Transportation
If you simply *must*have a Ducati… No, no, please don’t hit me. I only find them and bring them to you. I don’t actually create them.
Eastern Europe is turning out a lot of talented visual artists and a couple of odd-ball bike customizers. Everyone has seen Yuri Shif’s tri-color Monster the DUster, but this bike, mysteriously named Gustav Skippone has an creepy charm all it’s own.
Three apparently unrelated pictures. I want to make up a story that accounts for the racer, the ad, and Norton. I’ll settle for a nice look into the past.
Science, Tech, and Gadgets
In the midst of this collection of images from the Museo Virtual del Diseno Creativity (Spain) there is a photograph a a radio shack belonging to EA3DY. Lining the walls are the QSL cards he collected from his contacts. The cards are also reproduced here. A bit odd in the middle of a set of images devoted to commercial design in the 30’s but a fascinating find.
Art, Images, and Design
Wicked, or silly. I can’t decide. This skeletal arm microphone holder may be just the thing for a rocker in need of a meaningful mike stand. Nah, it’s just very cool.
Very nice metal work on this clock by Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Mirian van der Lubbe. A reminder that we can choose to have
A collection of pictures of rhinos that shouldn’t be as wonderful as it is. I particularly like the Leandro Castelao and the Sergo Ruffolo — conveniently located next to each other .
…and there you have it, the week is half over.