Golden Ratio Scissors
These are beautiful :) Not sure how practical mind – they’d keep getting tangled up in your fingers… but still… form over function etc. All based on the golden mean… The designer’s site has more details of the design-process etc. Beautifully photographed as well: Which is (I suppose) what comes of having classically trained designers on your staff. I’ve been trying to take my own photographs for years – there’s more to it than meets the eye. Anyway – amazing scissors. I should probably try to buy some – to add to my shiny-thing jackdaw-geek collection of things related to the golden mean.
Case Upgrades
So I was down the wood-shop the yesterday, and the wood-shop guy said “I thought we’d seen the last of this, but they’re now pulling old logs out of the bush helicopters”. Rimu. They’ve stopped making it – which is to say, New Zealand only allows sustainably logged timber – which means “plant one; fell one”. And Rimu isn’t exactly a cash-crop (unlike fast-growers like pine), so the price is going to about $300 a sheet. Rimu laminate was what I was making the boxes out of. And business is good – business is so good in fact, that I’m finding myself spending all day, every day doing NOTHING except sand-papering wooden boxes. It’s incredibly time-consuming, and it’s driving me insane, so I’ve figured that: a) I need a new case design and b) I kindof needed it anyway, because my packaging is a bit transitional at the mo and…
Fantastic Space Rock Instrument
Which has nothing to do with the Golden Ratio (I suspect), although the two resonators look as though they could be close. Sounds amazing though – like Led Zepplin crossed with one of those pan-flute bands, and dialled forward a couple of centuries. Sounds like it’s got all sorts of digital effects on it. (but apparently hasn’t – all acoustic) (via) Double Bonus points for looking like it’s located inside a wooden UFO Triple Bonus points for being Turkish – at least partly because the Zildjian cymbal company was created by a Turkish Alchemist about 400 years ago. That is so cool I can hardly stand it. So there you go – a conglomeration of things I’m really into :) … Closer to here… I’m still waiting for a laser-tube to turn up. My entire business has been tipped on its side for the last month or so because a…
Protractors
Have started making protractors. Specifically for use by cosmetic surgeons, but they could be used for lots of different angle-measuring purposes. They can measure internal and external angles (acute and obtuse)… which is useful for measuring the angle between nose and face for example. I haven’t seen designs quite like this before – protractors are usually used for measuring things on paper, rather than in the real world – so most of them tend to be flat, eg: or But none of those are particularly good for measuring faces or small obtuse angles. So… can do those now. I think the “official” ones will be the top ones with the circular measuring-bit. If anyone’s interested, get in touch – I’ll probably put them up on the new website… when I get around to finishing the new website, about 500 years from now.
Helicones
Amazing swivelly sculpture thing, made by John Edmark. Spin it one way and it makes a nice neat shell/leaf-like shape, spin it the other and it falls into the Fibonnaci configuration that plants use to maximise sunlight hitting their leaves. He also does lots of other Fibonnaci-based sculptures: He has quite a lot of other inventions – some of which are of tangential practicality… There are quite a lot more amazing kinetic sculptures on his site. Brilliant.