Website Challenges You to Do the Impossible: Absolutely Nothing for Two Minutes

Posted by John Farrier in Blogs & Internet, Society & Culture on January 21, 2011 at 4:42 pm

Alex Tew created a website that encourages you to calm down and slow down. Just sit in front of your computer and do nothing for two minutes but listen to the sound of waves splashing. No, don’t touch your mouse or keyboard or you’ll have to start over. Tew writes:

I had been thinking how we spend every waking minute of the day with access to an unlimited supply of information, to the point of information overload. i also read somewhere that there is evidence that our brains are being re-wired by the internet, because we get a little dopamine kick every time we check our e-mail or Twitter or Facebook and there’s a new update. So we’re all developing a bit of ADD. which is probably not great in terms of being productive.

It took me three tries.

Link via Geekosystem

 
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The Cardboard Office

Posted by Queuebot in Architecture on March 13, 2009 at 4:07 pm


Designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg created this interesting office for Nothing, a Dutch advertising agency: everything is made from cardboards!

The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.

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(image credit: Joachim Baan)

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Frau.

 
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