Sticky Bee

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Tuesday

Light feeling on Tuesday.

Alexander Calder, Nineteen White Discs, 1961. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, gift of Ruth Horwich. © 2010 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Alexander Calder, Black: 17 Dots, 1959.The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan. © 2010 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection]

4min selection of a larger work by Ralph Steiner. It is beautiful illustration of basic mechanical principles from 1930's.

Favorite movements: @ 1:16 - counter mechanism @ 2:55 - normal gears, but cut to engage on diagonals @ 3:37 - SQUARE GEARS! @ 3:41 - variable speed transfer @ 3:46 - rotary to linear action with a 4 tooth cog

Monday, August 12, 2013

Monday

alien cat peekaboo via pinterest

Friday, August 9, 2013

Knit chairs and stools

I'm loving these knit chairs and stools by London based textile designer Claire Anne O'Brien. I particularly like that yellow chair in the back.

There's more on her site claireanneobrien

Friday!

not feeling very good when you have to work over the weekend.

grumpy alpaca via kwejk

La Estampa Patterns

La Estampa, Brazilian company, creates such vibrant and inspiring patterns for fabrics and prints.

more here laaestampa

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The House From "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"

Remember that house with the classic Ferrari from "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"? The house is now on sale. I'm glad I get to see the rest of the it. It designed by A. James Speyer protege of Mies Van der Rohe & David Haid. It feels like it been frozen in time.

Many potential buyers were asking if the home came with the classic Ferrari and the answer is: for a price of $2.3 million!

via elitedaily

Monday, August 5, 2013

Franz Ferdinand - Right Action

Fun retro graphics

Friday, August 2, 2013

Friday!

inspiration word of the day listen to your gut

via afablife

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Bedtime

mid century modern bedroom bold painting. over scaled brush strokes

photo via latimes

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Renovation week 25 | Siding patchworks

This week we spare some moments to do some recycle. We have saved our redwood sidings in the begining procress while we were tearing down the back of our house. Now it's time to put that to use.

Here are some of the redwood sidings we have saved earlier.

Since we moved some windows around in the old part of the house, it's important to re use the old sidings to patch this area so it's exact the same size and texture.

We added a door to the back of our kitchen. It used to be a row of windows. Now the windows are replaced with one single window and a door.

An area where the old sidings and the new meet. They did pretty good job blending those in. Luckily we were able to find sidings that are close to the original. We try to follow the same lines of the existing sidings as close as possible. But it's still quite a challenge since the new sidings are a little smaller, because there's no thick paint on it.