The Witching Hour
by e. sarobhasa

Waiting for the stars to begin dying in the skies
and wondering if Venus will appear again
as her dual role of morn’ star and evening
twinkle, while nightly inhabitants go about their business
among overgrown lawns and curly ferns, avoiding
those metallic garbage cans shining like ominous
deus ex machina and filled with splendors. There should
be more to this witching hour at 3am, a clock striking
a perfect 90 degrees. Only sleepy-eyed students
and graveyard shifts beat rhythm, while across the
city little children cry in frustration to the problems
of a blue and green orb. I remember endless
conversations passed from phone receivers to
tiny message windows about self doubt and epiphanies,
wandering topics fro and to with an endless curiosity,
questions of news, long ago.

Wax Tailor feat. Charlie Winston ” I Own You” from SoLab on Vimeo.

photography by sakura love

Under a hard Season, fired up by the Sun
Languishes man, languishes the flock and burns the pine
We hear the cuckoo’s voice; then sweet songs of the turtledove and finch are heard.
Soft breezes stir the air… but threatening north wind sweeps them suddenly aside.
The shepherd trembles, fearing violent storms and his fate.
The fear of lightning and fierce thunder
Robs his tired limbs of rest
As gnats and flies buzz furiously around.
Alas, his fears were justified
The Heavens thunders and roar and majestically
Cuts the head off the wheat and damages the grain.
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – Summer

photography by Lee Wei-I

There are three kinds of things people hide from others:

1. Things they sincerely don’t want anyone to touch on
2. Things they want to tell people, but have to stay quiet about
3. And things they’re hoping someone will ask them about

kitchen area at workingformat

Consuming yogurt without spoons is a daunting task. However, we were on campus and one of our study mates was a grad student so the food was, technically free, and there was a foodcourt nearby for utensils. Yet instead of exerting ourselves from the studyspace, we brainstormed different methods of consumption.

If we didn’t have spoons to scoop the yogurt, what other accessible utensil could we use to eat? After tossing a few ideas back and forth, I suddenly realized we could use plastic drinking straws to drink the thick liquid, or chop half of the end to create a makeshift straw similar to a slurpee elongated spoon!

According to Boris at the Next Web, attempts to explain this thought-action process within the framed context of entrepreneurs, which I believe could easily be used from a designer’s perspective.

There are several ways that [designers] find great ideas. They might see something that amuses them, or they see a combination of technologies or services that could be combined into something new. [Designers] notices friction in a process, annoyances in a product or becomes irritated with a process and decides to do something about it.

One big source of inspiration however is the thing that [frustrates] defines… the difference between ‘normal’ people and [designers] is that generally, the former tend to try to avoid situations where that kind of friction can surface.

According to Gestalten, “manifesting creative visions into material objects and spaces is one of the most prominent developments in contemporary design today. Tangible documents how designers are using the stylistic means of graphic design to implement their ideas spatially to create three-dimensional designs, objects and orchestrated spaces.

The examples in this book show the unprecedented use of materials and innovative ideas – graphics morph into spatial sculptures, the intangible is made visual through handmade craftsmanship, physical experiences, visual environments and staged spatial installations such as art installations, interiors and architecture as well as urban interventions. ”

Quite a few months ago, I recently purchased a second generation ipod touch from a twitter friend that was relatively unused (except for usage as a music player and miscellaneous apps) and was very very grateful for the portability of the google maps and wifi while travelling out of the country in April.

Since then, a large number of people have inquired about my choices in apps to download for their second or third generation ipod touch, relating to design or fashion, productivity and life choices, and also including various games.

If you click the thumbnail it will redirect you to a much, much larger version of the collection (150 in total).

Gotta catch ‘em all! :p