Posted May 14th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Once again, I see the spectre of age-rage happening around the blogosphere. Whats with all the lets-get-the-young-people-gardening angst and counter-angst?
It might help by starting with a quote from Marshall Macluhan to set the stage, Youth instinctively understands the present environment the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
When you and I were young Maggie, we implicitly understood the nature of television and laughed at those who told us it would rot our minds and ruin civilization as we knew it (maybe as those radio folks knew it) When rock and roll burst onto the scene, the young implicitly understood the message, the old never did figure it out.
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Posted May 5th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan has produced a limited edition of the SheLLf bookcase for Kristalia that will only be at Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
The title of Ka-Lais latest product is in fact a linguistic and conceptual amalgamation of ‘shell’ and ‘shelf’. Like a shell, it undulates from flatness to depth, creating a dynamic space. Made of separate compartments that are arranged in a gently increasing and decreasing way, it seems as if the shelf is crawling across the wall, literally growing out of the wall, like an animal crawling out of its shell.
The cabinet’s outside has a perfectly smooth, glossy black mirror-like textured surface. Inside, a
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Tags: Chan Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted April 14th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Every now and then, I check whos stealing my images from my websites and whos copying my articles for their own website use.
Normally, the number one culprit are the spammers and scrapers who send their bots out to find stuff and mechanically insert it into spam webpages. This week, that was true again.
But running a close second were the garden centers, nurseries, landscapers and landscape architects.
Somebody must have told them they needed a website so they went out and built one stealing the images they needed. In this case, taking the image of this vegetable garden. I note this image appeared on blogs, websites, and even their facebook accounts as their profile picture.
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Tags: Stealing, Stealing Plants Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted April 1st, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
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Artist Janet Echelman transforms urban space by creating voluptuous billowing sculpture as counterpoint to hard-edged cityscape.
Inspired by the local materials and culture of Mahabalipuram, an Indian fishing village famous for sculpture, the American artist stumbled upon a material that would change her art, and life, forever.
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Tags: Reshaping Urban, Urban Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted March 29th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Now that we are dwelling in a fast-growing environment, developers discovered some fixtures that will extremely help us create an perfect fun at home. They manage to design fixtures that accessorize every edge of our residential spaces. You can stay and freely walking in the backyard anytime you want. You can do your daily chores while enjoying the scenery. Above all, they can increase the value of your garden without adding much styles on the facade or on the trellises and patio. Their secret is the state-of-the-art residential planters made of high grade fiberglass material. This is a great approach to accentuate natural beauty and architectural interest needed by any outdoor space! Read full post…
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