Morning Linkage (Feb 7)

Trans­porta­tion

I know a lot of 2 stroke fans. Most of them area lit­tle less than sane. All of them would do this in a heart beat. Just to have some­thing for run­ning around on the back roads.  JAWA 350 mods. (Video is loud.)

WTF? Trans­former bike for those who han­ker for both a cafe racer and a cruiser but have lim­ited garage space. Video demon­strates the hydraulic change over. With seat height, rake, trail, wheel base (duh) and ground clear­ance all chang­ing to pro­duce two bikes. The V-Rod based Veon by Krug­ger. It’s also not the ugli­est thing in the world. Close but not the ugliest.

Pretty girls on bikes. A lit­tle some­thing to bring cheer into your Monday.

Sci­ence

NASA makes the best dig­i­tal toys. Extreme Plant Makeover. Mess about with the Earth by chang­ing it’s size, dis­tance from the sun, type of sun, and age. It’s awfully easy to make a bar­ren waste land or foggy soggy giant. Planet hacking!

Art, Images, and Design

A reminder that art is not with­out its odd mys­ter­ies and ongo­ing tiffs. We all know Raphael’s self-portrait. The guy with the perky nose and a dis­tant look sit­ting in front of a brown wall, unstruc­tured hat? But did you know that there’s a sec­ond paint­ing? Hid­ing in a vault, almost iden­ti­cal, and pos­si­bly as real as the one hang­ing in Uffizi? Nice lit­tle plot for a novel.

Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Kew­pie dolls, all madly out of con­text in 1930’s Japan­ese post­cards. There are also skele­tons, and danc­ing cats. Our cul­tural mas­cots must have seemed impos­si­bly odd to the cre­ators of these.

Fer­ris Plock. Pieces cre­ated while in res­i­dence. Styled after ori­en­tal wood block prints and hang­ing scrolls but with mod­ern anom­alies — the croc­o­dile wears Keds.

Ani­ma­tion and Mov­ing Images

One Wing Fly aka Y & M Nathan, Look under com­mer­cial work, there is a whole series of adverts that place a woman (really beau­ti­ful) on a floor and have her “walk” through scenes. Poorly explained by me — utterly charm­ing in per­son. (Really, good enough to war­rant a link into a flash-based site.)

Now off you go, it’s a busy week ahead.

Tagged as: Betty Boop, crocodiles, Ferris Plock, fine art, forgery, Japan, JAWA, Keds, kewpie, Krugger, Mickey Mouse, NASA, One Wing Fly, planets, postcards, pretty girl, Raphael, runnng, two-stroke, Veon, Yuval & Merav Nathan