Morning Linkage (Nov 1)

Transportation

I’m not actu­al­ly that fond of the Triumph/Indian/Whathaveyou vin­tage bob­ber idea. So the Royal-Enfield item does­n’t do it for me. But some of the detail­ing and engrav­ing on this machine are awesome.

1962 CZ 175 Type 450. Showing how old school bikes were adapt­ed for dirt. Back before there were “dirt bikes”

I shall now die ful­filled. Mercedes-Benz, AMG and Ducati togeth­er at last.

This weird lit­tle bike is based, loose­ly, on a Ducati. Well done, or just ran­dom? discuss.

Science

#16 — a snow crys­tal. Wow. And there’s the new to me Ornamental Baboon Tarantula. Big pic­tures of the small world.

Airplane food sucks because you can’t hear your­self think. Okay that’s inter­est­ing, but it does­n’t help does it?

Art, Images, and Design

An inter­est­ing attempt to change up the usu­al (fail­ing) inter­face for door open­ers. Can we stop peo­ple push­ing when they should pull and pulling when they should push? Maybe.

Cars 2 com­ing next sum­mer from Pixar. It’s a spy sto­ry? Check out the logo reveal on the offi­cial YouTube chan­nel. And there’s a web­site — of course. I hope it’s worth the hype. Pixar is awful­ly close to becom­ing pre­dictable. And that would be sad.

The adven­ture game Machinarium (Amanita Design) was a mini-hit in 2009. Now if you want to have your own lit­tle robot you can. Papercraft score!

Abstract pat­terns com­bined to cre­ate a fox on a wall. Philippe Baudelocque does some fine work in Paris. His per­son­al web­site has an awful mov­ing back­ground.

Morning Linkage (Oct 29)

Transportation

Tiny bikes on the salt at Bonneville. 61+ mph from 50ccs. Scott Guthrie Racing as it in for the mini-bike crowd. More about Scott Guthrie and his  more con­ven­tion­al LSRs.

Sometimes not fix­ing all of the dam­age is the right way to go. This H‑D tank was cleaned up, giv­en a fin­ish sand­ing, and then waxed. The char­ac­ter shines through.

Art, Images, and Design

Photos that are pret­ty at first glance and then they chal­lenge you to see the ugly, and then the beau­ty, and then anoth­er lay­er of ugly… This set is “The Ways of Salt.” Felix Cid.(NSFW- artis­tic nudity)

28 vin­tage man­ga cov­ers. Like you thought this was a new thing?

Mostly crabs — a few oth­er sea crea­tures with claws. Happy pictures.

Animation

Adorable, sense­less gore.“Kill Your Coworkers” has the robots on parade going a lit­tle hay­wire. Barely col­ored frame­works mean that the fly­ing heads are rough cubes and the blood that flows is kin­da like a water fall of Lego. Creator Mike Winkleman has made the C4D files free to the world and eager­ly awaits the twist­ed genius results. (Video 3:04)

Pointless Holiday Picture

I just want to be able to use this pic­ture as the post image for today
Happy Halloween y’all

Morning Linkage (Oct 28)

Transportation

Helmut Fath’s mul­ti­ple cham­pi­onship win­ning URS side­car recent­ly sold for more than $150K. Worth it? There cer­tain­ly is enough his­to­ry here to make it interesting.

The log­ic of the pick­ings and place­ments of these 50 best rac­ing liv­er­ies will baf­fle you. Until you real­ize that each place­ment had to had a video. (Not true, a few don’t.) Try the 1988 Porsche rac­ing in the 24 hours of Le Mans — with the fog addled start. Or maybe the 15 sec­onds of pure son­ic joy to had Parnelli Jone’s Boss 302.  All the rest are in the box on the right. Just don’t look at #50. Tic tac.

New Norton Commando- ditch the lit­tle idjit screen, and pony up for the wire wheels and the sport­ing exhaust. Then get the hell out­ta my way. (Oh and tell the dude on the video to shut up. m’kay?)

Cute Natural World

Big cats love the post Halloween gro­cery clean-up. And who knew that pump­kins float? The tigers loved chas­ing them in the ponds. (2 dif­fer­ent videos.)

Internet Tips and Tricks.

Um, Google now index­es all of the LIFE images. So go to google.com, click Images in the top nav bar and type : “fer­rari source:life” into the search box.. or maybe “duke elling­ton source:life” if you’re in a more laid back kin­da mood.

Art, Images, and Design

A brief overview of the work of Finnish pho­tog­ra­ph­er Nelli Palomaki. Portraits of women and girls sug­gest­ing depths to their life sto­ries that are not revealed causally.

Somehow the croc­o­dile on the side of this bricked up build­ing in Lisbon looks ter­ri­bly sad about some­thing. Lucy McLauchlan’s lit­tle birds, how­ev­er, are hav­ing a very good day.

Using up the relics of the WWII. Making fur­ni­ture and home decor out of naval mines. Yup, that’s gonna look right­eous in my library.

Swing Shift Cinderella — with this Flashy Lassie with the Classy Chassis. Um, it’s the lob­by card for an upcom­ing car­toon short from the mid-century. I love it. More ads fea­tur­ing the car­toons here. And a reminder that car­toons were orig­i­nal­ly for the grown-ups. (SFW)

sec­ond times the charm :)

Morning Linkage (Oct 26)

Transportation

Want a lit­tle mys­tery to pon­der today? How about get­ting to the bot­tom of this MV Augusta 60cc Monomoto Superleggera. Tragic Italian opera? Wacky art project? Total BS? Keep looking.

Headline — 60 Years on Jaguar Sexy C‑Type Still Seduces — and here are the pic­tures to prove it. Honestly is there any­thing sex­i­er on 4 wheels?

Start in Philadephia — end up in New Zealand. Plan on about a month of trav­el time. Telastar logis­tics will get you start­ed by point­ing you to Justin Watt’s con­tain­er ship trav­el FAQ and toss in a cou­ple of pics of the journey.

Puzzles

The old River Crossing Puzzle giv­en a new set of char­ac­ters and rules that come from a more mod­ern per­spec­tive. Played with life-size pieces and real world rules.  An inter­ac­tive instal­la­tion by Ahmet Ogut.

Art, Images, and Design

There are a hand­ful of excel­lent pho­tographs in this intro­duc­tion to the Facing Change pho­to­graph­ic project. Based on the founders’ desire to cre­ate a pub­lic col­lec­tion of images that illus­trate our times in the man­ner of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) projects of the 30’s but with­out polit­i­cal ties.

So, is this archi­tec­tures? Sculpture? Collage? Papercraft? Don’t know, don’t care. You must spend time with the images and nar­ra­tive descrip­tion of “The Migration of Mel and Judith” a trav­el­ogue built into a “self-enclosed curl­ing world of the lamp­shade”… which … “adds a won­der­ful­ly anti-perspectival, frilly con­cav­i­ty to the cou­ple’s journey.”

And if Mel and Judith was­n’t enough for you, you can move along and explore Thomas Hillier’s more recent work “The Emperor’s Castle” A vague­ly creepy, organ­i­cal­ly extrav­a­gant, origa­mi inspired pop-up book.

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Morning Linkage (Oct 25)

Transportation

Hell for Leather dug in and got the details on the new hel­met design that has been ping-ponging around the inter­net. The tech­ni­cal details of Del Rosario’s hel­met are a lot more inter­est­ing than the space ranger looks. (Del Rosario home page.)

Another damned CB450 that I want. Dime City Cycles are evil. This is the one they built for the Discovery Channel spe­cial. They have oth­ers…

Photographs from the French fac­to­ry of Patrick Godet — where the Egli-Vincent is produced.

More on Godet-Vincent. Is this awe­some ded­i­ca­tion to recre­at­ing an impor­tant piece of bike his­to­ry? Or an attempt to milk a few more dol­lars out of some­one else’s cre­ation? I can’t say.

Food

Oh heav­ens, how won­der­ful. An entire blog of car­toon cook­ing instruc­tions. Easily leap­ing over the lan­guage bar­ri­er. Alya Mark is good.

And she’ll show you how to make a cake box out of tag board.

Words

I am not always a fan of the reviews and inter­views at Spike mag­a­zine. But with 600 pages worth to choose from you will prob­a­bly find some­thing  you’d like to read in this col­lec­tion of essays, inter­views, and reviews.

Art, Images, and Design

Kinetic paper-works. MechaniCards are 3‑D build-it-yourself won­ders. (Or you can buy one already made up — but where’s the fun in that?) The sec­ond print­ing of the rotary engine is sure to sell out quick­ly. So get on with it.

Excellent lin­ear illus­tra­tions in pri­ma­ry col­ors. Andrew Pawley put new work up on Hire-an-Illustrator. Too many won­der­ful things to choose from. Try these.  Bathtub, Cosmonaut, Oiseau.

Playing with Light. Short ani­ma­tion with a real sto­ry. A boy, his robot, and a lit­tle trip out to get sup­plies. Nice sound­track as well. (Video 4:00)

get mov­ing peo­ple, it’s Monday :)