.: Above The Aether :.

I love stumbling across good industrial design.  And when the industrial design involves a tool, it’s even better.  I follow several tool/gadget blogs and stumbled into this while reading one of my favorite tool blogs, Toolmonger.
It’s pretty amazing how much planning and effort goes into a little tool like this.  You may see a bucket [...]

Tom Banwell is an artist who has made some amazing pieces currently being showcased at the Oxford Steampunk Art Exhibit.
(via Make Magazine)
- Dave

Link to video (via Laughing Squid)

The most excellent Brownie Points Blog posted some instructions on how to make your own bacon flavored vodka.  It’s pretty simple.  It just requires some bacon and some vodka and 3 weeks of soak time.
Check out the details here.
- Dave
P.S. – Yes, I will absolutely try this.

This babydoll coat rack remids me of something I would see hanging in the Adams Family’s home.
-Dave
Link (via BoingBoing)

Hey ho! Let’s go!
UPDATE: 
From Etsy (sold out made to order!).
You can order them from the following sites:
www.brooklyncollective.com
www.brooklynflea.com
(Or contact Addie in the comments below…)
- Dave

MuxTape is a simple site that lets you create digital mix tapes.  You simply create an account with an email address and password and then upload up to 12 songs (mp3 format) for your mix.
MuxTape creates a special page for you with your songs on it.  Just click on a song to play it.
You can [...]

From http://www.marianneart.dk/
A combat tank which was used in World War II was the setting for this work of art. As a protest against the Danish (USA´s, UK´s) involvement in the war in Iraq the tank was covered from the canon to the caterpillar tracks with knitted and crocheted squares made with pink yarn The 15 [...]

This movie about design, art, counter culture and outsiders of all sorts will be released in the spring of 2008. I hope it is comes to Houston.
Link to the trailer. (from Compuer Love)
-Dave

Justine finished putting up the tree this evening.  She tells me it is not finished, but there are lights and bulbs on it, so it looks pretty finished to me.
I look forward to all of the amazing holiday decorations this year.
-Dave