Morning Linkage (Mar 2)

Trans­porta­tion

The F1 safety car. M-B SLS AMG. My very favorite alpha­bet soup car. The rear light­ing is par­tic­u­larly stylish.

Vin­ta­gent pro­vides another fas­ci­nat­ing story from yes­ter­year. A 1967 “pro­duc­tion” bike class at the Isle of Man TT led to the cre­ation of a spe­cial Velo­cette Thrux­ton. Tales of it’s suc­cesses and failures.

Loverly. In-car and side-of-the-road video of a prac­tice drive for the 100 Acre Wood rally. This is why they do it.

Funny British “Watch for Motor­cy­clists” ad. Humor and a reminder. Plus per­haps the ulti­mate hel­met acces­sory, neon.

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Tools

A nice vari­a­tion on the multi-tool. I like rounder shapes for pocket objects.

I love my rotary cut­ters for cut­ting both fab­ric and paper. I have sev­eral includ­ing a cou­ple of the pretty flower pat­terned spe­cial edi­tions. Now the rotary cut­ter prin­ci­ple has been applied to emer­gency equip­ment. A bet­ter way to cut through layer of denim, tex­tile, or leather.

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Sci­ence

A real­is­tic recon­struc­tion of a snake prey­ing on a rep­tile. Unre­mark­able except for the fact that the snake is 11 feet long and the rep­tile is an infant Titanosaur. Nice pho­tos of the orig­i­nals fos­sils as well as the reconstruction.

Tiny-saurs. Build-it-yourself mini mod­els, less than $20 for the deluxe kits.They also do cus­tom work if any­one is look­ing for the ulti­mate trade show swag.

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Art, Images and Design

Ani­ma­tion — sort of. Aard­man presents Home Sheep Home. Infu­ri­at­ingly sim­ple browser based game for lovers of Shaun the Sheep. Hate, hate, hate. I suck at video games.

Flickr user A Jour­ney Around My Skull is always a good source for new things to look at. These illus­tra­tions from Iran­ian children’s books are at the same time famil­iar and alien. Many seem to be folk­tales. This image of two richly dressed char­ac­ters with flow­ers for heads sets the tone. There are many equally fine images through out the set.

These are scary and weird and full of vaguely obscene pigs pro­vid­ing moral guid­ance(?). In other words, ter­rific. Scott Has­sell.  Mostly pen and ink. (NSFW)

Bird obsessed Jungil Hong was trained in ceram­ics at RISD but is best known for her collages.

More tomor­row…

Tagged as: 100 acre wood, Aardman, ad, birds, children's books, collage, dinosaurs, Home Sheep Home, Iran, Jungil Hong, models, multitool], neon, rally, rotary cutter, Scott Hassell, Shaun the Sheep, SLS, thruxton, thruxton vellocette, tools, triumph