Caner Dreams

This is a 5.5 foot sphere comprised of screens and cameras. The screens display what the camera on the opposite side sees, in theory creating an invisible ball. Whatever, this things is fucking cool looking.

// posted by baltimoron @ 3:56 PM 0 comments

Fortunately, I'm too old and I don't live in Southern California. Otherwise I would totally be shaving vigorously and wearing ovesized baseball caps to try to make this casting call.

// posted by baltimoron @ 3:10 PM 0 comments

When you're crazy rich you don't care that much.

// posted by baltimoron @ 1:45 PM 0 comments

Nice street art from cayetano. I'm pissed because all of the areas that he's put them up look like any chicago street. I would love to see them in person. I guess that's why the internet gods created email.

// posted by baltimoron @ 9:23 AM 0 comments

V2 Flat is a prefab housing system, that kicks all kinds of ass. There several different configurations the main living config consists of a 450 sq. ft livinig area that comes furnished! And we're not talking some weak crap either, think Eames and Noguchi furnishings. With a price of $125K not entirely insanely expensive either.

// posted by baltimoron @ 11:48 PM 0 comments

"I wish people could see the good in Cabrini. People always think it's all bad."

Those words came from LeAnna, an eighth grade student at Schiller Elementary in Cabrini Green. She was participating in the 2005 summer program called SSLID. Her words began The Neighborhood Project.


The Neighborhood Project is a photograph exhibit with written reflections. The goal is to preserve and present the "good" in the community. The Neighborhood Project is for the Cabrini youth, the Cabrini families and the many others who have not known the positive community that exists in the notorious Cabrini Green housing project of Chicago.



images and text from The Neighborhood Project

// posted by baltimoron @ 11:29 PM 0 comments

Some people will do anything on a dare. Some are tastier than others.

// posted by baltimoron @ 11:22 PM 0 comments

Just in case you can't be bothered with going to prison to be executed.

// posted by baltimoron @ 11:18 PM 0 comments

SAUMA [Design as Cultural Interface] has an exhibition in New York starting June 20th. It is showcasing innovative contemporary design from Finland. But I digress , not too long ago on the right side of the tracks in NoFu™, a library closed down and the property went up for sale. Wellwishers of Canerdreams and myself had fantasies of turnign it into a urban spa. For me it would not be so much facials and pedicures as hot tubs and saunas, a point for relaxationa dn rejuvination. However, we are people we big ideas and small wallets so our dream has faded to the side but this brings it all back. Pentagon[of course it's Pentagon] has redesigned the traditional Finnish sauna and given it a urban twist. You know perfect for an urban spa. grrrrr.

// posted by baltimoron @ 11:32 AM 0 comments

Over at Swapatorium there is a mystery. On of their posters Nick, found a lot of slides from about to 1959 to 1967 all headshots of girls. This wouldn't be so weird if that was the whoile thing. The thing is most of the girls have initials written on their foreheads! Nobody seems to have areason for this the prevailing thought in the comments is plastic surgeon [specifically nose jobs], but that doesn't wash with me. Whatever it is , it's kind of creepy. When you're done getting freaked out check Nick's Square America great vintage snapshots from the first 75 years of the 20th century.

// posted by baltimoron @ 10:55 AM 0 comments

Improv Everywhere is a group that likes to have some fun in unexpected places. Their last mission involved get as many people as they could to dress up in the similar uniform as Best Buy employees and stroll around the store and be helpful to anybody that asked. AS usual the lower employees enjoyed the prank and even interacted with some of the 'agents' while security freaked out and management accused those documenting it of attacking their 'civil liberties'. Yeah that's why Best Buy doesn't allow you to film in their stores, it's protecting their employees 'civil liberties'.

// posted by baltimoron @ 9:45 AM 0 comments

So Judge Gregory Presnell got a little sick and tired of the two attorneys acting like kids on each and every descision that had to be made concerning their case that he brought a little schoolyard justice into the mix. On June 30 the two lawyers will have to play RPS [rock paper scissors] to win the right to pick the location of the deposition in their case.
Fortunately, for them he didn't ask them to play RPS-25. Which has 25 objects and 300 outcomes!

// posted by baltimoron @ 9:25 AM 0 comments