Archive for May, 2010
The Grow Bra
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on May 21st, 2010
I know it might be early in the year to say this but Best bit of design for 2010…?
The Japanese really are the top of the game when it comes to inventing amazing new things and lingerie manufacturer Triumph have come up with a very weird but very practical (ok maybe not that practical) bra that you can grow rice in!
Rice is one of the biggest types of food in Japan and at the moment they are having a big farming boom and Triumph are using the bra as a gimmick to highlight the advantages of growing your own.
I don’t see why people should stop at rice though, lingerie has excellent uses if you think about them in this way. Who wouldn’t want to meet a girl who had some lovely fresh flowers growing on her chest? Or what about water bra’s that you could attach super soaker hoses too, so you have spare water tanks when having an epic water fight? Or even better filling the tanks up with lovely, lovely cider and having the best drinking utensil ever, although it might get a bit warm… Also you might have trouble trying to hide a big plant pot bra under all your nice dresses
Excuse me while I just go and find some ladies to model my new supersoaker/flower cider bra that I am going to invent.
Dublin Architecture – Guinness Museum
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on May 18th, 2010
If you are a fan of the black stuff known as Guinness then a trip to taste the real thing in Dublin is probably high on your ‘to do’ list. Rent some car hire to Dublin, get on one of them fancy big boats and enjoy a short hop across the water and suddenly you will be in the land of Guinness, leprechauns and erm green stuff?!
The Guinness museum is actually a work of art in itself with it being seven floors surrounding a glass atrium that is in the shape of a pint of Guinness. A tour of the ‘storehouse’, as it is known, will lead you from the bottom floor where you will be introduced to the brewery’s founder, Arthur Guinness and shown the beers 4 ingredients. Then as you go up you will see advertising throughout the company’s history until you get to a live installation of the brewing process.
After watching the brewing process you are at the top of the building in the ‘head’ of the pint, where they have the gravity bar and visitors can claim a free pint of the black stuff. Because the top of a pint is round it also means sitting in the bar you have 360 degree views of Dublin.
It really is an amazing building and definitely one that is worth investigating.
Tiny Temple Bedroom
Posted by Jeff Awesome in Interior Design on May 13th, 2010
This is an interesting way to modify and decorate a bedroom, religiously!
Hindu’s are currently marking the holy month of ‘Adhik Maas’ where a lot of people jump onto flights to Mumbai in a pilgrimage to the banks of the Ganges. For those who cannot afford the flights to India there is a closer option these days though with a lovely pilgrimage to the seaside town that is Clacton-on-Sea according to this BBC news report.
During the month long ‘Adhik Maas’ Hindu’s take a holy bath in the Ganges river every day but for a lot of British Hindu’s one bath in Clactons sea and then being blessed at the tiny bedroom temple is as close as they can get. The temple was set up in 1979 by a man called Dhirajlal Karia as they did not have anywhere to go nearby, they only had a little amount of space so they converted the tiny spare roam in their house to act as the holy temple.
They got the room officially named as a holy site by flying a priest out from India who carried out a 72 hour ceremony and since then over the last 30 years they reckon they have had between 60,000 and 65,000 visitors!
I have to say what they have done is amazing and to be able to give joy to that many people over the years must be brilliant.