http://pketh.org A site about random daily stuff in my life Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:53:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently BMW made this Isetta 300 eons ago. It's absolutely fantastic and I want one. A feeling I certainly have never had for most of the other crummy small city cars of today. BMW: Bring back the Isetta please! Also from the same Wired Article: omgwtfbbq cuuuuuuuuuuuute! http://pketh.org/2009/08/pretty-german/ http://pketh.org/2009/08/2009%e5%b9%b407%e6%9c%8825%e6%97%a5/ I don't know niche or common my way of doing things is but I thought I'd share my photography experience and process for fun. I started taking pictures with a digital camera years ago (3 megapixels YAY!). I remember taking 2 hour trips to get downtown and just snap at ... http://pketh.org/2009/07/photography-and-me-for-lack-of-a-better-title/ Like so many exploding, penetrating, intercoursing triangles, my ailing macbook air out of the blue decided to take a mental health moment. Here are screenshots I got before it all seized up, every time I moved the mouse around the whole thing would rapidly and seemingly randomly reconfigure itself - ... http://pketh.org/2009/07/this-is-new-weird-computer-glitches/ http://pketh.org/2009/07/micro-plane/ I originally wrote this in response to a post by the always inimitable Jenny Zhu on the increasingly high quality of fakes in China and I thought the idea was interesting enough that I thought I'd just paraphrase it here too: Lately, I’ve been thinking about the Chinese sneaker brand Feiyue, ... http://pketh.org/2009/06/of-luxury-brands-and-china/ When I was a wee tyke I remember a short lived weekly ritual where my parents would pull me and my brother away from our Saturday morning cartoons, throwing us kicking and screaming into the back of our old brown Honda Accord for a twenty minute drive, while we loudly ... http://pketh.org/2009/06/jacks-of-all-trades-aces-of-none/ It's very often nowadays that I notice how outside of the very few planned spaces like Dundas Square, everyone is always moving and never stopping. In Toronto, streets are just a place to travel through, and less a social space that people are allowed to just enjoy hanging out in. ... http://pketh.org/2009/06/tree-bar-illustration/ "Close to a million begonia flowers were used to create the 300 square metres carpet this week. The pattern is based on a medieval carpet design" It looks like the flowers (begonias) were dropped by hand onto the cobblestones and not planted and grown this way or anything - but it's ... http://pketh.org/2009/06/brussels-flower-carpet-wow-just-wow/ The post really is mammoth but I also really enjoy Jenny's interviews so I guess it works out just fine. From this side of the ocean, China is seen as a powerful global superpower, with international successes seemingly based on a culture of standardization efficiency and a race to ... http://pketh.org/2009/05/jenny-zhu-chinas-creative-community-and-youth-culture-interview-with-adam-schokora/