Morning Linkage (Jun 11)

Transportation

There’s no way to link into Lucy Pepper’s blog to get at this love­ly lit­tle sketch of a tod­dler on his pop­pa’s scoot­er.

If you like Lucy’s style click through for her unique take on life as an ex-pat in Portugal.Her lit­tle Piaggio sketch is a grin too.

I do not know how I feel about this. Somehow it puts me in mind of a 1970’s won­der woman car­toon. That can’t be good can it? Harris?

Suzuki again, this time a frame for the Savage.

Scientific Shopping

Next place to spend too much mon­ey. The Evolution Store. Tons of nat­ur­al his­to­ry good­ies and creepy lit­tle treasures.

Society: Politics and Trivia

The dig­i­tal age of pol­i­tics has arrived, like it or not. The expert use of dig­i­tal media will be cru­cial in deter­min­ing the win­ners and losers. Google rolls out tools for cam­paigns and cam­paign­ers. Sometimes it’s hard to remem­ber that sauce for the goose (your favorite may­or) is sauce for the gan­der (your least favorite coun­ty coun­cil member)

America is Number 1 in ser­i­al killers. Canada is num­ber 1 in fruit juice drinkers. Because every coun­try is best at something…

Art, Images, and Design

As Good as Any God is made of wood, paint, and nails. Which is kind of like say­ing trees are made of wood  and water. It only gets bet­ter with Embracing Stochasticity, One Hundred Percent Savage, and Idol for the Absurd. There’s a sin­gle in progress shot in this set — pon­der and be boggled.

AJ Fosik talks about his work.

Le Creative Sweatshop. Cute name. Deadly seri­ous about com­mer­cial paper art. Tons of work for the fash­ion indus­try. You’ll love the first cou­ple of images in the La Rinascente installation.

Animation

Maniacal beats, mor­ph­ing char­ac­ters, and a case of the mir­rored uni­vers­es. Love and Theft by Film Bilder. (NSFW — car­toon nudes)

BTW check out youTube’s goog­lesque logo homage (foot­ball!)

see you again next week

Morning Linkage (Jun 10)

Transportation

We all know that the Goldwing is the most capa­ble race machine out there. Right?

But, it’s been done before. More con­vinc­ing­ly. (Photos and sto­ry cour­tesy of Phil Kopp.)

Go here. Choose your favorite style of bicy­cle. The Plato — town­ie. The Aristotle — free or fixed. Or the slight­ly more cool Aristolte CRMO. Click “build” and start cus­tomiz­ing your col­or­ful new toy. Addictive and harm­less fun.

I have no idea what this site is actu­al­ly about but the sweet blue 750 wait­ing patient­ly for bet­ter weath­er is dear.

Food

Does this belong in Food or Design? A math­e­mat­i­cal­ly per­fect set of knives.

Art, Images, and Design

As we go through our day — sit­ting in front of com­put­ers, con­sum­ing text — we rarely see the let­ters and sym­bols for them­selves. They are beau­ti­ful. Look at some of the scripts and writ­ing sys­tems that do not share our famil­iar west­ern let­ter forms and remem­ber that the sym­bols that we use to con­vey mean­ing have a grace all their own.

Sarah Bridgland is mak­ing found paper con­struc­tions. Lots of very nice ones.  Her Swingline Staples is par­tic­u­lar­ly pleas­ing to fans of let­ters. (thx tfmktm)

Form Golden Age Comic Book Stories. The Children of Odin. Hand cut let­ter­ing and sim­ple block draw­ings. Willy Pogany’s illus­tra­tions would make the finest col­or­ing book.

… it’s always something.

Morning Linkage (Jun 9)

Transportation

It’s all about the life style right? Triumph for your body. The Spring 2010 col­lec­tion. Video. (NSFW — under­wear)

A motor­car­ri­er is one of those three wheeled things with a car­go bed held up over two wheels in the front and a sin­gle dri­ven wheel behind the ‘rid­er’ in the back. Very agri­cul­tur­al, and of course it can be raced. Helmets do not appear to be required.

There are sev­er­al day’s worth of motor­car­ri­er rac­ing videos on YouTube is you need more bad ideas. The Dutch are bored, real­ly bored.

Loverly Ariel with enclosed side­car. (Thanks EdW.)

Tech and Gadgets

Very good news for the Pacific Northwest weath­er geeks. We’re get­ting our radar a year early!!

Toys that teach lan­guage are a favorite gift from the aun­tie. These kan­ji char­ac­ters trans­form into the ani­mal named. Maybe the next sproglet needs to learn Japanese.

Art, Images, and Design

I work stand­ing up so I would­n’t have the prob­lem of sand inter­fer­ing with the cast­ers on my chair. Eternal beach.

I don’t think I can rec­om­mend this website/blog as a great exam­ple of infor­ma­tion trans­fer but I love the way it looks. The RSS feed makes it pos­si­ble to actu­al­ly read what the own­er actu­al­ly has to say.(Matt Mullenweg is one of the mavens of WordPress.)

Stylized por­traits of the roy­als and their retain­ers from the Mughal empire. How can such visu­al­ly busy pic­tures be so serene?

keep it going…

Morning Linkage (Jun 8)

Transportation

The Sidewinder. Yup, Barris, still wrong. (The site includes all of the Barris designs from your child­hood. The Munsters through General Lee. The front page has music.)

There are only two pic­tures here, but it’s not often you get to see an Excelsior under the sky.

You just know that this cat was the height of cool.

Science

Osedax roseus is a bone bor­ing worm that lives on the picked over remains of a sunken whale car­cass. Adaptation is stun­ning in it’s vari­ety. And no, it’s not weird to read about a fin­ger sized red worm and repeat­ed­ly exclaim — that is so cool!

Poetry

Two pieces of poet­ry, very dif­fer­ent prove­nances, very sim­i­lar messages.

First, Tom Waits reads the odd­ly hope­ful ‘Laughing Heart’ by Charles Bukowski.

Then, Neil Gaiman reads “Instructions” while Charles Vess’ illus­tra­tions and work­ing draw­ing cap­ti­vate your eyes.

Images

Os Gemos from Brazil hit­ting the streets of Italy with some clever visu­als.

I’m not sure about the ham­ster wheel por­tion of this cylin­dri­cal hous­ing solu­tion but the bit that rolls over to change from a desk and chair to a bed is just what I need for my office. Nap-time!

Yuko Shimizu at drawger intro­duces us to anoth­er of her long list of on-line friends. Benjamin Gudel (u with umlat) Most of the images in this gallery are from a Carhartt cam­paign. Really.

‘ta my dar­ling readers

Morning Linkage (Jun 7)

Transportation

For any­one who does­n’t already know where the inspi­ra­tion for my hack, Brunhilde, came from. The clas­sic cream with pin­stripes has always spo­ken to me.

Another junk bicy­cle and lit­tle gas engine cre­ation. This could get to be a recur­ring fea­ture here.

Oh my, anoth­er Deus. The Bloodnok. Flash based gallery at the source.

Society and Culture

This is one of those finds that is delight­ful­ly dif­fi­cult to cat­e­go­rize. Sukkah City NYC  2010. 12 sukkahs will be built in Union Square next fall. And it will all end up in a book,“Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years.” But most­ly you have to see how they’ve illus­trat­ed the rules.
“Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years.”

Images

This is an almost per­fect illu­sion. Daylight stream­ing through a non-existent window.

xiaobaosg is real­ly William Chua. He puts a lot of his work on Threadless and Designs for Humans. Images like his is one of the rea­sons that the graph­ic T‑shirt is mak­ing such a come back. Gorgeous.

Some pic­tures hint at a pos­si­ble nar­ra­tive. Others drop a sto­ry on your toes and force you to pick it up and pon­der it’s fissures.