Morning Linakge (Apr 16)

Random Day after Tax Day tab clos­ing exercise.

Transportation

Classic Lambretta scoot­er ads.

New ads for the M‑B G class. Making images from the land­scape — in this case sand and stones.

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Art, Images, and Design

From Olson Kundig — a tow­er of iso­la­tion on the edge of a forest. *

Cutting up oil paint­ings on can­vas to make social com­men­tary. I knew all those “repli­cas” would be put to good use even­tu­al­ly. Check out Washington cross­ing the Delaware, with a lit­tle help. Titus Kaphir.

The Selvedge Yard brings the ten­der bits of New York City in the 1970’s to life with the pic­tures and words of Allan Tannenbaum. I“m not sure you can describe what I feel as nos­tal­gia, more of a grind­ing familiarity.

Simple, sweet, and to the point. A clever visu­al for Fedex. London -> Madrid.

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Animation

Lush visu­als and music bring the chil­dren’s book La gran orques­tra de los ani­males, to life. A jour­ney from the coun­try­side to the city for fame and for­tune, and back. and then back again.

… and anoth­er week goes in the books.

* One of the part­ners in the firm Olson Kundig is a relative.

Morning Linkage (Apr 15)

Transportation

Nice T‑shirt graph­ic fea­tur­ing the Pannonia TFL Deluxe 1959.
You can’t order any­thing if you have a real­ly small screen because their web­site has lost it’s scroll bars. Bummer.

The Thistlegorm went down in the Red Sea in May of 1941 while car­ry­ing sup­plies for the British Army in Africa. Among the many items now rest­ing one the sea bed are 400 motor­cy­cles. Including this Triumph 3TW. Clicking on the pic­tures will get you the full ver­sions. (Page trans­lat­ed from Italian)

Odd lit­tle air­plane engine. A flat twin stood on it’s side.

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Science

Wired Science has an inter­view with Eli Kintisch author of Hack the Planet
in the lead up to the Alisomar con­fer­ence on reg­u­lat­ing geo-engineering.

And Jeff Goodall gives us an after the fact sum­ma­ry of the con­fer­ence.

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Art, Images, and Design

Bamboo is quick­ly becom­ing a wide­ly accept­ed “green” mate­r­i­al for all sorts of house­hold prod­ucts includ­ing table­ware, stor­age con­tain­ers, and dec­o­ra­tive pieces. Brit Leissler recent­ly trav­eled around Vietnam and sent a mas­sive col­lec­tion of pho­tographs from the vil­lages and towns where the bamboo-ware is made. The nav­i­ga­tion is a lit­tle con­fus­ing, click on the first image in the “wall” to start look­ing at the images.

Delicately drawn and light­ly col­ored. The humans shown in the work of the Chinese artist called Muxi exist on the bound­ary of man and animal.

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Animation

Think your mon­ey works for you? Musclebeaver would like to show you the truth. Well done prim­i­tive ani­ma­tion of green­backs doing what green­backs wan­na do. (NSFW)

tax day, raf­fle day, sun­ny day, take your pick.

Morning Linkage (Apr 13)

Transportation

The new MSF Curriculum is being talked about. What does this mean to you?

Sponsored in part by MSF and con­duct­ed by the Virgina Tech Transportation Institute, a new study aims to pro­duce up to date val­ues for moto acci­dents and near accidents.

Geographically suit­able vehi­cles? Or design exer­cis­es with stereo types. Considering that these three vehi­cles designed for the Pacific Northwest fit so nice­ly into the lives of the “nature-loving, caffeine-addicted triath­letes” that live here, I’d say the stereo­types are win­ning. (I only know one of the afore men­tioned goobers.)

The descrip­tion of this fine Norton-Harley hybrid begins with,  “Some motor­cy­cles just look exact­ly “right”. Yeah, what he said.\

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Food

They Draw and Cook. Illustrators show their favorite recipes in 1200 x 450 pix­els. Yes, we want this all pub­lished in a book.

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Art, Images, and Design

Small urban land­scapes placed in larg­er urban land­scapes. Adding win­dows to met­al box­es cre­ates new spaces where tiny cit­i­zens can live.

More Nicole Dextras — Angry Lunch. Cast paper shapes make up a sand­wich with an atti­tude.

A col­lec­tion of unusu­al rugs.  So are wit­ty, some are head scratch­ing­ly odd, a cou­ple would be fab to have on the floor. (Eggs, or the polar bear?)

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Animation

Pixels take over NYC. All of your favorite old school arcade games are here.

… and that’s Tuesday for you.

Morning Linkage (Apr 9)

Transportation

A nice over-restoration (I made that word up) of a Honda CBX1000. The head­er pipes are rad.

Another CBX, this time in near orig­i­nal con­di­tion. More pics and details on the bike as you slide right in the viewport.

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Science

Pretty pho­to­graph and expla­na­tion of The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon. Okay, the title is the coolest part but the pic­ture will make you a lit­tle dreamy too.

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Art, images, and Design

Here are some shots from the NYC Easter Parade. Random good­ness. It’s worth a chunk of time to click on  the “Mark Tucker” at the top and explore some of his oth­er posts. There are days when his slide into a
brand of slick com­mer­cial por­trai­ture is cloy­ing and oth­ers when it is odd­ly calm­ing. And then there are the moments of genius like these can­did shots from the NYC Easter Day parade. (Talent is often for
sale…)

Six pos­si­ble cos­tumes for your next big event. Provided you don’t have hay fever. Weedrobes — Nicole Dextras’ ephemer­al cou­ture for sum­mer and prints from the pho­tographs. You’ll like the win­ter Iceworks as well but they aren’t as wearable.

Su Blackwell’s ver­sion of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party fea­tures a well cutout Alice look­ing on curi­ous­ly. all of Ms. Blackwell’s book sculp­tures are just plain fun.

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Animation

The music is stan­dard pop, love song, but the video is too ter­ri­bly twee with all of those clever match­box­es. The Navigators “Dinner at My Place”

And then I found the entire set of match­box­es in one place.

and there you have it — anoth­er per­fect­ly good week wast­ed with…

Morning Linkage (Apr 8)

Transportation

I’ve known of cou­ple of bike nuts from Alberta. Something about the hor­ri­bly, long , dark win­ters leads to the cre­ation of awe­some bikes to be enjoyed dur­ing the 16 hour sum­mer days. Things like this love­ly Duc.

Oh so old school, oh so cool. A turquoise Indian. The details pics of the leaf springs will make you weep.

The Partridge Family was a sta­ple of my tween­er life and David Cassidy was on the cov­er of every dang issue of Tiger Beat for years. But I’m grown up now and sweet­ened up, hair band singer, wanna-bes do noth­ing for me. That bus they drove, on the oth­er hand, I’d still buy.

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Science

Olive trees show how sex­u­al dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion in plants can change over time. And why that change may remain incom­plete. Fascinating botany and a reminder that gen­der is mutable.

The world’s old­est tree, it’s a some­what con­test­ed title. I mean, what exact­ly is a tree? and how do you mea­sure old? None-the-less, here’s scoop on 12 con­tenders. Including this tiny spruce in Sweden named after a geol­o­gist’s dog.

Science on a larg­er scale. Tides are the result of the moon and the sun mess­ing about with the water float­ing around the Earth. There’s a nice set of expla­na­tions, some ques­tions answered, and sim­ple ani­mat­ed graphics 

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Art, Images, and Design

The Chinese have a long tra­di­tion of ges­tur­al land­scape paint­ing. Sail has updat­ed the mate­ri­als and meth­ods but still pro­duces dreamy images of places you’d like to be. A plum tree on a wall in Shanghai. Done with spray paint.

Bunnies, bees, a baby rein­deer. Tulips, cher­ry blos­soms, and welling­ton boots. The Big Picture has a round of spring images.  (And there’s a Magpie!)

Shepard Fairey brings his sig­na­ture style to a multi-cultural trib­ute on Melrose Ave.

the sun is out! the hail will return, no doubt.