Secret Still

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently looking at infographics for a project I’m working on, and, when you’re in the market for infographics, there’s nowhere better to turn than Good Magazine, and, when they’re in the market for infographics, they turn to Always With Honor. AWH has that simple shapes, Charley Harper-esque style that makes me salivate and seethe with jealousy at the same time. Like all good infographics, the style alone isn’t enough; the creative way in which the data is displayed has to be tops, too. And damn if they don’t have that locked down. I doff my hat to you, Always With Honor, but I’ll probably spit on your shoes as I’m bowing. Nobody should be that good.

Always With Honor

Relax, you’ll get there.

Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects

Japan: The Strange Country

Porous Walker

Skateboardanimation

Take a taste of the colorful past with the art of Derek Yaniger. It’s like a rebel yell from inside a swank mid-century modern office that’ll have you saying “I want my Maypo.” Yaniger and Shag double show anyone? I would think that I’d died and gone to the same heaven as Annette Funicello. If she had been restored to her youthful glory, that would not be such a bad place to spend eternity. There’d better be whiskey though. You hear that, Jesus?

Derek Yaniger

My fascination with hyperrealism continues. Next up, probably tromp l’oeil.

Dirk Dzimirsky

Eat hot, sensory overload, scumbags!

Navigators - My Place

Pringle of Scotland

The Story of Bottled Water

Reggie Watts - The Beginning is Near

Sword and Sorcery

Massive Attack - Saturday Comes Slow (scroll to the bottom)

Dawn Chorus (slowed down bird songs, taught people to sing the slowed down version, filmed it, sped it back up!)

Nature By Numbers

MARCH3 (45 minutes long)

I’ve never been sure whether to trust people whose first and last names are both first names, especially because my name technically falls into that category, and I know better than to trust myself. I’ll give Jon Todd the benefit of the doubt in this case, but I’m keeping an eye on him. I have to think that anyone who can make paintings that look like a Mayan calendar filtered through Mexican street art with a dollop of Bible pages soaked in LSD on top is the kind of person who won’t stab me in the back. Probably because he’s busy stabbing me in the stomach and buying me a drink at the same time. I’m sure we’d laugh and do a shot right before I passed out from blood loss and woke up an hour later, wound sewn up, on a beach, with no shoes. Again.

Jon Todd

If you read this site on the regular, then you know I’m stingy about posting photographers, and maybe you even know why. I’m not gonna bother to explain it again, but I can provide an example of why I do post some photographers in the form of Tim MacPherson. Without getting overly artastic with processing and whathaveyou, MacPherson still manages to have a portfolio jammed to the gills with images that don’t bore me. Not a single one. Every shot has some nuance of composition that makes me actually want to look at it. I especially enjoy the clever concepts behind the shots themselves, which is what I usually find lacking in the plethora of photographers out there. You enjoy that shit, Readers, enjoy it heartily.

Tim MacPherson

Sprung.

I’m Here: A Love Story

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Evil Dead in 60 Seconds

Fresh Pots

Simon Birches wet on wet, angular chunk style puts me in mind of Joshua Petker, but dirtier and a little softer. Birch’s women are more human to me; still stylized, but in a way that’s natural. It’s a hard feeling to verbalize, but I can empathize with their fear, and still remain detached. Either way, his style is fantastic, and I haven’t seen figurative paintings this great in a while. I even like how the lighter color palette contrasts the movement and energy of the subjects. I mean, damn, what is not to like about this? Yeah, I sure can sell ‘em.

Simon Birch found via Wooster Collective

Nobody Beats the Drum - Grindin’

Beautiful Losers (Part 1)

Iceland

How to Feed the World

Reggie Watts - Fuck Shit Stack