More praise for Click projects: Clean Slate and Root: 1

Here's an article featuring Clean Slate and mentioning Root: 1. It is about products that educate and convey personality through the label. Cheers!

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Honk Honk.

Fun with semi-trucks.

Type Geeks Unite... Then Separate!

The sweater explains itself.

Link: http://www.veer.com/products/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0001260#detail

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The Coke Side of Death

The Ga tribe in Ghana see funerals as a a time for celebration as well as a time for mourning. They honor the dead with brightly colored custom coffins in the shape of an object that represents their lives. In addition to the Coca-Cola coffin, the following link includes coffins in the shapes of fish, pineapples, shoes, and cars.

Link: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=52081

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The England squad 2018.

Bruce's son Lewis is standing in front of Bruce, in this lovely photo of England's best.

A Very Terry Christmas

Here, TDUK, is your belated Christmas wish: images from the TDSF Christmas party!

Good food and even better cocktails were consumed in a private room at Bong Su by all TDSF employees and their significant others. With such a rapid growth of the company, it was a real surpise to see the sheer number of people in the room. In addition to dinner, Brittany and I hosted a TD quiz show and Rebecca handed our farewell to Rachel. Jonathan won the quiz show, and after much patience by the audience, he managed to open his prize: ceramic chicken feet-shaped salt and pepper shakers. Joanne shouted, clapped and nearly fell out of her chair from drinking one too many cranberry juices. Fortunately, David managed to stay clothed this year and not make an embarassing scene (no, I have not been fired yet).

Terry managed to capture all the action with his camera. Thanks, Ter-bear!

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Upon reflection

A friend of ours designs structural elements for America's cup yachts. He just sent these photos from Valencia where his team is based. The architecture is worth checking out. I love the way the reflecting pool is an integral part of the design. His boat looks pretty cool too.
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Googled Birthday: Ann Jordan

Looking at the picture above, some may assume that Ann Jordan is a dog. Yet, according to Google, Ann wouldn't think that to be that bad of an assumption – in fact, she would say she is pure bred! Ann Jordan is the founder and operator of BorderCollieCoach.com. When Ann is not disciplining Collies, she's chastising sinners in the footnotes of the Jordan Family Bible. Ann flexes her blessed literary skills by quoting the Bible during business discussions at the Clinton family's dinner parties. This socialite proves that no job is as rewarding or as up-and-coming as an Ann-job.

About Face

Ever wonder what David looks like as a woman? Well, unless you live in SF and are able to hit the Trannyshack on Saturday evenings, you may want to resort to this nifty online tool. The face transformer allows you to upload a straight-on shot of a face and then alter that person's gender, age, race, or species.

Images should be a clear straight-on shot, RGB, and a decently sized jpeg or gif.

Link: http://www-old.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/index.html

More Paper Art

For some reason, I am finding more and more artists utilizing solitary tools and canvases as artistic expressions versus their traditional peripheral usage. Well, if carving crayons are not your thing, then perhaps shifting stacks of paper could be. I first noticed Schleeh Design when they came out with the "bachelor pad" (pictured) which was mearly a cool way to tear paper (little do they know that tearing paper cannot get any cooler!). They updated the portfolio with art pieces that showcase only the paper and it's natural reaction with gravity.

Further interest porthole: http://www.schleehdesign.com/

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Art Imitating the Meduim Making Art, or the Medium Making Art Imitating Art?

Peter Goldlust apparently retired his previous sexual cravings for 14 carat yellow stones for a much more interesting career path: carving crayons.

Eye candy here: http://www.petegoldlust.com/carvedcrayons.html#

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Color: quick sorts

Studies have shown that the average mind can focus on only three objects (even less for conversations:) at once. However research using color shows that the average observer following a soccer game can accurately estimate, within half a second, the numbers of players on the field by a quick scan of color hits. In another experiment, by psychologist Justin Halberda, an array of up to 35 dots in several colors were decoded in half a second with an 87% average accuracy. This indicates that the brain is capable of parallel processing of sets at lighting speed. Size, shape, and brightness are also under study. For now, color is the quickest official decoder. This can be used to argue for color fields for branding purposes or more interestingly using different colors in 1 layout architecture to help consumers differentiate not only from the monotony of some monolithic brands but between products. You can further add to weary festivities this holiday season by waging to guess how many objects of certain colors are on colorful gift-wrap or Christmas tree.

Some Serious Coffee Time

The Yunessun Spa Resort in Hakone, Japan, has 25 specialized pools you can bathe in. Some, like the Roman Bath, Turkish Sauna, the Deep Sea Bath are fine and dandy. The more infamous pools allow you to bathe in your favorite beverage. There are pools of saké, coffee, tea, and wine.

Yes, good morning: the world is strange.

Link: http://www.yunessun.com/english/yunessun.html

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Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin's sculptures and installation pieces unabashadly explore the subliminal realm. His portfolio is worth a quick look.

Link: http://www.micheldebroin.org/projects/index.html

More Jonathan...

Brittany reminded me that this would have been a funnier image of Jonathan to post.

Googled Birthday: Jonathan Warner

We are getting our fill of cake this month.

In the pond of Turnerducklings, there is a gray goose in our midst. Jonathan Warner has been working for Turner Duckworth so long, that (according to Google) he owned slaves in Portsmouth back in 1718. No wonder Jonathan has been able to crank out so much work for Coke, Howling Monkey (wait... we don't work on that... we just REALLY like drawing it), and Sparks: he's had servants to help him! A little known fact about Jonathan: according to Google images, Jonathan is a 24yo Asian woman at the College of Arts and Sciences in Albany. And here we just thought you were pretendonesian from dating Herdah.