Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Cardboard Speakers

These cardboard speakers from Muji are lightweight and collapsible so that they can easily be carried with you and folded away when they are not in use. Plug them into a headphone socket of your personal stereo, mp3 player, etc, to enjoy the sound out loud. Great for traveling! Wish I had these with me when I was in Paris...

  



If you're interested in some portable speakers like Muji's, but with a twist, a super cool new company by the name of OrigAudio makes a variety of patterned vesions. You can choose from designs like "Cityscape," "Daydream," "Lake," and "Surfbreak."




Friday, November 19, 2010

el museo subacuático






How would you feel about plunging into artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s Museo Subacuático de Arte, an underwater sculpture garden just north of Cancun, Mexico?

The Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) Project created by Jason de Caires Taylor is art that does good, literally. The images you see above and below are not photoshoped, they are as real as could be. The project consists of 400 statues installed on the seabed, all of the statues are cast from real people.  The goal is to ease pressure on the nearby natural reefs which are struggling to deal with the half a million water-going tourists who flock to the area every year, in addition the new sculptures will produce a coral reef system and attract a variety of aquatic creatures to the Cancun and Isla Mujeres National Marine Park (via artisticthings.com)






 “The main objective is to discharge quite a lot of the tourists who visit Cancun. Over 750,000 people come here every year to visit the marine park and that puts a huge pressure on the natural reef. The idea was to take some of these people away from the natural reefs and obviously minimise their impact on them, so we wanted to draw them to an area that was originally barren without much sea life. We want it to be very accessible to snorkelers and divers and we wanted it to be accessible from Cancun, nearby Isla Mujeres and different parts of the surrounding community.”
                                                                                                                  – Jason de Caires Taylor

                                                                               


  







New York Magazine also featured it in their article about Winter Travel 2010, which also includes other trips and travel destinations throughout the globe.


So, what do you think? Would you visit the Museo Subacuático?