Archive for August, 2008
Semigallian days
Few weeks ago I attended medieval folk festival “Semigallian days” in Tērvete. Tervete once was important center in southern region of Latvia named Zemgale or Semigallia. Unfortunately we almost missed everything as we came only at afternoon of second (last) day of festival. Though I made some photos you can find in gallery Semigallian days [...]
Engure
Last Saturday despite drizzling rainwe decided to take a little trip to Kolka creek visiting small fishermen’s villages by the way. Though in those villages we found nothing worth of attention. Though we stopped in Engure, small costal town with tiny sea port. At the port I made some nice pictures.
Our next stop [...]
Furniture from bikes
It’s a furniture for real bike lovers. Made from bikes. So you can not only drive your bike but also eat at bike and sit on bike. More at bikefurniture.com. So grab an inspiration and turn your old bike into .. let’s say – sofa.
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Ornamental Typography
At BibliOdissey is published nice collection of antique ornamental typography samples. Good for inspiration.
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What to do with beer bottles
Have a lot of empty beer bottles from weekend party and don’t know what to do? Here are just some ideas. Actually it’s advertising campaign of Italian beer brewery ro Azurro .
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Dark art
Last Saturday was closing party of gothic / dark art exhibition. With a show – as it’s supposed to be. Some pictures from the event.
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Cheap hosting
Just wanted to drop a note about two cheap hosting services.
iPower.com
Ipower.com is company where I buy international domains (.com, .net, .org, .info) - they have pretty nice prices. And now they have 50% discount on their best (in my mind) hosting plan iPower Pro if you buy hosting for a year or two. Its a [...]
Google Calendar and Outlook
At my work I use Microsoft Outlook for my e-mails and works organization. Though I have Outlook, installed on one of my home computer I don’t use it. Reason – I better prefer online tools.
Few days ago I decided to try Google Calendar. And found it to be very handy time organizer and [...]
Inspiring business card designs
I already posted some really creative business cards. And also Mitnick’s “hacker-style” business card. are lot of more samples. Enjoy and rise your creativity.
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Free e-books from Questia
Questia is worlds largest online library. They offer more than 5,000 e-boks for online reading for free. Besides that every 2 months Questia offers 15 free books each on different topic – from literature to art, to law, to science and more. E-books are for reading online – to print them you need to subscribe. [...]


