A Duck Speaks

The words of a mallard (This blog is an island).

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Edison Bar


Edison Bar
Originally uploaded by eecue.

This amazing steampunkesque bar allows me dream of other possible spaces.

More shotos in the set here

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Gorgeous Multicolour Woven Coat

multicolour coat

Beautiful coat from Matthew Williamson available at net-a-porter for lots of money.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dave Seoane Table

painted yellow table

Mmmm, I love the idea of accenting wood textures with bright colours and thin line designs. See more of Dave Seoane’s furniture here davidpaulseoane.com

Found via www.designspongeonline.com.

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Monday, October 06, 2008

A Beautiful Space

Starlite - `restaurant?


I'm not sure what this place is, but my god it is a beautiful space. Click through to design sponge for more lovely photos.
The designer's site is www.allthebellsandwhistles.com where there is more of their work.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Fail Whale


Fail Whale
Originally uploaded by emdot.

An embroidery Fail Whale. For some reason I find the fail whale fascinating.
fail whale image here

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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Krisatomic's photographs and illustrations

A Shop in Moscow
Photos of Moscow from Kris, an illustrator/photographer.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

More Lovely Lighting


Artemide Tolomeo Micro Baby Desk Lamp

Artemide Tolomeo Micro Baby Desk Lamp.

I've been looking, lately, at lighting, furniture, interior design and such. These lamps are something else I've found that I really like the look of.

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Gorgeous Light Designs


Bootje's Shadow Light


Tord Boontje has some beautiful lighting on his site. take a look.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sheep Stools?

I awake from my slumber

wooden sheep with real soft, fluffy sheepskin

Beautiful fluffy sheep designed by Hanns-Peter Krafft, available at Thorsten van Elten in various poses. The website says they are strong enough to be used as stools. i have no joke to add here about sheep stools. Pah.

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Friday, March 07, 2008

L’hotel Particulier de Montmartre

I decided I'm going to start posting some more diverse stuff, and more often, though I'm sure I won't do anything of the kind. But here is a good intention. Beautiful pictures of the L’hotel Particulier de Montmartre in Paris, a small hotel, well smallish, it only has 5 suites, but look at them,

The room “Tree with ears

each individually decorated by a designer (some are artists or photographers), surrounded by a garden from a fairy tale it looks like. I'm sure the actual hotel isn't as wondrous as it looks, life is always disappointing that way, but I can dream. See pictures of all the suites here.

why does blogger do this weirdness with the images, its fucking up my posts, woss goin' on?


the Room Tree with Ears

Enchanting garden

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Dabbling in Linux Live CDs

I've been trying some out on my old laptop, sling in the CD and run Linux off it. So far I am liking
Kate OS

Kate OS

a lightweight fast distro, looks nice and runs fast. With XFCE desktop environment. The snappiest of the CDs I've tried.

Wolvix

wolvix

is also feature packed and looks good (choose between window managers XFCE and Fluxbox, which are my current faves (appearance and design-wise)). Though they are both based on Slackware and not sure I'm ready for escaping the ease of Ubuntu yet. It comes with multimedia apps like MPlayer, Kino and Audacity and Internet apps like WiFi Radar and XChat. It comes in two variations Cub, which is a small edition designed to fit on a flash drive (256 MB) and Hunter, the one I tested, the HD version.

I've briefly (very briefly) tried FreeSbie which i s a FreeBSD distro, which took ages to load, but looks very deep. It features xffm, a window manager I had not come across before with many features, but looks complex. I'll be checking FreeSbie out in more depth later.

I still have more CD flavours to taste.

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