Even pets are getting caught up in the hype of fashionable apple products. The iPad environment is so user friendly that even the cat gets it. How claw resistant the touch screen is could be another question for the developers…
After 35 years of collecting art the now 79 year old master builder Sven-Harry Karlsson, founder of the Swedish company Folkhem, raises his own art gallery at Vasaparken in the city of Stockholm. His own collection of master pieces will…
The old traditional Japanese art form origami have gained a modern branch with the arrival of the dutch paper artist Bert Simons. With the help of the open source modeling software Blender he has created a foldable paper clone of…
What happens when a logic seeking astrophysicist is trapped in the same brain as an expressive artist? One result might be levitating sculptures and world proportional patterns. The artist Tom Shannon have for a lifetime been breaking down some of…
Winter arrived early this year, and during the last five days it has by estimate landed more than 400 mm outside the window. With some luck it’s here to stay all winter and bright up the dark time of the…
In the midst of rain, cold and darkness of late autumn in Scandinavia the colors of summer warms the heart when viewed in the colorful paintings of the Norwegian-Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909). Both motions and emotions of the…
“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.” These are two of the last lines from the prose poem named Desiderata, written by Max Ehrmann back in 1927, which should be even more applicable on…
Suddenly the Iphone application store is not enough when this toy have hit the market. This Iphone controlled flying device is definitely a logical step in the right direction as modern phones are so crammed up with accelerometers and other…
The Scandinavian phenomenon that deem other peoples achievements and success unworthy, the so called Jante Law, has got resistance from the Swedish conservative party in the form of a proposal for a law against discrimination that could be caused by…
In December 2008 the commission of the European countries decided to rid the world of light bulbs, and gradually ban the different models in the years to come. During this year, 2010, the turn has come to the clear 75W…