- Genius: Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons. [Via] (The motivational posters aren’t half bad, either.)
- Sketchesnatched offers terrific portraits for Black Swan, 2001, & other films [Via]
- 8-bit:
- Retro Nintendo fun: Toadstool Terrarium by Jude Buffum.
- Nice: PacMan turntable.
- Childhood photos + little monsters = a charming little photo-illustration project.
- CV Dazzle applies WWI-era camouflage techniques to human faces, confounding facial recognition software. [Via]
- This Maxell ad homage is a pretty accurate illustration of our sons vs. tomato-based foods [Via]
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(rt) Typography: Jazz & Chalk
- Dig Paul Rogers’s beautiful Jazz Stamp for the USPS. [Via]
- The useful Fonts In Use shows “type at work in the real world.” [Via]
- Check out some beautiful chalk lettering from Dana Tanamachi. [Via]
(rt) Ephemera: Sickening laptops, exploding toilets, & more
- Apple meets Cronenberg; I’m still shuddering.
- Check out a bizarre & rather brilliant paper mod for your Web cam.
- LiveView “allows me to view Photoshop on my phone, live, while I make adjustments. Amazing,” says designer Scott Hansen.
- Sculptural:
- Buhm-bum buhm-bum buhm-bum: the 2001 monolith as giant VHS tape.
- Awesome in its simplicity: Lorenzo Quinn’s “Vroom Vroom” sculpture.
- A toilet made from a Russian anti-submarine mine? That might cause some potty training trauma.
- Watch Jan Hammer rock the keytar; feel your hair start blow drying itself, your sleeves auto-shortening.
- I love bizarre Twitter juxtapositions like this.
(rt) Illustration: Star Wars as icons, poisonous treats, & more
- Nice: Wayne Dorrington has retold Star Wars entirely in icons. [Via]
- “Y’know, for kids…”
- Apropos of nothing, here’s a lovely kids’-book illustration.
- Weird packaging design: “Won’t This New Energy Drink Result in Children Drinking Poison?“
- I love the gorgeous, textured work of Irish illustrator Eoin Ryan. [Via]
- In an intriguing little video experiment, participants are asked to trace one another’s work as closely as possible. Things degenerate quickly.
- Check out some nifty Charlie Harper-esque illustrations from Ben Newman.
(rt) Photography: Ali's greatness, retro re-creations, & more
- “This is the greatest photo you will see today,” notes Mike Monteiro. Sounds right to me.
- In her “Back to the Future” project, Irina Werning reenacts old photos, posing the same people in the same spots decades later. [Via]
- Plenoptic camera lenses, which use arrays of micro lenses & which can refocus images after the fact, come to cell phones.
- Edi Go has made surprisingly beautiful images of a plastic bag.
- Photo essays like this make me thankful for my immoderate blessings.
(rt) Typography: James Brown, Using the Force, & more
- Look at this incredibly simple animation. You’ll wonder how you didn’t see it before.
- “May the force of Typography be with you.”
- Not sure whether it’s G.O.A.T., but it’s certainly great: James Brown in type. [Via]
- “Write a Bike“: Check out some crazy typographical cycles [Via Mira Albert-Bullis]
- Sebastien Cuypers has made 80 hand-lettered iPhone cases. “Mine’s the one that says ‘Bad M…'”
- “I see some A’s! A is for Adobe,” says young Finn. “That’s right, bud,” I tell him, “and P is for Photoshop.” “No, that’s crazy!,” he protests. “F is for Fotoshop!” Phun with Phonics.
(rt) Photography: Photographing one's own murder & more
- Grim & bracing:
- Katrin Eismann notes, “Tyler Hicks is doing amazing work in Afghanistan.”
- Bizarre & horrible: photographing one’s own murder. (I really wish this were fake.)
- Might want to have this looked at: Disturbing, if beautifully executed, image o’ the day. [Via]
- “On the Grid” is Gerco de Ruijter’s interesting set of aerial photos of trees.
- Racy back-of-mag ad promises “Larger Size Permanent.” Wow–people still get perms?
(rt) Illustrations: Beautiful posters, Escher riffs, & more
- Reelizer is a nicely curated set of movie posters. (I’m digging Jeremy Jusay’s take on The Thin Red Line.) [Via]
- “By Valor & Arms”: It’s The State Mottos Project.
- Reserve monocle? Emergency Oreo? Sixteen Ways to Use Your Wrist Now That Watches are Obsolete.
- Props to the MC:
- Check out these neat Escheresque images made by Josh Sommers using Photoshop + Pixel Bender. [Via]
- Oscar Ramos has made some gorgeous modern Escheresque illustrations.
- I love the simplicity of the restroom icons in the Adobe Hamburg office.
(rt) Photography: Vertigo, bisected bunkers, & more
- Military history:
- Jonathan Andrew has taken a perversely beautiful series of photos of WWII bunkers. [Via]
- This is your bunker. This is your bunker sawn in half & made into art. [Via]
- These fighters are stuck onto the bomber, and not via Photoshop.
- Instagram:
- Check out the World’s Smallest Instagram Gallery. [Via]
- I belatedly realized that the point of Instagram isn’t photography. The point is looking cool. (And I’m okay with that.)
- Great heights:
- The vertigo-inducing photo o’ the day comes from the transparent floor at Shanghai TV Tower [Via]
- Here’s a terrific image of an enormous supercell cloud.
- How cool: This keychain-size DSLR sports interchangeable lens.
(rt) Illustrations: 1.21 Jiggawatts, The Four Icon Challenge, & more
- Mildly nasty infographic OTD: Starbucks Trenta vs. your stomach.
- Oprah’s “SketchBook O” app sheds light on her audience’s demons.
- “Jigga What?” Excellent Back to the Future & GI Joe shirts. [Via]
- Fun illustrations: The Four Icon Challenge tackles 2001, The Big Lebowski, & more. [Via Chris Regan]
- Let It Dough! – More terrific visual storytelling from Christoph Niemann.
(rt) Illustration: Loose Tweets, great posters, & more
- Poster art:
- “Loose Tweets Sink Fleets!” Brian Moore makes propaganda posters of WWIII. [Via]
- Mubi.com rounds up the best movie posters of 2010. And here’s another decent, if more mainstream, collection. [Via]
- Art history:
- Check out the cheerful models who were used in “American Gothic” standing next to the painting. [Via]
- You can buy fantastic Susan Kare prints of original Mac icons. Moof! [Via]
- I’ll see you on the Dark Side of the Dorito.
(rt) Interesting Miscellany: Riffing on Starbucks, Android goggles, & more
- Heh: The predicted ongoing simplification of the Starbucks logo [Via Russell Brown]
- Design:
- S&P meet PS: Photoshop salt and pepper shakers!
- I love Randy Hage’s crazy-detailed NYC storefront models. [Via]
- New ski goggles run Android (!), offering built-in maps & video.
- Heh–check out this MacGyver-style iPad drawing aid (low-tech palm rejection).
- Kickin’ it dough-school: Shell-toes in Play-Doh.
- Know who won’t be boldly going through these doors? Girls.
(rt) Photos: Bokeh & Polaroids on iPhone, more
- Bokeh from an iPhone? So promises SynthCam from Stanford prof Mark Levoy. [Via Jeff Chien]
- Nifty: the Polaroid iPhone Decal.
- I saw a square, brownish 70’s family photo at Tom Hogarty’s house the other day and thought, “Oh, they used Instagram.” Man, I’m losing it.
- Evil Pregnant Natalie Portman (artist’s conception).
- Happy Family Slim-Slim #5; don’t trust it @ 99 cent store.
(rt) Illustrations: Strangelove, disfigured Muppets, & more
- I love “The Haunted Household“: Clever, beautifully simple illustrations from Christoph Niemann.
- “I’m so cute and cuddly! I help you pee!” Hello, Kidney. See also “In Cutero.”
- Check out some great Strangelove-style desktop wallpaper from Ross Zietz.
- Dig these minimalist posters for musical genres. I love the one for the Twist.
- Infographics:
- The horror! “What I remember most about LEGOs.” [Via]
- Outstanding: “People Who Touch Your Junk.” (I’d suggest listing my kids, but they do it pro bono.) [Via]
- So, this exists, then: http://muppetswithpeopleeyes.tumblr.com/ (And if you write to say you can’t unsee it, I’ll reply in the vein of Airplane!: “You saw the URL, you knew what you were getting into: I say, let ’em crash.”)
(rt) Photography: Images of the year, "Crouching Child, Hidden Mother," & more
- The New York Times rounds up 2010: The Year in Pictures–often heartbreaking, occasionally beautiful.
- “Crouching child, Hidden mother:” Who’s up for restoring this weird photographic convention? (The comments are morbid.)
- Your photos + cheap Swedish furniture = Mykea. Neat. [Via]
- I dig this tranquil, snowy photo from Jason Santa Maria.
(rt) Holiday leftovers: Assorted design links
- Aural:
- Tonematrix is a delightful little audio toy from Andre Michelle [Via J. Peterson]
- Alec Baldwin has made the first truly funny NPR solicitation I’ve ever heard.
- “Reclined Jabba, Salacious Crumb Variation”: Star Wars Yoga. [Via]
- This chair + the hot sun would make your butt look like a Whopper.
- “Soylent.PSD”? The TidyPSD service will organize your Photoshop files for $9/apiece (down from $29, I believe).
- Sculpture
- Dig these little traffic-cone “ducks” (second photo down).
- Interesting optical effects created by machined metal “pixels.”
(rt) Photos of the year, lost wookies, & more
- Amazing, sometimes brutal, often beautiful: The Big Picture’s 2010 In Photos, Part 1.
- A photographer recently found the AE-1 stolen from him 30 years ago. (As mine was stolen from the Washington Navy Yard in the mid-80’s, I guess I’ve gotta wait a few more years.) [Via]
- Stop! Hammer time. Defaced is “a photo blog all about people ruining other people’s stuff cuz it’s funny.”
- Photo-illustration: “The shroud of Vogue” was made from the last 12 editions of the magazine, overlaid.
- From my neighborhood: Have you seen my wookie?
(rt) Illustrations: Best of 2010, Gatsby letterpress, & more
- If all the countries in the world geographic positions based on population, you’d get something like this.
- Best-of:
- “The Best Illustrations of 2010“: An uneven collection, but containing some gems.
- “Funniest T-Shirt Designs of the Decade“? Not sure, but some clever, well executed stuff.
- Gorgeous: Letterpress business cards for Jay Gatsby’s guests.
- A beautiful invitation to marriage at the La Brea Tar Pits…
(rt) Great recent posters: Star Wars, games, & more
- Star Wars:
- Check out three terrific posters from Olly Moss. [Via]
- Justin Van Genderen crushes it with gorgeous posters for fictional cities (including Bespin, Coruscant, and more). [ia Margot Nack]
- Mondotees offers plenty o’ solid Star Wars posters, though you may need to scroll down. (The line work brings back Bones Brigade memories.)
- “Fake Criterions” is whole blog of overly serious/artsy movie posters. [Via]
- Rachel Morris has made fun posters for the NYU Game Center. [Via]
(rt) Entirely random interestingness
- “New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It.” (file under Why I couldn’t write for TechCrunch)
- Dressing as Photoshop for Halloween. (Beachball hat, though? Say it ain’t so!)
- Two-wheeled:
- How rad is this armadillo-esque solar moped concept?
- Also wild: A crocheted steel wireframe motorcycle sculpture. [Via Chris Davis]
- How come this can’t be the way the Segway company president died?
- ‘The Wire’ as a Monopoly game? That’s no 40-degree day.
(rt) Illustration: Cool vans, Weezer raveled, & more
- “Would it be cooler as a van?” What a fantastic illustration concept: Famous movie cars made “Cooler as a Van.” (Resident car guy Hughes wants to give famous vans the opposite treatment: “What wouldn’t be cooler not being a van?” Mystery Gremlin, maybe?) [Via]
- Check out Tom Whalen’s dynamite Art Deco-styled Batman poster. [Via]
- “Li’l Elvis and his Bad Hair” concerns “a young boy and his bad, but *well intentioned*, talking hair.” (For ten years I have been, you would have no way of knowing, tinyElvis@adobe.com. You’re welcome, spam bots.)
- Weezer Dry Cleaning: “We Won’t Destroy Your Sweater.”
(rt) Photography: Ansel does iPad, Mon Calamari, & more
- The work of Ansel Adams has come to iPad. [Via Zalman Stern]
- Heaven & earth:
- “Skyward“: Patience rewards with a beautiful photo.
- A neat satellite photo captures the UK & Ireland covered in snow. [Via]
- Photographer John Warner dubbed his father-son photo trip to Ireland “Dad, Lad, & iPad.” I love it.
- Fun with miniatures:
- “It’s a Frap!!” So nerdy, but right up my alley.
- Call it “Shirts vs. Tiny Plastic Blouses.”
(rt) Brilliant NatGeo photos, painterly fashion photos, & more
- Brilliant photography (amazing storms, bugs, & more) abounds in the National Geographic 2010 contest.
- Mark Leibowitz creates beautifully impressionistic fashion photos. [Via]
- Romain Laurent catches great portraits mid-splash. See his site for even more striking images. [Via]
- Think you’re a hardy photographer? Would you keep shooting after your legs were just blown off?
- “I drew a little balloon,” says spittle artist Finn. So, there’s that, then.
(rt) Typography: Font detection, crazy bikes, & more
- Yes, there is a sort of “Shazam for fonts” (letting you snap pics to ID typefaces): WhatTheFont for iPhone.
- “Write a Bike“: Crazy typographical cycles. [Via Mira Albert-Bullis]
- Ian Curtis is spinning in his grave: “Joy Division Divorce Attorneys.”
- “If you touch…” Oh my. A topical, TSA-themed cross-stitch.
- When this is someday done in HTML5, it’ll be considered the best, most revolutionary thing ever. [Update: I probably should have added a jokey wink emoticon to convey my tone on this one. So, “;-)!” I’ll shortly post a very long list of big, significant things Adobe is doing to support the advancement of HTML5, so no one need stress.]
(rt) Illustration: Pixel art, beautiful cards, & more
- “Achtung!” Here’s a rather brilliant TSA Checkpoint sign. [Via]
- Goodness abounds in the beautiful state card designs in this Dribbble set.
- Pixel art:
- I love Andy Rash’s pixel Star Wars characters. If those are up your alley, see his pixel Bond, Borat, and others.
- “Koopa, It’s What’s For Supper.” Jude Buffum’s made meat-cut diagrams for Nintendo characters. [Via]
- Cinematic characters:
- Halloween party stylings: Four duelling DeNiros & more appear in Ivan Brunetti’s great New Yorker cover.
- “It’s Murray Time…” Bill Murray as other Wes Anderson characters. (Malkovichian.)
- Lee Rubenstein’s created crazy lo-fi creatures from CS5 splash screens. [Via]
(rt) Photography: Frozen explosions, toxic sludge, & more
- Euclidian eats: Ikea’s made a coffee table book of ingredients laid out as patterns.
- This smart poster reacts against domestic violence–literally.
- I dig these colors & compositions from photographer Jim Green.
- Fluid dynamics:
- You know what’s been great today? Not getting buried in a flood of toxic sludge.
- NPR shows photos of water balloons caught mid-pop. The water retains its shape for impossible-seeming images. [Via]
- The “Muybridgizer” app creates Victorian-style freeze frames.
(rt) Illustration: Black Swans, fun with Carbonite, & more
- “Holy crap is Africa big,” observes Daniel Jalkut. [Via]
- Check out some bold & excellent “Black Swan” movie posters. [Via]
- Star Wars:
- Heh: Mr. and Mrs. The Hutt Make a Compromise.
- I like José Pulido’s Día de los Muertos-style Star Wars illustrations.
- Long, long ago–specifically, from the 70’s: Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba the Hutt.
(rt) Illustration: Beautiful Fireworks, duck fear, & more
- Web tech:
- Smashing Magazine rounds up impressive illustrations done in Adobe Fireworks, including the Firefox & Adobe CS icons.
- Colorzilla offers a nice Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor.
- Check out a beautiful webcam/fluid experiment by Eugene Zatepyakin. [Via]
- “Anatidaephobia” translates as “The best accidental advert placement in the history of mankind.” [Via]
- Nerdtastic: PANTONE Visa Cards. [Via]
- Rocking this laptop skin would be up there with growing a mullet for irony.
(rt) Illustration: Van Gogh, Chewbacca, and more
- Rocking this laptop skin would be up there with growing a mullet for irony. (Might get you some good customer reviews & tribute vids, though.)
- Photoshop + Van Gogh = tilt-shift good times.
- “Chewbacca riding a squirrel fighting Nazis = YES!” [Via]
- During the BP oil spill, Bob Staake did a rather excellent Escher-style New Yorker cover.
(rt) Photography: Vintage space suits, lenses, & more
- Check out this fun little SLR-shaped USB thumb drive.
- From the escuela vieja:
- I love this juxtaposition of high & low tech: Space Suit of the Week
- Rosemarie Fiore has created long-exposure captures of Atari games [Via]
- Dreamy: pairing Canon 5DmkII plus a 102-year-old lens. (via @daringfireball)
- Astrophotography: “Crescent Moon With Earthshine” created using HDR in Photoshop.
- Canon’s developed one enormous motherscratchin’ camera sensor.
(rt) Illustration: Great shirts, Bill Murray, & more
- Shirts:
- How many can you get? 80’s films as logos.
- I love Neven Mrgan’s falling-stuff-as-dude Incident shirt.
- Offbeat but impressive: Hand Painting Ads by Guido Daniele.
- “For relaxing times… Suntory Time” Just ordered this great poster. Good Don Draper & Joan, too.
- A nice tutorial on creating a digital bokeh effect using Photoshop’s brush engine.
(rt) Typography: Trashing & 'Staching
- Heh: I dig these typographic mustaches.
- First-world problem, then? Passive-aggressive brawling over Comic Sans. [Via]
- Illustration/type: Journalism Warning Labels; much needed.
(rt) Photography: iPhones as Leicas, Photoshop disasters, & more
- Here’s a gorgeous Palestinian kid-with-sparkler image. The rest of gallery is good, too.
- How-to: Make your iPhone 4 look “like a beautiful old Leica.” You can also see Photojojo’s tips on How To Make Your Cell Phone Look Like Your Favorite Camera.
- Photoshop gone wrong:
- Bloomingdale’s really approved this retouching job? Seriously? [Via John Lin]
- Credit an Egyptian newspaper for coining “performing surgery” to explain away their manipulation of the news. [Via Harris Fogel]
- Check out this fun little SLR-shaped USB thumb drive.
(rt) Photography: Space, power, and iPhone funkiness
- Athleticism:
- The Big Picture rounds up some amazing diving photos. 8 & 16 are my faves. [Via]
- “The Beauty of the Power Game“: The NYT features slow-mo video of top female tennis players.
- Space & science:
- NASA photos: Martian dunes plus a towering Shuttle launch trail.
- There are great NASA images on the Flickr Commons, including this Apollo 11 launch gem.
- The iPhone’s rolling shutter vs. a spinning propeller produces a cool effect. Here’s some background info on why this happens, plus more bizarre shots of propellers.
(rt) Illustration: AT-AT as Eeyore & more
- Dig James Hance’s Star Wars characters in the style of Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations. [Via]
- Illustration: Three terrific Star Wars posters. [Via]
- Completing the Star Wars tweet hat trick: the excellent San-Francisco-as-Cloud-City t-shirt.
(rt) Offbeat illustrations: Bears, bikers, & more
- “Sandwich Defender!” Bizarre, oddly charming plate illustrations.
- Terminator-style child care: Gotta love it when your motorcycle-enthusiast babysitter shows up wearing this. (Go Chris go. :-))
- Rainn Wilson presents “The Greatest Portrait You Will Ever See.”
- Parenting advice for those too dumb to be parents.
- “Partay, Bitchezz!!” WWII on Facebook. [Via]
(rt) Photography: Giant imaging, great silhouettes, & more
- Huge:
- British scientists are using a dried-out lake bed as a massive white balance card for satellites.
- “The Big Unit” is to become 7-foot-tall rock concert photographer. (Presumably it’ll go better than his career in the Audubon Society.)
- The Big Picture features a great set of silhouette photos. [Via]
- Telling a photographer that his camera takes great pictures is like telling a chef that his oven makes great meals. [Via]
(rt) Photography: From Iceland to Insects
- Far & Away:
- Brent Stirton has captured some amazing photos of indigenous peoples. [Via]
- Check out a set of beautiful Iceland images from Julieanne Kost.
- Wildlife:
- You, sir, are one fine-looking bug: Amazing macro photos from Thomas Shahan.
- Outstanding bird photography blog: Hungover Owls.
- “Be warned, YOU WILL NEVER UNSEE THIS.” [Via]
(rt) Illustration: Amazing 3D street paintings, Apple 1910, & more
- Christoph Niemann (of Lego NYC & other fame) kills with a hilarious visual journal of a flight. [Via]
- This remains easily my favorite book cover, ever. (What’s with the other hand? Crushing your head?)
- Fans of optical illusions will love this set of 3D street paintings by Edgar Muller.
- Cool how-to: Creating gradient rings in Illustrator.
- Retro tech: Apple FaceTime, 1910 A.D.
- Flickr features a whole set of pixel cityscapes.
(rt) Photography: History in color, plus Iggy
- The Ghosts of World War II: Sergey Larenkov’s computational rephotography carefully overlays past & present. [Via]
- Is that an onion dome, or are you… no, it’s an onion dome. Amazing Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900s. [Via]
- The Denver Post rounds up images of America in Color from 1939-1943. [Via Gary Ferster]
- Lust for leather: The Official Iggy Pop Shirtless Aging Timeline. I’m somewhat speechless.
(rt) Illustration: Bad Dudes a go-go
- “My Style is ‘Whoop That Ass'” – These 52 Bad Dudes illustrations feature Anton Chigurh, Tyler Durden, & others. [Via]
- Seeing the project takes me back to WDDG’s old Bad As Sh*t Project. (Good luck getting that horn riff out of your head.)
- SAMCRO LEGO: I love these incredibly intricate tattoos on Minifigs. [Via]
- From the Not Really Helping Dept.: Man Uses Photoshopped Photos In Plea For Reduced Prison Sentence. [Via Adam Pratt]
(rt) Illustration: Outstanding movie posters
- Man, how great are these? Terrific movie posters from Olly Moss. (His previous work is also rad.)
- Jesus, Hitler, and Superman appear on behalf of the Tokyo subway system. [Via]
- Veerle Pieters curates a collection of gorgeous posters and more. (The content changes, and I wish I could direct-link to some of the standouts. It’s all good, though.)
- Smashing Magazine rounds up 50 Beautiful Movie Posters. Not every one’s a hit for me, but there’s plenty of strong stuff.
(rt) Illustration: Egress with beer, Sonic Youth, & more
- Aviation:
- Awesome! “Proper technique for exiting aircraft.” [Via] Speaking of which, isn’t Steven Slater the guy from “Airplane“? [Via Reen Bodo]
- Check out the beautiful vector art of Richard Perez’s “Supersonic” series.
- Foxy: I dig these beautifully simple, textured illustrations from Ty Wilkins.
- Jon Contino makes all kinds of illustrated interestingness. [Via]
- Margot’s new bob + specs = apparent Sonic Youth cover audition. (Props to Toon-FX + Diptic on the image creation.)
(rt) Illustration: Infinite Keanu & other jokes
- Fractal weirdness: Infinite Sad Helmet Keanu, “the GIF that keeps on giving.” (See the rest of the meme.)
- Waah! A logo for “the League of Internet Commenters.”
- Shirt: “You are here… but I can fix that in Photoshop.” [Via]
- Heh–the iPhone 4 ‘End Call’ sticker. (For what it’s worth, my reception has been fine.) In other now-slightly-dated levity, there’s “apple vs. flash!” and an Orwellian Apple/Adobe shirt [Via Marc Pawliger]
- “I Wish” shirt. (“Now it’s in your head, too,” says Tom Hogarty.)
(rt) Photography: Exploding aircraft, baby daydreams, & more
- Awesome: Photographer Luke Jerram chopped up camera to create a projector ring.
- What a great idea for a baby/photo series: Mila’s Daydreams. [Via]
- Airborne photographic mayhem: Crashing fighters and prancing transports.
- DeNiro, Brooklyn, India: The story of Steve McCurry’s shoot on the last roll of Kodachrome. (No photos yet, unfortunately.) [Via Bill Hughes]
- Techy:
- Huey HD 3D Video Camera: Serious project or elaborate “Short Circuit” homage?
- Science geeks + salad = Veggie MRIs. [Via]
- When it’s my time to go, I hope “drowning in oil” isn’t in the cards. [Via]
(rt) Type: Radical cows, amputees, & more
- I love Massimo Vignelli’s “Melting Pot” typographical flag. (Click the image to enlarge it.)
- “I have found the greatest Unicode glyph name ever,” says Neven Mrgan.
- Uhh… I guess it’s better than “Stumpy’s” Prosthetics. (Hopalongs?)
- Dolce & Gabbana’s determined to ride that damn Mistral font all the way down, Strangelove-style (til it’s cool again?).
- Yuck: The “Hairvetica” Font. [Via]
Photography: The Longest & the Largest
- Ghostly passage of time: Stefan Klenke shows The Longest Photographic Exposures in History. [Via Ben Jones]
- 70 Billion Pixels Budapest claims to be “the largest photo on Earth.” [Via Barry Young]
(rt) Photography: Summer storms, giant Russians, & awkward stock
- History:
- The Very Last Roll of Kodachrome Film Ever Made Was Used to Capture NYC, at the hands of the renowned Steve McCurry. [Via] (“If I ever become CEO of Kodak,” says Mark Rosenberg, “I’ll manufacture one more roll of Kodachrome, just to drive Steve McCurry nuts.”)
- We got your Woodpecker right here, da: Photography of giant Cold War Russian radio tech. [Via]
- Jeffrey Friedl’s cool rollover shows the visual effects of Lightroom’s JPEG export settings.
- Stock:
- Just what’s promised: AwkwardStockPhotos.com [Via]
- Similarly great: StockDBags.tumblr.com (Love the Kuato/abs reference!) [Via]
- Man, having grown up in Illinois, I love this photo–“Summer Storm, Chicago” by Ken Tanaka.
(rt) Illustration: Mad Men, devils, and Tom Selleck
- I dig these Minimalist Mad Men posters. (Sunday Sunday Sunday…) [Via]
- PSDTuts features A Brief History of Computer Icons. (I wish it included more pre-Mac work, not to mention NeXT.)
- Photoshop:
- Thomas Scholes makes beautiful, painterly landscapes in Photoshop.
- Blue Devil: A Pixel Bender + CS5 experiment from Greg Geisler.
- Offbeat:
- Our 2-year-old Finn, observing classical cherubs cavorting on a gift bag: “Bunch of little nudists on there!”
- Exactly what it promises to be, oddly enough: SelleckWaterfallSandwich. [Via]
(rt) Photography: Great & terrible images, Holgas & spacemen
- Best of:
- 2009 National Pictures of the Year Nominees [Via Rob Galbraith]
- The Press Photographer’s Year 2010 [Via]
- Worst of:
- Gripping, terrible photos: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.
- Check out Saikat Biswas’s cool rethink of the Holga design.
- I’m getting a weird kick out of Hunter Freeman’s astronauts-in-banal-situations series. [Via]