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pClever, clever: San-Francisco-based photographer A HREF=”http://joricel.com/” Joey Celis/A produced a custom sticker for his iPhone, A HREF=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/joey_joey_joey/sets/72157624802485516/detail/” skinning it to look like a Leica M9/A./p

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p”Sorry but I won’t be making these to sell,” writes Celis, who makes a living as a stock photographer. “It’s just a one-off for personal use.” Celis my man, you are leaving money on the table! I hope I haven’t inadvertently flooded your e-mail in-box by posting this.br /
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Only having been with the company for nine months, Design Within Reach‘s still-new CEO John Edelman, is continuing down his promised path of big changes and turning the company around. Following successful marketing moves and patching up relationships with designers, now the company is trying to patch up its place in the stock market. Last summer, pre-Edelman, their stock had plummeted to the point where they voluntarily delisted themselves from Nasdaq, which was not a positive sign. Now, in the middle of their climb back up, they’ve announced a one-for-fifty reverse stock split of the company’s common stock. What this means in layman’s terms is that they’ll be adjusting the number of shares they offer by fifty (so if you had 50 shares, now you’d have just 1), while keeping the shareholder’s monetary value the same (your new 1 is worth the same as your old 50). This compression lets DWR raise the value of their shares and hopefully be more appealing to potential buyers. While there’s some stigma attached to putting this practice in place because often it’s an indicator that a company is in serious jeopardy, we’re not entirely sure how the situation will play out in this case, since DWR is digging itself out from being on its last legs and not still on its way down. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

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pWe just came across images of a href=”http://ransmeier.com/”Leon Ransmeier’s/a Bubble Bank, produced earlier this year with glassblower Andrew Hughes, and now on sale at a href=”http://mattermatters.com/product.asp?id=510″Matter/a. The banks come in three sizes, are hand blown, and have to be broken to access the change./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/leon_ransmeiers_bubble_bank__17263.asp”(more…)/a
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pNo one cared about fuel economy in the ’80s. I drove a used six-cylinder Datsun that got terrible mileage, especially as driven by a high-school boy, where you needed to see if you could hit 85 m.p.h. on the way to the grocery store. But I was easily able to fill the tank on busboy wages, as gas was 99 cents per gallon, cheaper than soda./p

pNevertheless, in 1984 inventors Craig Henderson and Bill Green developed the A HREF=”http://www.100mpgplus.com/index.html” Avion/A, a hand-built car that hit an astonishing high of 113 miles per gallon in test runs. It wasn’t intended to be a “green” car; the duo set out to build a high-performance sports car, but by using manufacturing techniques “more closely related to small airplane construction than steel stamped automobiles”–composite materials are used widely throughout–the Avion achieved absurdly low mileage even though it used a standard Chrysler four-cylinder engine. Henderson drove it from Mexico to Canada while averaging 103 miles per gallon./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_avion_driving_from_canada_to_mexico–on_just_14_gallons_of_gas_17262.asp”(more…)/a
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