Fetish Systems

New book by my friend, Raafat, from Beirut, Lebanon. Haven't read it yet but should be a good one based off his conversation and skills of sarcasm. get it [ here ]

But Does It Float: Blog

But Does It Float Found this nice blog a week or so ago . . . definitely some nice collections neatly organized . . .

Fractals in Three Dimensional Motion

I hope you guys enjoy these little animations. 

Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.

Musicians With Guns - Astroblast from ricardo montalban on Vimeo.

SantaMonica: Legitmate Wear

SantaMonica Like their style . . .

The Mona Lisa Curse

Aggregated Websites : Creative Jobs/Portfolios

Sifting through the expansive inter-webs, numerous websites post and host a catalog of creative's portfolios. The following are a snippet of curated faves. If you are a creative, I suggest a 'Bat-Belt' full of utility websites to further your creative pursuits. (you know, when Twitter and Facebook just aren't enough) . . .



The Behance Network a collection of user profiles, gallery of work, job postings and more.



Core 77 Likely one of the best and favorite websites geared towards industrial design but spanning the gamut of design. This site keeps inspiring fresh minds published and exhibited.



Coroflot A sister link to/from Core 77 is the every helpful Coroflot. An online forum for designers to post their digital portfolios and hunt for jobs. Check out their blog [creative seeds]



Index Exhibit is likely the epitome of minimal online portfolios. Allowing users to participate giving they follow the clean, minimal pre determined format provided. This site offers an interesting combination of designers and artists.

Free Green: Who's Next Competition

Cool competition we found via Bustler.

Check out some of the great entries at Free Green

A couple of us at 4401 teamed up to enter hinge house

Brian Walker- photography, beautiful women, and a twisted Barbie fetish

I slept off the hangover from the Kell Munoz Architects x-mas party under my desk, like all decent architects probably do. So, I wasn't in the mood to answer stupid questions from general contractors, even thought the smart-ass answer I usually provide is for them to refer to the previously issued CD's, haha, lazy bastards. I found myself cruising the design and architecture websites and blogs across the vast internets, and btw- thanks Al Gore the internets are swell indeed! Somewhere along the blogosphere I found some awwwmazing photography by Brian Walker. His work has all the components that keep my ADHD brain focused, you can see what they are for yourself at his website- http://www.lickthesun.com/

Enjoy!!!

PANTONE! i-phone + i-pad case

cool stuff from cool aggregated website [thecoolhunter] had to throw it up here cause its cool

[cases] [case-scenario]

Anonymous (group)

Over the last few weeks no doubt we have all heard the recent controversy of Wikileaks and the man at the for front, Julian Assange. I think the most interesting thing to come out of the media hysteria is how the online world has decided to fight back. The community group "Anonymous" has recently been at the center of attacks on sites such as Visa, and Mastercard (amazon.com is said to be its next target) in support of Wikileaks. The attacks are carried out by users voluntarily giving control of their computers as part of a global botnet. Once activated LOIC adds your computer to a network that is then activated by a single user. All computers then hit the same site in a coordinated attack, thereby shutting it down temporarily. The news around Anonymous has been viral, which has led the group to posting its manifesto.link

The power of an online mob rises  questions in uncharted territory. Some people believe this will lead to the eventual complete censorship of the internet. Some are claiming that Assange is a patsy for the U.S. in order to get this control (how does he have a 256bit encrypted file that even the CIA cant break via "doomsday file"). But who really controls the internet? Is it a national government? Does their jurisdiction of the internet end at the borders of the country? If the U.S. is putting pressure on sites like Paypal does that mean they are the ones who are in control? The ideas in the manifesto are intriguing for the fact that it doesn't really claim to be anything or even to be a group of specific people.

How do you control something as fluid as the internet? In my opinion it is only through an equally fluid entity (mob) such as Anonymous. I think it is simple, the governments of the world say "we will force you to be free". Anonymous says "we like cats."

Many people question that a person would willingly give their computer do an entity such as Anonymous they know nothing about in order to voice their opinion. I have to ask the question, would you give your money, time, and life to a government you do not believe in?