Morning Linkage (Sep 1)

Trans­porta­tion

It’s not a bad look­ing bike — at all. H-D pitches to the young­sters. No blondes allowed?

A bit of French his­tory, a pretty lady on a bike, and a Comiot tricycle.

Ralph Stead­man illus­trates Hunter Thomp­son on a Ducati. Per­fect match.

The GSX 1100 des­ig­na­tion has been with us for a very long time. This item from the 80’s is one of the rea­sons why.

Sci­ence

From WSU. Why the nice guys get voted off the island. Proper title of the paper: “The Desire to Expel Unselfish Mem­bers from the Group”. Humans are so weird.

Gam­ing

Point and click adven­ture games are always pop­u­lar with the “I don’t wanna shoot more stuff” crowd. Mostly they’re based on var­i­ous poly­gon ren­der­ing engines. But Cock­roach is build­ing some thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Clay and actual model mak­ing are used to cre­ate stop-motion sequences for The Dream Machine. A haunted apart­ment com­plex… and a game for grown ups. You can play a demo or sign up for the beta test of chap­ter one here.

Art, Images, and Design

I have a new comic in the RSS reader. Try this one with the fly­ing car.

Humans make unin­ten­tional art by their actions. A col­lec­tion of pho­tographs of all of the con­tra­band brought in to the USA via Kennedy Inter­na­tional Air­port from Nov 16 to Nov 20, 2009.

Food, visual puns, and nicely done let­ter­press work. Let­ter­form does a series of sweet greet­ing cards.

Ani­ma­tion

We wel­come our mys­te­ri­ous cat-head over­lords? Um, demonic, teddy bears? I have no idea but it’s fun and goes well with too many lattes. (Video 0:57)

snack time!

Tagged as: advertising, animation, Cockroach Inc., comics, comiot, contraband, David OReilly, Dream Machine, Ducati, girls on bikes, goodie two shoes, GSX1100, Harley Davidson, Hunter S Thompson, letterpress, Ralph Steadman, Suzuki, The System