This is so brilliant, Will Ferrell impersonating Harry Caray, a legendary sports commentator.
I can't resist, must... have... desire... to own... this machine!!
Manufactured by a wonderfully retro company called Derringer Cycles and designed by an industrial designer that goes by the name of Adrian van Anz. It's modeled after racing motorcycles from the 1920's and can do 35 mph, that is 50 km/h. Pretty friggin sweet for getting around the big cities here where a car is no good and public transport is just not as much fun.
Just setting the mood with good ol' Canned Heat since I'll be moving again. Last time I went from the Caribbean back to the Netherlands, this time I won't be going quite THAT far. I'll be moving from Amsterdam to the city where the Dutch government resides called The Hague (Den Haag for the purists or Dutchies).
We'll be moving into a nice attic appartment in a historical building in the center of the city. Beautiful I must say, but a pain in the a** to move into!
For my new address please check the contact page on my website.
I've been using it to be lame for as long as I can remember, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it's from. I know a hell of a lot of people know the quote "Sounds like a plan, Stan" too, but no-one really seems to know where it's from. Does anyone know?
Apparently you should reply by saying "I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown"...
If you find yourself in the San Jose / San Francisco area Saturday 18th of October go and check out Clique. It's a bit too far out of the way for me, but would dig to hear how it was!
Ran across an example of some sweet modernist architecture yesterday, Villa Spies built on a small island off the coast of Stockholm, Sweden. "Googie" as the style is named after the first coffeeshop that used this style featured many buildings representing the fast paces car-age times with a desire for the galaxy.
At the time many people expected to be living in space colonies by 2001. "Googie" was prominent in the 40's, 50's and 60's and I suspect Villa Spies to be built in a related futurist style on the haydays of this stream. Although this might have been built in the dying days of this awesome architectural style, I still think this is one of the most beautiful examples of Jetson-esque architecture. The round shapes are made in the phylosophy of creating a house around a person rather than placing a person in the more regular square box homes. I just wish there were more homes designed like this so I could actually look forward to living in a futurist Jetson-esque home one day.
If you want to read more, you might want to check out this awesome book, it's not cheap but I think I'll order it for inspiration sake.
A few months ago I took part in the Hugocreate competition from Hugo Boss. Back then I was lucky enough to be one of the 10 winners of that round. It seems like they're running the last round of this year right now and it's themed after the holidays. Here is my entry:
If you still want to participate you have to hurry up because the deadline is on the 6th of October!
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