Welcome to Monday morning, everyone. Here’s a somewhat abstract photo from NoMa of a row of circular bike racks and of course their shadows.

 

 

 

   

Matt brought me these awesome chopsticks from China, and while I love the sticks themselves (check out that face design that lines up at the tips!), I also can’t help but geek out over the nice packaging, too. It’s so clean and well-designed — two hidden magnets underneath the paper liner hold the box together. Which means there is also no plastic or trash to throw away after it has been opened. Why can’t more things come like this in the US? Apple has, of course, been making nice packages forever, so why is it so hard for other products to come in anything besides the terrible clam-shell plastic that drives everyone crazy and cuts up your fingers? And more importantly, who wants to come over for sushi?

   
What exactly is going on here??
   
It’s a photo from the Feeding Desire Exhibit at Winterthur Estate in Delaware, that’s what. If you thought there wasn’t much to silverware design, influence, or evolution — you are wrong. The utensils in this exhibit range from whimsical to ornate to practical to modern. And sporks!!!

Matt has been working on the construction site at Constitution Square (next to the New York Avenue metro in NoMA) for awhile now, and he takes all these realllllly cool pictures of the construction materials that make me go “whoa what *is* that!?!” There is so much color and texture and rhythm to be found in these not-yet-assembled pieces — eventually when put together it will go something like this. Or here is some time lapse photography. Since there are way too many pictures to post them individually, I threw them all together into a composition I would call blue, green, red: 3 circles, 3 squares, 3 lines