Posted: July 31st, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: art | Tags: I love new clothes I love new clothes I love, sketches | No Comments »

Hasty pencil and ink on printer paper, pretteh-fied with some very basic CG rendering.
Reading too much Noël Coward and dining with too many femme fatales.
Posted: July 30th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: art | Tags: food glorious food!, I love new clothes I love new clothes I love | No Comments »

Rock crystal and gelatin-inspired jewelry by L.A.-based designer duo Mctega.
Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: psyche | Tags: cheaper than therapy, citizen media, science or lack thereof | No Comments »
Ah, Rorschach testing-cum-childhood…
Tempted to make a tag labeled “Wikipedia is the Infallible Crystalline Font of All Collective Human Knowledge.”
By NOAM COHEN
Published: July 28, 2009
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There are tests that have right answers, which are returned with a number on top in a red circle, and there are tests with open-ended questions, which provide insight into the test taker’s mind.
The Rorschach test, a series of 10 inkblot plates created by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach for his book “Psychodiagnostik,” published in 1921, is clearly in the second category.
Yet in the last few months, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been engulfed in a furious debate involving psychologists who are angry that the 10 original Rorschach plates are reproduced online, along with common responses for each. For them, the Wikipedia page is the equivalent of posting an answer sheet to next year’s SAT.
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Posted: July 28th, 2009 | Author: CB | Filed under: commerce | Tags: ephemera, sustainability | No Comments »

These dispensers were placed inside public bathrooms in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Silk Soft 100% recycled toilet paper.