Ceramic speakers

Joey Roth's ceramic speakers are the antithesis of it's mass produced counterpart. We have all done it, been down to Dixons on a Saturday afternoon to buy a little stereo which lasts exactly a day over its one year warranty. Its about major companies making products cheap enough so the idea of actually mending something becomes futile, you may as well just go and buy a new one. It's quite disgusting really.
Anyhow, (rant over, phew), Roth's speakers look brilliant and apparently sound amazing. Like a olive oil container tipped on its side and re-appropriated to make an entirely new object. I am guessing they are not going to break either, as one; there is very little to go wrong, and two; you are going to look after them big time.
High quality, considered, desirable objects.

Matthew Marks Gallery

I feel slightly stupid about this one, having spent quite a lot of time in New York, but i was unaware of Matthew Marks Gallery. What an amazing Roll Call, including Darren Almond, Andreas Gursky, Gary Hume, Ellsworth Kelly, Tony Smith, Japser Johns and Thomas Demand, (whom i have been looking at closely recently.) 
"Space has a lot of character," Demand says, with a nod to the now-vacant, now-silent surroundings.
"This space has a lot character. Maybe not my character and not your character, but it has a lot of character. And that's where things get interesting."

Bjørn Jørund Blikstad

A brilliant opening gambit form Bjørn Jørund Blikstad, a fresh furniture design graduate form Oslo. Sophisticated, simple, difficult and mesmerising 3D madness. Watch out for this guy, i think he might be going places. I want some.

Routemaster to Robin hood

It is virtually impossible for me to get excited about a london bus, having spent goodness how many hours on them over the past fifteen odd years, but as Jonathan Glancey explains, its as good as it gets with the new version of the Routemaster. (I am slightly confused over the winning design though, as Norman Foster was given the job a few months ago, but Thomas Heatherwick seems to have trumped him, and got the gig.)
Really interesting scene of another iconic landmark, the Tower of London in the (not hugely interesting) Ridley Scott Movie, Robin Hood. Its so hard to imagine the city as a smaller entity than it is today. It is even harder to imagine the Tower surrounded by Woodland, on an unkempt and untamed estuary, but that is how it was in the 12th Century. The Thames is the reason London is where it is, and it is simply not used enough anymore. A few Tate boats aside there is not a lot on it, and with the first Five new Routemaster's costing 7 Million (yes 7 Million) quid i wonder whether the river could be much better utilised, and important again.

David Adjaye

Continuing the photography tip, David Adjaye shows at the Design Museum.  Adjaye is an alternative thinker, clever and dynamic; and by all accounts, its well worth a look.
(I will try and review it soon).

Eyjafjallajokull

Ridiculously good photographs of Eyjafjallajokul volcano here.