Transportation
If the Lamborghini has been dropped from your new ride shopping list due to its fixed roof and slightly porky profile. You might want to reconsider. The new Gallardo. Lighter. Topless.
The maintenance guys’ Cushman Carts were the object of derision, pranking, and common theft in college. I guess we weren’t the only ones who secretly thought they were cool.
The horse track in Aarhaus Denmark was given over to the sport of motor(cycle) racing in the 1950’s. Included on this Speedway Life page are racing programs, photographs, and race results. The pictures and drawings of the sidecar racing, like the one above, are especially fine. In the original Danish.
Art, Images, and Design
Arrested Motion’s best photos of the ROA show in LA at Thinkspace. The work on accordioned reclaimed doors is good.
The Sherlock Holmes stories were not the only thing that A. Conan Doyle wrote. The Arthurian romance “The White Company” was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and published by David McKay in 1922.
Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox. Shaw Nielsen makes me happy by adding a couple of masked birds as well.
A whimsical little bit of metal and the most wonderful turquoise enamel ever. The circus ring. (And go read Jonah Leslie’s bio and shop information — curation of goods in an internet-linked world.)
Animation and Science and Papercraft
Combining live action, paper costumes, and sex. How can you miss? Just to remind you that the first episodes of Sundance Channel’s Seduce Me Season 2 are up. For the moment they are unlinkable on the flash-based SC website. Expect links to the individual episodes as they come up on YouTube.
As a teaser I’m giving you this behind-the-scenes from Season 1. (NSFW unless you are a zoologist.)