Nazi concentration camps featured a hopeful sign for the incoming prisoners. “Arbeit Macht Frei” means Work Sets You Free and helped keep up the guise of these “work camps”. Someone just stole the sign from Auschwitz. I took this photo of the Small Fortress in Terezin, Czech Republic. It’s hard to understand how horrible these […]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Eames film: making of the fiberglass chairs
There’s a plethora of fascinating films by Charles & Ray Eames. This one illustrates how they created one of their fiberglass shells. I don’t re-post much, but hat tip to Kottke.
Fun for the entire family – Bear Escape
I have strange dreams. I have the type that leave me chuckling when I wake up. This morning was a doozy. Imagine this new family game: Bear Escape. I had a dream of the standard nuclear family gathered around the family room as grandma was on her back and an angry plastic bear hunkered over […]