Archive for the 'cultural tools' Category

murex

March 1st, 2010

the legendary pilot murex. via h3

theme park maps

November 10th, 2009

from themeparkbrochures.net via @coryholms

jointmaker pro saw

October 22nd, 2009

i don’t work with wood much but that doesn’t stop me from being totally fascinated by this zero emission, super accurate, saw.

mason jar gumball machine

August 12th, 2009

made in grade school by money mark, seen at the igloo anniversary party.

bike flask

July 20th, 2009

via hollister hovey

the ecology center (views pt i)

July 2nd, 2009

things are shaping up at the ecology center. cheri and i are helping build out the interior/exhibition space. terrariums by vicki, table by elliott.

the opinel

May 18th, 2009

a household standard in france, the opinel knife, is a simple, inexpensive wooden handled pocket-knife, manufactured since the 1890s in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the Savoie region of France. it was invented by joseph opinel in about 1895 and the company is still run by the opinel family. . by the start of ww [...]

the tiffin

April 21st, 2009

tiffin’s containing the home-packed lunches of almost 200′000 indian workers are transported daily from home to office by dabbawala’s with only one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. i picked mine up at an indian supermarket for $12 (you can find them online here), and since i work from home (and there isn’t a dabbawala for [...]