Secret Still http://www.secretstill.com/blog Art, Design, Illustration, Skateboarding, and beauty Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:04:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Peskimo http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/peskimo/ http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/peskimo/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:04:53 +0000 Brad http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/peskimo/ Peskimo
I’ve never been interested in vinyl toys. I mean, they’re cute and everything, but I can’t rationalize paying $50 for a toy. I play with toys in the bathtub (yes, seriously), so why would I want something that’s so expensive I can’t even play with it? Books go on shelves, toys are meant to play. But I might have to reconsider my stance on collector toys thanks to Peskimo and their BambooZoo figures. Peskimo is a UK-based design firm whose character driven illustrations were just begging for toydom. I love their work, and dammit if I don’t love their toys. I’m not hyped on them being sold in the blind though. If I’m paying for it then just let me pick which one I want. Probably the toast guy. Or the weird, sad, blue monster. Or all of them. The good news: for $7.95 each I won’t have any problem playing with them in the bathtub. They are gonna kick my lego guys’ asses.

Peskimo

]]> http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/peskimo/feed/ Harvey James http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/harvey-james/ http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/harvey-james/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:50:51 +0000 Brad http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/09/harvey-james/ Harvey James
I have one question and one piece of advice for you, Harvey James. What the fuck is wrong with you? Advice: whatever it is, don’t fix it. A single long page full of illustrations that would make Jamie Hewlett jealous, chaotic, weird, and sometimes awesomely twisted. It’s like the greatest sketchbook I’ve ever seen. This motherfucker is my muse for the next few weeks.

Harvey James

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Found through B/D. I tried to place his style by comparisons, but there’s too much originality. Isoe’s got his own incredible style and it will be a basis of comparison from now on rather than a product of it. I’m a fan to say the least. I even like his webpage design. Isoe for the win.

Charlie Isoe

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String Theory in Pasta?

James Earl Jones - Alphabet

Bob Stakke Creates a New Yorker Cover

Visual Music (57mb!)

Krunchy Corner

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Fuck a foggy Tuesday. Enjoy some Polaroids of the times I wish I was having.  Images like junk-fed needle dreams of my kodachrome childhood. Prosetic license is in full effect today.

Franck Juery’s Polaroids

]]> http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/07/franck-juery/feed/ Daily Videos: Special Guilt You to Death Volume http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/03/daily-videos-special-guilt-you-to-death-volume/ http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/03/daily-videos-special-guilt-you-to-death-volume/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:21:17 +0000 Brad http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/03/daily-videos-special-guilt-you-to-death-volume/ Today’s Daily Videos are packed with subjects to make you feel guilty, scared, and probably more than a little righteous. That should make for an interesting weekend.

5 Friends Uncensored

How the Markets Really Work

Dave and Lonnie Talk About Gay Marriage

XDRTB

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Wagner Pinto is a damn charming name. It sounds like the name of a trying-to-do-his-awkward-best high school movie hero played by Michael Cera. In reality, Wagner Pinto is the name of a Brazilian artist who’s taken the styles of the world around him and made them his abstract own. Bright colors, mad lines, and a playful jumble like kids wrestling in the grass. What are you even doing still reading this. Go check it out. Go.

Wagner Pinto

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Woodhands - I Wasn’t Made for Fighting

spaa

The Can

Satellites

The Hidden Cost of War

Modular Noia

]]> http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/02/daily-videos-91/feed/ It’s All In The Altitude http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/01/its-all-in-the-altitude/ http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/01/its-all-in-the-altitude/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:49:47 +0000 Brad http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/01/its-all-in-the-altitude/ Mt. Shasta
Did you miss me the last two days? I was on a work trip in Mt. Shasta. Highlights include: getting challenged to a drinking contest by a Canadian and subsequently drinking a quarter bottle of Maker’s Mark in 10 minutes and subsequently having the most metal night of my life; canoeing in some serious majesty; a 12 hour train ride on a restored 50’s train; dancing to Lil Wayne at midnight in front of a lodge. Except for the five hours of hurling it was good times. We call it freeform teambuilding. Usual posting might resume today, or maybe tomorrow. It’s not that I don’t love you, it’s just that I love me more.

]]> http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/10/01/its-all-in-the-altitude/feed/ Hollis Brown Thornton http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/09/26/hollis-brown-thornton/ http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/09/26/hollis-brown-thornton/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:02:39 +0000 Brad http://www.secretstill.com/blog/2008/09/26/hollis-brown-thornton/ Hollis Brown Thornton
I keep trying to look at the work of South Carolinian Hollis Brown Thornton without thinking I’m asleep. But the quality of his work is so dreamlike that I just can’t manage it. There are vague, ambiguous shapes drifting through static points in time, like every dream I’ve ever tried to grab onto while asleep. It’s the shock of grasping something intangible that is constructed from my collected ideas of tangibility. I don’t know how to make that sentence sound any less pretentious. Regardless of me sounding like a complete douchebag, the work of Hollis Brown Thornton is definitely worth a look. Several looks. Just openly stare at it for a while.

Hollis Brown Thornton

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