Posts by: Connie
This is yet another daft..Tumbler site on the go…. http://capybarasthatlooklikerafaelnadal.tumblr.com/
The ‘McDonaldland’ Specification Manual (a style guide) was sent to licensees in the 1970′s to help create McDonaldland-licensed items.
Some seriously psychedelic shit….. Not sure how it would entice you into eating burgers!
Looks like a bit of craic all right….
These wonderful photographs were taken the amazing Steven Siegel. He has been documenting New York City’s five boroughs (and beyond) for over three decades now…. you can view more of his collection here.
Bushwick Circa 1980
Abandoned West Side Highway, circa 1980(Photo by Steven Siegel)
South Bronx circa 1980 (Photo by Steven Siegel)
Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947), was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for
18 months after his head had been mostly cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird’s
owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of the story.
Once his fame had been established, Mike began a career of touring sideshows in the company
of such other creatures as a two-headed calf. He was also photographed for dozens of
magazines and papers, featuring in Time and Life magazines.
I know, a car park!
Well not any car park …..THIS CAR PARK!
Designed by Craig & Karl (Craig Redman and Karl Maier)
for a private residence in Sydney, Australia.
for a private residence in Sydney, Australia.
Mural installation by Edward Woodley.
Photography by Katherine Lu.
@Gaslampkiller posted this the other day…saying “4 some reason this video makes me feel like everything is gonna be alright.”
OCD?
Me, no.. Im normal…..
Well, after coming across theis site http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com I feel a WHOLE lot more normal.
A good friend of mine emailed this site link to me yesterday….it made my day! http://textsfrombennett.tumblr.com/
Here’s a small sample of the treats it has instore…
Yves Rossy flies a jet suit in spectacular formation flight alongside two Albatross jets over the Swiss Alps… and calls himself JETMAN.
Sweet.
Trees cocooned in spiders webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees
to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede,
many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs.People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon
before – but they also report that there are now less mosquitos than they would expect, given the amoungt of stagnant,
standing water that is around. It is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the webs and may be reducing
the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.
to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede,
many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs.People in this part of Sindh have never seen this phenonemon
before – but they also report that there are now less mosquitos than they would expect, given the amoungt of stagnant,
standing water that is around. It is thought that the mosquitos are getting caught in the webs and may be reducing
the risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for the people of Sindh, facing so many other hardships after the floods.
Photograph taken by Russel Watkins.
It rained solidly for 8 hours right after this was taken…
New York based illustrator Matt Huynh visited the Occupy Wall Street protests a few days ago and drew every placard he saw.
“I’ve consciously tried to include them all without imposing my own judgment as a bit of an outside eye. (Although you’d be kidding yourself if you think any of us are really on the ‘outside’ of this one).” Oh, and Matt has very kindly provided these high resolution A2 posters for anyone to download and print for Free in black and white.
The miricle of murmuration recorded in Ireland several weeks ago…..
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
The Terminal Bar was located on the south east corner of 41st Street and 8th Avenue in New York city. Where now stands a Schnippers!
The bar had a reputation as one of the roughest bars in the city and was located across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It featured in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and then subject of this award winning documentary short film, directed by Stefan Nadelman.
A good friend of mine pointed me in the direction of this project the other day…and I had to share it.
Souvenirs in my view are nearly always tacky, but not these ones. If any of you have ever been to Barcelona, you’ll know La Rambla is one of the main tourist spots in the city, and that it is host to lots of stalls that sell the tackiest of tacky souvenirs. It is also host to a plethe of street performers / living statues. So, it had to be the obvious choice of location for this fantastic project – Be Your Own Souvenir from Barcelona based blablabLab.
The project uses custom software developed using openKinect and openFrameworks. To create a toy soldier like souvenir of yourself. The visitors use 3 kinect sensors to create a 360-degree scan which creates input pointclouds. Meshlab then uses these combined pointclouds to create a Poisson reconstruction before being fed into a cnc machine which prints out the souvenir. Check out the photos and video. The project aims to connect street users, arts and science, linking them to under-laying spaces and their own realities. The installation was enjoyed during two weekends in January 2011 by the tourists, neighbours of La Rambla and citizens of Barcelona, a city that faces a trade-off between identity and gentrification, economic sustainability and economic growth. Nice.
Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.
It’s hard to believe it has been seven whole years to the day since the passing of John Peel. He has to be one of the most
popular and respected DJs and broadcasters in the world. He broke the mould.
He was one of the first to play reggae, punk and hip hop on British radio. Artists whose careers he helped to launch include
Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division,The Undertones,The Smiths and The White Stripes. An absolute legend of a man.
Here’s a great interview with the man himself. Hopefully this will give us a little more insight into the man behind the
microphone, splash a bit of colour on a kaleidoscopic life, and explain exactly why John Peel is so greatly missed by so
many music fans.
A visualization of complementary flavours by David McCandless and Willow Tyrer.
All food tastes amazing, just sometimes not together.So David and Willow have roved around 1000 recipes for common flavour patterns and visualized the results. Enjoy your meal.
I saw Julien Vallée speak at OFFF Paris Last year… and was I totally blown away. When this quietly spoken and immensely talented Canadian art director took to the stage, he had the 3000 attendees in the Grande Hall de la Villette absolutely captivated for his hour long presentation.
Anyway enough of my shmolzing… He’s just compleeted a new promo for MTV Australia.
MTV Hits from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.
Oh, and here are the wonderfull Sponsor titles he did for OFFF Paris last year too.
OFFF Paris 2010 Sponsors titles from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.
Think Chaplin, think early Hitchcock…. Fritz Lang.. then George Lucas.
Yep. Silent Film version of The Empire Strikes Back.
Yep. Silent Film version of The Empire Strikes Back.
SHOP
