Saturday this blog completed two years of existence and I didn’t remember. I just stopped to think about it a few minutes ago and I don’t even remember what remind me of that. Am I having a serious problem of amnesia? Well, I didn’t remember, and no one else did it either. So what? Let’s [...]
Archive for May, 2006
May 31st, 2006
2 years and 4 days
May 31st, 2006
Penny Postcards
Penny Postcards: a nice collection of vintage American postcards, divided by State. These postcards cost 1¢ to mail. Postage was temporarily raised to 2¢ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World War I & from 2925 to 1928. PS.: Hey Idelber, I think you are going to like of those vintage postcards [...]
May 31st, 2006
Canada at Scale
Canada at Scale: Maps of our History. The maps in this exhibition reflect the evolution of cartography in our country: Aboriginal peoples, European colonial powers, Canadians, governments, private industry and academics all produced precious maps. Although some are less appealing aesthetically, they nevertheless are significant as testimonies to the beginning of map printing in this [...]
May 31st, 2006
Modern Pin-up
Modern Pin-up: pin-up pictures of French models by Virginie Notte. The photographer has a very nice portfolio, full of cool pictures, some NSFW. She has more interesting works at other part of his portfolio, at Modern Freaks, take a look there. (via Sexe, love ‘n gaudriole)
May 31st, 2006
The Pulp Canon: Lurid new covers for classic books
The Slate asked to a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Check the results here. Yes, you got me, I can’t resist to pulp book covers. As Slate says, “Classic pulp covers are glorious and garish, rich with saturated color and sexual innuendo“, and [...]
May 31st, 2006
Gopher Broke
Gopher Broke is a wonderful a very funny independent short film from Blur Studio, written and directed by Jeff Fowler. A hungry gopher hatches a clever plan to get a quick snack, but, as you can imagine, the things don’t happen as he planned. I saw it a while ago, before the Oscar nomination, at [...]
May 31st, 2006
Whitney Music Box
Whitney Music Box: a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “Digital Harmony”.The thirteen variations of the music box are the result of Whitney’s idea of harmonic relationships, based on audio, graphics and programming. The animation and the music were composed by Jim Bumgardner. He has more info [...]
May 30th, 2006
Le sang d’un poète
“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau. Le sang d’un poète (1930), aka The Blood of a Poet was the first film written and directed by Jean Cocteau. It was also starred by him. The film is a surrealistic [...]
May 30th, 2006
Turning the pages
The The British Library is doing an excellent work in a project called Turning the Pages™. Turning the Pages is the award-winning interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books while keeping the originals safely under glass. Turning the Pages allows visitors to virtually ‘turn’ the [...]
May 30th, 2006
Airigami by Larry Moss
Airigami – The art of folding air in specially prepared latex balloon sculptures by Larry Moss. Vincent van Gogh used paint. Auguste Rodin worked in bronze. Larry Moss shapes air with the use of balloons. Ballons! Balloons are not the toys they were when you were a kid. This serious art makes a serious impact. [...]
