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Morning Linkage (Jan 28)

January 28, 2011 /

Transportation

Steam to return to the Salt. An update on the efforts of Cyclone Pow­er Tech to recap­ture the land­speed record for a steam engine. Quixot­ic and wonderful.

Ducati has acquired Eliz­a­beth Raab’s Ducati pho­tographs which match sev­er­al of the icon­ic Ducatis with the form of a nude woman in an explo­ration of shape and sur­faces. Skip the words and go straight to the gallery. They’re love­ly, if a bit trite, and very NSFW.

Undis­cov­ered gem. Trishikh Das­gup­ta shoots the recre­ation of his bike Sil­verblaze. An R‑E Bul­let Machis­mo 500.

Science

Gov­ern­ment spon­sored space porn. Not quite. Remix­es and mash-ups of NASA footage by folks with a bad case of space lust. Some seri­ous­ly space cow­boy good­ness here.

Art, Images, and Design

The inane lyrics of Lady Gaga make a per­fect­ly mar­velous Dr. Seuss-ian non­sense chil­dren’s book. With
vin­tage graph­ics in black and white with blue.

Today’s if I had one-shot-a-week-like-that I’d so hap­py pho­to­graph. The umbrel­la per­fects the image. Max Fomin is some­where in Spain but writ­ing in Russian.

Olaf Hajek’s Antoinettes. A dark, earthy vision of nat­ur­al excess. Many oth­er fine things as well.

Animation and Moving Images

Paint, and sound. Add a cou­ple of cam­eras, and a turn table with a fierce rota­tion, et vio­la, a nifty ad cam­paign for print­ers. It’s so sim­ple and it’s so stunning.

These are so sweet, and so awe­some and so just right. The cut-out ani­ma­tions for the film of Le Petit Nico­las. (1:57, nice music)

Morning Linkage (Oct 25)

October 25, 2010 /

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 :)

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