Heatherwick on Sea

Had to be on the South coast a couple of weeks ago for a family thing. So we headed down early for a spot of breakfast at the East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton.


The Cafe is housed in a remarkable building created by Heatherwick Design Studio. As you can see it's an extraordinary steel structure hunkered down on the edge of the coastal path.


The front face is made up of large picture windows protected from the elements (and, I presume the local youth) by electric shutters - we arrived as they where opening so we got to see it reveal itself to us.


Only downside was that the interior seemes to struggle to match the excitment of the exterior.

Flattery, Coincidence or Plagiarism?

Selfridges


House of Labels

Are you looking at me?

Rabbit and Crayfish Stargazy pie at Scotts.

A great meal and a wonderful way to spend a rainy London afternoon.

Amos Blogs

The fine people at Amos - makers of wonderful figures and enchanting graphic novels have launched a blog.


As they are a considerable drain on my disposable income, a free and easy way to get a fix of all things James Jarvis seems worth shouting about.


Find it here

Turbo II Junkyard Boogaloo

I'm not sure, why, what or how.


But I do know that the Turbo II Junkyard Boogaloo rocks with greatness.


Full specs, how to and a video of the beast in action here.

Via the thouroughly enjoyable Kanardo

We Came, We Saw, We dug

Promise this won't turn into an alotment blog but thought I'd share progress. We've done a lot of digging, built a couple of raised beds, sowed our seeds and we are now the proud parents of some shoots...


if all goes well a crop of Radishes will be on our plates in three weeks.


This weekend we start construction on our Bean Support System. More pics here.

Sky Typing

Apologies if this has been all over the shop and I missed it, but I'm loving skytyping...


Essentially it's dotmatrix skywriting. Five planes fly in a straight line with computer controlled "smoke machines" attached to the back of them. Switching them on and off for differing lengths of time results in simple text.


Means they can produce 10 MILE long lines of type. More info here.

via Leftywill's del.ic.ious