Photographs of Jesus

Among other things

• The food timeline.
• Coffee illustrations.
• Create your own rainbow.
• Lego hip hop album covers.
• Need inspiration?
• It's butter, baby.

Private library

Not so private libraries

• Dust jackets from bygone times.
• Fun with clip art.
• DJ Z-trip's Obama mix.
• A quantum of intertitles.
• The Trans-Siberian in pictures.
• The Trans-Mongolian in pictures.

Around the world

Around the rest of the world

• Tilt shift dusk till dawn time lapse photography of SF.
• Can throwing.
• Puppies.
• Beautiful blackboards.
• Kimonos to dye for.

The making of a sea orchestra

For United Airlines, one of their many new animated ads. You can see the results here.

Where can you find a superhero when you need one?

Ah! Here.

Louis Armstrong collages

"When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. The story goes that he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and back." Read the rest of the article here.

Throw me the idol

I throw you the whip

• Twin towers live on.
• Ed Ruscha on 9/11. (Unfortunately the thumbnail is cropped in a way that detracts from the integrity of the actual photograph.)
• Typographic popup books.
• Sony rideman.
• What type of art is this?.
• What's that around your neck? T-rex!.
• A 35mm twin-lens reflex camera? Why, yes.
• A stranger in a strange land.

Bass titles

Design and architecture

• A film about Paul Rand. It's all about form and content.
• Manhole covers en francais.
• THe anger of aubergines.
• Could you build a stainless steel house for my dog? Mr. Glasses.

Alaskan cruise

If there's one cruise I would like to do it would be the Alaskan one.

Olympic competition

• Paolo Pellegrin's silhouetted photos of Olympians.
• Yearbook yourself.
• Legolympics.
• What does an Olympic medal look like through the ages?

Dj Spooooooock

Cuttin' it up on the 1s and 2s.

Cuttin' rugs

• Patterns in center irrigation.
• Barry White in 10 lessons.
• Shower in the air.

Yo-yo man

This video reminds me of a Fred Astaire quotation. After seeing Stayin' Alive he complained about the use of closeups during the dance sequences, "The young people today—they think they can dance with their faces!" I want to see more of the tricks!

Got no strings

• Unnecessary knowledge.
• Metro logos.
• Drip table.
• Field recordings from around the world.
• Marian Bantjes' Love stories.

QT Monsters

Fewer monsters

• Cartooning with your eyes closed.
• Who listens to cassettes? Inmates.
• I want my five dollars!
• Stephanie Sinclair's photographs of The Young Women of the F.L.D.S. for the NYTimes.
• Labs at night by Noah Kalina.

Cat's cradle

Jacob's ladder

• 78s, unadulterated.

1 2 3 4

Counting to the number four.

5 6 7 8

• Stop motion spaghetti I love how they do the Rubik's cube.
• A flock of birds.

Kiki's delivery service reimagined

Maki Kawakita channels Kiki in Tanzania.

Furthe reading

• Using marketing for good.
• Art and commerce.
• Steinski Q&A.
• How long would you like to Sleep?

Porcelain pots, take one

My first attempt at porcelain.

Pot shots

• Walmart. Kinda like missle command.
• Put the title there there. No there.
• How typograpers write.
• What does jello sound like?.

Reanimator

I wish searching through stock photos was as fun as watching this clip art film.

Animated

• Bill Evans on improvisation.
• Pictograms for the Beijing Olympics.

Movies. movie theaters and moving picture shows

I missed the fireworks myself. So here's something to tide me over until the next fourth. I almost wish the entire video was just the fireworks running in reverse, which reminds me of the closing titles for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which are gorgeous.

Moving picture shows

• Abandoned movie theaters.
• Speaking of abandoned movie theaters, the trailer for Music Palace.
• Much as I hate the interface design of these things, Tyler Hicks' Kabul in transition.
• Hellboy as illustrations.

Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids

• Castles in Queens.
• Parking structures made beautiful.
• Origami type.
• Saul Bass from the 50s to the 60s.

Who loves the sun?

More info here.

Plants grow

• Come on feel the noise.
• The places we live.
• Half submerged in Japan.
• An American index of the hidden and unfamiliar.

What a feeling

Less dance, more fever

• Environmentally conscious bags.
• I like me with you.
• Split second: Photos from multiple angles.
• Speaking of which, two views of the same scene: 1, 2.
• Judging books by their covers: 1, 2, 3.

All that jazz

I've been on a bit of a jazz kick today.

And then some

• All that jazz, covered.
• World's first album cover.

Waterfalls

Unfortunately Olafur Eliasson's exhibit at PS1 and MoMA has ended.

No falls

• The visible heart.
• What kind of a picture does that camera take?
• How does a camera lens work?

Wall-E

IT's lovely. But don't watch the trailer, go see the mov-e.

Wall-R

• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
• What is your food saying?
• Tell me a story.

A Curious Thing

A moving magic picture show.

Curiouser and curioser

• Judging a book by its many covers.
• The internet under the sea.
• An orange wrapped structure that's not the Gates.
• Crumple zone.
• FRIEND FROM WORK: Hey, guess what! My voice is pretty loud!

Type style

I love the exclamation point splashes.

Walk between apostrophe's

• Little people.
• Kermit Love, 91. So perfect.
• Sim Hip hop videos.
• Genius (and genesis) of photography from the BBC. Video here.

Stamp art

Hsueh Shao-Tang, Stamp Connector, an appreciation at the Nonist.

Putting their stamp on art

• Dreamy underwater photos.
• Street art interacting with the street.
• Let it snow let it snow let it snow.
• Steve McCurry talks about Afghanistan.

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke signals

• Fifty designers' current favorite typefaces.
• At the drive-in.
• Art of the title sequence. One of my faves, Six Feet Under.
• Standing up against the end of the day.
• Bang, zoom!
• NASA units.
• Speaking of naps.

Dance dance revolution

This makes me really happy.

I'm gonna dance all night with the radio on

• Beautiful handmade books.
• The actuality of prom, as opposed to a John Hughes prom. "Getting pregnant?" "That's an American tradition."
• I'd rather look at this poster than the new movie anyday.

Where to put the camera?

Stephen Shore on his process and technique.

What to photograph?

• Black is back in Italian Vogue.
• Yesterday was the summer solstice. Expect days to get shorter.
• Martin Scorcese, move over.

japanese rooms

Japanese living spaces at home and abroad. Find the book here.

Cultural artifacts

• Scoop and stack.
• A kung pao chicken by any other name . . .
• Tree bed.

A cultural guide to the United Kingdom

Tea comes from China, and a cup from Japan, with sugar from New Guinea.

Other guides

• Book of Warriors!. The shoes, son, I say the shoes. (tx, karen)
• Coco Wang's Panda strips detailing the affects of the earthquake on the panda research center pandas and staff.
• Richard Serra: Rules are overrated.
• Lightsabers where lightsabers have no business to be.

One country through another country's eyes

Hiroshi Watanabe on America. Now and again, I still catch myself looking for them at the end of my street.

Among other things

• What does your country look like when distilled down to a logo?
• They talk! They sing! But how?
• Popup placemats.
• Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art.
• I can't believe it. I can't believe it. The things you can do with a spore-o-graph.
• You will live in a mansion / apartment / shack / house.

Battlespace

The above image was taken by Teru Kuwayama. It's of Afghanistan over the air, depicting the areas over which are being fought and in which the battles are taking place. It's also part of an exhibition of photographs by a number of photojournalists who have been covering the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of the photos can be disturbing. (Full disclosure, I was involved in the design of the catalog and the website.)

Other spaces

• Not so conspicuous consumption
• Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a logo.
• Be like Newton.
• Do you sing in the shower? Do you now?

Sigur Ros

Seeing Sigur Ros live is like going to church. I was fortunate enough to see them this past evening. This video doesn't do them justice. (Video replaced with video from the actual concert I went to. Whee! -tx, ykw)

Hopelandic

• Stream the new album.
• Watch the video.

Still moving photographs

Neat little trick.

Oddly related

• War photog blends video and stills.
• Didn't Christian Frei and James Nachtwey use this technique a few years ago on their War Photographer film?

No old men in this country ('cept me)

I love looking at storyboards. I remember when I was much younger buying a novelization of one of the Star Wars movies which was illustrated with storyboards. I spent as much time looking at the storyboards as I did reading the novel. Before video, it was like being able to watch the movie all over again. Here's more information on J. Todd Anderson, the artist behind the boards.

Summer fun

• Little people: a street art project.
• Little people, take two, a different take.
• Central Park summerstage schedule.
• On the absence of water.

You're so young and I'm so old

Reminds me of Tron, James Bond opening titles, and that claymation video of a depressed figure who invents bright goggles that appeared a few years back.

Fountains of youth

• Another way to get fit with Nintendo: Move with Mario.
• It might be easier to get this than the key to the executive wash room.
• Now what is it a messy desk is supposed to be indicative of?
• Ooo, swish!

Shape-shifters

I'm curious to see how it drives. I trust it wouldn't be flapping in the wind. It looks a little like a cat. Meeee-ow.

Movement and still-life

• Sleepy? Take a nap.
• What will a voodoo doll do to save his friends
• She's got hers: Eco zoo popup books.

Paddling

I love canoeing. A few years ago, I went on Long Island, but it wasn't quite as magical or dreamy as this.

Pitter patter

• A long day's night
• Beautiful: Arabic type and typography.
• Noman wrote this blog! BibliOdyssey.
• Paper steak.

Y'all can't be playing no checkers on no chess board, yo!

The Wire is well worth the investment (though the last season was disappointing after the highs of three and four). It's the antithesis of everything I hate about shows like Law & Order. It's the cure for the common crime show. It's not TV, it's HBO. Indeed.

The king stay the king

• You'll need a little more than four minutes: The democractic primaries in eight minutes.
• Pre-summer list of things to do in New York. Egads! I hope it doesn't get much more summer than now!
• Put on a smiling face (for your plant).
• More expensive than oil.
• Speak.
• Whale watch.
• A new breed of zebra crossing.

Advice column

Keep making crap until it's not crap anymore.

City section

• Alexander Hamilton's home achieves a top speed of 0.4 miles an hour.
• There are eight million cities in this story.
• Curating the city on the left coast.
• There are 600 million adolescent girls living in poverty in the developing world. Change starts with a girl. Direct link to Global giving.
• Blast those fries.

Pepper Pots

I've been taking ceramics at the 92nd Street Y this year. Here are four of my latest, the average height of which is around 3 inches (they have to fit in my tiny apartment). This session, we're working with porcelain, which feels delicious. (The photos were taken with my laptop, so the images aren't superb.)

Iron Men

• The 25th Hour of Florent Morellet. I went on my birthday to say goodbye.
• How the Web Was Won and where it got us?
• Ever want to drop $150K on a book? Now you can.
• His passion is moving heavy objects.
• Wii're fit thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto.

Another view

The smiling faces make some of these brilliant Lego recreations of famous photographs somewhat creepy.

More photography

• Final salute. A year with the Marines stationed at Aurora, Colorado's Buckley Air Force Base called upon to notify families of their son's deaths in Iraq.
• Maki Kawakita on video. More of her work here. Her prints are really amazing.
• Celebrating Women in Photography.
• I really love Elinor's work. Again, the scans don't do the prints justice.
• Not photography, but related in other ways, a patchwork quilt.
• A curated collection of photographs found on the web: I lie down (on the road).
• Dutch masters finger photographed. (tx ben)

Time's arrow

In other news

• Radiohead Nude remix
• What do the designers at Trollback + Company think about before they fall asleep?
• Where the real flavor is.
• Robert Frank's The Americans re-released just in time for my birthday. (It's beautiful. I got mine at the Strand).
• Verve photo. A new breed of documentary photographers. I hope one day to be able to count the people featured here among my peers. It gives me something to aspire to.
• Noodle therapy.
• Steinski gets a career retrospective (I hope my cousin wins a Grammy for the liner notes).
• Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral train, rediscovered at Danziger Projects.
• In heavy rotation: Crystal Castles.