Thoughts of Something

No more written down grocery lists for people who want this. When you’re running out or finished a food item, Hiku scans the barcode and it immediately lists the item to your phone through Wi-fi. You can also speak to the Hiku and it goes straight to your phone!!

Just make sure your kiddies don’t get their hands on this device… they’ll want everything i.e. candy.

Along the lines of my last post regarding “wasting” paper (but not really, just admiring wonderful art), that wall is made out of magazines. 

Designed by Swedish architects Elding Oscarson, they bunched up some old magazines and fashioned a wall out of them. The structural consultant must have been working hard on this one.

I should have shipped boxes and boxes of my old magazines to them. It would be put into good use!! Not that recycling doesn’t do that, but you know what I mean, right? Right?

via The Well-Appointed Desk

I don’t know if environmentalist will have a field day for this. You know, “wasting” paper. However, this installation is something to admire. 

From the site:

This Turkish artist, Sakir Gökcebag, who is based in Hamburg, has an installation project, Trans-Layers, with toilet rolls sprawled across walls and dangling down from ceilings with pretty grand results.

This feels soft and elegant. Maybe that’s why there’s the Toilet Paper Wedding Dress game at bridal showers. I wonder which toilet paper he used. 

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Nowadays, it’s not that easy to get that house with a large backyard for your golden retriever and kids to run around while your hubby (or wifey - hey we know how to grill, too) cooks something on the BBQ or just random gardening. This is basically a long shot in Vancouver now that it’s the most expensive city in North America (thanks for that… I don’t mean that as compliment).

Yet, a girl can still dream, as I affix all things house-related in a mood board that will hopefully turned into a reality at some point. 

To sum up: I want this bench. This is one of the furnitures in the Hopper Furniture Collection, part of the Extremis Home catalogue by Dirk Wynants. This Belgian designer’s mission is to create “tools of togetherness”… bring value to the product, not just make it pretty. 

If value means putting the grill as part of the bench where I don’t have to get up to get more meat, then I’m all for it. That is why I like Shabusen: all-you-can-eat Japanese and Korean foods (mainly sushi and meat, that’s all you need)

Instead of the ordinary way of displaying shoes, check this out.

Ta-da! Functionally beautiful. Smart, smart, smart. Aside from just showing the shoe to the salesperson, you can just tell them the number!

This wall of sneakers/kicks is at Sneakerology and Streetology at Westfield Sydney, Australia brought to by Facet Studio.

I bet kick lovers are drooling right now hoping they can do something similar instead of a plain ol’ walk-in closet for the shoes.

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Winter ain’t over yet in Vancouver. It’s a bit chilly still (well, in the single digits above 0) but I’m digging this versatile knitted sweater vest.

IMPROVD Cross Front Knit Cardi, available at Revolve Clothing.

(via Christie Lohr)

EveryGuyed presents ‘Ensemble: The Style of Music’ a series of posters featuring Iconic Outfits from 20 Male Musicians. Designed by Glenn Michael of Moxy Creative House, and illustrated by James Alexander. Click here to see all of the outfits.

Are there other male musicians to add to this series?

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Have you ever wondered if the Tide-To-Go stick actual works on different kinds of stains? Well, you got your answer!

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Best name ever: Humperdink

It’s a doorstop, by the way, and doesn’t he look like Frozone from The Incredibles?

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What a great redesign concept for movie posters! It uses a recognizable menswear piece in each movie. See the entire collection here.

Love the Anchor Man and Top Gun posters. Too bad the aviators weren’t in the latter. “I feel the need… for speed!”

EveryGuyed presented them and they are designed by Moxy Creative illustrated by James Alexander Mathers and Andrew Lau.

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This lovely piece, Ligature, Loop & Stem Poster, is something that I should be on a wall in my future office in my future house. Too bad it’s sold :(

It would be nice to not look up something on the internet (stop SOPA and PIPA, Americans. I can’t believe that these bills went to Senate in the first place) or in a book, just look on the wall and boom! “So that’s what that thingy on that character is called!!!” Gadzook… that’s what it’s called.

This was printed beautifully btw.

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Can’t find your cell? No one is there to call your cell? Look no further. If you got internet access, go to www.icantfindmyphone.com.

You can use it if you don’t live in the US, too! Nice touch.

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