Things That Could Not Be Improved # 6: ATOMDesign’s Hammer for Vaughan & Bushnell, Rumi Poems, Jonathan Zimmerman’s Dome Home, Robert “Bob” Conrad Album, Mork & Mindy Stickers, and Happy Slave Leia

This is the 6th edition of “Things That Could Not Be Improved,” a grouping of things that need not be, or could not be, improved.  I’m not a proponent of perfection, but I love seeing well conceived and well crafted artworks: 

(Click on images to view them individually.)

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Rumi

My friends went to a Rumi seminar recently while I stayed home to take care of other important duties.  One of the main speakers was Coleman Barks. 

http://www.colemanbarks.com/

Someone sent these 2 Rumi poems to me:

One day
You will take my heart completely
and make it more fiery than
a dragon.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem
that could never come from the pen
of a poet.
 
and
 
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

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Building a Better Mousetrap:  The ATOMDesign S2 Split-Head Hammer

I learned about this hammer from reading ID Design’s magazine yearly awards for design.

http://www.idonline.com/features/feature.asp?id=1598 

http://www.atomdesign.net/

For starters, the hammer head spreads the force of the hit to a wider area along the top of the hammer.  Then “shock gaskets” sit between the modular heads and the wooden handle to dampen vibrations during a strike.  The dual carbon-steel heads are, switch-out-able, replaceable, and customizable for different hammer-head types.

The heads also have long chins, or “overstrike plates,” to reduce the damage caused by missing a nail.  The long ergonomic shaft translates into more powerful strikes.  And the curvature along the top of the hammer offers increased leverage for removing bent nails.  

I unfortunately could not find a great image of the hammer, but if you look closely, there is a grooved notch in the top of the front head — a magnetic nail holder.   This saves thumbs and fingers potentially on the off hand.  And this frees up the nail-holding hand for holding a board (and it’s the only framing hammer on the market that will hold a two-headed duplex nail).

The hammer is an incredible design, using many innovative TRIZ principles.

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A home designed by architect Jonathan Zimmerman:

http://www.zdomes.com/

http://www.domeofahome.com/

http://static.monolithic.com/plan-design/monolithicdome/index.html

http://www.buildart.com/blog.htm

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As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time searching for quality images.  Along the way, I have the fortuitous pleasure of encountering some visual gems that I was in no way looking for.  Nevertheless, I save them because they make me happy or they make me laugh.  Here are a few of those images:

The Star Wars Humor Post Trilogy: 1 2 3

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A note to readers:

I added a “Leaves of Grass” Wikipedia link to the Bellocq post from a few days ago, in case anyone wanted to know more about that famous book that I referred to and its analogous history.  Also, linked here is a review I wrote about a recent edition of Leaves of Grass.

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