Transportation

The week­end’s over, but there’s a new week­end just around the cor­ner. Some of you are gonna need this. Hayes M1030 — bitchin’ off road machine. Multi-fuel, 2‑foot ford­ing depth, option­al IR dri­ving light! woohoo!

And one of these. Bufali­no. Piag­gio APE goes camper. Yup­pers, I’ll take one.

Snick­er. That’s some bal­last you got there. Fright­en­ing­ly close to home for some of us hack own­ers. And more Stan Mott car and bike art. Bonus pho­tos at 2/3rds. Go Carts!

Science

Astronomer Seth Shostak pro­pos­es that we could increase our chances of find­ing intel­li­gent life in the stars by expand­ing the type of intel­li­gence we are look­ing for. Where should we look if we want to find alien arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence?

Slight­ly more earth bound news. Migra­tion is a com­plex social func­tion; not just a mat­ter of every­one in the flock gets an urge for bright sun­ny beach­es come October.

Art, Images, and Design

Tum­blinger­strasse? Tag Tag? Super Paper? Still does­n’t mean any­thing to you? How about Hot Wheels stop-motion ani­ma­tion and graffiti?

These do not look like tat­toos. But they are… I’m unde­cid­ed about them but I val­ue the reminder that ink on skin does­n’t have to con­form to a look. More of Aman­da Wachob’s work (click on abstract)

Utter­ly point­less ani­mat­ed gif. But there’s a monkey…

Animation

Sad news from Japan, Satochi Kon has passed away.

He gave us many films but none so won­der­ful as Tokyo God­fa­thers. A look at three mis­fits who find a bun­dle on Christ­mas Eve. T.G. long ago replaced It’s a Won­der­ful Life as our Christ­mas movie of choice. Earthy, humor­ous, and real­is­ti­cal­ly hope­ful. (Avail­able on disc from netflix.)
Amer­i­can ver­sion of the Tokyo God­fa­thers trail­er. Lame trail­er, good movie.

oh so Mon­day around here, I hope your locale is a lit­tle less inundated.