Morning Linkage (Jun 15)

(Con­fused) Trans­porta­tion Options

A Smart Car mon­ster truck. If any­one ever asks you to define the term twee oxy­moron — show them this pic­ture. Srlsy. And there’s video. More hap­pily there’s a post over at Men’s Men­tore about race car trans­porters from the 50’s. Lord, are these fab­u­lous look­ing. An El Camino car­ry­ing an open wheel racer and a swoopy round haunched Mer­cedes with a fro­mula car on the back. Swoon. I needed a moto pic­ture for this morning’s links so I went to the big bucket of trans­porta­tion RSS feeds and there this was — right on the top

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Lit­er­a­ture and Culture.

It’s sum­mer — we all need some­thing to read at the beach. But how to choose a sum­mer win­ner? Um, maybe ask the writer who penned your favorite book? William Gib­son weighs in on sci-fi and Peter Cary gives you his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, along with 4 oth­ers. Pro­pa­ganda mate­r­ial of the ages is a rich source of visual inspi­ra­tion. Meant to grab and jerk the viewer from a dis­tance with­out much con­sid­er­a­tion for sub­tlety. Smash­ing gives us a look at 100 years of his­tory and some of the best and worst exam­ples. Judg­ing the images and their effec­tive­ness with­out con­sid­er­ing the mes­sages is an try­ing exer­cise in design mind.

Art, Images, and Design

Sci­ence Tele­vi­sion is Gian­marco Mag­nani. A designer and print maker. His two cur­rent series of prints, Vil­lains and Rid­ers, and  For­got­ten Monar­chy bring spot color and line work to the fore. Vaguely anime inspired, girls and motos. Can’t miss. Paper and paint mixed with bits of toy-train set world-building goods. Land­scape through the eyes of Gre­gory Euclide. Danny St. (saint) takes pic­tures in Sin­ga­pore. Street pic­tures that pro­vide por­traits of the peo­ple and place. This gallery gives some of the hun­dreds of won­der­ful images.

Ani­ma­tion

Group ther­apy for naughty lit­tle un-deads. Okay, it’s called Nos­fer­atu Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. You fig­ure it out.

Noisy, Smoky, Gen­er­ally Bad

Bejamin Gudel (from a cou­ple of days ago) has a nice new web­site.  But you have got to seri­ously admire a guy who includes a link to this animated/audio-ated mess of a 2007 web­site. Healthy sense of humor, or mor­bid self fla­gel­la­tion. You make the call. (Mov­ing parts, noise, and an obscene tat­too) NSFW

Tea drunk, links up, next … plumb­ing — urk.

Tagged as: bad websites, Benjamin Gudel, books, cafe racer, car haulers, Danny St, girls on bikes, Gregory Euclide. Science Television, Kawasaki, monster truck, prints, Singapoer, smart car, street photos, summer reading