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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Valentine Red Room
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder who’s [...]
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
The Obama Inauguration and The Moment
• Our friend David Gedye, who is always leading projects he cooks up with mind blowing results, just sent us an email for his newest project, a collaboration with CNN and Photosynth for an ambitious presidential inauguration project. He writes:
You’ll be interested to know that I’m on my way to Washington DC to help [...]
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
The Obama Inauguration: Lego-Style
Yes, at Unusual Life, we love our Legos too ! Legobama? http://sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/222857/1
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
• Bad Wig and Ugly Tracksuit Walk 2009 •
• HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 !!! •
• Earlier today we did this in Seattle…
• Bad Wig and Ugly Tracksuit Walk around Greenlake on Thursday, January 1st. This is a yearly New Years Day tradition. We meet at Noon on New Years Day at the Kiddy Pool to walk around the lake, every year, so if [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
• Happy Halloween! and Don’t Forget to Vote!
YES WE CARVE
Pumpkins for Obama. A collection of Americans (and beyond) showing Obama support in a fun, positive, October appropriate way. Download, carve & share YOUR Barack O’Lantern at www.YesWeCarve.com
…And on a possibly related note, Marlow and I are officially opening our Official Bad Art Museum of Art ( or O.B.A.M.A. ) on Saturday, November [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
• Architecture is a special effects machine
• Architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
No Comments » - Posted in Architects and Designers, Outrageous Architecture by JoDavid
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
• And now for something completely different…
• Get fit, bitches !!!
No Comments » - Posted in Fascinating People, Weird Things by JoDavid
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Photosynth = Microsoft’s Big News !
Is Apple the Newman of Microsoft ?
Well, Microsoft has released two milestone announcements today.
The first, which most readers may be aware of with today’s media coverage, is that Microsoft has negotiated a $10 million dollar deal with Jerry Seinfeld, who will appear as a key celebrity pitchman in ads along with Microsoft Chairman [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Architects and Designers, Fascinating People, Weird Things by JoDavid
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Five Prefab Houses at MoMA
Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s chief curator of Architecture & Design, gives a tour of the five houses erected for the show.
MoMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes
Jon Ronson’s fascinating film about his experiences and discoveries documenting the thousands of boxes of Stanley Kubrick’s estate. This is a 50 minute documentary, so click on the full screen button under the video and enjoy it when you find the time.
No Comments » - Posted in Amazing Artists, Fascinating People by JoDavid
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Strange Architecture…
2 Comments » - Posted in Outrageous Architecture, Unusual Homes by JoDavid
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Valentine Red Room
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder who’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Astounding Accommodations, Strange Places by JoDavid
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Marion Peck Opening Preview at Billy Shire Gallery
• Soft Paintings for Gentle People •
Marion Peck’s opening at The Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery
on April 13, 2007 featured this fantastic painting…
Young Lord Oliver - Marion Peck - 2007 - Oil on canvas - 67″ x 97″ framed
T0 SEE LOTS MORE PHOTOS we took [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Pimp My Crib! Russian Gangster Builds World’s Tallest Log Cabin ?
One-time Russian gangster Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly unusual. The eccentric former convict’s seemingly accidental 15-year project begun in 1992 stands 13 floors, 144 feet high. He claims he was only intending to build a two-story house - larger than those of his neighbours to reflect his position as the city’s richest man.
Read [...]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Travel Photos and Capturing a Personal Vision
I’m a sucker for travel slideshows and creative documentation of people and places. Stephen Cysewski has created an intriguing personal vision in his “Wandering” travelogs. When viewing in particular his “Wandering in Seattle” I feel like a fly on the wall viewing photos taken years ago in Seattle giving it a unique historic [...]
