Reading the Sunday Times

My favorite stories from today's NYTimes.

• No emergency, just phoning home.
• Bringing sound to silent films.
• Money (basket) ball.
• He's the tops.

Glowing cities under a nighttime sky

Not cities

• Cool new Penguin covers.
• No pictures, please.
• Pineapple tarts with a story.
• Afghani skate school.
• Why compact floursecent lightbulbs suck.
• Optimal number of facebook friends? Not 42.
• I'm gonna give you such a slap!
• I lego NY.
• I can read movies.
• Such great heights.

To sleep, perchance to dream

Other strands of gossamer

• Bloxorz (love the brick sound effects).
• Making The Shining.
• The daily routines of Gerhard Richter.
• Christoph Niemann illustrates.
• She shoots she scores.

Mapping the world

Other worlds

• Dogs chasing a car in the deserts.
• Design quotations.
• Lazy skates.
• Loading loaders.
• An open letter from one set of first sisters to another.
• 1862 emoticons

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?.