Good Times, and bad times as well, a lot of bad times....

This blog is unloved, I should look at it more and maybe post stuff. I was looking back on some older posts. Some real shite in here, but also some quality stuff that would make The Queen giggle...Nah not really, its mainly just pooh.

The Mars Volta

I like these guys.

Aberinkula. Have you seen the livingggggggggg, tired of their own shellsssss, all the non believerss, torso in the weelll. (It sounds like 'toss them in the well', but songmeanings says otherwise).

Wierd video of a cool song from their 4th album The Bedlam in Goliath.

Tetragrammaton live on Henry Rollins show part 1
Tetragrammaton live on Henry Rollins show part 2

I love this song, I even tried to learn the opening bit and can play it really slowly with many mistakes.
The song can be found on their 3rd album, Amputechture.

The 4 fields of Industrial Design

Here is an interesting read from core77.

The comments make for some interesting reading. Im too much of a noob to comment myself, all sides have good arguments.

In summary the writer says there are 4 fields of ID.

Commercial - Where you design to make money
Responsible - This is where designers want to make something that will benefit society, I think this is what most designers want to do but get stuck in the commercial side coz thats the way life is.
Experimental - This is more art than design. It pushes boundaries but probably isnt the most practical solution to a problem. Actually there probably wasnt a problem in the first place.
Discursive - This is like Experimental design with practicality. So it could also combine elements from Responisble and Commercial design.

Actually they all can 'overlap' as put in the article. However if you read the comments you see that many people disagree with this categorization of design, alot more seem to like it though. Like I said at the start Im not sure about it all.

Oh Monty!

Hello, my name is Mr. Snrub. And I come from, uh... someplace far away.
Yes, that'll do.
Anyway, I say we invest that money back in the nuclear plant.

Air purifiers and stuff

Dyson Air Multiplyer fan and Airblade hand dryer

I was looking up stuff and came across this thing. I was curious about how it worked and found a video which explained from the man himself, James Dyson.
There are more videos on Youtube, including one with baloons!

Fascinating stuff, although alot of comments about it seem very negative. Most people say he is just re inventing products, and making something that costs a little cost alot etc.

If I had money Id definately get one over a normal fan with blades. Cost will be a massive factor but Dyson made vacuums that cost more than competitors and still owned them after some time. Even my mum bought a Dyson vacuum...after her old finally blew up, and prices went down.



That is the Dyson Airblade. Theres one at Central station in the public toilet. I think its cool. Once again using some interesting technology and it works pretty good.
This site will explain more.

Reviews of exhibitons