(b)logophile

We spent last weekend in Prague, being tourists. It seems there is some kind of Czech tradition of wooden toys (now being mass-produced for the tourist market, of course). Here are two simple ones that I particularly liked. With apologies for the quality (and now I know not to take videos in portrait…):1 a ridiculously [...]

Original by Phil Gyford, rearranged by Paul Mison [via]. Might it have something to do with this? Here’s the other end of the spectrum. (I tried to do this recently with books: pages-per-day estimated from page counts and start/finish reading dates. Scrapped the project for a number of reasons: (a) I had to fill in [...]

The awesome design is by Hanna de Vries, from an idea of mine (actually I misread “hardcore” on someone’s hoody…). Now I’m going to try to put it on a t-shirt — if anyone local has experience or tips I’d love to hear ‘em.

I went today to pick up tickets for a weekend trip to Paris (for the PALMYR workshop). We’re going by train; if you make an internet booking, you go to the NS office and a machine prints your tickets for you. It’s a touchscreen system — here’s a shot of the moment when you enter [...]

Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing: Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls as it warms up. [via sensory impact] Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries bombard each other with fireworks. [via Nemo Ramjet] Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, [...]