shiny things in messy little piles

Month: February 2010 (Page 3 of 4)

Morning Linkage (Feb 10)

Transportation

WSDOT presents: build­ing the new fer­ry the Chet­zemo­ka. Love­ly lit­tle video mon­tage of con­struc­tion pho­tos, includ­ing a month­ly time lapse. (Sound — bad looped music)

Okay, these guys look like our kind of bugnutz. The Dumb Way Down. Around the world on a cou­ple of bit­sa bikes from the 30’s. It’s look­ing to be a multi-year project. Check out the web­site, the bios of the cul­prits and their gear are a gig­gle. They’re some­where on the east coast of the USA at the moment. Not the finest choice of geog­ra­phy giv­en the ongo­ing Snowpocalypse.

Tru­ly one of the ugli­est bikes I have ever seen, the Ducati based Duster. Kit­tens were sacrificed.

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Science and Technology

Quan­tum inter­ac­tions in the dal­i­has? The expla­na­tions of pho­to­syn­the­sis get weird­er and weirder.

Of pos­si­ble inter­est to some of you old school SEGA moto game fans. A sound track album, srlsy.

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Art, Images, Design

There’s lit­tle infor­ma­tion about the artist beyond her taste in movies and music. These large­ly com­ic book illus­tra­tions cross between ani­me and noir with bits of com­men­tary on the nature of being human. Or in this case a cat, as the lit­tle white cat comes across some orange paint and imag­ines her­self a tiger. Amaz­ing­ly not trite. (Oth­er images in gallery mild­ly NSFW)

From Gold­en Age Comics,
Hannes Bok & Edd Cartier’s alter­nate­ly eerie and humor­ous sci-fi fey cal­en­dar illus­tra­tions in black and white for 1949 and 1950 Gnome Press Cal­en­dars. Robots, fairies, mush­rooms, and a mutant duck (?) all in one pic­ture. There are illos from at least three dif­fer­ent cal­en­dars mixed togeth­er here, mak­ing the view­ing even more surreal.

A lit­tle some­thing to remind you all that it could be worse than just a Wednes­day. Dian­na Rigg and scale mod­el rail­road­ing. Oh, go on, look, you know you want to,

Morning Linkage (Feb 8)

Transportation

The Porsche Fam­i­ly Tree ad from a cou­ple of months ago was a fine show­ing of clas­sic cars. Here’s a Mak­ing of …video for your enjoy­ment. Shame­less self pro­mo­tion at it’s finest. (sound — but nice sound)

In antic­i­pa­tion of Bon­neville Speed­week, tal­ent­ed auto­mo­tive pho­tog­ra­ph­er Jer­ry Gar­ns put up three shots from 2009.

BMW R69S Cus­tom from Rit­mo Sereno.

The Rit­mo Sereno site trans­lat­ed from Japan­ese by the ever help­ful Google.

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Food, Society, and Technology

A fab­u­lous Annie Lei­bovitz pho­to­graph and a reminder that one of my favorite food writer has been unread for too long. MKF Fish­er. Sad­ly not avail­able in the Kindle.

On a more mun­dane note, the ubiq­ui­tous and use­less ketchup pack­et has final­ly got­ten a redesign.

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Art, Images, Design

More Jim Flo­ra and the very good news that there will be prints.  Skit­tish horse is kind of sin­is­ter indeed.

With a style that is sim­i­lar­ly sim­ple in line and col­or choice, illus­tra­tor Jon Klassen gets a nice write up at Design Sponge.

The ring a day project. Doing some art every­day is a good prac­tice (zen) for any­one who wants to keep their brain tuned up and devel­op a skill. Design­ing a mak­ing a ring a day is project for jew­el­ers and metalsmiths.

Milky way trans­port map — a la London.

A lit­tle Valen­tine’s ani­ma­tion. Set in Paris. With nin­jas. Can it get better?
nin­ja love sto­ry — ani­ma­tion (paris)

Hap­py Mon­day my lit­tle hyper­ac­tive gerbils.

Morning Linkage (Feb 5)

Transportation

Mas­sive con­struc­tion under Grand Cen­tral Sta­tion in NYC. A slide show of images of tun­nel­ing for the new LIR con­nec­tions. Note — indi­vid­ual cap­tions are to the right of the images.

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Science and technology

Hunter and preda­tor robots. Neur­al net­works and ran­dom muta­tions allow robots to evolve behav­iors.

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Art, Images, Design

13 pic­tures from the Wom­en’s Bureau archives of women doing war work. The Nation­al Archives is mak­ing good use of Flickr. The slide shows are enter­tain­ing and the infor­ma­tion about the indi­vid­ual images are well cat­a­loged and well pre­sent­ed. Best of both worlds.

It’s not in Eng­lish (yet) but dang do I want it to be. Car­toon Cook­ing. Illus­trat­ed recipes and techniques.

Econ­o­my, sim­plic­i­ty, time­li­ness. More of life should be as fine­ly drawn as these line based por­traits done on the Tokyo trains.

A hand­ful of bril­liant open­ing cred­its for recent movies. (video — sound)

Anoth­er clas­sic chil­dren’s book. Aesop’s Fables with illus­tra­tions by Milo Win­ters.

We’ve almost made it. Just a lit­tle further.

Morning Linkage (Feb 4)

Transportation

Love­ly lit­tle bits of real art like water­col­or of a moped this are for sale in the park out­side San­to Domin­go in Oax­a­ca. I buy them when I can.

Grav­i­ty bike. This is a sport?

Which leads to this Flickr set — Freak­Bikes. That’ll do.

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Science

Under­wa­ter shots of Bel­u­ga whales at a sanc­tu­ary cre­at­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of St. Petersburg.

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Culture and Society

Dwell mag­a­zine is mod­ern, hip, and puz­zling­ly stuffy. Adding cap­tions that could have come from equal­ly mod­ernist nov­els. Sly, wit­ty, smug.

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Art, Design, Animation

Hugh D’An­drade makes wicked posters.

Includ­ing this fine image of a geeky girl mecha  for the 20th anniver­sary of the EFF.

Odd­i­ties cre­at­ed by col­lage. Vic­to­ri­an era ladies (and gents) spent hours cre­at­ing humor­ous images using paper, scis­sors, and paste. Chil­dren using frogs for rock­ing hors­es just about cov­ers it. More behind the “view more images” link.

Tom­my and the Atom. The tale of two atoms, a boy, his fox, and an evil mad sci­en­tist bent on world dom­i­na­tion. Sweet old pro­pa­gan­da film fea­tur­ing the voice that remind­ed you to “look both ways before crossing”.

Mak­ing it through the week m’dears.

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Yes­ter­day was the Apoc­a­lypse. Today we have a seri­ous problem.

Morning Linkage (Feb 3)

Transportation

Every body loves a top 10. Okay, so how about a top 19? The 19 most com­plex and dan­ger­ous roads in the world. Com­plex ?= Dangerous.

Tam­buri­ni = Bru­tale ++. That said, there is absolute­ly no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for pro­vid­ing a link to this pro­duc­tiv­i­ty sap­ping pho­to gallery. None.

The best col­lec­tion of WTF moto moments.

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Technology

There is less than 100% agree­ment on what exact­ly Pan­ot­pitclick is measuring/revealing but the fal­la­cy of non-identifying infor­ma­tion is tak­ing anoth­er beat­ing. Your brows­er cus­tomiza­tions may make you track­able. My results on Jan 31, 2010. “Your brows­er fin­ger­print appears to be unique among the 443,644 test­ed so far.”

Ancient tech. The old­est known multi-tool. A Roman Army Knife, if you will.

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Art and Design

Tom­my Kane (was) a big shot in adver­tis­ing. Now he wants to be an illus­tra­tor again. I’ll start you out with one of his col­ored pen­cil sketch­es. The shop Zen Needle­craft has the mis­for­tune of hav­ing the rather unhap­py look­ing fish logo from the upstairs restau­rant right over the front door.

In 3‑D. Kinekt gear dri­ven rings, for your fin­ger. Watch the video.

Bill Wat­ter­son talks about his deci­sion to stop draw­ing Calvin and Hobbes.

Eng­lish Laun­dry and Dan and Dave. It’s a bit much trendy for me but the music is good and the card flour­ish­es are just plain cool. (Video — Sound)

Off to be a girly-girl today, expect me to be all pink hearts and flow­ers and lit­tle smi­lies to dot my I’s for a cou­ple of days…

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