1. The chapuisat brothers exhibition at mitterrand and cramer, geneva  permalink

The chapuisat brothers exhibition at mitterrand and cramer, geneva
Designboom

pluton est une planète, 2006 aluminium sculpture diameter 92 cm edition of 5 radiant fragmentation of a wandering spirit, is the chapuisat brothers ' first collaboration with mitterrand + cramer . object in fragmented shapes, unfinished, interrupted in their development. the brothers' contrasting experiences have lead them to develop an ...

2. Malafor: mobile  permalink

Malafor: mobile
Designboom

polish firm malafor have sent in images of their concept 'mobile' seat. they created the seat as a rest for the earth. you can apply 'mobile' to a tree, pillar or human back. material: plastic

3. - As It Happens  permalink

Www.cbc.ca

Amy Goodman is the host of an American public radio show called Democracy Now. As such, the journalist and author tells a lot of stories about oppressive regimes. However, the story she is telling this week about her interrogation by border guards has a somewhat unexpected twist. The border guards in question were Canadian.

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4. ANNOUNCING THE 2009 INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE!  permalink

ANNOUNCING THE 2009 INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE!
Yuka Yoneda / Inhabitat

THE INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! It’s that time of year again! Today is Black Friday, the most infamous shopping day of the year, and the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season. This year, instead of dragging your tryptophan-infused body up at the crack of dawn, blearily driving your car to the nearest big box store, shop ...

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ANNOUNCING THE 2009 INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE! Inhabitat's Green Holiday Gift Guide   —  Inhabitat's just launched their holiday gift guide (Green Friday?!), and there's a ton of great stuff in here. With categories like Tots, Mom&Dad, Furry Friends, and Heirloom, you are sure to find a forward-looking gift for everyone on your list, and just the browsing will be a great way to move you into the weekend. Start right here . (more...)

MAKE
ANNOUNCING THE 2009 INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE! Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts you can make   —  Forget Black Friday, 3am sales, and long lines of unhappy people buying giant flatscreen TVs, it's time to MAKE something this holiday season! Impress your loved ones with a truly special gift from the heart, not from a store. Spend the day after Thanksgiving with your family and friends, making gifts instead of trying to remember where you ...

5. Using the Apple LP and Extras format for learning?  permalink

Using the Apple LP and Extras format for learning?
MAKE

Apple just released some more info on their "LP" and "Extras" format . This is one to watch. I really think the LP and "Extra" format is perfect for learning applications, and best of all it could be delivered via iTunes. MAKE is one of the few (if not only) publications that has a weekly video podcast and distributes a PDF in iTunes right from ...

6. Pet pig puts wind up family as farting prompts gas leak fears  permalink

Pet pig puts wind up family as farting prompts gas leak fears
Www.heraldsun.com.au

A PORTLY pig with flatulence triggered a minor emergency near Bendigo this week when smells wafting from the 120kg porker sparked fears of a potentially dangerous gas leak.

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7. How to Pull a Tooth  permalink

How to Pull a Tooth
Miss Cellania / Neatorama

(Live Leak link) With the help of a remote control car and a cat. I wish losing my baby teeth had been this fun! -via reddit

8. Optical Illusion  permalink

Optical Illusion
Www.swiss-miss.com

Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'.

9. Holiday Feature! ISO50: Scott Hansen + Giveaway  permalink

Holiday Feature! ISO50: Scott Hansen + Giveaway
NOTCOT

Included: Coastal Brake 12” (collection of remixes with a poster inside the album), Coastal Brake giclee , Ghostly 10 giclee , button set , Syv Triblend shirt (winner will pick the size, of course!) HAPPY BLACK FRIDAY!!! To kick off the holiday season, i’ve decided to do something a little different this year. We’ve invited a ...

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L.A. / Hypebeast
Holiday Feature! ISO50: Scott Hansen + Giveaway Staple x Kangol 2009 Holiday Headwear   —  Following up on its Summer Kangol Pigeon Sunshade Cap project, Staple linked up with Kangol yet again on two caps for the Holiday season, including a 100% Lambswool rib knit Military Cap, built with a buttery napa leather trim, and Brennan Melton Wool Cap, featuring convertible flaps to keep your ears nice and warm when [...]

MAKE
Holiday Feature! ISO50: Scott Hansen + Giveaway Holiday DIY, DIY Friday   —  Until they make Black Friday a goth holiday, where you dress all in black, sit around listening to Bauhaus and Bella Morte, and stare at the floor, Black Friday will scare me. Yes, the running of the shoppers scares me MORE than goth. As we've pointed out before, this holiday season provides an excellent opportunity to give yourself "permission ...

10. Five pound, six inch diameter pearl brain goes up for sale  permalink

Five pound, six inch diameter pearl brain goes up for sale
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

The second largest pearl ever found is set to go under the auctioneer's hammer next week, and may fetch as much as US$400,000. Weighing 2.25 kg (5 lb), the pearl measures six inches in diameter and bears an uncanny resemblance to a human brain. The auction lot of the massive pearl will include the lower half of the giant clam (Tridacna Gigas)

11. Ultra-portable MSI X-Slim X430 joins the sub-inch laptop club  permalink

Ultra-portable MSI X-Slim X430 joins the sub-inch laptop club
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

MSI has announced an interesting new entry in its X-Slim lineup with the X430, a lightweight, less-than-an-inch thick laptop that features a power-saving AMD dual core CPU and several layers of software technology to significantly improve battery life, without compromising in connectivity or video playback capabilities... Tags: AMD , HDMI , ...

12. Dr. John's weird New Orleans psych music  permalink

Dr. John's weird New Orleans psych music
David Pescovitz / Boing Boing

Years ago, I got turned on to the psychedelic New Orleans "voodoo" vibe of Dr. John (aka Mac Rebennack, Jr.). His 1968 debut Gris-Gris is a fantastically weird amalgam of R&B, dark psych rock, and NOLA culture. I'd never seen footage of the Night Tripper, as Dr. John is also known, until today. Quite a spectacle. From music critic Richie ...

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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing
Rumor: will iconic Technics DJ turntables be discontinued?   —  Ssssssh, what's that sound? Why, it's the sound of a million deejays weeping. Rumors abound that Panasonic may kill off the iconic Technics 1200 turntable. One DJ site compared the (unconfirmed) news with "parents talking about where they were when they heard that JFK was shot, or that man had landed on the Moon." Say it ain't so! (via Jay Smooth).

13. Walk with Your Sleeping Bag  permalink

Walk with Your Sleeping Bag
CoolBusinessIdeas.com

The Cool Hunter: The only thing worse than being trapped in a sleeping bag, is needing to go to the toilet in one. Well cast those fears aside as the new Selk'bag is here. This sleeping bag is more like a body bag. It's padded and shaped to the human form and allows free movement both in and out of sleep, where traditional sleeping bags don't. ...

14. Amira Fritz, Berlin  permalink

Amira Fritz, Berlin
Www.featureshoot.com

Amira Fritz was born in 1979 in Rosenheim, Germany. She grew up in the countryside and moved to Vienna to study photography. She graduated in 2002 from the Höhere Graphische Bundes Lehr und Versuchsanstalt Wien. During her time in Vienna she was the assistant of the photographer Reiner Riedler and worked as a film projectionist, which was ...

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15. Pop-up  permalink

Pop-up
Lotta Madetoja / Hemfeber

av Katinka Versendaal Katinka Versendaal har formgivit serien Pop-up som alltså kan ställas upp eller vikas ned, helt efter behag. Hon säger sig ha hämtat inspiration från den holländske konstnären Escher som med hjälp av konsten utforskade matematikens och filosofins mysterier. www.wix.com Läs vidare och kommentera: hem.feber.se/art/

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Jaime / MoCoLoco
Pop-up Pop Up Tableware by Katinka Versendaal   —  Katinka Versendaal uses a 180-degree pop-up technique to create a series of tableware that folds away when not in use.

16. PROPER ATTIRE® & KEITH HARING FOUNDATION  permalink

PROPER ATTIRE® & KEITH HARING FOUNDATION
Dianepernet.typepad.com

Honoring WOrld AIDS Day, Keith Haring for PROPER ATTIRE condoms will premiere December 1, 2009 at the exclusive Mondrian in South Beach throughout Art Basel and at the Mondrian in Los Angeles in the new Kiki Di Montparnasse store. The line will also be available for purchase on line www.ProperAttireCondoms.com and www.haring.com. Proceeds from ...

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17. Appro Design  permalink

Appro Design
Joern / DLOUNGE

Tolle Idee: Die Sakebomb von Appro Design .

18. Encuentra tu maleta sin problemas  permalink

Encuentra tu maleta sin problemas
Jorturos / No puedo creer que lo hayan inventado

La moda a veces nos juega malas pasadas. Y es que comprarnos cosas en grandes superficies puede hacer que miles de personas tengan lo mismo que nosotros. Pasa con los modelitos que nos compramos y pasa con las maletas. En Mallorca, un acompañante cogió una maleta que era el mismo modelo que la suya, pero [...]

19. Pharrell Williams  permalink

Pharrell Williams
Lotta Madetoja / Hemfeber

Har en stol till på sitt samvete Tidigare har Pharrell Williams designat stolen Perspective i samarbete med Domeau & Pérès. Och nu var det alltså dags igen. Denna gång är stolen i plexiglas och har ett underede som liknar stridsvagnshjul istället för vanliga stolsben. Tank, som finns i fyra färger, kommer att visas på Galleri Emmanuel ...

20. YOPPI x adidas Originals Five-Two 3 Samba & T-Shirt  permalink

YOPPI x adidas Originals Five-Two 3 Samba & T-Shirt
L.A. / Hypebeast

A continuation of adidas Originals’ Five-Two 3 campaign, the brand now offers a peek into a contribution from Tokyo, designed by Hectic’s main man, YOPPI. The set consists of a Samba sneaker and matching t-shirt, both taking inspiration from Tokyo culture. Retail for the sneakers is set at ¥13,650 (Approx. $157 USD) while the tee [...