I know a few people that would love this.

Parisian Greg Madison, inspired by such video game icons as Tron, The Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy, has created the Madylight: a cube with "luminescent shapes which represent electronic circuits or magic spells."

The Instructable he created shows what goes into making one. As the comments below the article show, there are nearly countless options for what type of lamp you can create.

The lamp is the first of many design Greg is looking forward to making. He makes sure to put the word out that he is "looking for firms which could be interested in producing and launching my creations like the following lamp." Good luck, Greg!

The same night I met Carol Scalzo of Benedetto Imports, I was able to meet local artist Eli Cedrone (the two friends were dining together).

Through the use of varied color and texture, Eli’s “work increasingly bridges abstraction and realism. Abstraction is transformed into suggestions of person, place and human pathos. The figures in my work exist both in representational and tactile, painterly worlds. I’m constantly striving for a way to articulate this unique visual synthesis; from the monolithic to the corporeal.”

Her work is very often of public places such as restaurants, parks, or even on the sidewalk; it’s the energy that you can feel in certain places that she is trying to capture. The night that I met her, Eli kept leaving her table to take photos of the people drinking and socializing at the bar.

Eli’s work is currently on display that the Copley Society of Art on Newbury St.

About this time last year, all the world (myself included) was buzzing about the iPhone, Apple's revolutionary, 4-million unit-selling "mobile communications device". This year, it's not a phone, but it's still mobile, and it's definitely wireless.

The MacBook Air is thin. Fits in a manila envelope thin. .76 inches thick, thin.

To get the MacBook Air so thin, Apple had to make everything inside smaller - the battery, hard drive, and processor are all thinner - while still providing a 13.3" LED-backlit LCD display (the same size as the standard MacBook) and full, backlit keyboard. The MacBook Air even takes a trick from the iPhone and iPod Touch with its "oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image."

A few potential drawbacks I can see: The MacBook Air does not have a removable battery; if you are on the go for a while without access to an electrical outlet, you may be in trouble. Also, to maintain it's thinness, the MacBook Air does not have an optical (read: DVD) drive; Apple thinks everything will be wireless soon enough, but still offers a special MacBook Air SuperDrive for an additional $99.

On the environmental end of things, the MacBook Air is Apple's most energy efficient computer ever. It's aluminum casing is recyclable. The display is both mercury and arsenic free. The internal cables are PVC free. The MacBook Air comes in low-volume, "highly recyclable" packaging. And it meets Energy Star guidelines, and was awarded a Silver rating by EPEAT.

All of this up-to-the-minute coolness is going to set you back some: the MacBook Air starts at $1699. Of course, I can't post about Apple without telling you to visit my friends at Tech Superpowers, who are Apple authorized resellers and will surely be stocking the MacBook Air.

While recently searching for an aerial view of City Hall Plaza (at this point, I'm not sure why I was), I came across an architectural review of Boston City Hall by Walt Lockley.

Lockley isn't an architect, but he is fascinated with how people relate to buildings. In fact, Lockley thinks not being an architect is a strong point for him: "By process of elimination I found neither architects nor psychologists have good explanations for how this works, although of course they say they do."

Lockley, like many (probably most) non-architects, does not think City Hall is the 6th Greatest Building in America, as the AIA has named it:

Sixth best? That would put it ahead of 25 of the following 30 structures, just at random: the Seagram Building, Monticello, Fallingwater, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Dulles Airport, the Robie House, Unity Temple, Grand Central Terminal, the Hollyhock House, the US Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, Richardson's Trinity Church, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, IIT Crown Hall, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, the Gamble House, the Tribune Tower, the Auditorium Building, the Wainwright Building, the Bradbury Building, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Lovell House, Independence Hall, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Sullivan's banks taken as one, the LA Public Library, the Jefferson Memorial, the River Rouge plant, and the Guardian Building in Detroit. That's amazing. So amazing, it's dead wrong.

He goes through the history of the building, from the architects thoughts to local politicians' and Boston residents' comments. It is a very entertaining read.

He has reviews of many other buildings, including another city hall: Pasadena City Hall.

It looks to be hiring season for local design stores. Last month it was Hudson; this month it's Vessel.

Vessel is looking for an experienced (2+ years) design-oriented retail sales and customer support person. "This individual will be responsible for performing day to day retail tasks in Vessel’s Boston retail store, including inventory, cash handling, event management, and merchandising to maintain a fresh, dynamic retail experience that communicates Vessel’s core philosophies. This individual will also be an integral part of our Product and Customer Support team and handle customer service cases by phone and email."

The position is part time (20-35 hrs/wk).

Interested? Email hr@vessel.com.