the adventures of teapot the cat

Occhiali - Asymmetrical Glasses

Occhiali is a line of glasses by Sugar Kane that are asymmetrical. They’re not as strange looking as I thought they’d be - perhaps due to their model’s unusual styling. I probably wouldn’t wear them since I don’t have a crazy haircut and am a symmetrical being ^.^

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Global Cities at Tate Modern

The Tate Modern has an interesting exhibit on show that displays the population densities of Global Cities using layered plywood to represent every extra 200 people per sq. km. It’s very interesting how different some cities look - I wonder if the various cities are to built to scale with each other.

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William Gibson: Spook Country

I’m excited to get my grubby little hands on William Gibson’s latest novel Spook Country I’m currently reading Neuromancer for the Nth time and I think I can get through Pattern Recognition again before this new one hits the stores.

From Amazon: ‘Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson’s fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world. When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine, Node, hires former indie rocker–turned–journalist Hollis Henry to do a story on a new art form that exists only in virtual reality, Hollis finds herself investigating something considerably more dangerous. An operative named Brown, who may or may not work for the U.S. government, is tracking a young, Russian-speaking Cuban-Chinese criminal named Tito. Brown’s goal is to follow Tito to yet another operative known only as the old man. Meanwhile, a mysterious cargo container with CIA connections repeatedly appears and disappears on the worldwide Global Positioning network, never quite coming to port. At the heart of the dark goings-on is Bobby Chombo, a talented but unbalanced specialist in Global Positioning software who refuses to sleep in the same spot two nights running.’

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