Twitter isn’t just for passing time at work anymore; now if you have the money you can help save lives by tweeting. If you’re feeling flush and looking for some sweet art to deck out your home then check out the Cure Leukemia Art Auction. The lots are displayed and announced on the website on 20th May 2010; to bid simply Tweet @artauctionbham with your amount during the bidding period and do your bit to help find a cure for leukemia.
Hands-down the best use of social media I’ve seen all year.
Every 9-5′er knows that coffee isn’t just essential; sometimes it’s an art in itself. From the warmth of the mug on a frosty day to that amazing smell, there’s something to enjoy even if you don’t need that caffeine kick.
Below is a selection of fun, interesting and flat-out beautiful examples of coffee as art. Wakey wakey!
Knoll Ridge Cafe, New Zealand
Offices can be pretty dull, so when it was announced we could start coming in dressed all casual-like, we grabbed it with both hands. Somehow – no one really knows how – the tradition of Checked Shirt Wednesday began. Participation has fallen slightly recently so I knocked up this wallpaper to enforce it. The next step involves growing a beard and bringing an axe in. I’ll keep you posted, but in the meantime feel free to download this fairly large (1680 x 1050) wallpaper and bring the checked respect to your home or office.
Watch this space as I’ll probably add other sizes and styles – Check Shirt Wednesday has a none-discrimination policy.
Checked Shirt Wednesday - 1680 x 1050
Furniture and furnishings don’t have to be flat-pack, cheap or grown-up. Thankfully six years ago Mike Giles and Devin Barrette formed Montreal-based Furni which means anyone with an eye for cool can forget Ikea and the home-section at Next. If you’re not sold yet, check out the clocks themselves, and the fantastic video of one being hand-made in this post.
Furni & Kitsune Noir's Neverend clock #2 - UPSO
At 26, I now realise for the first time how important voting is. I’m sure that – like myself – you’re pretty much decided where your cross will land when the UK General Election rolls around on May 6th 2010. Just in case you’re not, the good folks at Ben & Jerry’s have given us some alternative, fun and – above all – tasty party-reminders.
If there’s anything cooler than kids’ toys, it’s photographs of kids’ toys. Everyone loved looking down on their LEGO city or hordes of Micro Machines and I remember laying down to photograph my creations with a disposable camera from participant’s eye view.
Now that I’m “too old” to play with toys (never true – check my desk drawers) I’ve resorted to using Adobe Photoshop to re-create that feeling by giving photographs of real objects a Tilt Shift effect to make the focus of the pictures look like miniatures, which I’ll demonstrate in this simple tutorial.
The Final Image
