segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2009

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segunda-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2009

Brainstorm


The human brain can only generate 30 watts.

Ilustration. Bob Blechman

Object and circumstance


" Until the Berlin Wall came down the veteran traveller visiting Eastern Europe always included a squash ball in his suitcase. In most hotel showers were few and far between, although usually compensated for by ancient bathtubs of sensational dimensions. The snag was an inevitable lack of bath plugs, hence the squash ball. At the other extreme, one bathroom I encountered in a melancholy hotel in Ljubljana was so small that the bidet was installed in the diminutive shower stall. However, the best bathroom innovation must be the contraption described by Ralph Caplan in his book By Design: ' An ingenious example of the product-situation cycle could be found in Quebec waterfront hotel called L'Hotel Louis XIV, lamentably destroyed by fire years ago. At the Louis XIV, the term "private bath" meant what it means in many European hotels: the bath is yours but not yours alone, for it is also the private bath of the guest on the other side of the bathroom. This creates a problem. If the bathroom has no inside locks, you have no privacy. But if the doors can be locked from the inside, one forgetful guest can lock the other out indefinitely and almost surely will. Well, there were no locks inside the bathrooms of the Louis XIV, but tied to each doorknob you simply linked the two hooks together, holding both doors shut. There was no way to get back into your own room without at the same time unlocking the door for the other guests'. 'It was memorable', the autor records, 'as the total integration of object and circunstance'."

Alan Fletcher
Ilustration. Milton Glaser

quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009

The Homunculus


Legenda:"The Homunculus is a pictorial representation of the senses which relates body 
parts to areas of the brain which control those parts. Dr Wilder Penfield's representation
of the brain localization shows that some parts of the body are grossly over-represented,
in keeping with their importance to our everyday functionong. The curious thing is they join
in the expected anatomical sequence of leg bone connected to the thigh bone, that is until
you come to the genitals whuch don't appear at all."

quarta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2009

" I work with things left over from other things." Julian Schnabel

A sombra da mota foi feita com 848 garfos, facas e colheres, e meticulosamente organizada por  Shigeo Fukuda.

segunda-feira, 26 de janeiro de 2009

" ... my name means the shape I am and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost." Humpty Dumpty in conversation with Alice