machine minder

31st October 2007 8:10PM posted by ade

Had a meeting with russell and henry and nick today about making the postcard machine.

We are going to ask the good folk at Hewlett Packard and Apple for a bit of help.

And we've got a bit of fiddling to do to get it working. The downy bits nearly there, ...

may I recommend...

31st October 2007 10:59AM posted by Pete

... a splendiferous Welsh folk artist who goes by the
stage name of The Gentle Good. His real name is
Gareth Bonello and he is really handy with a guitar.

I saw him play in Cardiff the other night and I was
humming 'Waiting For Jane' all the way home.

He sang ...

happy carriage get's rejected

29th October 2007 1:19PM posted by ade

Remember I wrote to the London Underground and asked for the yellow happy carriages?

They responded. Yeah!

The don't like the idea. Boo. Have a read of Ben's response. I don't think that they entertain fun what so ever!

27 October 2007

Dear Mr Gunn

Thank you for your feedback ...

this weekend would you...

26th October 2007 6:59PM posted by ade

have a look at my blog titled "a very exciting thing we need your help on"

it's dropping down the list and it is about a very exciting thing we need your help on.

what we need you to do is;

1. read the blog
2. click the links ...

you know those plastic toys...

26th October 2007 6:14PM posted by ade

you know all those plastic toys that you don't want, never wanted.

all the ones with a leg missing, or the motor broke, or the switch jammed and it won't turn off, or it eats through £40 worth of batteries in a morning or a battery leaked and it stopped, or it never did ...

todays roll call at HQ

26th October 2007 10:35AM posted by ade

David holiday
Clare holiday
Mike in
Andrew out the office
Kim in
Harri in
Mel in
Lisa holiday
Terri in
Pete in
Alison on a course
Aron holiday
Ade in
Paul in
Hayley ill
Emma in
Mike in
Claire on ...

air freighted organics

26th October 2007 10:17AM posted by Pete

Yesterday The Soil Association announced changes to it's standards to ensure
that organic goods are only air freighted into the UK if it delivers genuine benefits
for farmers in developing countries.

Now any goods flown in that don't meet these standards may be classified 'non-organic'.

This is a big step forward in the ...

Design Festival

25th October 2007 3:28PM posted by alison

Popped up north for a few days to visit a Design Festival (www.design-event.co.uk)
The journey seemed like it took me forever but it has been worth every second.

The festival has loads of different exhibitions dotted around Newcastle and a few in Sunderland.
There is a lot of focus on sustainable & eco-design which ...

a very exciting thing we need your help on

25th October 2007 2:30PM posted by ade

we have been working with RussellDavies, (foreground looking like a sunbather)Matt Jones (white shirt podering) and Henry Holland (in a rucksac on russells back) on a secret project making a mad machine for the carnaby street shop.

we plan to have a printer that has ...

the shop just got a little greener

25th October 2007 12:28PM posted by ade

when we did the shop project we tried hard to be as low impact as possible.

the shop came fitted with lots of halogen and sodium lights which give a good amount of light. the sodium bulbs are some of the most efficient but the halogens could be better. But rather than take them ...

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