http://pketh.org A site about random daily stuff in my life Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:37:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's my idea for a type of road which grows and purposefully breaks over time to transform itself from smooth roads into classier Parisian-style cobblestones as the surrounding neighbourhood changes over time. Basically, when a road is newly paved or redone, saplings are planted on top of a root guide at specific ... http://pketh.org/2010/07/growing-roads/ Here's a fun illustration I updated a long while back which apes the colours and style of the Coach fashion brand for Cara. I learned lots about colour matching (and handbags...), but the best part was printing it out 20" across and semi-framing it onto my wall. I went to the ... http://pketh.org/2010/07/c-c-c-poster/ 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/