June 5, 2009 @ 12:01 am
Isaac Chen created this wonderfully simple magazine rack that uses nothing but wire and a big black knob to keep your magazines from falling on the floor. Wow, I need one of these right now. Actually, I need several of these. This is such a fantastic piece of decor!
May 28, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
NOTCOT: Rolls Royce 200CX Auto Adujsting Purse Rack from Jean Aw on Vimeo.
My eyes just about popped out of their sockets when I saw this video on NOTCOT. The Rolls Royce 200CX apparently has an auto-adjusting purse holder in the back seat for those women (and maybe men) who have no idea that they can just put their purse on their lap during a car ride. WOW. Luxurious and ridiculous!
March 19, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
Photo: AP Photo/Noah Berger
Wow, good thing I held out on posting about this photo because BB just confirmed my suspicions about the caption that this photo came with when it was published over at The Big Picture.
When I first saw this photo, it jumped out at me because it was visually appealing but puzzling as well. The post it was included in was about the recession but something didn’t sit right with me when I saw this image in the set. My head was thinking “Nice photo, but this probably has nothing to do with the recession in its own context.”
Turns out, I was sort of right. These newspaper stands are collected here because San Francsico banned them a few years ago and are now just getting around to enforcing the law.
February 10, 2009 @ 10:13 am
This Umbra loft magazine rack in black looks nice. I’d get it to store my miscellaneous magazine collection if only it weren’t a floor rack. I already have too much crap on my floor. I’m still looking for a nice magazine rack that goes on the wall. There are a lot out there, but none that make me want to feel creative or show it off on Doobybrain.
November 14, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve’s circular bicycle rack design has won the CityRacks Design Competition. The “Hoop”, as it is called, is a simple design that looks like a bicycle wheel with a single cross-bar reminiscent of a spoke on a wheel.
The winning design beat out 10 other finalists whose designs were installed at Astor Place to give each one a real-life testing bed to see how they would hold up to typical NYC people and mischief.
There’s been some concern however about how the new bike racks, 5000 of which are supposed to be installed over the next 3 years, will be attached to the ground. In some photos, the rack is simply seen resting on the sidewalk, presumably connected by a bolt of some sort through the bottom of the wheel. While some other images show the wheel slightly elevated by a platform which it then sits on.
According to City Room, the Transportation Department hasn’t even considered how they would bolt down the rings, which kind of puzzles me because one would think that they would consider this before choosing a winner in a contest.
Anyway, in my opinion, this rack doesn’t really do anything new except give the “old” bike racks a facelift. In terms of alleviating bicycle parking congestion, this rack does absolutely nothing to help it. It still parks two bicycles side-by-side and it still takes up just as much space on the sidewalk as the bike racks now. It’s just nice because it’s a circle and there are two circles on a bike. Pfft.
November 11, 2008 @ 1:31 am
This is Joyce’s doing, not mine. I blame her for everything shown in the photo above.
If you want a sticker, you have to see me in person or barter with goods/services.
