[2 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]
The Southernmost Plastic Chair Race Revisited

In March 2007 Christian opened that little competition with a photo he took in Ushauia, at 54°49′0″S. Henning and Daniel joined the race and pushed the record up (down?) to 77°40´S although the mono status of the chairs has been debated. A reader on Henning´s website now pointed out the image above from Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen – and claimed a new record at 71°57´S. Unrightfully since 71° isn´t really further south than 77° – but yet such a nice find.
The photo however has not been snapped …

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[30 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
From Oman

The first four images from Oman on ff, taken by Thomas Ch. Weber in Nizwa. Last one is a separate dining room for women in a local restaurant, ouch..

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[30 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Site Relaunch

It took a while but the result is worth it: Functionalfate.org got an all new design and site structure. We messed the categories up a bit and not all the old posts have been tagged yet, but basically this is it.

Kudos to René Fischer who installed the new site and helped me cleaning out/white-spacing the Arthemia WP-theme; Volker Herwig for linking me up with René in the first place, and René Eisfeld for additional graphics and critical reflections.

Image: A souvenir of the old site.

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[18 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Platoon goes Mono

No, not really. It´s just a flyer with a mono on it, that I wouldn´t post if not 1) I like Platoon a lot and follow them since their establishment; 2) I´ll be at the opening this Saturday in Berlin and 3) I like this particular project too, and may come up with a proposal until Saturday – w/ or w/o Monoblocs.

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[16 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Lake Titicaca Reed Monobloc

A monobloc plastic chair, folkloresquely all covered in totora reed, that is usually used for boats on Lake Titicaca.
Found on ermelina´s Picasa.

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[16 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Swings 3/3: NZ Swing of Death

After those bit bleak posts yesterday: Today´s fun day. The Queentstown Canyon Swing in NZ offers a mix of bungee jumping and savage swinging – 109 m high and a 60 m freefall Check their little vid of the “Chair Style” the guys offer and monkeyonagazebo´s flickr set, where I borrowed that edited image above.

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[15 Jun 2009 | Comments Off | ]
Evolution of an open manhole

Lucas has these images from Hungary or (more likely) Romania on his Picasa incl. a poignant story:
A time sequence of a manhole outside the apartment where I stayed. The first day, it had a tire. I looked inside, and it went about 15 feet down, with trash at the bottom. Good way for a 3 year old to end it all. The second day: a water bottle that had a twig stuck in it, but had fallen over. The third day: the best solution, a …