nothing seems out of the ordinary when you first look at Life Clock. upon closer inspection, you may notice the numbers seem a little high. this is because one rotation of this clock is equal to the average human lifespan. the clock is an artwork by bertrand planes which uses an ordinary clock slowed down 61320 times to make each minute equal to a year.
(via designboom’s contemporary time pieces)
Vintage Roadside (A Portland company) is Celebrating the incredible history and advertising graphics of mom and pop businesses of the 1930s through early 1960s the Vintage Roadside gift shop brings you new t-shirts featuring vintage graphics from authentic roadside. Can’t wait to see what they come up with.
Fun for the whole family. Link
Somehow we ended up with 2 passed to the Dept. of Skateboarding. If you have never been there you should swing by some night and take a walk around the park. Portland is home to some amazing skaters and the Dept. is one on the best parks around. They even have an Old Man night for those 30 or Better. Man I love this town.
All you have to do to be eligible is comment on this posting with a link to your favorite website. We will randomly selecting the winner on Thursday (10/02/08) at 12:00pm. Post any (appropriate) site you want. Just post before 12:00pm Thursday .
Each ticket is valid for one session. $5 upgrade to all day pass. They expire on 10/30/08. Don’t skate? Can’t help you there man.
I have never been much of a first mover. My car was built in 1972 and my house was built in 1888 but this week was an exception to the rule. The kids at Google introduced the HTC G1 cell phone. Their answer to Apples iPhone. Released by T-mobile this phone has most of the same features that come with an iPhone. The biggest difference is that it uses an open source OS developed by Google called Android.
Why is this cool? Because it’s open source and now anyone can develop applications for their phone. Everyone from Nike to your cousin Mikey can make cell phone applications. The game is changing people and I believe Google is making the rules.
The bad new is that one day we’ll be drinking Google coffee and sending our kids to Google daycare. But for a company who’s believes that you can make money without doing evil (it’s listed as a corporate philosophy) it may not be too bad.
The boys down at Draplin Design Co. just started their “pre-order sale” of their Field Notes 18-Month Work Station Calendar. The calendar boasts “We give you the last three month of 2008 and the first three months of 2010 just in case. For free. That’s how we do it.”
Brady Clark and Mykle Hansen created a vest that lets bicycle riders show off how fast they’re pedaling:
How does the vest work?
In a nutshell, it uses a sensor on your wheel to send a signal to a microcontroller that then turns the numbers on and off on the vest. Take a look.
I don’t know who made www.whatgoogleknows.com or what it is all about. But it made me look and click for a while. Anyone have any insights?
