We’ve all seen the pictures of the motorcycle tow truck. Here’s the website of the manufacturer (now in English) Truly cool. http://www.comingthrough.se/main.php?lang=UK&page=pro Audrey Kawasaki’s custom painted helmet for the CELERITAS charity auction. Is a gentle tribute to pretty girls and weird skull-moth bugs? Anyway, I like it. (Follow her links to other helmets too.) http://i‑seldom-do.livejournal.com/141556.html I love …
Yearly Archives: 2009
Morning Linkage (Jul 14)
Charming little toy that does that glasses cleaning thing your grandfather did when he wasn’t sure how to answer “Why is Uncle Tommy’s head like that?” http://vimeo.com/5567700 The laptop is becoming the form factor of choice for WTF mod-ers. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/a_commodore_64_laptopwhat_the_benheck_is_going_on_here_14033.asp A couple of retro tech links: Grid Beam looks like a very grown up version of the Mecco or …
Morning Linkage (Jul 13)
Monday the 13th. That seems like it should be worse luck than Friday the 13th. Seven pages of the most amazing monsters ever painted. Travis Louie’s Monster? group exhibition. http://www.copronason.com/monsterweb/index.html Tom Gauld draws monsters too. making noises. Onomatopoeia is fun. So is the rest of his photostream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomgauld/3532447347/in/photostream/ Drawing and words together again in calligraphic animals from …
Morning LInkage (Jul 10)
Good morning y’all. Lots of links today, good for a slow summer Friday. Let’s get started shall we? More business card tomfoolery. Better than that chemistry set you had as a kid. It’s a dark detector. http://kits.sparklelabs.com/2009/06/25/printed-circuit-business-cards/ Much earlier tech. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace start in their own comic (Sydney Padua is very, well just very) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139075.stm The …
Morning Linkage (Jul 9)
Read how they did it and then watch “Performance”. I always wanted watercolors to work this way even if it is an ad for gasoline. http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7853 You all liked one sentence stories so much that I figure you’ll like Significant Objects as well. Here’s a description of the project. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/significant_objects_rob_walker_gets_literary_about_stuff_13984.asp and here are the stories. …