Link (Thanks, Dundee!)
The bamboo jeep (or kawayan jeep, as we call it in our native language) then was born from this culture. The jeep was created by my father supposedly for personal use only - my parents using it when going to work and dropping us, their children, when going to school. But since my father was a government employee (from the Department of Agriculture) and he had the obligation also to feature the products of our province, he used the bamboo jeep (as substitute to carabaos perhaps hehe) in the exhibits to attract people. I don't know if you're fascinated with a bamboo jeep but a lot of people here are really fascinated with it.The jeep (again instead of carabaos) became the ride also of high officials of the country in parades when they visited my province. If I remember it right, our current president right now rode on it when she was still a senator.
Bamboo jeep
MySpace, Facebook mirror class divisions in US society
As with all danah's work, this is provocative, insightful stuff that exposes the deeper lessons lurking beneath the tens of millions of profile pages on social networking sites.
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.LinkMySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.
Kids create massive Lego map of US
As part of the World Children's Festival this week in Washington DC, LEGO set up a build area outside of the Smithosnian National Air and Space Museum for kids to create individual mosaics that will fill out a basketball court-sized map of the US. This snapshot (click for larger size) was taken last week at LEGO headquarters where master builders were assembling the outline of the map for sizing. The final map will contain 9500 base plates and more than a million bricks. Link to World Children's Festival, Link to press release
UPDATE: My friend Jennifer Colton, whose company handles PR for LEGO, just sent me this amazing photo of the finished map. (Click image to enlarge.) Jen says that LEGO will be giving "Creativity" grants to some of the kids who participated. Pressure Printing sale

Pressure Printing, creators of incredible fine art prints that are works-of-art in their own right, is having a summer sale! Through July 1, every one of their gorgeous limited-edition prints is 20% off. Pressure Printing's list of artists is just extraordinary, including the likes of Camille Rose Garcia, COOP, Jim Woodring, Tim Biskup, Attaboy, Mark Ryden, Glenn Barr, and many others. Seen here: at top, Tim Biskup's "Broken" and "Slayer" edition, $160 on sale; below, James Jean's "Taciturn," $400 on sale. Link
Steampunk jar of fireflies

Steampunk fireflies: a jar full of articulated mechanisms terminating in LEDs that flitter and flick when a small hand-crank is turned -- a huge brass knife-switch on the top of the jar switches them on. Hauntingly handsome. Link (Thanks, Jake!)
Update: Aaron sez, "the 'fireflies' aren't LEDs, they're 'small fluorescent BBs.' Ultraviolet LEDs fixed at the top of the jar illuminate them."


Tim Knowles put a digital camera inside a cardboard box and rigged it so that it would snap a photo every ten seconds through a small hole in the box. Then he sent the box through the mail. It recorded a total of 6994 images and he made a movie with them. It's really cool! 
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