Posted in Art and Design, Food, People, Places, Video on Feb 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui that explore the idea of home. The three films they have up now are excellent, each in its own way.
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Video on Jan 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
This is a wonderful film by the designers Charles and Ray Eames. Zoom it out full screen and enjoy the colorful tops and bokeh. [via core77]
Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, People, Process, Video on Jan 21st, 2012 No Comments »
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player LACMA has a great exhibit up: California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. Worth seeing if you’re in the area. Deborah Sussman, whose work is included in the exhibition, talks about her early history with Charles and Ray Eames and her long career as an influential designer.
Posted in Art and Design, Process, Video on Jan 16th, 2012 No Comments »
Lubalin’s narration is great in this short video on the history of the PBS logo. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, People on Jan 12th, 2012 No Comments »
Conserving Donald Judd at the Philip Johnson Glass House The Glass House happens to be in my backyard (New Canaan, Connecticut) and I’ve never been there. This is a nice piece at core77 on restoring and preserving a Donald Judd concrete sculpture that’s installed on the 47 acre grounds.
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Cartoons, Humor on Jan 12th, 2012 2 Comments »
From: MastersInIt.org I wonder if tongue in cheek infographics like this reinforce and amplify stereotypes. Either way, it’s fun to read down the list. Guess I’m geek. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Animation, Travel, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 3 Comments »
DVF from Luis Aguirre on Vimeo. Diane von Furstenberg’s narration makes this. If you can figure out your suitcase, it’s pretty much you can figure out your life. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Art and Design, Objects on Jan 6th, 2012 No Comments »
From Motorcycles to Mad Max: The Found Objects Work of Michael Ulman This is an incredible collection of machine-art and the Mad Max association is spot on. [via core77]
Posted in Art and Design, Places on Jan 3rd, 2012 5 Comments »
The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See Imus Geographics looks like the map lover’s dream come true. And, in my old home town of Eugene, Oregon. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Art and Design, Process, Video on Dec 23rd, 2011 6 Comments »
This is quite an amazing video of Japanese gift wrapping. I used large photographs that were on my seconds pile this year and the rag paper is to thick for this technique but this technique would work well with old maps or any thinner newsprint. Note the diagonal pattern, amazingly simple yet a beautiful design. [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, People, Process, Video on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter American Masters just aired a great documentary on the designers Charles and Ray Eames, the influential American designers. I highly recommend watching it by following the above link.
Posted in Adventure, Art and Design, Climbing on Dec 7th, 2011 4 Comments »
Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory This is a great idea: a prefab climber/hiker refuge that’s airlifted into place and assembled in a few hours. The Airstream trailer of refuges. I wonder how this idea might translate into low cost housing on level ground? My only concern is that in the example refuge the front door is [...]
Posted in Art and Design, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Video on Dec 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo. At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He [...]
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Macintosh, People on Nov 25th, 2011 No Comments »
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face I first posted about Susan Kare here: Making the Macintosh Project but I’ve known about her since the mid-1980′s because both her icon and font designs were the “face” of the original Macintosh and stayed with us for close to ten years. [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Canon Powershot S90, Getty Center Abstractions, Photo Resources on Nov 23rd, 2011 4 Comments »
My friend Gary Sharp is visiting for Thanksgiving and he caught me doing some framing of prints for an upcoming show I’ve got. For those who do their own framing, I found out the hard way that using acrylite (acrylic) for the glazing of large prints (23.5″ squares) can be problematic: the acrylic bowed just [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Places, Video on Nov 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
Museo Reina Sofía from Juan Rayos on Vimeo. Juan Rayos has made a wonderful introduction to Spain’s national art museum in Madrid. Both the video and background music are excellent. Beautifully produced. Watch full screen, very well worth it. Chock full of visual ideas and visual design beauty. This video introduces Museo Reina Sofía, a [...]
Posted in Collections, Objects, People, Video on Nov 17th, 2011 2 Comments »
I have this “disease” and there’s a very fine line between hoarding lots of stuff looking for patterns and the kind of high end collecting these folks do. Each class of collecting (hooding and high end collecting) has its extremes. What these folks do that I haven’t done yet is curate their collections; my various [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Events, iPhone Photography, People, Places on Nov 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Taken with iPhone 4S through glass, 2″ across I met an old and dear friend, Mamen Saura who was visiting New York and we went to a exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900. The exhibition is made up mostly of book pages displayed flat. The [...]
Posted in Collections, iPhone Photography, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
1000memories A free social site for organizing old family photographs and building relationships between them. It even has a family tree/genealogy component that allows you to build familial relationships into the stored images. There’s an iPhone app called ShoeBox for scanning/photographing and organizing content for 1000memories. This actually looks pretty good and I might give [...]
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