Geometry + Pasta = Brilliance

Today we welcome a new member to my crew of favourite links.

*Drumroll*

THE GEOMETRY OF PASTA!!!

 via The Geometry of Pasta

A combination of two of my favourite things in one title: geometry and pasta!
Mmmmm...

This website's a snippet to what you'll find inside THE book... and within this book you'll find yourself on a journey to learning how to pair pasta shapes with pasta sauces.

Everything's tied nicely together with another one of my favourite things...type!

Go on visit the website. I like it quite a bit :)

Check out* an animated recipe for 'Farfalle with prosciutto and cream' >> here
OR
maybe familiarise yourself with some pasta shapes >> here 
OR
simply admire the website's brilliant black and white design BY here

I know what book's going on my growing wishlist!

*Please do it! 

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

TA DA!

This is where time is spent when one has 90 days of free time :)

And now here's the real thing.

 

As you can tell from the photos I have a certain bias towards the pocket pouch - definitely my favourite part. I'm feeling very colourful so far this year...wonder if that'll be the case when the cooler months come.

 I'm already thinking about what to do for next year's diary since I don't have an 'expired' diary to deconstruct anymore.  

Hmmmm...

But meanwhile I think I'll cover all my uni notebooks with triangles, circles, squares and trapeziums. 

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

Decisions decisions

Which one shall I choose??????

Option One: plain white paper

Option Two: brown paper (bag-type) paper

For now I'll chop up shapes. If I have not received any suggestions I shall make both! And then we'll see which one looks best in real-life/off-the-screen. 

Fingers crossed this all works with these papery cut-outs...

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

2 THOUSAND & 12

I decided to 'make' my own diary since I can never seem to find one that suits me ($$ wise and to my linking) What you see here is a Donna Hay freebie diary from 2008 under reconstruction.

So far...

Top to bottom: Front cover; monthly cover - incomplete; *pocket/pouch design

The rectangle represents where a clear window will be. Printing this would be nice but ... printers *nervous twitch* ...need I say more?  I designed in according to my 'paper stock' - I have all the colours I need in paper minus that mint green...I could've sworn  I had some left over pieces but...if not, I'll have to cheat... some paint mixing and some paper should do the trick (maybe..?)

More photos soon once this diary's complete...hopefully before this month's out - "I'm late! I'm late!"

OH and after that, another project in waiting and to be be revealed. I'm pretty excited.

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Spider Pig, Spider Pig does whatever a Spider Pig does

"!!!"

That's all I can say to these creations by Liam Brazier:

CAVE MAN

HANGMAN

MAN UP

Who's your hero?

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

YAY!

I think my mum was right when she told me time goes faster as you get older.

First year uni's already done! 

As Scat Cat* said,"Why that's craaazy and outraaageous!"

But...the festive season can truly begin!!

To match, iTunes have a really good looking holiday range. 

I reckon these guys are keepers - especially the one on the end :) 

 

*See The Aristocats.

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

BOXES

Studying for the exam that will mark the end of first year uni(!)...decided to make my notes just a tad different than the usual B & W notes.

(If you've noticed the content in the pictures - yes, it's Linguistics again, just by co-inky-dink*).

*Can someone please tell me how you would spell this 'alternative' form of coincidence...there seems to be no way that looks 'right', my friend and I have deliberated over this before, I think we came up with a couple of contenders but this one's the only one I can remember for now....

coinkydink minus the hyphens looks like it's read as coinky-dink (coink as in rhyming with the sound a pig makes - oink).

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

INFOGRAPHICS

It's been about a month and ten days (?) since I've last seen by blog...not as bad as I thought actually. :)

Today's going to be all about infographics - a growing interest of mine over the year.

These two guys (up there) were stored away in my (accumulating) 'Things to post' pile for a while now.

They came about as I was doing my Linguistics research report which involved making tables and graphs to display my findings etcetera etcetera...(I've never stopped saying etc. without doubling it after watching The King and I). So I thought, what better way to semi-procrastinate while actually doing my assignment than making pie charts that weren't straight of the 'Word' shelf.

The study was on apologies - really makes you think how do you apologise in different situations e.g. to that 'neutral' friend who's a friend but not exactly...anyway...I digress (and ramble). Digress < I like that word.

Right, infographics.

Well these are a few that I stumbled across and evidently, like. 

I hope you like them too. :)

Via Behance Network

Via Section

(I miss Heroes.)

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

PAPER GEMS

I came across asite with polyhedra templates months ago.

I don't know WHY it took me so long to realise I could use them/manipulate them in an attempt to make these paper gems made by the amazing Benja. But as they say, better late than never!

Anyway these are my humble trials of various polyhedra and a single diamond (in the rough << 10 points for you if you know what I'm referncing when I say 'diamond in the rough' :)

I have good reason for making these, they're my 'sketch model's for a project I'm working on for uni.

More on that later :)

From: An Ordinary Human Bean

Hello there

It's been a looooooooooooooong time since I've typed anything here.
My two friends over at BIG PICTURE STUFF motivated me to atleast drop in a line.
(Do check out their blog-pretty amazing stuff.)

So anyway, I finally got to download this app by Missoni. YES Missoni.
It's free and I wanted to share its goodness here.

Here's ma première photo que j'ai 'Missonizée' ('Missonized') avec mon nouvel iPod touch.
(Can you guess what the original picture was? Hint: I use it for uni.)

http://www.missoni.it/mobile/

Go on, click on it.
After all, the best things in life are free. :)

As soon as I get a case, this will accompany me on those early morning PT sessions.

Happy Missoni-izing!

From: An Ordinary Human Bean