Tokyo: Catering for the brand conscious

In fashion and brand conscious Tokyo it can be one of the greatest sins to step out of a shop with the wrong bag - ideally you are carrying one with a major European brand name printed on.
Now help for those is literally - at hand.
A department store in Tokyo has put up machines [...]

Weekend activity: Cloud spotting

With the weekend coming up we would like to suggest to you something different: Cloud watching or cloud spotting as its also called by UK based Pretor-Pinney who has founded the Cloud Appreciation Society. The society now has about 5000 members from 39 countries.

38 year old Oxford University graduate Pretor-Pinney who calls himself a [...]

Douglas Levere: New York time travel

While already out since quite some time, its still great to have a look again. In his book New York changing Douglas Levere presents images taken by himself and pairs them with those of Berenice Abbott’s from the 1930s.

Levere used the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations at the [...]

Street life: Cardboard house paintings from Japan

Japanese web site Cardboard-House-Painting has a set of galleries online with photographs of cardboard shelter paintings from people who lived on the street in Japan’s homeless city that was created around the Shinjuku Underground station’s in the mid-1990s.

…Hundreds of cardboard houses grew up in the underground passageways of the west exit. On each of [...]

SkyscaperPage.com: World’s tallest buildings

If you ever wanted to know what the world’s tallest building look like, where they are and other details, have a look at Skyscaperpage.com diagram pages.
On 280 pages it lists 6978 buildings starting with the Burj Dubai (807.7 m) down to some smaller towers with “only” 50 floors. Additional details are available together with illustration(s) [...]

Quote of the day: 20061017

If there is not enough left for everybody it will always be the poor that have to pay….

Happy Birthday Winnie the Pooh

Today its exactly 80 years ago that A. A. Milne’s book on the fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
“Winnie-the-Pooh” was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, followed by “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928), and the poetry books “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We [...]

Tate Modern: 30mph drainpipe slide opened

Who says that museums can’t be fun should visit Tate Modern in London during the next 6 months.
It’s not that often that one expects screaming sounds to be heard in museum halls. With its latest installation called Test Site from German artist Carsten Hoeller, this might be seen as acceptable reactions by visitors. The five [...]

Monty Python’s All Time Classics

How to better start this blog then with a reference to some of the all-time classics from Monty Python’s. Thanks to the web you can do the time warp and watch some of their best sketches and songs on your computer. For those of you who don’t know the group Wikipedia has some background [...]