The Perch ($180) is a classy and sleek designed portable wireless speaker that's designed for use with mobile media. This two-piece speaker/dock features Bluetooth for wireless audio streaming, a magnetic charger built into the dock, which also has a tray for charging your smartphone or media player. It also has built-in digital clock with alarm function, and an integrated microphone for conference calls or video calls. The Perch also has a hinge on the backside so you can prop the speaker up in the portrait mode.

This Perch is currently in presale status on Quirky. Once it's quota is reached it will then be put into production. Quirky is a site where an idea can become a reality. I would love to explain it to you but I think the video below will do a better job then me. So if you have an idea join Quirky and you can have your idea become a reality like this product.

Sustainable houses are something that I think are great and fascinating. I found this house that was built by Crosson Clarke Carnachan architects in Great Barrier Islands. The house is nestled in a beautifully private setting surrounded by nothing but nature. The living zone opens completely to this setting, and the timber exoskeleton references the surrounding trees. The bedrooms all have protected outdoor space, being closely located to the trees for increased privacy. The house is located to protect the existing vegetation and to make the most of the sun and the native bird life on the property.

Being on Great Barrier Island, the building also needed to be sustainable - the following abstract from an e-mail received from the Clients refers to this point: “The outdoor room is a place we spend much of our time, eating, reading, doing homework and siesta-ing; but the feeling of being indoors on those hot summer days with all doors open is also fantastic. Not cold enough (owing to that great low E glass and good design) for fires yet - we have had 2 only for ambience, not heat. “It is an astonishingly decadent feeling lying in a bath of free water, heated by the sun, pumped by solar power. Free as anything! Hot water gets up to 68 degrees in the tank from the sun, and has to be cooled to come out the tap. “With 9 staying and all the laptops, music, washing etc we’ve only run the generator 3 times ever. All the irrigation systems do clever things. So it’s more than a PC nod to sustainability, as you know from all our fussing about timbers and paints.”






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When I first saw these poster designs by Mark Brooks it immediately caught my attention and sucked me in. The color tones and the minimal yet subtle design of each poster had me searching around for more of his work. Mark designed these posters for SantaMonica a Barcelona based brand that presents a very solid and refined graphic identity with there prints and t-shirts.

The one that really caught my attention out of this series of posters is the particle acceleration poster with the giraffe. The idea and the concept are quite interesting using the spots of a giraffe to symbolize the idea of particles separating. Well I will leave you to checking out the posters now but I will leave you with a little fact about giraffe's. The word "giraffe" comes from an Arabic word, "zirafah", which means "the tallest of all".






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First off I would like to thank everyone that enter the contest for the "The Collective Loop Poster" and the $15 Gift card to iTunes. So with out further ado I would like to present the winner of the 400th post giveaway and that goes to Monique McCulley.

Congrats Monique on winning the giveaway. Please send me an email letting me know how you would like your prize shipped to you.

Again Thanks to everyone that entered. I look forward to doing more giveaways in the future.

Parachute Journalists is an indie/folk/punk band with members Jeff Finley and Adam Wagner from Go Media in Cleveland, Ohio. This gig poster below was created for a January 9th concert at the 5 O’clock Lounge. The first poster below is one of many items intended to define the visual branding of the band. I have also added a couple of other poster designs I found for the band that were created by Go Media. I'm really enjoying the concept and the feeling of each poster. The first poster though has some really good composition in form, color and association.

If you want to check out the bands music check out this link.







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Man About Town starring Kilian Martin was an interesting concept of combining two different ideas together. Who would have thought making a video of fashion and skateboarding would be so cool. What really catches your attention is Kilian Martin who is one of the best freestyle skateboarders in the world. Hands down this guy will have you going whaaaattt! No way did you see that! Below I have added two other videos A Skate Escalation and A Skate Regeneration that also showcase his freestyling street talent.

When watching these freestyle skate videos a lot of you will immediately think of Rodney Mullen who was one of the original gangsters of freestyle skateboarding. This is what Kilian stated about Rodney in an interview he did when he was asked about his feelings on being compared to Mullen. He stated, I really respect all that he has done. In some ways, he changed skateboarding by inventing so many awesome tricks. He is a pioneer and skateboarding legend all the way. I am over being compared with Rodney Mullen. I know many people do it, and I’m not sure if I will ever be able to change that. It is because Rodney has been the only person mixing Freestyle and Street in an artistic new way. So, sometimes when people see me mixing these two skateboarding styles I get compared…Anyways, I try to do my own tricks and give it my own style. I personally think that both are very talented and each brings their own style and passion to the streets of freestyling.





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I was super excited when I found out about Wordmark.it from the Jetstreamprojector's Blog. It was a great find and something I'm sure a lot of you out there would appreciate. Wordmark.it is a site that allows you to preview all the fonts installed on your machine. All you have to do is just type in whatever word you want and bam! It gives you a visual representation of what it will look like with the font's installed on your machine. Just like in the above image. The creator behind this site is Fahri Özkaramanlı and let me be one of the people that thanks you for creating this. It will now save me a lot of time from sitting there going through my fonts to find the right one. Now I can do it in a one stop shop in less time and for that I thank you.

This is going to be a good show on January 26th at the Crowbar in Tampa, Fl. Tokyo Police Club, Two Door Cinema Club and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. All three band have been talk about on this blog or they have been added to the monthly Playlists. I'm excited for this show because I have yet to see Two Door and Boris Yeltsin. It looks though that now tickets are only available at the door or at Daddy Kool Records in St. Pete. Although the website states that their are a lot of available tickets at the door. I don't want to take my chances so I'm going to go pick my ticket up today. Show starts at 8p.m. and tickets are $15/$18 All Ages. Well hope to see some of you there.

This guy has some skill when it comes to manipulating paper. The time it takes for each piece is no 5 minute job for him. Sometimes it can take almost a whole day or more to complete one project. As an artist, Brian Chan was particularly drawn to Origami because it adds the extra challenge of folding from a square and incorporates a lot of geometry, which was his more favored sector of mathematics. I have added some of the ones I thought were cool below but check out his site to see what else he has created.

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