Sort of similar, no?Papyrus Watch.
America's 7 worst fonts.
Also check out IKEA hackers. They encourage people to buy IKEA flat pack DIY stuff and make new things out of it.
And check out The Yes Men, they go around accepting responsibility and blame for the faults of US companies and politicians. Some great videos of them standing in for news interviews and things. Linked in from that is the Acceptable Risk Calculator, a tongue in cheek program that calculates the risks of a business in memory of the DOW chemical spill which resulted in 20000 deaths a back last century. (DOW still refuse to accept responsibility for the disaster, but The Yes Men decided to take it for them.)
And lastly two websites I've discovered recently; Half Bakery which is basically a website full of crazy ideas (you know me) and Guerilla Innovation, which is again crazy ideas that people have actually put into practice, a lot of culture-jamming stuff there too. They're bothlinked on the old 'interests' side-bar.
And to accompany that list of odd titles down below here I've got some of those pictures of writers rooms they do on the Guardian website.
J G Ballard:
David Lodge:
Martin Amis:
Colm Toibin:
Alan Sillitoe:
Exactly the type of places I intend to live. Oop and I almost entirely forgot. I have to watch this video at least once a week to check someone really did it.
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
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