Down With Paper

 As the tittle sums up. Paper sucks, most of all wasted paper. As in the need to give receipts out for everything. There really seems to be no point other then rare return of goods. What really makes no sense  to me to me is all the crap that store put at the bottom of the receipt. Stuff that most people will never look at. So why not a system that post a persons' receipt on a central database. When a person pays for something digitally  you are telling many companies who you are and what you are buying. Why not place that info on a private website that lists everything a person is buys digitally. Places that only take cash don't do receipts anyway. 

I think the only way to get through TV is to be drunk.

I am sure that this would save a couple trees. 

Just Like Lust, Smaller is Not Better.

   Two things today:

1.     The new iPod Shuffle 
   
2.     Flash lights

New Shuffle
 

       Fist the new iPod. Way to small!!!! I am all for smaller stuff, but as things get smaller I lose it.  There is a current version of the ipod shuffle floating around my apt somewhere. There has to be a point in which things are too damn tiny. The mini is a good size, feels good in your hands. It is not so small you can forget that you are even holding it. You know that there is something in your hand. When I want a small mp3 player it has to be small enough to shove up my nose into my brain. Can't lose it once it is welded to my frountal lobe. I will admit that if I 

was slightly more responsible I might keep track of my thumb nail size MP3 player that could slip down the sink drain when I wonder home with to many G&Ts in me.  

     Oh, and the earbud cord has all the controls on it. Fuck, how many people have had the Apple earbuds broken on them. They are not the sturdiest things in the world for 60 bucks.

Absent minded people of the world unite agenist the design conspiracy of small things. 

The Flash Light 

  Thinking about all the flashlights that I have 

ever used I really can't understand why they are always round. Is it some fake phallic thing?Flashlight was made by a dude I bet. Anyway, they role, they never stay put when put them down and people do put them down. The pic on the right is my RUFF sketch of a square FL. The dark spots on the back are to place a stick or something in. The whole back turns to recharge the batteries. And going with the whole green thing it has LEDs. It is not that I am very green desgined mined it just makes sence when making something that will last longer. LED are bight and last forever and we don't always replace batteries when we should. Thats the moment they die on you in the middle of the woods. 

 OK people I am writing this late right now and do not feel like proof reading this, so I will do it later. Thanks for reading. 

   

 

THE OFFICE! (not the show)

    Like many people in this world, I do not like to work at home. Never felt right. Home is for sleeping and sitting on the sofa with my hand in my pants. I like to go out and see people while I work, even if I do not talk to them. Makes me feel like I have a life. 

    As more and more people become freelance and/or they don't have/need to go to a office to work they either stay at home and go in nuts or roam the city like the working undead looking for wifi to nourish themselves on. My preferred work place is a coffee shop, due to nice addictive substances it petals ,eg. coffee and free wifi. The people always going in and out makes one feel apart of something.  Just look at all the people whipping their laptops out next to a nice no foam, skinny, tall ( what the hell is tall anyway?! Fuck you Starbucks, you killed coffee.) half -caf "latte" it just screams,  "We are here to work bitchs! and "I have no taste when it comes to coffee!".

   So this is my idea: The Office would be a coffee shop that is designed for people to work at. It would have some very power wifi. All the outlets would be close to the table or in them. Cell phone booths, maybe even a conference room of sorts. Maybe even one of those Japanese vending machines that sells office supplies. Throw a printer, water cooler and a women they hire just to piss people off ( like the "someone has a case of the mondays" women from Office Space) and you have a place for people to get some work done. Side note : It can not look like a office though. Big soft chairs and wood tables needed. This is just a brain storm, so it is an on going idea. I will do some drawings and get them posted. 

   Part of the hope is that when these people are all in the same space they will start forming those human bonds that we get from actually working with people. No design needed to make friends.  

   I bet this is already in NYC. 

First Blog and Still Broken

    So as the name my blog, hopefully, gets across, I am a horrific writer. So don't say thing, I know. Anyway, about a week ago I broke my wrist and lost my job. Can't make espresso very well with one hand. With a huge amount of time on my hand (get it? haha) I deiced start this blog. 

   I felt I need some space to start posting my design ideas in order to build up some delusion of granger. If my parents told me I am can do anything why not run with it. Someone out there with as little as have to do might run across this. Heres hopen! (like the radio you can't see me cross my figures and squeal with delight with the thought of this, really I am, its not a joke.)  

   Because this intro has probably been to long for people to read I will sum up in bullet points of what this is going to be about. If people are reading this, thanks.

THE POINTS!

    - ID ( Industrial design ) ideas

    - Maybe some crapy art stuff I am working on

    - and to a lesser degree anything else I feel like writing about 

So people of the world if I do not see something shinny or a dalek, this will turn into a on going exercise to keep myself sane.