On Kitsune Noir: Ecological Footprint Infographiti Rug by Toko.

Ecological Footprint Infographiti Rug by Toko.
Posted by Bobby Solomon • October 13, 2010 • Art & Design

Only a little over a month ago I posted about Toko, a design firm situated in Australia who I was really into because of the diversity of their work. I had to revisit them because of a new project called the Infographiti Rug, which is actually a data visualization in rug form. The colorful blobs you see are actually the ecological footprints of continents, the orange part being the world’s biocapicity. It’s sad that something so beautiful represents something so… bad. ...

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From Lines & Colors Blog; Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art

Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art.

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Rivendell - Long ramble + phots

0ct 2 long ramble + phots

October 2, 2010

We've discontinued things in the past, and will do it again, but there's always what I'd say is a good reason for doing it. The Rambouillet came out during a strong dollar and weaker yen period, and the Romulus that followed it did, too---but not quite as strong a dollar. It comes up a lot that somebody bemoans the passing of these bikes, but if we brought back the Romulus (which retailed for $1500 as a complete bike), it would cost $2300 now; and the RambOUiIllet would cost close to $3,000....and they both presented huge cash flow PROBLEMS to us, and so...we moved on, and now life is different here.

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Grant at Rivendell is always interesting to read - favourite quote in this piece;

"But 8 now is so old and friction shifting so old and IT'S Fall 2010 and Shimano still produces them [8 speed barcons], and there has to be a reason that isn't apparent. Is somebody at Shimano guarding Shimano's Last Reasonable Shifter from extinction?"

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Velo-Orange's New Dyno Hubs

A lot of folks have e-mailed asking about the new dyno hubs I've mentioned. I'm also told there was some rather silly speculation about them in various discussion forums (Due to time constraints I no longer read any forums). In any case I thought I'd say a bit more about them.

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Velo Orange - new dynohubs & headlights. Worth reading in full, as if what Chris says is right, these sound excellent.

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Cyclocross Buyer’s Guide, part one: Top of the line ‘cross rigs

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Some lovely bikes in this. High End 'crossers - a guide, from Velonews

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@cleopompom the little one at the back of the holder.

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@kathrynebrown he'd need an energy gel to bring him up to "exhausted" :-)

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