with with one black bar (instead of two)
March 11, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment
A TV with with one black bar (instead of two)

Studio FRST has come up with a TV to do away with the black bars either on the top or side of your screen due to what aspect ratio you are watching.  The 16943 looks …

FiCoMo (First Coast Modern) Meeting
March 2, 2009 – 9:35 am | 2 Comments
FiCoMo (First Coast Modern) Meeting

The first new FiCoMo meeting has been set for this Friday, March 6th.  We’ll be meeting at 6:30 at nestliving, 1020 park street in 5 Points.  This first meeting will essentially be a meet and …

A prototype table from Nicola Enrico Stäubli
February 28, 2009 – 9:00 am | One Comment
A prototype table from Nicola Enrico Stäubli

designer -Nicola Enrico Stäubli
firm – Nicola From Bern
projects – Trestle
Metal frames are put over the edges of a tabletop and contracted with lashing straps creating a highly solid linkage. Other than conventional trestles it causes …

Formula 1 – Just because it is a cool video
February 27, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment

Sometimes I feel like we live in the land of NASCAR, but my love goes to Formula 1.  We came across this video about some of the changes that are taking place in Formula 1 …