Morning Linkage (Aug 25)

Trans­porta­tion

Another tiny cus­tom CB100 out of SE Asia. This one from Deus Canggu in Bali.

Scott Fly­ing Squir­rel. Best bike name ever and inno­v­a­tive design too. Liq­uid cool­ing from the 1920’s. A cou­ple of other Scott bikes here as well.

From Japan a TX650 cus­tom. The lines of the sub­tly brown tank are dreamy.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion of mon­u­men­tal moments in bad taste. Nick Glies makes a liv­ing pho­tograph­ing the insides (and out­sides) of pri­vate jets. Own­er­ship is, of course, not disclosed.

Tech­nol­ogy

Tablets for Christ­mas this year. With the launch of the iPad this spring the tablet has reached the mid­dle amer­i­can radar. Best Buy is gear­ing up for the Xmas sea­son by pro­mot­ing the tablet as a per­fect gift.

Among the many con­tenders is likely to be this HTC slated to run Google’s chrome.

Food

Cook­ing in a milk can? Steam cook­ing for messy, stew meals. Yum.

Art, Images, and Design

A quick and dirty overview of the art of Sci-Fi. Lau­ren Panepinto who is the Art Direc­tor for Orbit Books shows you some exam­ples and explains why and how they go about entic­ing you to pick up and read. Lots of links to lots of artists. Be sure to check the com­ments for even more art and links.

From the Long Now blog, a fine exam­ple of Panepinto’s two rules for great Sci-Fi art. Com­men­tary on this split soci­ety image?

In the late 1970’s Andy Levin spent his non-working hours pho­tograph­ing the every­man expe­ri­ence of Coney Island. The NYT’s Lens blog brings 18 of these fine black and white pho­tos back.

And now, many years later, Levin returns to Coney Island and pub­lishes Coney Island Baby. Color pho­tos of the same place, in a very dif­fer­ent time. (NSFW — one aggres­sively nude image)

enjoy the heat — eat lunch out­side today

Tagged as: Andy Levin, book design, CB100, Coney island, cooking gear, Deus, Flying Squirrel, gas tank, Panepinto, private jets, Scott, tablet PCs, TX650