Basecamp is everyone’s favorite project management app. Lyst | Finding Fashion Shaping Fluid by Christina Schou Christensen With Shaping Fluid, Christina Schou Christensen looks at ceramic glazes – normally used as a protective or ornamental finish for earthenware – from a new perspective. Christensen says that firing is a crucial step in the creative process: ‘With its unpredictable results, it acts as a sort of drafting process. The kiln, firing tools, ceramics, temperature and melting point of the glaze are like drafting tools that reveal new possibilities.’ Shaping Fluid was included in our Salone del Mobile 2013 coverage under the theme of 'Making It Yourself'. The up-and-comers are indeed using their innovative nous to make the machines that make the products (rather than just focusing on the end result) or using materials in ways that they alone can control. To see the full story, which includes the other themes we uncovered at the fair, grab a copy of Frame 93 now. Photos Bo Johannsen
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10 really good reasons to get a hay box (or make your own) | Markets & Green Living in Cape Town. A hay box is a wondrous thing. So wondrous, in fact, that I am quite astounded more households don’t have one… especially in this day and age of paying more attention to how we use our energy. A friend of mine recently gave me one for my birthday, and I can’t imagine, now, how I ever did without it! If you haven’t yet encountered one, a hay box (or ‘hot box’) is essentially an insulated ‘box’ (often, but not always filled with hay) in which you can cook anything from meaty stews or vegetable curries to simple rice and soups. You heat up your pot of food on the stove, kick-starting the cooking process, and then whack it into the hay box to carry on cooking. And there are some pretty compelling reasons to get your own one (or more) installed in your kitcken asap: 1. Whether you’re using electricity, gas, or even woodstove, you only need to cook the food for a fraction of the time you’d normally use. For example, say you’re cooking a simple pot of rice. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Like this:
DIY Project: Floral Garland Mirror Materials: mirror or frameblack acid-free papercraft glue or PVAwirescissorspliers and wire cutterstaple gunspray finish, matte or glossyoptional: black paint and paintbrush for frame Steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Dawn of the digital style guru - News - Fashion Shoppers can upload pictures of their outfits to be judged, and share their vital stats to seek sartorial suggestions. A raft of sites are leaping on to the bandwagon, prompting questions about whether they are any good. Poppy Dinsey, the founder of the site WIWT (What I Wore Today), said: "It used to be thought that the one thing that online could not offer, that traditional shopping could, was styling. But now personal shoppers are working online to give style advice and accessory suggestions, while communities are sharing style advice." To test this notion, I and my colleague David Ryan tested some of the newest sites. WIWT.com More than 6,000 outfits have been uploaded since the site launched in September, with more than a million page views. I'm flattered when my dress attracts three stars – strangers' objective approval counts double that of friends. Dressipi.com Launched last Wednesday, Dressipi calculates your "fashion fingerprint", and has already attracted 20,000 users. Meemee.me
Researchers develop 3D-printed flying drones capable of self-assembly News: a research team in Zürich has created a flock of helicopter robots that can detect each others' positions and join together to create a larger flying machine. The Distributed Flight Array (DFA) has been developed by a team of researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) at ETH Zürich university in Switzerland. Each robot has a 3D-printed hexagonal plastic chassis with magnets fixed to the sides of the frame and a single propeller fitted in the middle. Independently, the honeycomb-shaped robots fly in an erratic and uncontrolled way. However, the robots are able to detect each other, link to form a bigger craft and then fly in a controlled manner as a single unit. Each independent module exchanges information with the others and uses sensors to determine how much thrust it needs for the array to take off and maintain flight. Watch a video of the DFA system in action here: Here's a film showing the concept behind the flying system: Photographs are by Dr.
Gnam Box IN FOOD WE TRUST 10 Things you Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do | The Gentlemans Journal | The latest in style and grooming, food and drink, business, lifestyle, culture, sports, restaurants, nightlife, travel and power. Ah the iPhone. A wonderful piece of technology that has made it come to be that no one can go 10 minutes without checking them and needs them permanently attached to their hip. Yet, despite us all being obsessed with our iPhones, we really don’t know all they can do very well at all. Here are 10 things might not know about what your iPhone can do. Take a Burst of Photos at Once Hold down the shutter and it will take lost of photos in quick succession.The Power of Airplane Mode Put your phone in airplane mode and it will charge at double the speed! If you type something you want to delete, just shake your iPhone and it will come up with a message to undo typing. If you press and hold on the screen for a second when taking the photo, a yellow icon that reads “AE/AF Lock” will show. It you ask Siri to read your emails to you, she of course will announcing the sender, the date/time of the message and the subject line.Enter your Own Shortcuts
StylistPick - Your Personal Women's Shoe Stylist | StylistPick A Softer World 4: Let's Do Something Wrong by Make That Thing Joey Comeau and Emily Horne have been making A Softer World since 2003. It's a thrice-weekly photographic webcomic, known for being sad or thoughtful or funny or filthy, and often all of the above. You can go look at the comics for free on our website right here, or read some other people's opinions instead: "One of the most curious and most original webcomics around" - Comic Book Resources "ASW can explore complex social issues one moment and the depth of depravity in the next." - Comicmix.com "[ASW] isn't a narrative photocomic, but a poem in words and pictures that transcends what even some traditional comics are capable of." - The Comic Pusher Sure you have! We will make a book! The hovertext for each comic (that's the extra punchline you see when you hold your cursor over the comic...you didn't know about those? We've made some collections of the comic before, check them out right here. This time, we wanted to do something super special. Or perhaps you are a high roller?
Spezzatino FirstTime (patate,funghi,verza) Prima ricetta con la slowcooker! La sera prima ho preparato il brodo, tagliato la carne e scongelate le verdure. La mattina dopo colazione e prima di andare al lavoro, ho caricato la slowcooker con tutto il materiale occorrente.Ingredienti:- circa 600g di carne,(il mio pezzo era un biancostato)- ca.1lt di brodo di carne- ca.400g di patate novelle tonde (quelle surgelate da forno)- ca.400g di funghi misti (anche surgelati)- sale, pepe, cumino, polvere chili Preparazione:Preparare il brodo col dado o come si preferisce.Ridurre a pezzi la carne, tipo spezzatino, rimuovendo dove possibile il grasso.
What to eat before, during and after the London Marathon - Women's Health © Shutterstock It has finally arrived; the London marathon is back for another year! You've been training hard and eating right for weeks, so now is the time to ensure that all your hard work doesn't go to waste. Keep reading to find out which foods will help boost your energy before you begin, sustain and replenish you as you power through, and help you recover from the gruelling exercise afterwards. Before your run The days before the marathon is the time to focus more on your carbohydrate intake, increasing it by about 10% to ensure you have a productive and successful run at an endurance-testing event like the London marathon. A few hours before your run, have a balanced but light meal that includes some, but not too many, fibres (fibres could cause stomach problems during your race, so be careful with that) such as oatmeal, a chicken sandwich or whole-grain cereal. During your run After your run You did it - congratulations!