Sunday, February 24, 2008

pure white

A simple and iconic seating series from Artek. In the recent release, the pure white leather and the wooden frame image further establish a classic milestone of Finnesh design. Pure white is not easy to do color match but it is really lovely. <Artek>
















Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Time Brick

I dun remember if I have talk about this Verbarius clock. It flashes in my mind when I am thinking of getting an alarm clock instead of using my mobile phone to wake me up in the morning. This is kind of cool but I suppose it is better to come with alarm clock function....as basic. <Artlebedev>

Monday, February 11, 2008

every body runs

This is a simple action game. What you need to do is to keep running running and jumping in different countries and to stay away from ox, police, girl, fat man ... The rhythm is light and fast. Good for killing time while waiting for meeting or keep yourself awake!!! <miniclip>

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A chair that comes with flying colors

Do you feel your home is too dull? Do you feel you have too many ideas to your home? This chair should fit you or I think most gals like it. This OZ chair is introduced in IMM Cologne 2008 and it is a project of Cate & Nelson, a swedish and Spanish design studio. It looks like a color sample of textile that can color match with the surrounding by fliping the cloth. That's a bright idea and I think this idea can apply on many applications. <mocoloco>






















Thursday, February 07, 2008

concrete sofa

Happy Chinese New Year! This is the year of rat and I wish to enjoy more funny designs that inspire my life.

That's cool if one is putting in a park. <hi-id>

Saturday, January 26, 2008

sofa again

I know it is a bit crazy but I am really addicted to e15 product esp seeing its new items in show room and IMM cologne report. When I first read e15 is going to launch upholster series, I thought it should stick on its hard wood business. But when I saw this modular series, oh god, I am looking for this so long. The extra tall upholstery board provide a simple solution to avoid. wall reflection of music. No extra sound absorption work is required. Also the idea for rear board does serve a good option to improve the interior appearance. I know my living room is too small to fit all these master piece. But I really love it. <e15>



new magazine rack

OK! a new CD player requires additional input to my speaker. So there is no extra port for my subwoofer and I decided to give up my 2.1 config. The extra space is fit to a new tenant: contraforma magazine rack "romance 04". Thanks to my sister who buy the same series coffee table so I can join the order. My home is turning into a show room, my wife said.

My minimal audio system is completed

Finally, I can play CD with my new toy and output to active monitor. This is really a painfull experience. Normally, an amplified output signal cannot used as line-out. I did great search on any HiFi shop and no one think it is possible or it will have great distortion. Lastly, I found a rare HiFi accessory in ebay that did the exact function for high power rated amplifier. This precious blackbox is right behind my CD player in the picture. The sound may not at top quality but I have no complaint now.


Saturday, November 03, 2007

aura note

An all in one music system that comes with CD player, amp, radio, USBx2 but without pre-out. So it seems not totally match to my active speakers.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

more photos

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PC toys TACHIKOMA

Wow, Japanese do know how to dig money out of your pocket. This is a very populer character from GITS 2nd GIG. Similar to other USB toys, it can move, making noise when you are using the computer. There is not much information in the web so I actually don't know what it can do. But I wish it can interact with some application such as MSN or outlook. <robo watch>

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

chandelier lover

"There are two types of people in the world"~ from the movie Swing Girls. I realized this when I posted this chandelier picture to the forum before. I supposed the reader could realize how wonderful an object could be redesigned. In return, people liked to make conclusion that it was fake without even look at the picture carefully. This is a proof that many HKese are stubborn to new things and stereotype to common taste: Starck, Eames, vintage etc. that's it.
If someone still think it is fake, I can tell you it is available now at ATELIER Abigail Ahern















Thursday, October 04, 2007

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Shoal of fish chandelier

I just can't stop posting this out even I am at work. This is the new work of a UK company Scabetti to be presented in 100% design at UK. I want to take a closer look to find out how the fishes are tighted together. It must be very interesting to stare from the bottom upwards. I am searching for more pictures to see what it actually looks like.




















Monday, September 17, 2007

I need a nice CD player

It is shame to tell my friends that I cannot play a CD normally in living room. My dumb DVD player has only one output and audio signal has to be output from TV indirectly. And I do think to play a CD nicely, it is a must to have a good CD player, with DAC and digital output for external DAC. To fit my current configuration, I need a good looking and compact CD player to work with my Elekit tube preamp and Genelec active speakers. Seems Musical Fidelity X-ray series is targeting to those users like me. But I like the appearance of V3 rather than the latest model.









Saturday, September 15, 2007

A new moon arc lamp

That's cool, like putting a new moon inside the room. This is an aluminum arc with LED on the sliding part. So it can be a floor lamp or turn up to illuminate from the top. Very functional. For those who are bored with Flos. <hansandfranz> via <technabob>



















Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

holy! holy bird house

I don't think a bird has any religion but the designer made a good choice of material and shape to make such a luxury house for birds. I guess no one will really use it. There are too many "redesign" Cockoo clock out there in the market, so it's time to make a difference ... bird house ha. I am waiting some extraordinary bird cages as well. <poaa>




















Sunday, September 02, 2007

My sister continues my dream

My sister's apartment renovation is finally finalized. At least everything is put in space. Thanks to her, her got several items in my "dream list" and built an incredible dream home. Dare to say, not much people have the patient to insist matching all these items. This is not easy to accomplish but we made it. The work is not finished yet and still need to entertain our elderly's.

Anamone Table from Finland
my sister's most favorite corner.



Special edition of egg chair













another side of our world

That's the best pic I can took in Yemen. The city is old, very old. There are many brick houses along the hill side that makes a spectacular view.