Friday, May 8, 2009
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Nick White
Nick White
Book Covers
I can't decide whether I would like these as much in person. I think they are kind of dependent on see both covers with the dirty spine in the middle. hmm.
Ampersand Love
Ampersand Love
a blog.
Speaking of love. I love periods. I'd create a blog devoted to them, but unfortunately they are not actually that interesting to look at. And yet somehow I love them. I often times feel very intentional about my decision to use a period but I don't think my calculated use is read the same way it was written.
Jose Parla
Jose Parla
grunge.
I'm attracted to the complex, grunge texture and repetitive abstract lettering, but some of Jose Parla's pieces make me a little uncomfortable. I'm reminded a little too strongly of unattractive (*personal opinion), random, tagging.
SheOne
SheOne
Watch it in a hipster coffee shop.
I think I'm more fascinated by watching SheOne work than I am by the final product. I love how he uses the paint can as his brush (spray, drag, brash, splatter. cool.) Also, I watched this video without the audio, in a coffee shop, with awesome indie music in the background. I could have been significantly influenced by that. You can see him working on a piece at the beginning of the video, the 3:30 mark, 4:55, and
Prepare for an onslaught of posts
I blame my tardy postings on Google. I got sidetracked by Google Reader. This RSS feed reader thing is pretty neat-o. (yeah, I know I'm incredibly tardy in discovering this.) I got sucked into the reader, tagging things I like. And then it happened. Google stopped working! What!?! I have no idea what was goig on, but for three or four days, I had no access to my reader...or the google search engine. I was boucing between Alta Vista, Yahoo and Dogpile. Lame Sauce.
Google Reader returned (after I finally committed to closing all of my browser windows and restarting my computer.) with thousands of posts for me to sit through. Yuck.
Alright, prepare yourselves for the onslaught of posts I intend to make.
Google Reader returned (after I finally committed to closing all of my browser windows and restarting my computer.) with thousands of posts for me to sit through. Yuck.
Alright, prepare yourselves for the onslaught of posts I intend to make.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Best of 2008
Best of 2008
I want fonts.
'the new “golden age” of type', typographica has released its favorite typfaces of 2008. I want to play with type, real bad. Site>
Sunday, April 19, 2009
I found one.
I found one.
Laercio Soares
I was only the 870th person to visit his kick ass website. hmm. yes. site not so cool, but his work is really nice. Site
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
To Travels and Trunks
To Travels and Trunks
and kick ass stamps
I'm sure my image of traveling via ship to "the new world" is disgustingly over romanticized. Thankfully I won't be in for an unwelcome shock. Travel by freighter looks a like a practical middle ground between the malnurishment of the desperate months-long boat travels of yesteryear and the unappealing ride of overly 'entertaining' cruise ships. How to Travel by Cargo Ship
Monday, April 13, 2009
Imported Landscape
Imported Landscape
Pétur Thomsen
Peter Thomsen's beautiful photography of structures; natural, man made, and nature-man made. Site>
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Base(bicycle)ment
Base(bicycle)ment
Bicycle in Basement (get it?)
No, probably not. Um, I need to get my bucycle out of the basement. Maybe tomorrow...always tomorrow... I don't know what this piece buy Francesco Franchi says, but I'm pretty sure that bicycles are everywhere. And that's pretty cool! I love info graphics. And it turns out that I particularly love this guys work (if you read his flickr profile, it very clearly states "I'm Male.")
And some of this:
And some of this:
grain edit presents:
Designers on Twitter
"..While it’s fun to follow hundreds of interesting-sounding Twitterers, it can also quickly become overwhelming. Suddenly you have this barrage of tweets to sift through, and before you know it two hours have gone by. That’s why we’ve put together a list of our 50 or so favorite design-related Tweeters...".
Agreed, its a bit overwhelming. Actually...it seems that its super overwhelming. Could NPR and Huffington Post not post so much? While I'm very appreciative Grain Edits attempt at compressing the list of interesting design tweeters down to 50. I kinda' want to follow them all. Alas, even 50 is overwhelming. I'll keep an eye on their well formed list though and perhaps I'll be able to narrow it down to a select 25.
SO SEXY!
So Sexy!
These are beautiful.
Life goal? Yes please. I would like to run a letterpress studio. If you feel any inclination to sponsor the creation of a kick ass letterpress studio...shoot me an email. I'm sure it would be incredibly lucrative...right? millions I think, maybe billions...we could run the studio off of biomass energy and only print with soy based inks on papers that have a maximum post consumer content (we'll ignore the petroleum content in the ink and pretend like we won't have nasty waste material to dispose of.)Yeah, and then we could get stimulous money, right? Hey, maybe Mr. B (OBAMA) can obtain partial ownership in my company. We could make business cards for the white house! and....and maybe we could make their Christmas cards!
Gotta walk the talk. They better be using 100% recycled paper in their damn copy machines. That's all I'm saying. Walk the talk Mr. B, and your business cards are on the house...that is, assuming you are a partial owner and have invested stimulus money in my business. Oh, and does your dog need business cards?
Little Fella
Little Fella
Steaming Up the Glass
I feel like I've seen this work everywhere, but I find him so charming.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
get better instead of getting bigger
"If we can start to grapple with the fact that we can actually
get better instead of getting bigger,
then we have started on the path towards sustainability."
– Good.is
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
This is Cassidy
THIS IS CASSIDY
Cassidy is getting over a rather invasive parasite.
Cassidy is 11.Cassidy likes to flop around in the grass at 7:30 in the morning.
Sometimes Cassidy plays dead.
Right now, Cassidy is playing dead.
Cassidy likes his frisbee.
At 7:30 in the morning, he likes to flop around and play dead on top of his frisbee.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
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Monday, March 2, 2009
You say you want to see something cool?
*wouldn't it be great if I could attribute these images? Don't worry, I will...eventually...after I get through the first 159 that I don't have credits for.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Retro Weekend
I just spent my weekend in 1954. I stayed home Friday night, and filled myself full of curry. A lazy evening alone at home and to bed early. I got up relatively early Saturday morning, and headed out to breakfast with a couple of friends at a waffle house on Belmont. Old recipes served at a newly renovated establishment. It was horrid. What used to be a busy- Sunday kind of restaurant was completely empty except for us. The waffles were fine, but disappointing. They had a lot more potential.
After breakfast, we went antiquing on Hawthorne. I bought some old books that I will dismantle and rebind. At vintage pink, my friend bought a really cool old bedframe and matching dresser.
We then headed to the roller skating rink at Oaks park (est. 1905). Roller skated, and took some pretty silly photos of us doing the hokey pokey with a bunch of 7 year olds.
Picked up the bed, headed home and watched Victor and Victoria. A silly Julie Andrews musical that took place in the 30's. Post-movie, we headed to the Doug-fir. We drank martinis, and had the most amazing platter of smoke salmon, capers, cream cheese, cucumbers, and crackers.
We ended the evening with a frantic race to uncover the hidden words on the side of a building. Turns out it said "American Brushes, Janitorial Services." Oh, and we forced some nice bouncer to take 13 'jumping' picture of us outside of Rontoms.
We had crepes fr breakfast this morning. There is a cute little restaurant on Alberta that serves really unique and tasty crepes. However...they kinda forgot to make mine...and then they forgot that they forgot to make mine...so, twenty minutes after my friends got done eating, I got my crepe. It was good, but not great. However, I blame my choice in menu items. My crepe was free, so at least they dealt with there mistake appropriately. Plus, there was an accordian player at the restaurant with a crazy-powerful voice. Yum. My crepe may have been so-so, but his voice was yummy.
After breakfast, we went antiquing on Hawthorne. I bought some old books that I will dismantle and rebind. At vintage pink, my friend bought a really cool old bedframe and matching dresser.
We then headed to the roller skating rink at Oaks park (est. 1905). Roller skated, and took some pretty silly photos of us doing the hokey pokey with a bunch of 7 year olds.
Picked up the bed, headed home and watched Victor and Victoria. A silly Julie Andrews musical that took place in the 30's. Post-movie, we headed to the Doug-fir. We drank martinis, and had the most amazing platter of smoke salmon, capers, cream cheese, cucumbers, and crackers.
We ended the evening with a frantic race to uncover the hidden words on the side of a building. Turns out it said "American Brushes, Janitorial Services." Oh, and we forced some nice bouncer to take 13 'jumping' picture of us outside of Rontoms.
We had crepes fr breakfast this morning. There is a cute little restaurant on Alberta that serves really unique and tasty crepes. However...they kinda forgot to make mine...and then they forgot that they forgot to make mine...so, twenty minutes after my friends got done eating, I got my crepe. It was good, but not great. However, I blame my choice in menu items. My crepe was free, so at least they dealt with there mistake appropriately. Plus, there was an accordian player at the restaurant with a crazy-powerful voice. Yum. My crepe may have been so-so, but his voice was yummy.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
You say you want to see something cool?
*wouldn't it be great if I could attribute these images? Don't worry, I will...eventually...after I get through the first 159 that I don't have credits for.Thursday, February 19, 2009
You say you want to see something cool?
So Sexy*wouldn't it be great if I could attribute these images? Don't worry, I will...eventually...after I get through the first 159 that I don't have credits for.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Shorter than the average bear...er, hair. ~ Paul Mitchell Hair Stylist
I got my hair cut. It is lovely....and took a fucking long time. I went to the Paul Mitchell school with a coupon from my parents for a free haircut. Goodness, I guess they are all into learning or some crazy shit like that. It took an hour and twenty minutes for what I was referring to as 'a trim.' They were appalled by whatever the girl did to my hair at the Aveda school last month and the girl that was cutting my hair was getting step by step instruction from a teacher...and from that crazy dude with the Lincoln beard.
I like the haircut...but this would also qualify as only the third time my hair has been straightened, and since they cut it like this and never checked to see what it would look like wavy. Hmm. Well, tomorrow morning should be interesting.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
You say you want to see something cool?
*wouldn't it be great if I could attribute these images? Don't worry, I will...eventually...after I get through the first 159 that I don't have credits for.
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