Friday, July 31, 2009


wow tandem bike with Brompton?

Sunday, July 26, 2009


City of Melbourne sign. I like the design on right. Some newness to it.

'zikmu' speakers by philippe starck. Might be nice design but usually his quality does not transcended all the way to tight production unit thus cheap.

Saturday, July 25, 2009


love this shelf design.

from web:The designer Olivia Bradateanu took design of shelving to new levels with this new design called “Shelf in the Wind”

Friday, July 24, 2009


Tron Lightcycle bike. Much slicker and how the designer implemented hub-less front handle is really nice.


Amazing footage of Marcus Gronholm's Ford Fiesta at Pikes Peak.
Complete with BOV noise and sublime pedal action.


Wow, crazy stunt. I guess if he weld two skate to each other it won't qualified as skate? Hairy....

Dirk auer recently established a new world record when he raced down a 860-meter wood roller coaster at the trips drill theme park, stuttgart in under a minute. he achieved an average speed of 90 kilometers per hour on his custom-built skates.

The 36-year-old german darevdevil admitted he'd placed his life at risk by performing the stunt 'this was a very dangerous stunt because there were so many factors to consider - if the skates were to catch a stray nail then I could have fallen and I would almost certainly have died.'

Thursday, July 23, 2009


Noa building in Roppongi. Used to be furniture store but I am not sure what it is now. and also there are police guarding Russian embassy or something there.

SF garden nursery


Beautiful gardening store in SF. mainly farn, cactus and palms but they are all arranged rusty but nicely. The veggie wall was my favorite.

Flora Grubb Gardens
www.floragrubb.com

1634 Jerrold Ave
San Francisco, CA 94124-2135
(415) 648-2670

Limn furniture store in SF. I always enjoy visiting here and seeing the new furniture. clerks are all nice too. Bulthaup kitchen showroom on the top is superb as well.

290 Townsend St
San Francisco, CA 94107-1719
(415) 908-0180

Had Lobster Bisque soup, flat pasta, seafood stew, salmon risotto. All of them were OK but not fishy enough for us. $100 for three with pitcher of white wine.

Catch seafood restaurant
www.catchsf.com

2362 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94114-1521
(415) 431-5000

Wednesday, July 22, 2009


i luv the look of this porsche.

Monday, July 20, 2009


told this is pic of Porsche 65 911 engine rebuild. Beautiful job. I wish I can do it.

Designed by architect Ulisses Morato ( Brazil’s Morato Arquitetura ) , he gets it too.

Mission Bicyccle Company in SF architected by grayscaled design. Those guys just get it. http://www.missionbicycle.com/
766 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 683-6166

Sunday, July 19, 2009


Fixie bike heaven in London somewhere. Could someone tell me the location please?


Cirque Magnifique, fun acrobatic show. Love it. We all should go with family. Detail are:

Showtimes: Monday-Thursday, noon and 3 p.m.; Sunday noon and 6 p.m. through Aug. 20

Where: Santa Cruz Boardwalk on sand

Cost: Free

What to expect: Juggling, bicycle stunts, martial arts display, hula hoop tricks and more

Information: boardwalk.com

mid 60's Porsche factory. This was how 911 and 912 were made. Nice.


Heard it was good so went there and friend ordered magarita and some corn rucolla pizza. It was nice thin but somehow not chewy and tomato base was not flavorful.

Pizza Antica
334 Santana Row Ste 1065
San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 557-8373
pizzaantica.com

Saturday, July 18, 2009


I just luv this architecture shot. This represent hay day of living in the CA, USA. House I dig.

we went there again since we had a guest. Ordered Dry T-bone was it was good but just too much portion. everyone else is ordering some'n small. may be we can remember to do so next time. $300 for 3.

Alexander's Steakhouse
10330 N Wolfe Rd
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 446-2222

Wednesday, July 15, 2009


1970 Lamborghini Espada. I liked this one too. Lamp detail is just sublime.

i like this Brompton bike without dirt cover.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009


some bad ass fun-ness to this Porsche. Dig.

Sunday, July 12, 2009


Bendable Furniture design concept. Nice one. Gave me some hope.

cute design detail car

Saturday, July 11, 2009


Check this color out and detail.. A bit old but new. Love it.

good ol days. Cars like this hooked me into doing drawing more and more of cars. Super cool.

The Element - Sir Ken Robinson's new book on Finding your Passion. I read after seeing RISD graduation speech by him and Maeda praise him highly but book was basically what he said at speech. Good stuff but no need to read in book.

Friday, July 10, 2009


this one is cool too.

wow nice looking at nite

Thursday, July 09, 2009


Porsche Abarth Carrera. Cool and cute looking car.

Usually I am not too keen on beach cruiser but this one is exception.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009


Porsche Panamera Car Key design. Cool they did it like this but I think it is a too much mimicking the shape of the car.

Boy, why didn't I think of this design!

Bertone like this kind of angular form and I am sucker for it. But somehow this design has bad detail overall. Angular theme just does not come together in angle views...

New Porsche 4 door rear wing expansion. Cool engineering.

Marc Newson designed Ajinomoto. Cool. I got to get one.

Monday, July 06, 2009


I have seen this dude may be 8 years ago or so at Milano Salone but now coming back? it just has a cool detail corner design in plywood.

From web site promoting it:
Designer Ubald Klug's deceptively simple-looking Shell cupboard has a beautiful, materials-capabilities-pushing detail: A series of thin grooves cut into the plywood enables the wood to turn a 90-degree corner.

Saturday, July 04, 2009


another beautiful small wheel bike.

Army folding mountain bike. i bet it cost $40k each and they just dump after small practice mission. wasteful.


cool nike ad a bit like yamakashi. Yamakashi started all this crazy city movement at least for me and 007 and many other followed but I could be totally wrong. Jump!

Thursday, July 02, 2009


Mominoki House
3405-9144
Jingumae 2-chome / Japanese/health food
Jingumae 2-18-5, YOU Bldg. 1F. Open 11am to 10:30pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/mominoki_house/

i want to go there and eat Assorted Selection of seasonal veggies and drink Coarse Green and Sannen Bancha tea.

May be Sapper's folding bike got me going but I love this kind of small wheel bike. Muji has one too. Ultimate one is Alex Moulton. I still do not see how the small tire one can have world record in term of speed but Alex did with his one time or so I remember.

Some architecture firm designed and foresee 2030 city plan. I love people see so much in the future like this. I just hope it does not get like Blade Runner dark.
Vision 2030 by MVRDV

Wednesday, July 01, 2009


wow, I thought I was dangerously creative when carried B&B sofa on top of my station wagon, this guys goes a few notch deeper.

here you go hon, now you can wash your hand with hot water if you like.