Boxes of things
April 1st, 2010 by rbanks
I seem to have a strange and potentially unhealthy obsession with boxing up technology. I guess this started with Shoebox a number of years ago (see paper) and has continued in the last year as my wood-veneering skills have grown and I’ve been able to wrap a number of displays in European-Oak-veneered MDF (thanks Mark for getting me going with this).
Maybe that’s why I admire this box so much. Partially it’s the woodwork, but also because it’s a non-digital manifestation of the Backup Box, which backs up your Twitter feeds so you can reminisce about them later.
Christopher Weingarten is a music critic who tweets his 140 character reviews at 1000timesYes. Last year he promised to tweet 1000 reviews. That done, he’s now offering them, “backed up” into this beautiful box, each one hand typed onto library cards. Lovely. (Also available here for a bargain price of $115).
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Jon Nehring Says
Richard, you would appreciate some of these – surplus boxes I got from Boeing. The picture was taken by my friend in Seattle after he picked them up for me. We retrieved them on our way home from the Vancouver Olympics.
http://stonetip.com/pix/boeing_boxes.jpg
Apr 28th, 2010 at 10:22 am
rbanks Says
Lovely boxes. I’m very jealous.
Apr 28th, 2010 at 11:59 am