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Posted March 9, 2009
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Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

From The Contemporist

November - The New Zealand Yellow Pages is conducting a marketing promotion to show that no matter what your project is, the Yellow Pages can help you complete it. To prove it, they’re building a restaurant 10 metres up a redwood tree, and the idea is to source all products and services through Yellow Pages listings.

As you can see the treehouse is now complete.  You can read the original post about the Treehouse - here.

The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects.

Photographs by Lucy Gauntlett.

Visit the Pacific Environments Architects website - here.

Visit the website for the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant - here.

                     
Click here to download:
Yellow_Treehouse_Restaurant_ta.zip (1048 KB)

Filed under  //   architecture   design   food  
Posted December 27, 2008
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Projected Menu by Christiaan Postma

This film was a projected menu behind a bar that creates a typography from food or drinks saying what they are and what their price is. The menu was part of the Design Bar at Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2006 created by Front Design.

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The original video is silent.  I added a clip of Core Hailer Pts. 1 & 2 by The Root Source (Freestyle Records)

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Filed under  //   design   food   jazz   music   typography  
Posted December 24, 2008
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Island of Flowers short film

From Mark Elrod's blog (http://www.markaelrod.net): The Island of Flowers (1989) is a short documentary film that I share with students at Honors Symposium. It is a provocative film that squeezes a lot into just 13 minutes. The film was written and directed by Brazilian filmmaker Jorge Furtado and has won numerous awards for short films. You can view a Portuguese language version here with English subtitles (you can skip the trailer). The version I use in class is in English and I think it works a little better than the Portuguese version. I recently finished writing a transcript for The Island of Flowers that you can read here. Sometimes the subtitles in the online version move too fast too keep up with the images. The film is basically about the lifecycle of a tomato that ends up a garbage dump on the Isle of Flowers, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Once there, the tomato becomes food for pigs while the people who live there are given the opportunity to use the garbage that has been rejected by the pig’s owners. I think The Island of Flowers is a film that raises more questions than answers, but it’s a pretty strong indictment against a system that places pigs at a higher priority of importance than human beings.

Filed under  //   economics   film   food   politics   video  
Posted April 6, 2007
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