Patrick Havens on July 10th, 2007

In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold. The results are interesting; they sort of remind me of that famous nature film that I was shown in Health Class where they blew marijuana on a spider and then watched him make crazy freaked-out [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 8th, 2007

I ran across this on a free image hosting site and figured I’d share. Its a pretty good photoshop, and funny to boot. Just so you know, I didn’t create it. It looks to be a Mad Magazine Poster.

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Patrick Havens on July 2nd, 2007

Windows interface moved to real life.
Do you remember what is your Computer Desktop? It’s a metaphor of real desk.
Cool little video and really entertaining. (I was surprised).

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Patrick Havens on June 20th, 2007

Ahead of time I’m going to let you know that I’m biased in that my son is in Sandy Nugent’s Napa Valley Dance Center, and that she is my sister’s Mother-in-Law. But I trully believe that she has one of the biggest hearts, and all that she does for kids, including my nephew with [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2007

For anyone who has eaten the whole box, or bag, or carton the photographs in this series make light of our secret binges. Here, the consequences of indulgence are tabloid or monster movie deaths. Daniela Edburg’s Drop Dead Gorgeous both mocks and satisfies our cravings.Born in Houston in 1975, Daniela Edburg grew up in San [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 4th, 2007

First when they announced the new 2012 London Olympic Games Logo… and people where declaring it looked like Lisa Simpson giving a blow job, I thought perhaps that was stretching it.  But the more you look at it, it just doesn’t look right.  And then the BBC broadcast some views on TV about it, and [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 22nd, 2007

As house prices continue to soar, buying a property for £20,000 might seem like a bargain.
But, although this home sounds cheap, it is actually Britain’s most expensive property based on size – costing the equivalent of £80billion per square metre. That’s because the four-room property is only as big as a full stop.
Made by [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 21st, 2007

Here’s an interesting photo-book about tattoo typography — “Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh,” by Ina Saltz (09-2006). Found on Tim Cole’s blog,  he’s with the Adobe InDesign team, “This book makes me wonder if the lack of a series of Body Art templates is a glaring oversight on our part.”
There is also a [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 11th, 2007

I was surfing here and there and I read about an “Art Exhibit.”
Using wasted energy, Richard Box was able to get over a thousand fluorescent tubes powered by low overhead power lines.

Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, got the idea for Field (2004) – 1,301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 3rd, 2007

A Houston museum is offering 25 cents per cockroach to fill an exhibit about the wonders of insects that eat decomposing things.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science wants 1,000 American cockroaches, which grow to 2 inches long, can fly and thrive in the city’s sub-tropical climate, said museum entomologist Laurie Pierrel on Wednesday.
They will be [...]

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