ABCDeology

Okay, I punch you first. Then maybe you can punch me. I always win at rock-paper-scissors versus this guy.

They should make a working version of this, with all of the fingers movable.

Cork chair? Cool, what about a chair made out of a hundred or so used wine corks?

I like the melted slag look, but it might be difficult to eat off of.

If you drop a prayer bomb into an Al-Qaeda camp do they convert to Christianity before or after disintegrating into a fine red mist?

A good table for Q.

I would be better if it totally looked like a cow’s udders. And was wireless.

More over at Design Martus.com (design firm Martus & Silvio, of Grand Rapids)

via Make

The mesmerizing surreal photography of Philippe Ramette.

‘Rational exploration of the undersea’

irrational walk

the wait

the contact

the nap

the anchor

the ascent

the break

the map

the arrival

-Separate series -

Crisis of casualness

Gravity break

Punching-stone

Distorted mirror

via BOOOOOOOM

Want to solve a puzzle? Unfortunately it is pretty much impossible for me since most of the symbols are archaic/indecipherable. (For instance, the first tree symbol is a Yew tree, and that black thing before the next tree is an Awl.) If you can’t get it that’s okay. The answer is at the bottom.

The Sweep *click for larger*

“The Sweep – Printed and Sold by Bellamy – SIX PENCE – 49 Mincing Lane, London”

Translation:

“If you ask me which of all human beings is happiest in proportion to his means, I would answer, the sweep. He is not proud in his dress, small are his wants, and great his independence. Wealthy men make way to let him pass, and truly he is a man of high calling. He fears little for his capital in trade, for his brush and shovel are nearly the whole. Humble as he is, he can set his foot under the grate; Insult him and you become a marked person.he seldom accumulates riches, though to he often rises in the world.In the delicate feelings of his heart, he spurns not the negro, because his face his black ; no, he hates such pride, lives independent and comfortable, and above all he is content with his business, because he knows it suits him.”

-English Rebus, middle nineteenth century, via pilllpat (agence eureka)’s flickr and Le Ramoneur de Bourg (The Sweep of Town)