Thursday, January 31, 2008

Koolhaas or Koolhaat?


Koolaas designed Seattle Public Library

The uber-trendy Koolhaas cap, inspired by architecture.
With Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid designing Louis Vuitton hand bags and a clothing line, I though I had just run across another Starchitect exercising thier intellectual property with a new medium. But better yet, instead I found a pure piece of influenced craft, juxtaposing, of all things architecture and knitting.





Meet the Koolhaas hat, insired by a knitter by Rem Koolhaas's new Seattle Public Library, this hat appeared in over 3000 images on Flickr when I was searching for a photo of Koolhaas's more significant structures. The architectural movement known as Morphogenisis, can mean abstract or geometric forms following the natural surface, letting nature, if you will, design the building. Who said, after all, that all buildings must have straight sides and a flat cieling? Think of how mother nature designs structure, cells in plants, repeating webbing. And now, her most perfect creation? The Homo sapien cap. The phenomenon of pure phenomenon.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Butch Beef and Baking Barbie


If Barbie Baked

My daily grind suddenly seems normal. As a Creative Director for Hasbro, my world has always been divided by gender. Boys toys and Girls toys. Face it...we always knew that boys like to get dirty (Tonka) and girls like pink (My Little Pony).

I guess the rest of the world is begining to celebrate our gender differences. Look at what's at the super market right now.



At christmas I bought pink Breast Cancer Aware everything in my support for the cause......but now my whole cupboard is pink.

Pink Mayo
Pink Cereal
PInk Tomato soup
PInk Karo syrup
Pink Baking Soda.

My kitchen looks more like Barbies Dream House than the typical bachelors pad.


G.I. Joe Stew.....where is my safety orange can opener?

But thankfully, Dinty Moore has come to the rescue.
Beef Stew in a Chamo package has arrived, as well as Spam. ( ham in a can). Thanks to a limited time promotion, our friends at Hormel feel confident enough to come out of their marketing closet with thier surprisingly beautiful partnetship with Realtree® chamo brand pattern, (dead leaves in a photo-realistic fabric pattern normally seen on hunter's fleece at a Super Wal-Mart). Woo hoo! Whos da man now?


Spam for the Man...what the.....