Hasta La Ideas

This week’s Workspace of the Week is NomadJim’s tropical paradise:

Did you miss the office? I did the first couple times I looked at the picture. Here, I’ll help you find it:

Gorgeous! If I could actually concentrate enough in this beautiful scenery to do work, I can think of fewer places more visually inspiring to get a job done. NomadJim is one lucky individual. I can’t tell if there is a laptop tray for the computer, but I would add one if there isn’t (especially one that allows for airflow under the battery and processor — don’t want to broil your legs on the patio). Otherwise, this setup looks like perfection. Now, if you’ll all please excuse me, I’m going to close my eyes and daydream for a couple minutes.

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With Beverly Hills now out of the way and the competition down to just two, most everyone in the know thinks all the arrows are pointing in the direction of Los Angeles getting Eli Broad‘s proposed new art museum. The city, you might recall, was the last to put in a bid for the museum, but had the unique benefit of being able to offer Broad a chance to return to an enterprise he’d once been involved with before it fell apart financially: the Grand Avenue Project. Now that it seems like a given that the billionaire art collector has made his choice, the LA Times‘ Christopher Hawthorne has a number of suggestions that the city and Broad should take note of before they begin their negotiation dances. Even if none of this pans out and Broad pulls a fast one and skips both LA and Santa Monica and goes to, say, Pomona, Hawthorne offers up some good perspective on the back and forth required to build a museum.

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We were remarking only the other day how beautifully clear the skies were during the recent volcanic ash flight ban. So far we’ve seen a couple of projects that have used the suspension of the UK airspace for inspiration…

Olie Kay (he of our B-Line Monograph that featured covers from his grandfather’s squadron magazine produced during WWII) sent a lovely sky blue poster our way, featuring a brief paean to the lack of contrails up there.

And then we saw this interesting animation of the flight paths – or lack of them – over Europe during last week. 

The map data is CC-by-SA openstreetmap.org and contributors. The CC-by-SA visualisation was produced by itoworld.com with support from ideasintransit.org

Airspace Rebooted by ITO World is, according to ITO’s Vimeo page, a “visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open. The flight data is courtesy of flightradar24.com and covers a large fraction of Europe. There are a few gaps (most noticeably France) and no coverage over the Atlantic, but the picture is still clear.”

Over on magCulture, Jeremy also linked to a new project from writer and editor, Andrew Losowsky. Called Stranded, it looks to be a magazine put together on theme of being stuck somewhere because of the ash cloud. Submissions to date are largely written projects, but Losowsky has also uploaded a preview of this rather fine image by Matt McArthur.

If anyone else was suitably inspired by the criss-cross-free blue skies of last week, then let us know.

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