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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 (Feb 24)

Transportation

Yes­ter­day it was bum­ble­bee fairy tales. This morn­ing it’s a bum­ble­bee hacked hack. Ural. Cit­roen engine. Really.

April­i­a’s print ads have a dis­tinct fla­vor about them, no mat­ter which part of the line up they are show­ing you. (NSFW butt cheeks)
Enclosed motor­cy­cle park­ing con­tain­er. Would you pay to be able to lock up your bike like this? The only down side I can see is that the 3 vehi­cles in one park­ing space advan­tage of rid­ing is elim­i­nat­ed by the bulk of the con­tain­er. Also avail­able for pri­vate pur­chase for your garage­less house.

Girl shaped moto gear is avail­able. Sort of. Most­ly it’s guy gear recut and not designed from the ground up. Except maybe this grrl shaped chest pro­tec­tor. Tac­ti­cal corsets indeed. (NSFW — black plas­tic girl shaped stuff)

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Science

3 videos of neu­rons at work. Awe­some to think that all this stuff is going on inside my head. Keep the mutant com­ments to yourselves.

Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion  2009 Inter­na­tion­al Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Visu­al­iza­tion Chal­lenge. A video in which some of the win­ners talk about their sci­ence and the illus­tra­tion there of. Also links to big­ger ver­sion of all the winners.

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Art, Images, and Design

Fritz Hoff­man’s pho­tographs con­trast­ing the new and the old in Shang­hai. For Nat’l Geo­graph­ic. Fla­vor­less mod­ernism does not age well, Shang­hai will come to regret it’s push to elim­i­nate the old every­day parts of it’s city

Jason Hol­ley’s paint­ings have appeared on the cov­ers of many well know mag­a­zines includ­ing, New Repub­lic and Rolling Stone. He also writes well about each paint­ing and it’s role in cre­at­ing the theme of the issue. His anti-ode to Okra for the Texas Month­ly echos my own hatred of that veg. Far left, fourth row.

Very, very obscene, slight­ly dis­turb­ing, lyri­cal­ly grace­ful, and a sly poke at the PC-filled world of BDSM. Bound a type face for spe­cial projects. By Gatis Cir­ulis. Don’t miss the sketch book pages at the bot­tom of the post. (NSWF)

that’s enough slack­ing for one day.