Video link (via Neat-o-rama)

video link (via Hell for Leather)

Shinya Kimura started building custom motorcycles from the ground up in Japan. He doesn’t plan anything. He just starts cutting metal. The quote that gets me is this one:

“It feels nothing like how violent it looks from the outside. It’s very serene. The ground and the sky are so white there is no boundary between them. I have never flown, but it feels like flying an airplane using a reciprocating engine. I can’t tell you how peaceful it is.” – Shinya Kimura

Having been riding motorcycles for a year now, this is the quote that sticks with me. Riding a motorcycle is one of the most peaceful things I have ever experienced.

It’s funny how the perception of a motorcycle is usually a loud and obnoxious machine, but riding one is just the opposite. Very zen I suppose…

- Dave

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 of these tools for sale at the cash register in your local hardware store and never really pay much attention to it.  However, someone has put a lot of thought into this little gizmo.

If you like this sort of thing, you’ll probably enjoy these blogs I frequent about this sort of thing:

• Multi-Tool Museum
• MultiTool.org
• Toolmonger

ScrewPop keyring tool – (via Toolmonger and the Multi-Tool Museum)

Enjoy.

- Dave

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 listen to my page here: http://aether23.muxtape.com

Let me know what you think and then go create your own MuxTape and post the link in the comments below so we can all listen.

- Dave

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 x 15 cm squares in pink yarn/thread, were knitted by many people from many European countries and USA. The process of covering the tank was documented with a video and this video is shown in ”Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center“ (Copenhagen, Denmark) as part of the exhibition “TIME” from April 27 – June 4, 2006.

Brilliant.

Link to the video.

-Dave