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Artist Tom Bagshaw has some nice process photos up on his blog. I like his style and I especially like seeing how it’s done. I don’t know why more artists don’t post shots like these to help boost their fanbase. People want to know how it’s done. And by people I mean me. And by “want to know how it’s done” I mean “want to steal your ideas”. Kidding, kidding. Settle down.
Can reduce emissions from the train by as much as 50%! Nice. If it wasn’t too little, too late from a polluting behemoth I would be really happy. It’s still a nice project.
You could call this a Smörgåsbord. If you’re into calling things that.
1) Making of an Elan Snowboard. For all you snowboarders out there. Now you can see just how your stupid stick is made right before you strap it to your feet and think you’re doing something cool. Via Core 77
2) WIRED Science. What’s Inside? with special guest Rainn Wilson. I’d like to have a TV just for this show.
3) Laboratory Conditions. Coudal Partners (who are fucking rad) accidentally made a film while making another film. It’s a five part film. Here’s Part Two.
4) Earth. This is just the Planet Earth series turned into one big documentary. The link is for the website but there are plenty of little clips strewn about if you can find them.
5) Webby Awards Top 12 Online Videos. They say that these are the top 12 most influential online videos, but I haven’t been influenced by any of them. Except as targets for mocking.
French artist Jean Spezial is doing some colorful and playful street art. I mean, he shows in galleries and everything but I guess we’re just gonna have to start classifying all of that as street art, too. The genre is just becoming too marginalized to not include the gallery shit. That’s neither here nor there for this post though so you’ll have to wait until I complete my treatise on the state of street art and the internet someday. For now check out Jean’s Fotolog (that shit is old like Prodigy chat) and revel in some quality arting.
Lots of videos to wile away your first Monday back from holidays. This and online shopping should carry you straight through to 5pm.
1) Open Air. Wooster Collective posts this great short film about some graffiti legends who broke, and still break, ground in the street art scene. Yeah, that shit’s a scene now. That’s my word.
2) A trio of Radiohead gems that Design is Kinky posted. Uno, Dos, Tres.
3) Pangolin! Comes to us from It’s Nice That.
4) The Door. A great flash animation that loops back on itself ad infinitum. Not like that lame ass Zoom Quilt bullshit or anything. See for yourself.
There won’t be any posts tomorrow because I’ll be too busy cooking my ass off. This year my contribution to the family feast includes:
You are so jealous.
1) Giant Steps. Michael Levy kills it with animation set to Trane. Via I Love New Work
2) How Milk Is Made. A vintage clip from Sesame Street featuring the song stylings of classic troubadour Joe Raposo who writes like Randy Newman, sings like Art Garfunkel, and sucks the very joy from life like James Taylor. Found via Boing Boing
3) Buddy Rich vs. Animal. I associate Muppets and Sesame Street so this seemed like a likely follow-up.
Indiana University has a gigantic digital archive of photos taken by Charles W. Cushman in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. As someone who worked on a digital archiving project for a state university: I feel their pain. I also really appreciate what they’re doing. These photos are great and I’m glad they’ve been preserved and shared with a much larger audience. Nice job on the metadata, too.
A nice site design and nice work from Bruno Fujii, a Brazilian illustrator.
