If you don’t go any fur­ther this morn­ing, go here. Not only is this
exhib­it on the top­ic of gov­ern­ment pro­pa­gan­da time­less but the
pro­duc­tion val­ues for the web­site encour­age exact­ly the kind of
explo­ration the top­ic deserves.
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/

On with the show.

What to do with a sane but ugly vehi­cle. Smart TwoTip­ping. Because
there aren’t enough cows in Ams­ter­dam for a prop­er round of cow
tipping.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/smart-tossing/

A nicer design for an insane sport. Ice rac­ing. The video linked at
the bot­tom isn’t worth your time.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/audi-design-study-is-cold-as-ice/

From the sleek to the ungain­ly. You all have seen the EVE and all the
oth­er hot machines from Oshkosh. Here’s my favorite. Elvis.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/elvis-oshkosh/

Elvis is entire­ly func­tion­al design and ugly as sin. Here’s a bit of
func­tion­al design that’s eas­i­er on the eyes. The ori­gin and mean­ing of
the TV test pattern.
http://designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38895

Because the blue rat is cute and the arti­cle con­tains the following
quote: “One of the rea­sons no one had done this before is that food
sci­ence is very sep­a­rate from neu­ro­science,” PETA rants will be
shit-canned.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/bluerats/

On to the arts:

Three short sto­ries from the Big Pic­ture. The first one about a bride
cross­ing the Israeli-Syrian bor­der is manip­u­la­tive IMO. The second
about the plight of albi­nos in Tan­za­nia is trag­ic and under reported
except as a “in odd news today” way. The third sto­ry — the one I’d
real­ly like to link to sep­a­rate­ly — is about the “Sea Gyp­sies” in
Bor­neo. So damned much smil­ing in one place. You can’t help but have a
bet­ter day.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/stories_from_israel_tanzania_a.html

Mer­ce Cun­ning­ham has died at the age of 90.
http://www.merce.org/index-content.html

I was all up for grab­bing a plane down to LA tomor­row for the Secret
Iden­ti­ty: (The Fetish Art of Super­man’s Co-Creator Joe Shus­ter) Party.
Until I saw that I’d have to deal with the past their pull by date
Sui­cide Girls. I’ll just post a book review when my copy gets here.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/27/secret-identity-part.html

Here’s a pho­tog­ra­ph­er Madame Peripetie (prac­ti­cal­ly anony­mous) whose
work I find intrigu­ing but often inex­plic­a­ble, per­haps dense beyond my
comprehension.
http://cyanatrendland.com/2009/07/27/madame-peripetie-conceptual-photography/

Not my design but going on the stu­dio wall as an inspriation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/downtothewiredesigns/3746548031/

And to leave you hap­py. Mau­rice Sendak talks to/about Spike Jonze
mak­ing where the Wild Things Are.
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/where-the-wild-things-are/featurette-maurice-sendak

More tomor­row,

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