Beautiful Bento Boxes
This is one of the things I would do if I had the time.
Roller Revival
Roller Derby is women getting to be beautiful and sexy and ready to kick your ass. What a perfect sport - they get to be themselves.
Possums in the Mail
I just received a nice email:
My friends and I do a photo caption contest every Friday we call “Photo Caption Friday” (brilliant, right?). It usually turns into battle of wits via PhotoShop. The rules state that folks can only spend 5 minutes re-touching the photo. Anywho, I wanted to let you know that I used the possum photo today and got a huge response. I’ve attached a few of my favorites.
Bert & Ernie Try Gangsta-Rap
Dear Juliet
Thousands of letters addressed to Juliet pour in each year from all over the world. They ask for help, advice on love, or spells. All the letters are read and translated by Juliet’s Secretaries and each one receives a personal reply.
Dear Clusterflock
What’s keeping you going today? For me, it’s this delicious photo.
Search Patterns
Information Architect Peter Morville keeps his search pattern screenshot collection on Flickr.
An Inconvenient Sock
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre discuss global warming.
Boo
Steve Jobs Interview On Working with Paul Rand (1993)
(via Paul-Rand.com)
Aunt Jenny’s Magic Meat Pies
I have to admit that I adore vintage cookbooks and print ads for domestic products. I just found this one in the Flickr Mid-Century Supper Club pool. The guy on the right looks like Salvador Dali.
Jen Stark
I’m almost too scared of paper cuts to think about how these sculptures are made. Jen Stark takes multiple pieces of colored paper and painstakingly cuts, folds, and shapes them into incredible forms.
Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
This is a detail of Shipping Containers, a print that depicts 38,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every twelve hours.
Dear Clusterflock
What song lyrics were you mistaken about?
Example:
Real lyric: A girl with kaleidescope eyes
Misheard lyric: The girl with colitis goes by
Pregnant Man Has Baby Girl
An American man who was born female but underwent gender realignment surgery, has given birth to a female baby.
Photos of Migrating Sting Rays
Proving once again that nature designs the most beautiful patterns.
(via Kirtsy)
Stills Version of Gobbledigook Video by Sigur Rós
The video was inspired by and made in collaboration with photographer Ryan McGinley. See the full version at sigguros.com.
Dinks and Boobs
Dinks and Boobs are hand crocheted and designed to help raise awareness of testicular and breast cancer. Each comes with a little lump in it and instructions on how to find it. Available at Shannon Gerard for $25 Canadian, with $5 going to the Cottage Dreams cancer charity.
(via Bourne Magazine)
Brilliant Nude Remix
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
I’ve just graduated from the Glasgow School of Art’s graphic design course. This was my final project.
Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album - “In Rainbows” This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that’s played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It’s pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
Lost in E-Mail
A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
Only 40 web sites?
(Via The New York Times)
People Watching Channel
I’m watching soccer right now and realized that I like the crowd shots as much as the actual game. I love to people watch. There should be a people watching channel.
Attack of The Killer Squirrels
Colored pencil drawings of furry and fierce squirrels by Los Angeles-based emerging artist Macha Suzuki.
(via Gen Art Pulse)
Coldplay Accused of Stealing Song
In a video posted on YouTube, the video sharing website, the US group’s singer said that The Songs I Didn’t Write bore a “striking” similarity to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.
I can see the similarities in the two songs, but haven’t lots of songs sounded similar to others in the history of pop music?
Ferm Living
One of my favorite things is looking at photos of real homes with good interior design. At DesignSponge there’s a sneak peek into the house of Trine Andersen, founder and creative director of Ferm Living. Looking at these lovely examples of Danish design gives me such a calm feeling inside.
This Is A Bracelet
This (fucking) beautiful thing is by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. If anyone would like to purchase it for my dainty wrists, it’s available at the Goss-Michael Collection.