Palindrome: Hopeless or Hopeful?

A Palindrome is something that reads the same forwards as it does backwards. It is even more clever when the meaning is the opposite when read forwards as it does when read backwards.

If you have not seen it yet....I hope you enjoy!

A friend sent this to me yesterday. It is a video submited by a 20 year old to a contest entitled "u @50" hosted by AARP. Clever girl.

Cool: Australian Botanicals Outdoor by Mokum

I think this new Australian Botanicals Outdoor fabric collection from Mokum speaks for itself.

It's saying: "I love porches. They are my favorite places to be. Unless you find me out by the pool, or in the garden. With my indoor-oudoor lifestyle, I am happy in almost any environment! My style reflects the native landscape of Australia: soft eucalyptus greens, crisp aquas, ocean blues and the warm rust tones of the outback. I am pure Australian through and through: I am tough (exceeding 50,000 double rubs) but caring (100% recycled content). And of course I am fun-loving and not too hard on the eyes if I do say so! In fact, I have been told I am quite stunning! I hope you have a chance to visit me ....or better yet....let me visit you! You can find me here under latest releases."

Great speaker! Great design

Cool: Roger Borg

1.25.7a, enamel on aluminum, 7.12" x 5.736", 2007

This is just a small taste of the coolness that is Roger Borg. Artist, Sculptor, and creator of neon lamps, Roger uses forms from nature, studies and creates from a common theme a body of work that is at once serene and exciting. I hope you enjoy.

1.27.7p, enamel on aluminum, 4.171" x 8.28", 2007

untitled, neon (8300 white), 15' x 12' x 11', 2008

collection of suzanne and norman cohn

Pull In Lamp

Stacked Series: both hanging and free standing, these neon lamps are made by stacking individual hand bent neon components atop each other. in building a structure in this manner, through individual layers and cross sections, i am able to explore and produce illuminated forms, both simple and complex.

I can just imagine this lamp on a traditional desk (say a Louis XIV) in an office/library. I think the contrast is just would be needed to spice things up. That necessary dash of the unexpected.

each moment slides into the next, neon (4500 white), 7.447" x 64.659", 2005

There are a series of quotes from Roger that were unique and made me stop and read every one.

our paths crossed for but not long enough, steel, approx. 8' x 8' x 4', 1999

Roger has a number of landscape sculptures that capture the imagination.

Bulge

Flat Series: the first of this series, this wall lamp is distorted to appear three dimensional, while in reality it rests flat on the wall.

Artist's Statement:

through observation and speculation i test the world and its workings. what is of paramount interest to me is its nature at the most base level. how circumstances arise. how sequences form and events unfold. how single narratives merge with others, giving rise to more complex interactions. how information is transcribed within the fluid column of time. how the present moment comes to be, and how it is continually steered into the next. at this boundary of present and future, possibility reigns supreme. infinity rules what may be. permutations abound. but beyond this cusp emerges only a single lone instance of what is and what has become. it is with deference to these thoughts, and within this context, that my work is born.

roger borg, 2007

Cool: Fornasetti Moves......

From the Decorative Screen to the Flat Screen.

Detour Design has released a limited edition Fornasetti collection of animated interpretations of the work of Italian artist Peiro Fornasetti. In collaboration with Barnaba Fornasetti, Detour Design used many of the over 500 images in the series to create the first in a series of three titles.

So this is what you get:

Housed in an elegant custom lacquer box with a signature Fornasetti image gracing the lid, each Blu-ray disc in the limited edition of 3,000 is accompanied by a hand numbered engraved card. Designed as an object to be on display, it i available in select retail stores and online at www.fornasettimoves.com.

Cool.