Morning Linkage (Aug 20)

Tech and Design

These solar pan­els make alien flower art at night. Austin, what you
been drinkin’?
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sunflower_leeds_14354.asp

Seat­tle has a cou­ple of aban­doned big box stores. Other parts of the
coun­try have more. Many of them have clear or translu­cent roofs.
Here’s a pro­posal to reuse those spaces for food pro­duc­tion. Instead
of buy­ing con­sumer goods made in China we would be able to buy food
grown locally.
http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/01/a-new-business-model-a-productive-suburb/

I think I like the pic­ture of the lit­tle girl with her bug catcher
pen­dant more than the object itself. I know sev­eral sprogs who would
love one of these portable biol­ogy labs though.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/08/how-to_bug_catcher_necklace.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954

Silly is a good thing early in the morn­ing. I don’t drink bagged tea
but I’d fall off my chair gig­gling if one of these dec­o­rated tea bags
appeared in my cup.
http://www.holycool.net/2009/08/tea-party-series-from-donkey-products.html

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Images

A mixed up set of pic­tures today.

From Shang­hai, Male­onn cre­ates elab­o­rate sets and cos­tumes for his, I
like the term used in the blurb, fables. This series of cir­cus
per­form­ers car­ries an almost cin­e­matic over­tone. Click through to his
web­site for much more.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/crazy-chinese-circus-maleonn

From Rus­sia, more gen­tle, apocalyptic-cartoon illus­tra­tion. Anton Semenov.
http://designlenta.com/2009/08/19/anton-semenov-gloom82/

Bran­don Bloomaert (Ger­many) builds crea­tures from waste paper and then
stages scenes that remind one of old vaca­tion snaps.
http://www.diskursdisko.de/2009/08/brandon-blommaert-ecostation/

A very dif­fer­ent look­ing almost sten­ci­lesque set of illus­tra­tions from
the French designer Maloo. A cou­ple are NSFW.
http://www.pixelelement.com/pretty-cool-illustrations-by-maloo/

A series of stills from the movie Metrop­o­lis along with a nice sum­mary
of the movie’s style cues.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/60098

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Misc Cul­tural Bits

Too sweet. Life size Can­dy­land game being built in Lom­bard St.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/19/life-size-candyland.html

The impos­si­ble Cool brings us Bud Ekins. The guy who jumped the bike
in the Great Escape. (look him up in wikipedia)
http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/post/165764519/ekins

Finally, why can’t my school trips have ended with all the nasty girls
get­ting eaten by a croc­o­dile? Revenge by paper automa­ton.
http://www.cool4cats.biz/page16.htm