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Living in a Cardboard Box
The cardboard shelters look something similar to a child’s playhouse and are designed to offer a little privacy and comfort to those still living in the cramped conditions in the communal shelters at present. The cardboard can be assembled easily by anyone and even decorated by those with children, which could provide a nice creative outlet in a situation where many have been adversely affected by the tsunami and its aftermath.
With the majority of shelters located in school gymnasiums or public halls, the facilities really offer very little in terms of privacy or seclusion where evacuees can escape to try and relax in as best a way as is possible. Atelier Opa’s designs have been created not just to provide spaces for people to sleep in but partitions to create study areas and even clothes hanging areas. With many still unsure as to when they can move out of the communal areas right now and into relief housing, providing at least a semblance of having a personal space and designated spaces for specific functions is particularly important.
How brilliant is this?! Trust the japanese to come up simple great ideas for the most common things.
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Fireworks
they’re simply too cute to burn!
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DID THE 90’S SUCK FOR ROCK MUSIC?
A white-board discussion on the best and worst from the 90s from the people of g4tv.com
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EAT YOUR WORDS
The folks at Japanese company Green Supermarket have come up with a cute way of encouraging Japan`s green fingers. With space at a premium in Tokyo and a large proportion of residents living in apartments it is difficult finding any space to grow anything, especially when your apartment doesn’t even have a balcony. The company has come up with ways to utilise residents book cases, table tops and a variety of small spaces. One of their products, Green Story, from the outside looks like an every day book, however when opened it reveals a cute “pop-up” garden complete with pictures and story with a small herb or plant crop.
Another product form the company is Green Dish, what looks like a simple milk carton when lifted up reveals a small “garden” of cress. The packaging is very nicely designed and is a feature in itself, with soft pastel colors that can decorate tables or kitchen areas.
a very cute way of growing plants! makes me want to be a gardener
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Nine Inch Nails HBO show to be written by ‘Fight Club’ screenwriter
‘Year Zero’ one step closer to TV screens
The concept album turned HBO television show, Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails, has finally found a writer in the form of Fight Club screenwriter Jim Uhls. Uhls, who adapted the novel Fight Club, written by Chuck Palahniuk, will be the second collaborator from the 1999 cult film to work with NIN’s frontman Trent Reznor after the singer worked on the score for The Social Network by Fight Club director David Fincher.
The project, announced last year, has been stuck in development while a suitable writer was found.
The plot of Year Zero centres around a future dystopia where a Christian fundamentalist government rules the United States by force, licensing everything from births to marriages.
In the show, those that present any independent thought or dissent are “disappeared”.
Year Zero marks the first major move into dramatic fiction writing for Trent Reznor and his band.
He is currently re-teaming with David Fincher on the score for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Earlier this year Reznor won the Academy Award for Best Score for his work on the story of the founding ofFacebook, The Social Network.
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i’m kind of nervous and really excited about this. nervous because it might not be that good. excited because i love NIN. can’t wait. can’t wait
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spot on!
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