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IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

Colleen King, Jimi Bonogofsky-I Think I Might Be from Huntington Digital Media Arts on Vimeo.

Colleen King and Cevin Thornbrugh-Shadow Birds from Huntington Digital Media Arts on Vimeo.

Colleen King and Cevin Thornbrugh-Motion Graphics Final from Huntington Digital Media Arts on Vimeo.

Colleen King-Frog Lip Sync from Huntington Digital Media Arts on Vimeo.

Riding High from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.

While I like the idea of fixed gear bikes, the reality of Tennessee hills has kept me geared. But my commuter bike (a solid early 90s Cannondale SR400) is an ongoing fixed gear-ish aesthetic project with lots of color. Next will be a new blue saddle (so this one can go back to the Klein) and blue tires. Note the new anodized gold riser bars! All in all, though, a great old bike for city riding. I love this thing. I'll try to keep the blog up to date as I customize.

If you want to know why I'm obsessed with this whole thing, this video may help explain:



Rad.

performs a hauntingly beautiful romantic song:



It's worth watching all the way through- the little details are awesome! Look for the moon. That Gorilla can play a mean synthesizer.

Homework: Has the post modern world reached its low / high in this video?

This a cool concept from industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, utilizing the philosophy of hari in something as simple as a juice box. He creates a good tension between literalness and function, making something instantly understandable yet experientially new. It's intersting that hari emphasizes "tension" equally with "balance", as these two concepts are often opposed to each other in the Western dualistic mind.


"Fukasawa argues that we have an innate awareness – in his words, a ‘core awareness’ – of design, and in responding to this instinct he arrives at inevitable form."

An understanding of design common to all humans- stemming from our own common intelligent design?

[via D + R]

If you like typography as much as I do, this is an interesting read.

I didn't know what horchata was, but now I want some! Download the new Vampire Weekend mp3 here. Check it out!