Scott Rench’s work consists of computer generated images that are printed with a ceramic glaze onto a large canvas of clay. The new image is output onto transparent film that acts as a stencil for transferring the image to a silk-screen. Glaze is then used (instead of ink) to print the image on to a slab of clay. Once completely dry the slabs are fired.
Wow. I love it. It looks really fascinating, and the mix of clay and computer graphics is rather odd.

Amazing. Now there’s an art I’d love to learn!

+Yosoh
+Mocoloco

When I was having a squabble with a friend about the pros and cons of globalization, he asked me how I would feel if any of my much loved little Amman-y cafés went out of business due to the lure of the newly-opened, international Starbucks.

*Drumroll*

Although I do love their coffee, sheesh, I’d die if I had to go to the much overcrowded and impersonal Starbucks every time I felt like having coffee(which is often, mind you). After all, the beauty of Amman lies in the dormancy, the inimitability, and in Nescafé. It lies in the countless hours parked outside Cups & Kgs, numerous 30 uroosh spent on Nescafé machines, and many an espressos drank in Lavazza.

Lavazza(or Salam Kanaan’s Gallery Duinde)- a lovely little art-gallery-turned-café, tucked away safely in Jabal Amman so no one has ever heard of it(thus its always empty and perfect for talking). I had to share these pictures:

Lovely, right? It’s cosy, artsy, with mismatched couches and cheap coffee. They also usually put very weird music that you can’t help but get bouncy to…

So today was the fifth prime(I think) of LBC’s Star Academy 2. I didn’t really get to watch all of it, but I was home in time to watch the results of this weeks nominations. The nominees this week were Katia Haraka from Lebanon, Eman Mezher from Lebanon, and Salma Ghazali from Algeria.
Thankfully, Salma Ghazali was the one the audience “saved” (with a whopping 70-something percent of the votes). I think Salma is by far the girl with the cutest personality in this years season. Yeah, sure, her voice isn’t the best, but at least she’s natural, sweet, and has short hair.
Go Salma.

Inspired by Subzero Blue:

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a “Nai“, a Middle-Eastern flute(listen to samples of nai here).
If I were a song, I’d be Pink Floyd’s “Time”.
If I were a word, I’d be “jeans”.
If I were a color, I’d be red.
If I were a home, I’d be a Manhattan, glass-walled, above the clouds apartment.
If I were a place, I’d be a little cafe in Jabal Amman called Lavazza.
If I were a car, I’d be a practical sedan.
If I were an animal, I’d be a vampire.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a green apple .

This is artist David Choe’s workspace. The Wooster Collective has a bunch of pictures of Choe’s workspace, along with several other artists studios like MCA, Justin Kee’s and Kid Acne.
It’s really cool to see the space that artists create their work in. Stuff that get the creative juices flowing. From messy to clean, we as artists and designers have one thing in common–we love to spread out all over the place.

+Cool Hunting

So now, I have an official excuse for being a slob.

Stack is a table made of sticks and glass, designed by Thomas Malmberg. What looks like wooden sticks is actually copper-plated steel supporting Stack’s glass tabletop.