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  Wheeled Watercarrier/purifier from Dragons Den 3 years on

  In 2007 3 students proposed a water carrier that would purify water using mechanical energy from the process of wheeling it along. The reaction on Dragons Den was unprecedented and each of them offered to fund the project splitting it equally between the others. It looks like the implementation has been a great success, including designing the product to be locally manufactured and maintained. I’m sure not the most profitable strategy but certainly the one necessary for such a basic need.

  It’s great to watch the original pitch:

  

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  Is Cannes Lions the next SXSW

  The Cannes Lions festival was started in 1954, inspired by the international film festival. It was started in 1954 focusing on creativity in communications. In this video some heavy hitters in communications and media talk about lessons learned or what they call the Cannes Consensus and it is clear that digital and social are becoming an important part of that conversation. It’s refreshing to hear some new and thoughtful perspectives of the emergence of digital.

  via Adweek

  

  4 months on
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  Fear and Creativity

  BrainPickings is a recent fascination. Each article is a wonderful curation of ideas and different points of view. I just enjoyed the article they posted on Fear and Creativity.

  In it they quote Shaun McNiff’s Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go

  “The empty space is the great horror and stimulant of creation. But there is also something predictable in the way the fear and apathy encountered at the beginning are accountable for feelings of elation at the end. These intensities of the creative process can stimulate desires of consistency and control, but history affirms that few transformative experiences are generated by regularity.”

  One of the things that helps that conceptual empty space is finding new and creative things, which is becoming harder and harder to do.

  I loved finding this wonderful math and video savant Vihart. Here video on the math of sound is spectacular.
  

  as is her rif on Pi
  

  

  4 months on
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  The Cake is a Liar

  
  Tshirt woot’s “The Cake is a Liar”

  A couple of years ago I wrote about some t-shirts related to Valve’s amazing FPP (first person puzzle) game Portal and am now downloading the game for free on my mac. To celebrate this I thought I’d create another portal related post. I have not been able to play Portal 2 as i sold my xbox and have yet to replace it so I won’t be playing that for a while.

  

  I love this story about someone designing a custom portal level to propose to his fiance, very rad.

  Here’s the previos post Weighted Companion Cube t-shirts (BTW I still own the hoodie)

  
  

  

  

  4 months on
  Tcritic - The T-Shirt Blog Covering The Best in Nerd Fashion
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  It’s not often your called a pioneer

  Tcritic is a pioneering t-shirt blog which helped kickstart the popularity of these types of blogs. It’s appropriate then that this week Tcritic brings us a post about another pioneer. Alice Waters founded a restaurant called Chez Panisse over 40 years ago. The cool thing is that this restaurant was one of the first ones on the scene of the local food movement. Their focus is on sustainability and they’re releasing a line of t-shirts called the edible schoolyard project to bring attention to the cause.

  It helps me be less depressed at the state of the blog right now, I feel like the design and ads are really letting it down right now. Hoping to change that soon, and I’m aslo going to be adding a submission page to make it easier for designers to subit their own work, the email thing has never really worked well

  I’m playing with a new submission tool at the 100PostBlog which is an experiment in collaborative publishing. If you have discovered or created something please feel free to submit ideas.

  
  

  

  

  4 months on
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  Monsters of Grok

  A great new concept from Amorphia Apparel called Monsters Of Grok, a selection of great thinkers in the style of great rock bands, a must have for all geeks I particularly like the Tesla/Edison in the style of AC/DC, genius.

  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  4 months on
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  The Happiest Place In Middle Earth

  

  Love this T-Shirt from theYetee.com and if you want it for $11 you have 42 hours from now.

  
  

  

  

  5 months on
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  Limited Edition Chez Panisse T-Shirts supporting Edible Schoolyard

  Alice Waters founded a wonderful restaurant in Berkley CA called Chez Panisse 40+ years ago and was a pioneer in the slow and local food movement. To celebrate this anniversary they are launching a selection of limited edition t-shirts in collaboration with several writers and artists including David Byrne, Maira Kalman, Dave Eggers, and Sofia Coppola. Another cute innovation is the tags contain organic seeds and can be planted yourself A lovely idea.

  I really love the cause and the designs are great as well:

  

  

  

  

  Via TheFoodSection blog

  
  

  

  

  5 months on
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  Steam Wars from Lolmart

  

  Love this Steam Wars shirt from the people at Lolcats, finally they seem to be spreading their wings and producing designs that are not necessarily to do with LOLcats. This shirt is avalable for $15 for the next 3 days, which provides a little more notice that many of the 24 hour t-shirt deals from shirt.woot and the like.

  

  

  
  

  

  

  5 months on
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  Raise the Dead

   

  

  A cool combination of graphic tee shirt by LIFE IN YOU WAY between the sharp-eyes old man with the words taken from Matthew 10: 08

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, clease lepers, cast out demon

  Available on StoreEnvy for $15

  
  

  

  

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