http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:30:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/arts-thread-re-imagining-the-ordinary.html Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:18:04 +0000 What happens when twelve designers and artists reexamine objects we take for granted?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/storing-personal-physical-belongings-in-the-cloud.html Wed, 18 May 2011 12:16:54 +0000 How likely are you to place your belongings in a cloud-based storage service?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/how-digital-presentations-are-replacing-physical-collections.html Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:00:58 +0000 New York Times Magazine's columnist Rob Walker concludes his series with some final thoughts on the objects we collect and how.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/a-rehab-center-for-old-computer-files.html Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:08 +0000 A group of media artists are running a rehabilitation clinic to recycle and reuse maladjusted files.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/tales-of-things-a-social-network-of-objects.html Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:55:33 +0000 Your pen, stove, and daughter's drawing all have their own social network with Tales of Things.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/happiness-objectified-do-our-things-make-us-happy.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:12:41 +0000 There can be no doubt that, from the moment we roll out of bed to the screeching of our alarm (on a clock, on an iPhone, from a radio) until the moment we close our eyes again (having put down our book, our laptop, our TV remote) we are surrounded by more objects, each begging to be both purchased and manipulated, than the human mind can comfortably reconcile. We are positively inundated. ‘Things’ are supposed to be our tools as a species—ways to interact with and mediate our experiences with nature and each other as instruments to achieve some end.Read more...]]>