God I love Pixilation

I think Jeremy(Shape+Colour) got it right when he said "his song makes me feel like I'm walking down the street at dusk the moment before the streetlights turn on."

[Via Shape+Colour]

"Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic"

...I like that.

Catching Up

I'm catching up on the last few weeks of reading for Zara's class, and I just finished reading Chapter 2 from The Society of the Spectacle.

Holy crap.

Reading that thing made my head spin. I'm hoping that it's just a side effect of translation, but there is so much double talk in that thing I had to read each paragraph over about three times.

Having gotten through it though, I must admit that I really dig it. It really fits nicely with a piece I started work on the other night.

I dig this quote (which seems to be rephrased and reiterated at least a dozen times in this chapter) "...the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it, yet which at the same time succeed in making themselves regarded as the epitome of reality."

Awesome.

I can't help but find myself thinking about Magritte's Treachery of Images though...

Nothing Is Original

[via swissmiss]

Greg Laswell - How The Day Sounds

How The Day Sounds from Miky Wolf on Vimeo.

Simplistically sweet music video...with Elija Wood...

I just love it.

[Via NOTCOT]

Where I was going

when I fell.



(This is NOT where I was. This picture is of the successful try. When I fell I was at the top of the wall at the top of the steps. Way less straight drop.)

Please forgive the quick photoshop stitch job.

This has been a long time coming

Magic

A wet wash cloth, a running fan, a few advil and five extra hours of sleep are a magical combination.

Ugo Conti's Proteus Wamvi

I think I'm on an inventive vehicle kick (I've got a couple blog posts waiting in the wings about diy snowboards, and a pretty sweet snowboard brand) but this may very well take the cake.




I really relate to Conti's quote saying "If I have a problem I tend to solve it with my engineering capabilities. I was born an engineer." I may be trained as an artist/designer, but I think like an engineer. I'm fairly certain it's genetic.

Uni Wristwatch

This is pretty cool. The face on this watch, qixen-p's Uni, is a 96x96 pixel OLED, and can be customized over mini USB. Just wish I could find the price.

[via Unplggd]

Joe Harmon's Wooden Supercar

While I was down in the bay area, I spent some time visiting my optometrist. My vision is deteriorating (it's still not horrible...but its way worse than it was ~3 years ago) and snowboarding without something to correct my vision is far more exciting than it is fun.

While waiting for the follow up to my contacts fitting, I was flipping through a car magazine that was laying there, and I came across this:



Joe Harmon is a grad student in industrial design at North Carolina State University. This supercar is his thesis project and it's made (almost) entirely out of wood. Not carved from a giant block, but made of wooden composites, cut from veneer, woven on a loom, and then infused with resin. It's super cool, super strong, and just all around neat. Especially if you're a materials nut.

Some really cool stuff:

Wooo 2009

Three things.
1) Happy New Year everybody! Hope yours was as great as mine.
2) As of 90 minutes ago, I'm back in Portland
3) @Zach Rose: Baked fries are GREAT if you spray them lightly with olive oil and bake them on a rack. This is also known as air frying and its... its the bees knees. It's just tops.

(edit: Okay, I lied, there's a fourth thing. I've got about 3-5 blog posts waiting in the wings to be written and posted. Lots of cool stuff. Yep)