Morning Linkage (Oct 25)

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 :)

Morning Linkage (Oct 21)

Transportation

Except for the choice of blue hoses, I can see this charm­ing CB550 being a some­one’s pride and joy in the ear­ly 80’s.

Love the paint. CB450. Yeah, anoth­er one.

1970 Japan. You do not want to see this police mod­el CB750 in your mir­rors. Original in Japanese (more pix)

(Bonus Transportation Animation) REDLINE. Nope, it’s not mak­ing the lists of Christmas sea­son block busters. But we might get a look at Takeshi Koike’s rac­ing epic (with sub­ti­tles) in the Spring. Wicked cool, intra-galactic rac­ing. (Video — loud, vio­lent and full of aliens — oh and racing)

Science

I should be much more hyped about the deep eco­log­i­cal impli­ca­tions of the work of Lucy and Jorge Orta, but real­ly I just want to watch the but­ter­flies. (Video with voice over. 1:40) More details on the multi-media instal­la­tion “Amazonia” at the Natural History Museum

Art, Images, and Design

If you need a lit­tle some­thing eldritch for your Halloween par­ty invites you could do no bet­ter than to con­sid­er one of Sidney Sime’s fine ghosties and ghoulies.

More grue­some images for late October. The Walter Potter col­lec­tion has been (par­tial­ly) reassem­bled. “A fine exam­ple of Victorian whim­sy.” If your taste in whim­sy runs to stuffed squir­rels.

Pen and water­col­or. A lit­tle reminder to all those who don’t live here in Pugetopolis why we love it. Crisp, sun­ny, morn­ing in the ID.

Animation

Doomed, A bio­log­i­cal car­toon by Guillermo Garcia Carsi. Inverted hedge­hogs, coral par­rots, strange song­birds, and cube fish.  Click on the word Doomed to start the pre­view. Snork. (Video with voice-over. 1:07 — Flash)

Morning Linkage (Oct 20)

Transportation

Featured in the most recent issue of Italian Motor Magazine (which looks like a very worth­while off-line effort.) John W’s Mk 2 Le Man’s based Guzzi cafe rac­er is one of the finest cus­toms that I’ve seen. Fine enough to over­come my dis­like of the all knees and elbows look of the MG engine. And that’s going a ways.

Just the thing for the rut­ted grav­el path out to the back forty. CT90 in OD and kha­ki. Well sort­ed lit­tle thing.

Four fine old Detroit icons. Pen and water­col­or. The out­line draw­ing of the Pontiac logo is worth the price of admis­sion. Click for embiggens. Wallpaper worthy.

Okay — this is just weird. I think it’s a Fairchild J‑44 jet engined trike built by EJ Potter. Read more about the Michigan Madman at the Knee Slider.

Science

Remembering just how pol­lut­ed out night skies are. Comparing the vis­i­bil­i­ty of night sky objects.

With the goal of cre­at­ing a tiny lit­tle sun inside a ware­house in Livermore, the National Ignition Facility on both a macro and micro scale. Bonus pic­ture of the Governator on tour in 2008.

Art, Images, and Design

One of the nicest let­ter­press adver­tis­ing sets I’ve seen. Cranky Pressman sends out a set of 4 Parliment of Owls designed coast­ers with the charm­ing res­i­dents of an imag­i­nary sea­side town. Meet Edna, Mr. Snogglebaum, Adelaide and her pal Mr. Pistachio, and Cranky him­self. Now I must con­sid­er exact­ly what I want in the way of cus­tom, die-cut, letter-pressed coast­ers for my next social func­tion, hmmmm.

Lost artists. Jos Albert. Umber and grey. Domestic scenes and still-lifes, look­ing as if an under-painting was over­laid with graphite and then aban­doned. A slow­er, calmer world than the one we live in.

Cut-out paper ani­ma­tion. The sto­ry of Star Wars told by lit­tle paper peo­ple. (Video/Music 2:41)

Morning Linkage (Oct 18)

Transportation

Not near­ly enough infor­ma­tion on this super lit­tle Honda. But the brake disks prob­a­bly out­weight the engine by half.

Vincent over at Southsiders writes about the Shady Dell Vintage Trailer Camp in Bisbee Arizona. Excellently pho­tographed and pre­sent­ed. And there’s a “walk around” pre­sen­ta­tion on the Shady Dell site. Click on “Virtual Tour” in the top nav.

IP and Technology

Another patent troll — this time claim­ing to own the rollover. Webvention. Who the heck is… Interesting choice of price point for “licens­ing” and a real­ly poor choice of well-capitalized tar­get. But most­ly you need to see the troll doll post image cho­sen by the wits at Ars.

Art, Images, and Design

This most awe­some tin-can dog look­ing out the space port-hole is from Denise Van Leeuwen for Planet Adventures writ­ten by Krista Izelaar. Many more images from the book.

I’ll save you the cost of pur­chas­ing the October Harper’s Bazaar by send­ing you to this Wicked Halo recap of the fab­u­lous exploitation/pulp inspired fall frock lay­out “Mystery in the Moonlight.” (Don’t both­er with the music video at the bot­tom. Dullsville.)

More pulp pret­ties. From the first image in the col­lec­tion — lady in a leop­ard print biki­ni accom­pa­nied  by a black pan­ther in a tree — you know that Dave Stevens’ over the top females on pulp cov­ers are going to make your day. (NSFW — sadly)

Video

Music video mash-ups are rarely worth the 3:23 that you put into watch­ing them. Not in this case. “Stayin’ Alive in the Wall” is proof that Terpsichore has a sense of humor. (Video/Music 3:23)

Morning Linkage (Oct 8)

Transportation and Photography

1976 Benelli 750 SEI. Pure sex appeal.

Really big rock­et engines… and trains. A Soyuz gets to the launch pad.

Sometimes you just need to know a guy. A guy whose grand­fa­ther raced Italian motor­cy­cles in the 20’s and 30’s. A cache of pho­tos from Alfredo Panella’s grand­son.

Piling moun­tains of things on lit­tle wheeled vehi­cles. Brought to an art form in Shanghai.

Animation

Jordan Smith cre­ates the trail­er for Bryan Talbot’s graph­ic nov­el Grandville Mon Amour. (NSFW — ani­mal char­ac­ters engag­ing in noir violence)

Also noir but much more light-hearted, an addict and his poi­son. Key Lime Pie. Another cute Death. Blame Coilhouse, I do.

and… it’s over, see you all next week,