Category Archives: Morning Linkage

Monday the 13th. That seems like it should be worse luck than Friday the 13th. Seven pages of the most amaz­ing mon­sters ever paint­ed. Travis Louie’s Monster? group exhi­bi­tion. http://www.copronason.com/monsterweb/index.html Tom Gauld draws mon­sters too. mak­ing nois­es. Onomatopoeia is fun. So is the rest of his pho­to­stream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomgauld/3532447347/in/photostream/ Drawing and words togeth­er again in cal­li­graph­ic ani­mals from … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 13)”

Good morn­ing y’all. Lots of links today, good for a slow sum­mer Friday. Let’s get start­ed shall we? More busi­ness card tom­fool­ery. Better than that chem­istry set you had as a kid. It’s a dark detec­tor. http://kits.sparklelabs.com/2009/06/25/printed-circuit-business-cards/ Much ear­li­er tech. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace start in their own com­ic (Sydney Padua is very, well just very) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139075.stm The … 

Continue read­ing “Morning LInkage (Jul 10)”

Read how they did it and then watch “Performance”. I always want­ed water­col­ors to work this way even if it is an ad for gaso­line. http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7853 You all liked one sen­tence sto­ries so much that I fig­ure you’ll like Significant Objects as well. Here’s a descrip­tion of the project. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/significant_objects_rob_walker_gets_literary_about_stuff_13984.asp and here are the stories. … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 9)”

Good design: I was mak­ing ster­ling cuffs in class a cou­ple of weeks ago. These are way cool­er. http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?individual_id=56953&portfolio_id=2345466 How to make ubiq­ui­tous mate­ri­als inter­est­ing. Plywood that bends around a cor­ner. And if I ever had to live in one room again I hope these will be avail­able. http://www.spotd.it/2009/06/flexible-wood.html Some guys are always cool. From one of my … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Lnkage (Jul 7)”

(Slightly bizarre) images. A car­ni­val in TX. http://flak-photo.my-expressions.com/archives/6333_1646490288/332630 A sculp­ture(?) whose mean­ing depends on it’s shad­ow. http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7511 Abandoned real estate is an old sto­ry but this slide show from the NYT has excel­lent pho­tos. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/05/magazine/20090705-gilded-slideshow_2.html Local scenes. Cool things hap­pen in Manchester England. I wish I could go and try my luck at con­vinc­ing the Mad Man. http://www.mif.co.uk/projects/the-difference-enginea-steampunk-adventure/ Support … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jul 6)”