Shopping tree
We used to wonder where all the stuff in the shops comes from. So now we know. This shopping tree is actually the latest logo of the Dutch shopping center chain V&D. Thanks Judith.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Posts Tagged ‘Officegarden’
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Homo Desktopus
A future physical anthropologist who knows nothing about the human race and would dig up a contemporary desktop computer, might conclude homo desktopus must have been the user of the device.
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Water in my phone
Water inside your phone used to be rather devastating, but with the NEC FOMA N702iS (only in Japan), designed by Oki Sato, it is turned into a joy. Watch the faked fluid move on the screen as the phone moves. The water level drops as your battery level go down. Next we could use the motion sensor to simulate the classical pocket ball game on our mobile devices?
Via Mobiface. See also Tribal Communication Technology.
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Ceci n’est pas une fleur
Remember the classical dadaist fountain of Marcel Duchamp – who placed an urinal inside an art gallery and proclaimed it was Art? San Fransisco based artist Clark Sorensen takes urinal art into a entirely different direction. The guy made a flourishing practice for himself in the fine art of handcrafted urinal flowers.
No, this is not a flower. This is a fully functioning urinal, disguised as a flower. While all the girls may consider it kitsch, us guys have to admit that the idea of an officegarden where you can take a leak inside a daffodil, has a certain luster, no? Read more »
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Animator vs Animation
What happens if the user interface becomes a landscape? Watch the short film by Alan Becker.
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My latest cellphone
I think I’ll have my next one implanted in my tooth. Via joe-ks.com.
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Modernistic Tree
Mondrian would have appreciated square trees. Furthermore, they would enable wood industry to lose less material, to cut easier with machines and to store more efficiently. Hence square trees would be more sustainable than round trees. Read more »
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Let the plants do the dirty work.
Mathieu Lehanneur created a plant-powered indoor filtration system, that pulls in filthy air to be processed through a plant’s leaves, roots, and humidity, reintroducing purified air back into the room. Read more »
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Human nature as pathology
Modern society seems to have transformed human nature into a pathology. Our emotions are controlled by drugs. We are forced to operate within a narrow bandwith of what are considered ‘acceptable’ levels of emotion. We cannot go too far outside of this range, lest we be labeled an ‘other’, as a person out of control. If we are too sad, we are depressed, and must be medicated. If we are too distracted, we have ADHD, and must be medicated. Human nature is being capitilized on by the drug companies. There is a pill for every mood, every emotion, every state. Our emotions are being pathologized for profit, our identities handed to us in small, jewel-colored pills.
“Take water, regain yourself.” This is a mediated identity, that we are being charged for. So, what are the pros/cons emotions? What are the extremes? And how are emotions transformed into an easily digestible capsules designed to dilute and tamper these extremes?
See also: Pharmaceutical Candy, Religion now made easier. Via Spacecollective.
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I’m feeling lucky
A 21-leaf clover discovered on June 3 by Iwate prefecture farmer Shigeo Obara has shattered the Guinness world record for most leaves on a clover stem (Trifolium repens L.). The current official record is held by an 18-leaf clover that Obara found in his garden in May 2002.
The record-breaking clover’s 21 leaves each measure about 1 centimeter long and overlap each other like rose petals on a 3-centimeter stem.
Obara, a former food crop researcher, has been conducting independent research on clovers in his garden for over 50 years. He first became interested in clover mutations after discovering an unusual patch of 4-leaf clovers in 1951. Since then, Obara has been crossbreeding the plants in his garden to research the genes associated with leaf count, color, pattern and size.
Obara plans to file a new application with Guinness, although he is considering waiting a while. “We are likely to find clovers with more leaves,” he says. Last month, a family member claimed to have found a 27-leaf clover, but the discovery was not confirmed.
While some say that 4-leaf clovers symbolize happiness, 5-leaf clovers symbolize wealth and 6-leaf clovers symbolize fame, it is unclear what 21-leaf clovers symbolize.
Source: Yomiuri. Via: Pinktentacle.
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God Says No
Peculiar object of the week. ‘God Says No’, made by Jirri Geller, via Trendbeheer.
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Wallpaper blooms when the heat is on
Now this is spot on information decoration: a heat–sensitive wallpaper of which the printed flowers will be blooming when the radiator is on. Created by Shiyuan.
See also: Dataplant, Feelings to Plants, Speaking at the Wall, Light Weeds. Thanks Tinkebell.
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Inside-out suit
Adam and Eve are hitting the office-garden of Eden.
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Is it a bird?
Benjamin Verdonck’s Giant Nest in Rotterdam.
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Lilium Urbanus
Lilium Urbanus is a collaborative senior thesis project by Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga, recent graduates of SVA. Pretty cool to watch, the video is a metaphor of urban landscapes applied to a flourishing plant!Via Cpluv. See also: Exploding City. Growing rooms, buildings & cities.
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Day at the Pool
Don’t you just love urban recreation? Only in China. Peculiar image of the week.
Via. See also: Super Cities, Tropical Dome.
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Fatigue Risk Management
“Through individual assessments, employee training and EnergyPods, MetroNaps can help you improve the safety of your workplace, the health of your employees and the productivity of your organization. MetroNaps is the world’s premier provider of professional fatigue risk management solutions.”
In office nature, sleep is a product. You can buy it here
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Banana Juice Box
This Japanese Juice box is camouflaged from modern box designs and tries to convince consumers with its appealing ‘natural’ look. A schoolbook example of biomimicmarketing; marketing a product using images of old nature.
Via. See also Modernistic Watermelon, Cubic Fruit, How to grow an Orangina Bottle.
