Showing posts with label Innovations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Innovations. Show all posts

Friday, August 27, 2010

Pedaling; Coast to Coast


Skipping stones across the sea is parallel to waiting for the bus - it gets tiresome. - Tanopper, Fruitmeyer. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, 196-?

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Lunch Box


We owe a considerable amount of gratitude to A.T. Marshall, whose 1899 patent allowed for us to forever enjoy meals the day after they were made.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Automated Day Dreaming



Television is a strange thing; The seemingly fictitious scenes and characters imitating a life with the will that seems all too familiar to the passive surveyor; oblivious, he forgets such a world exists upon exiting the room, and then proceeds with the very act himself. It's a circular function, whose source can no longer be sought. One can't help but wonder what goes on when the television set goes off...

Monday, April 5, 2010

Ego Death


"the object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird circumstances. To live that kind of life..." (Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon)

Friday, April 2, 2010

Bed Spring Jaunt


Sometimes the best way of arriving at somewhere new is by abandoning a sense of direction. - Gluff, Harold. Oxfordshire, England. 1932.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Life of Luxury



If all clockmakers were to suddenly vanish from the earth, we’d better hope our watches don’t break! - Cliffroy, Thompson. Forth Worth, Texas. 1935.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

A Preliminary Success...



...in man's inexhaustible pursuit of compensating for lack of wings.

We are bound by nothing other than the limitations of our own imagination.
- Creepole, Hinge. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1934.