internationally (un)known

badcrumbs:

but it’s like we weren’t made for this world (though I wouldn’t really want to meet someone who was).

Probably not all doors should offer previews, all the time, but this is undeniably wonderful. As it is, the knob offers bi-directional viewing; I wonder if you could half-silver one side and make it one-way? Johnny Strategy at Spoon & Tomago writes:

In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama - a protégé of Toyo Ito - has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob. As you approach the doorknob you catch a glimpse of what appears to be another world, waiting for you to enter and join, but in fact is a reflection of the room on the other side of the door.

currently:

• closet organized, all shelves
• dresser organized and moved out of my room
• cleaned out my night stand and moved it out of the room
• cleaned out desk and moved it to corner where dresser was
• hung up and put away clothes
• cleaned off window seal
• collected crap/garbage that I don’t want anymore in the corner of room
• sneezed a lot :(
• organized my bins and put camera stuff in one!
• put “kid” stuff that I actually care about keeping in two bins that are now in my closet

what is left:

• sleep (tonight)
• go to the dump because of all the crap
• remove white trim around my room (with screw driver?!)
• vacuum
• take apart my bed and move it to the garage
• cover up holes on my walls, and paint white
• new flooring (possibility/most likely)
• set up/organize my desk area
• move all my photo stuff in

so so sick right now, waking up in five hours and fifteen minutes.