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Bowl Of Noses

Color is relative

Check this out.  It’s an interactive site.  Drag your cursor over the different colors and the background will shift to match.  It’s interesting how certain backgrounds make the other colors jump out more.  What you see really is determined by what surrounds you I guess.  Thanks Metafilter!

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The Next Good Idea

Petitinvention


Petitinvention is the blog of Mac Funamizu .  He’s got lots of good ideas.  These are his personalized paper cups so that you never mistake which cup is yours again.

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These Are Those Things

How We Work

MetaFilter lead me to Rodcorp’s How We Work site, and although it is not the kind of thing we usually point out here at TATT, but although it’s not about specific work, it’s about the process to get us there, and it’s kind of glorious itself.  

From J.G. Ballard, to the Coen Brothers, to Malcolm Gladwell, to Walter Benjamin, the site has catalogued the methods of what people do to create.  Although it is definitely a white male centered list, it is fun place to browse through, and may very well lead to some new habits.  They have posted a list here.

We’re interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work.

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Bowl Of Noses

Tinkering School

Summer’s over.  Camp’s kaput.  Are you going back next year?  What are the coolest camps out there?  Space camp could be but boy is it pricey!

Tinkering School is a week long camp in California for kids age 7 -17 where you learn how to build things.  Really cool things.  They have tons of videos up on YouTube showing all that have done.  Check it out right here.  
I wish there was a Rube Goldberg camp though: