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]
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Probably the smallest image I’ll ever feature here, but this was just too familiar. You know who you are.
(Click through for the rest of the strip, from PvP by Scott Kurtz.)
Holy crap, the twentieth century produced some beautiful tools. The inner handyman in me wants to start collecting, although the practical side of me says I’d never touch the things.
The site itself is nothing to write home about, but the pictures are large and plentiful. Lots of logos and photos of hand tools from different obsolete manufacturers. Total tool porn.
Check it: Alloy Artifacts
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
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.
I’m in the market for a french press, and I want something beautiful. This feels like a product with major aesthetic potential.
Above are my two top choices, LaCafetiere’s Pura and Rainbow. My kitchen is accented in red. I don’t like the fussy Bodums I’m seeing. I don’t like plastic. I’d love something that retains heat.
Can anyone recommend a beautiful press?
