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I ran across this marvelous movie of a desert oasis now abandoned from Feber. Once it was the pearl of the desert and the outlook for it to be a heaven on earth was blooming. Today it is however nothing but ruins. Truly wonderful settings for a photographer or for that matter for anyone who every wondered what the earth would look like if all people just disappeared.

For more information about this strange place, head over to Wikipedia.

I ran across an article form Boing Boing! about a guy called Laketide who was selling real life dirt blocks seen from the game Minecraft on Etsy. Naturally I had to check it out but what I did not expect was that the same seller really make Minecraft geek-ware in many shapes and forms.

Just a little while ago I wrote about the game Minecraft and how I see that it has changed the market for indie games. What I did not think of that time was that it has actually also the potential to change how we look at merchandise for a title or IP. Bigger companies and IPs are often secured and people trying to make money out of them are pushed back and stopped.

For an indie title this is perhaps not as harsh which then opens up the market for entrepreneurs to make money out of their ability to create merchandise which other like. Laketide is in this case a perfect example of my point since by looking at the Etsy profile there is more then one object for sale from the Minecraft world. Clearly the seller has put his entrepreneurship into action, trying to find ways to make a side business of this. For some this might look as something that could hurt an IP but for an indie title I believe that this is nothing else then next to free marketing. It can’t be free since you miss out on some income to an external part but since you do not have to risk any money during the process you are quite close to a zero margin risk.

Entrepreneurship is truly beautiful.

I ran across this amazing ad which is French so I do not really know what it is all about, all I know is that it look just amazing.

Video is from Solidarités International et BDDP Unlimited veulent faire couler de l’encre from BDDP Unlimited on Vimeo.

(via Design You Trust)

Anyone know where I can get hold of one in Sweden? (I only found them from Etsy in the US online) Let me know!

“Life is not a straight line.”

Bolefloor create and sell wooden floors that let the wood remain in its organic form instead of being conformed down to straight lines and industrialized looks. Floors are ordered by dimensions and the boards are cut uniquely for each room and there is currently no dealers listed on the site but it is noted that a list is to be available April 2011.

Read more about Bolefloor at www.bolefloor.com.

I just love this bathroom sink, and since it’s a DIY project made by a $16 bowl from IKEA, I love it even more! Check out the full story over at IKEA hackers.

UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.

Wonderful wallpaper from Aimée Wilder. I can without any problems see this wallpaper in my office!

I found this wonderful product at NOTCOT and I was amazed by it right away. It is as simple as a flexible board all covered in rubber band straps to keep all your gadgets and cables in place while in you bag or even on your desk. If you want anything you just pick it out of the board and that’s that. No sticky glue on your things and no scratches since it is all fabric. The straps seem to be in a material which stops the gadgets from slipping as well so (looks a bit like the material you use in the bathroom not to slip). So, why haven’t this product been created before when it seem to be so good? Or is it just me who has missed these products for a long time?

It is now quite a number of years since I studied Japanese myself so my language skill is not the greatest (Hajimemashite!) but there is alot of other pictures this product at Sanwa Direct. So, even f you can’t read a word on the page you can always just look at the images. Looking through these images also reveals that the board even has a small pocket on the backside in which one can keep things that can not be attached to the board like documents and such. So all in all, this board could in fact replace your entire bag or at least let you organize the bag you use today so that you don’t have to solve a cable know each time you want to listen to music using your headphones.

So, do anyone know if this product or something like it is possible to order from somewhere else?

More information

• Article mentioned in article from NOTCOT.
• Grid-it at Sanwa Direct