Stalking Venus

Richard has been doing various forms of what he calls ‘Guerilla Gardening’ for years. He started by planting some flowers in the grounds around his block of flats and started a blog about his experiences.

Something in what he was doing has captivated the interest of others around the planet. Richard’s blog is now the electronic flowerbed for a ‘growing movement’ of people to coordinate and execute their floral attacks on ugly wasted common space.

When I was just a geeky little kid, I once removed all of the drawers from the large dark oak desk that my parents had bought me to use for school work, and strapped the case of our old (then new) PC to the space created by the missing drawers. I punched a rather messy hole in the back panel of the desk behind the drawer space and shoved all of the cables through it, being careful to neatly staple the one for the screen along the back of the desk and up to where I placed the monitor. Then I sneaked the drawers out to my dad’s workshop…

This is an amazing series of ads by the DDB agency in Paris for French television network for kids, Tiji. The idea is that Tiji TV is as creative as kids are themselves. Frankly, these ads make me believe it.

Every object that is modelled in 3D basically consists of a latticework that is then shaded and lit. This is all very well for normal objects like cubes or spheres or Jar-Jar-the-irritating-little-f__khead-Binks, but when it comes to disigning something impossible (or at least illusory) in 3D, it’s actually quite tricky.

I wouldn’t mind getting one of these beasts for Christmas.
Wrapping it is going to be a bit of a bitch, but you know what? If you like me enough to splurge over a million euros on one of the 20 custom-built 2009 model Lamborghini Reventóns, I’m sure you can afford to pay someone to do [...]

Johann Hari is not a banana.
What he is, however is a fucking great journalist. He writes for The Independent, which is a little corner shop newspaper if the world is your city, and the United Kingdom is the corner shop.
He’s also done major pieces for most international bigwigs like the New York Times, Sydney Morning [...]