Phat Beets

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Yep. Shoulder pads and wallpaper. Like heroes of a Tolkienian tale, they've somehow survived the long slog There and Back Again. And now it's apotheosis time. For one of the two, anyhow.

Ferm Living is making things for walls that make Darwinian sandwiches less lonely in the zip code of Total Awesomeness. Exhibit A. Exhibit B.

OK, so it's more like exhibit a, then sub exhibit a, because both showcase work from the same company. But I particularly swoon for the red cloud/bread loaf paper in the kitchen of the apartment tour. In fact, let's include it with this post...

This discovery was brought to my attention by a professor in college as part of our building systems/ technologies class. Someday I'll plunk down the readies for the whole thing, but for now, this clip will suffice. Have a look at the photos to begin to have an idea of what's going on. Read the explanation to understand what's happening here. It's brilliant.

here's the meat of it:

"First, the four string players are introduced to the audience by a moderator - who may also be the sound projectionist. He briefly describes the technical aspects of the forthcoming performance. Then, the players walk to the helicopters - or are driven there - while being constantly followed by video cameras which transmit to the television monitors. The moderator (at the mixing console) explains over the loudspeakers what is happening.

From their embarkation into the helicopters until they disembark, each string player and his helicopter is transmitted via camera, television transmitter, three microphones and sound transmitters to his own group of monitors for the audience. Each string player should be constantly audible and always visible close-up – face, hands, bow, instrument – without any camera changes and without the fading in of other pictures.

Behind each player, the earth can be seen through the glass cockpit of the helicopter."

Stumbled on this while googling some French words, acting on a hunch about some dialogue on this show, which quickly lead to the even grander discovery of this. I found that with one semester of linguistics, some of it was a bit of a reach, but still accessible and fascinating.

I saw this yesterday, and I'm thinking it's brilliant. I haven't had time to fully investigate, but it's adobe and it helps you mix colors and make color schemes, so, brilliant, right?

So I was at Darwin's Ltd for lunch the other day, and what do I see sitting on the shelf beside me but a jar of Phat Beets! Phat beets?!? In a jar!?! But that's totally the name of my catalogue of awesome things! Which reminded me, I haven't really been cataloging lately... if at all. Well, there was this whole mix up with fat vs. phat, and then, I don't know, I guess I forgot about awesome things for a while, blah blah blah.

So anyhow, fresh start, correct name, starting in ready... set... now!