August 26th, 2009
Light up the night
Cram an LED into a bottle pourer and what do you get? An inexpensive device that makes booze even more beautiful and which you’ll probably see in every bar on the planet in a year.
ElectraPour (via Geekologie)
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August 24th, 2009
Voltage
Beautiful experimental animation short with fantastic sound design and drawrings.
Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.
Via Changethethought
August 18th, 2009
Philip Glass + Sesame Street = Beauty
Around 1979 (when I was one orbit in), Philip Glass composed the music for a series of animated shorts devoted to the beauty of the circle. I sit in awe of these. Gorgeous.
Is stuff being produced for kids today that they will want to watch as adults 30 years later? (I honest don’t know… I hope so!)
August 10th, 2009
Muse: Uprising
OMG I love Muse and
OMG I love their new album art and
OMG I almost totally love their new song!
Woot!
June 2nd, 2009
Found art D.C.
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.
May 22nd, 2009
Milky Way Rise
The galactic center of the milky way rises in this flabbergastingly beautiful time-lapse piece:
May 16th, 2009
Modern 50
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.
May 15th, 2009
A day in brands
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)
May 15th, 2009
Humanity’s oldest figure sculpture
… 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.
May 14th, 2009
You are what you eat
Mark Menjivar’s photo study into the refrigerators of American strangers provides an intriguing insight into how people prioritize, their nutrition, their orderliness, their lives… interesting stuff.
Shown above: “Carpenter/Photographer | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household | 12-Point Buck | 2008″
Some more after the break.
Via Good mag
^ Street Advertiser | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Lives on $432 fixed monthly income | 2007
^ Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables. | 2008
^ School Crossing Guard/Nursing Home Assistant | Austin, TX | 6-Person Household | Parents and 3 adult children live in an efficiency apartment. | 2007
^ College Students | Waco, TX | 3-Person Household | Drummer for a Death Metal band. | 2009
^ High School Football Coach/Social Worker | Houston, TX | 2-Person Household | Counselor at LGBT crisis center. | 2008
May 6th, 2009
How to pulp up Tarantino
In what I can only describe as a heroic effort, British DJ James Hyman is embarking on his latest mashup. In it he is looking to pull from the full library of Tarantino awesomeness, mash that against myriad Tarantino film music, and smash all that into the latest in pop culture delights as well as live performances from some of the great bands on Tarantino’s aggressively eclectic soundtracks.
The result is a frenetic, mystifying style that makes me head explode in delight.
This was originally an audio album (Pulp Mixin’), a followup to a similar 007-themed effort. Sadly I can’t seem to find any of these media gems, save for the trailer above for the “James Hyman / Quentin Tarantino Movie Mash-Up”.
via Cinematical
May 6th, 2009
Star Trek: The poster
I’m not a trekkie. I thought Khan was dumb. So it’s entirely valid for me to say that I adore the design direction for the promotional material of the new flick. I’ve liked nearly everything I’ve seen, this poster perhaps being my favorite. That is all.