Free Idea Factory is a repository of free ideas. Some people have too many ideas, some people like to work from a prompt. Here is a place where the two can attempt to equalize the uneven pressures in the fluids of their creative minds. These ideas really are free, you are invited to use them, abuse them, twist them, turn them, shake them, bake them, make them your own.
I could play with this for another hour or so.
This clear acrylic dome opens a window to the world that helps satisfy a pets natural curiosity while maintaining safety and security.
Love!
How brand affects our daily lives, wonderfully created by Jane.
가수가 되고 싶어요. I Want to Be a Singer.
c-print - 2004
Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series transforms children’s crayon drawings into photographs that are part make-believe, part reality.
For four months, Jung oversaw art classes in four kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings by children between the ages of five and seven. After pouring through them, he carefully selected 17 drawings and interpreted their meanings. Then he recruited 60 high school students by passing out handbills at their schools in which he invited them to act out the scenarios in the children’s drawings. In order to recreate faithfully drawing details such as dresses with uneven sleeves or buttons of different sizes, he convinced five fashion designers to custom make the clothing for the photo shoot. He also made props unlike any scale found in reality but similar to those in the drawings.
As we grow older, the imaginative worlds of our childhood are left behind. We realize that Santa is not real and that our parents work part-time as tooth fairies. It’s beautiful that we are given this wonderful opportunity to revisit these forgotten places. I remember spending long hours doodling as a kid, often conjuring up situations and people that forever live in the recesses of my brain.
See more of Yeondoo Jung’s work on his website.
Seriously. How cute are these little critters? Every Travel Kitty is a unique work of art. They are handsewn poseable kitties, numbered and named in order to keep track of their adventures in the TRAVEL KITTY PROJECT, an interactive art project. The kitties are packaged with a postcard style note from the artist that is date stamped with the date of purchase. Every Travel Kitty also has a different tail, because every kitty has a different tale to tell. So, get travelin’ and tell us your tale!
Check the Travel Kitty Project for more fun.
A brilliant new keyboard shortcut skins by the forward thinking folks at Photojojo allows anyone to become endowed with the digital wisdom you possess.
For all book nerds, please register. I did.
My brand new MacBook Pro was stolen several weeks back. The thief was caught on camera but we have yet to nab him.
My brother sent me an interesting article: Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects.
One of the laptops was a Macintosh belonging to Kait Duplaga, who works at the Apple store in the Westchester mall and thus knows how to use all its bells and whistles. While the police were coming up dry, Ms. Duplaga exploited the latest software applications installed on her laptop to track down the culprits and even get their photographs.
The Back to My Mac feature, which runs on Leopard-based Macintoshes, requires a $99 subscription to the .Mac online service.
I’ve asked my employer to pay for this service for my new MacBook. To which they’ve replied, “Take your damn laptop with you every night. Kbye.”
The symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero are explored in this compelling exhibition. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it reveals how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects are organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers are catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.
The Metropolitan Museum
May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor
