Yeah, yeah… all the photo-heads are gushing about it (including Lee). But it is beautiful. And compact. Time to trade in the clunky ol’ SLR.

E-P1

… in stop-motion format.

I just got back from Washington D.C. It’s kinda sweaty there, but there’s a solid, aged urban vibe with some great brands, a bit of mural art, and some beautifully worn textures. Some pictures after the jump.

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GM contains multitudes: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Saab and Saturn here in the states (and Pontiac until recently; Hummer and Saturn are next to go).

GM is probably about to declare bankruptcy, so I thought I’d take a quick look at their lousy branding. [More…]

It’s funny because it’s still true.

[from XKCD, in case you've been under a rock for a while]

In early March, India and other countries with big Hindu populations usher in spring and represent the triumph of good over evil with what basically amounts to a national multi-coloured water fight in the street. People head out of their houses and cover each other in coloured paints, powders, waters, and dyes. It’s the literal, visual interpreatation of the colourful re-birth of spring come to life on people’s bodies.

Too beautiful not to pass on. More photos after jump.

Via Shape+Colour
Photography by Poras Chaudhary
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The galactic center of the milky way rises in this flabbergastingly beautiful time-lapse piece:

My favorite entry from the GOOD Magazine livable streets contest, which shows once again how Photoshop can make the world a better place. (The crappy “before and after” above is my own; click through for a cleaner, swooshier view.)

[via Global Spin via John Tantalo]

Many more in the Legobusters pool on Flickr.

You heard me. Lego. Architecture. It’s not available yet, but I hope they carry the stylish, minimalistic design aesthetic through to the retail products. Compared to the usual Lego packaging, it’s downright restful. [More…]

Modern 50 is an amazing, independently-run collection of utterly desirable 20th century art and furnishings. To try to convey just how consistently awesome the selection is, I went into each department and picked one item entirely at random to show here.

The rest of the images, each linking to the product page, are after the cut. Many more at the site.

* Disclaimer: I used to work with Dino, years ago.

Modern 50

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The Homework Show is ON! It will be a huge zine swap down here in SD. Hope you can make it down! And this will be one of the last shows I’m participating in before leaving for NY. Put it on your calendars! June 27th, 7-11pm. More info here.

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An interesting, if rough-hewn, look into our lives’ brand saturation. Jane Sample (?) dug into the brands she encountered in a typical day, cataloging them in a “Brand Timeline Portrait” (the name some ad firm ordained… bleh).

Click through to see the full high-res version, including some … ahem … revealing nighttime brand use. Scandalous!

Jane Sample (via Geekologie)

… and it’s of a hot naked chick.

The distorted object, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated genitals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old.

BBC

Neat graphic. Red is more sinful, blue less sinful.

Geographers from Kansas State University map the spatial distribution of the seven deadly sins in the United States. These types of maps are always kind of iffy as they draw from data from various sources gathered with different methods and usually use some kind of researcher-defined metric. Still interesting though… right?

Via flowingdata.com
More on how exactly they charted the data here

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