Simian Design

These are my delicious links for December 2nd:

• Decandence, Sleaze and Excess; all in one shoe. – the Jeffery-West shoe collection—the work of childhood friends Mark Jeffery and Guy West—fall somewhere between a swanky gentlemen's club and Sweeney Todd's closet. Blood-red leather linings and handmade soles, inscribed with "Decadence, Sleaze and Excess,“ ooze with the kind of luxe horror that arguably only Brits can successfully pull off.
• The Unearthly Beauty of Antelope Canyon – The Navajo call it ‘the place where water runs through rocks’ and that is literally true. One of the most unearthly places on the planet, take a look at the astounding Antelope Canyon.
  The peculiar formation of a slot canyon can make for an eerie experience and certainly the Antelope Canyon, on the lands of the LeChee people of the Navajo Nation is one of the stranger places you might choose to visit if your budget doesn’t quite run to a space shuttle. The shuttle, though, never lands on alien planets – you can get the experience for very little here on the third rock from the sun. And it is the sun that makes this canyon extra special.
• Sietch Nevada – I like this. MATSYS took the idea of a Sietch from Dune, and created this project, Sietch Nevada, that projects waterbanking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure in the American Southwest. Sietch Nevada is an urban prototype that makes the storage, use, and collection of water essential to the form and performance of urban life. Inverting the stereotypical Southwest urban patterns of dispersed programs open to the sky, the Sietch is a dense, underground community.
• Spiral Staircases are cool. – I love spiral staircases. They easily are the focal point of a room, presenting graceful lines to the inside of a house. And they make a room feel ultra-important. Here are a collection of famous and fantastic staircases.

These are my delicious links for September 16th:

• Backpacker Classics – I am not sure which books backpackers carry with them these days so this list may be a little out of date. The concept of backpacker books goes back to the days of the hippy trail when travellers would carry such classics as the I Ching, the Tibetan Book of the Dead or anything by Herman Hesse. A backpacker classic should have an element of profundity, preferably mystical -if not it should have cult status or be a statement about who you really are. There is an element of self discovery in setting off – the path to enlightenment, the journey inwards…A backpacker book is not a 'beach read'–the book must be worth the weight and space it takes up and should be reverentially handed on to other travellers or left in a hotel or bus station for another seeker to chance upon.
• Sports Design Blog: Old School Design: The NFL Helmet Hat – In the early 1980's there was a really great licensed product known at the Helmet Hat. The Helmet Hat was one of the most unique and innovative ideas in a time when sports licensed products were still growing as a retail force. The Helmet Hat featured the graphics of your favorite NFL team all over the top of the hat, just like the would look on the team's helmet.

  I want a bunch of these.

These are my delicious links for August 18th:

• MSR Flex 4 System Cookset – This nesting set includes a 3.2-liter nonstick DuraLite DX pot, a 5.3-liter hard-anodized pot, 2 strainer lids, 4 polypropylene DeepDish plates, 4 insulated mugs and a pot handle, all of which packs down to an easily luggable 9.2 x 5.8 inches

These are my delicious links for June 30th:

• Get the Hint Stickies – Fantastic sticky notes. Helpful packs of themed adhesive notes, with 5 different pads in each pack.

These are my delicious links for May 28th:

• The Pop's 'Stache Drink Identifier. – This is the Greatest Thing Ever. EVER. What is cooler than a mustache? Nothing is, that's what.

These are my delicious links for May 18th through May 20th:

• James T. Kirk Captain's Chair – This full-scale replica of Kirk's captain's chair from the original Star Trek TV series is constructed from the original design conceived by Matt Jefferies, and is limited to only 1,701 units. Features include a wood and steel platform, leather seat and back with oak arm rests, 360-degree swivel action, and various toggle switches, knobs, and buttons from the series, some of which play classic Trek dialogue or sound effects through the seat's built-in speaker.
• The Macho Man drugged to the eyeballs. – I used to think Crispin Glovers interview on Letterman was about the most fucked up I've seen someone give an interview.

  The Macho Man blows him away. NO MORE QUESTIONS!

• Solar Transit – WOW. Atlantis captured in solar transit with a solar-filtered Takahashi 5" refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mk. II.
• Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas – Great time-lapse video showing the stars and the Milky Way rotate and move overhead. I wish that you could see the stars like this where I'm at without driving way out into the sticks.

These are my delicious links for April 27th:

• A crossbow to end all crossbows. – You want a crossbow that you can mount a grenade launcher too? One that will scare the person you aim it at so badly they'll pee themselves then die of fright? Want to pretend you're Snake-Eyes? (Because this is TOTALLY the crossbow he'd use. ) This is the one for you.
• First Deep Blue, now Watson. – I, for one, welcome our A.I. Overlords.
• ExpanDrive: Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac – Mount your drives like a USB drive. Going to have to check it out.
• A total bad-ass Epitah. – I wish my Epitah could be one tenth as cool as Robert Allisons.
• Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from a Wookiee – Over the weekend Iranian snipers marched in the annual Army Day parade in Tehran in full camouflage, looking less like crack combatants and more like Wookiee extras from a forgotten Star Wars spin-off.
• Magnets are cool. – What happens when you drop a magnet super-slowly through a copper tube? Cool shit happens is what.

These are my delicious links for April 24th:

• Turn your fridge into Pixel-Art for your kids to demolish. – Peter Locke has a pretty wonderful and reasonably affordable idea to turn your boring old refrigerator into a gorgeous piece of art. He's created a set of 1296 colored magnets called Motifo that act like giant, colored pixels you can arrange and rearrange to create giant, vibrant mosaic imagery on your fridge door (or side, or top, or wherever else you can stick magnets to for that matter).

These are my delicious links for April 8th:

• David Goode Sculptures – If I had an English Garden, or a pond, or any other place where sculpture would work, I would have me a couple of these. Just brilliant sculptures.

These are my delicious links for April 2nd:

• Mario + Star Wars – These are brilliant. I'd totally buy one for myself if it weren't $1,400. So I'm going to need someone to buy it for me, ok?
• Food Face Dinner Plates – Neatorama – These look like the most fun you can while eating your meal. I want some now.