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Month: January, 2008

Some Days.

15 January, 2008 (14:34) | miscellaneous | No comments

Some days are like, you know, like Mondays.
Yesterday, a Monday no less, we went shopping for furniture and stuff (read: practically a whole household) in Ikea, Antwerp.
We had a long list of “want, maybe want, maybe-but-let’s-see-first, probably not” things, and we dived in well prepared (or so we thought), studying the printed and on-line catalogues […]

The Air. Something in.

14 January, 2008 (08:57) | Apple | 1 comment

Tomorrow brings yet another MacWorld exhibition in Moscone Center, San Francisco.
For Mac aficionados all over the world, this is the best possible start of a new year, and it’s looked forward too with much anticipation and great expectations.
Year after year the build-up and hype surrounding MWSF gets bigger and bigger (predictions now start surfacing as […]

Creepy Old Ads

11 January, 2008 (15:59) | WTF?, design, future/retro | No comments

Oh golly.
Ten creepy advertisements for you to enjoy.
I kinda like the coffee ad though (partly pictured above). Maybe I’m just kinky like that.

DVD vs HD

8 January, 2008 (23:23) | movies, technology | 1 comment

Wanna see the difference [in resolution] between regular DVD and High Definition ?
Here you go…

Info Graphics

8 January, 2008 (22:50) | design, hardware, silly | 2 comments

I love infographics. I have great admiration for the designers and illustrators who create them, and often I wished I could be one of them. There is of course a certain relation to what I do - designing the user interface for a web site or database is sometimes quite similar in scope - but […]

New Mac Pro

8 January, 2008 (15:15) | Apple, computers | 2 comments

Holy Mother of ehm, God !
Apple suddenly and unexpectedly smacks us in the face with a new Tower of Power Lust Covetousness™.
Although MWSF (Mac World San Francisco) is still a week to the horizon, Apple took its Apple Store down this morning (this always happens on a Tuesday), and now presents us with this OUL […]

Blu vs HD

6 January, 2008 (17:00) | technology | 4 comments

Death of HD DVD ?
It sure looks like it, now that Warner has decided to fully back Blu-ray, and is going to abandon the HD DVD camp completely in a few months…
Personally I feel rather good about this - for some reason unknown to myself I felt more comfortably with Blu-ray, although I am […]

How Logic

4 January, 2008 (14:20) | Apple, computers, music, synthesizer | 2 comments

Another sweet baby arrived on my doorstep today.
Seven (7) DVD’s to install, twothousandandthree (2003!) manual pages to wade through.
Gimme another five years or so, and I’ll be making music…
Click the image above to check out Apple’s site on Logic Studio.

Demeulemeester in Seoul

2 January, 2008 (11:46) | architecture, fashion | No comments

Ann Demeulemeester is a Belgian fashion designer with a strong Asian presence. Stores in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul are the only ones outside her native Antwerp. The latest shop in Seoul by Mass Studies is, according to the architects, “not meant to be just another object to be experienced externally, but rather as a […]

Hell freezes over.

2 January, 2008 (11:30) | computers, steampunk | No comments

I want a PC.
No, really. (*)
This guy Jeffrey Stephenson makes the most amazing PC enclosures.
Some of his designs - especially the G-metric Nano [pictured above] - are jawdroppingly beautiful, and make me wish that PC manufacturers, including Apple, would be a bit more original, artistic and elegant in their designs. I’m getting a bit tired […]

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