Archive for the bookmarks category
- The day there was no news
this is brilliant and subtle
- Today's Most Influential Design - The Design 100 - TIME
"Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation"
- Too Hard a Ball
Right-Wing Radio yakker crashes and burns like the Hindenburg while trying to talk about appeasement … Holy Crap! keep diggin', jerk face.
- PSDtuts | Create a 60?s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster
great tutorial. these guys are killing it with the awesome photoshop tutorials. not as funny as "you suck at photoshop" but amazing in their own right.
- Video: Rubies, "I Feel Electric"
awesome song and video from Rubies, sonic sisters in the circle of awesomenss with Leslie Feist and Danielle Rubi. don't sleep!
- TED | Talks | Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (video)
awesome talk about how the western diet is totally unsustainable and dangerous to the planet. 10,000,000 cows, chickens, lambs and pigs born, raised, and killed every year. the take away? start eating more vegetables.
- Sergey Danyushevskiy :: Travel & Photography
wickedly good travel photography. really gorgeous stuff. [via cpluv]
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
Holy crapola! FontStruct is absolutely amazing! not only can you share and download fonts for free, but you can build your own with their fancy web app. pretty f'ing cool. now why isn't there a desktop app that makes the process of designing fonts this simple, effective and FUN. Mac OS X programmers: i’m looking in your direction
- Schitz Popinov
2008 award for best name for a music blog. I gotta get that on a tshirt.
- Second McCain aide quits over ties to Burmese Junta lobbying
We're talking about lobbying on behalf of mass murdering war criminals here. The real question media outlets should be asking is when did McCain find out and how long has his campaign known about this. These are people that could have gone on to run our government (as the case with the 2nd guy - aides usually end up in the administration).
- Video: Gnarls Barkley - Going On
the video for Gnarls Barkley's Going On is bananasly good. and random as hell.
- Peggy Noonan's article from WSJ on Obama's missing 2nd act
actually a pretty good read. she says a lot of interesting things. the Obama 2nd act thing is *very* dead-on. He does need it. but then she brings up the whole Obama is an elitist thing, which is classic wingnut talking points.
- More Obama: Obama Campaign Launches "Vote For Change" Voter Registration Drive
Uber-wingnut Peggy Noonan declared that Obama would need a "second act" to keep his story going. Well, never one to disappoint, Obama unveils his second act. and this one is gonna be *huge*. I can hear Rove and Spakovsky drafting up their talking points.
- surfblog1000: Hot Photo #1
amazing longboard photo by surf photog master Grannis. now this is the kind of photo that keeps me inspired. i love surf blogs for this very idea, showing the awesome.
- YouTube - Apple Mac Music Video
mac nerd rejoice. this is the single best music video i've seen all year. toad awesomers.
- YouTube - Sad Kermit - Needle in the Hay
Kermit the Frog doing Elliott Smith's Needle in the Hay. amazing.
- Elizabeth Warren | The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren speaks at UC Berkeley. America's crashing credit economy is directly responsible for the continued rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Reality: You probably know more people who will file for bankruptcy than for divorce (although they may not tell you they are/have filed for bankruptcy). Big picture? We’re basically talking about the end of capitalism here. no joke.
- Vote for Change | National Voter Registration & Mobilization Drive
Obama is launching a gigantic voter registration drive to protect low income and black voters from White House designed voter suppression laws masquerading as a Voter Rights Bill. Go Obama!
- Banksy Unmasked? | Gawker
great article claiming Banksy is really UK stencil artist Nick Walker. I don't know if it's true, but a good read.
- Under Construction Redux | All Forces
Instead of throwing up some dumb "we'll be right back" message, when you're updating your site, Melvin has designed a very user-friendly version with social networking links, flickr photos, latest tweets and last.fm covers.
- Kottke's "When Obama wins,"
awesome twitter mashup. my personal favorite: "When Obama wins, God will literally bless America"
- Chile's Dirty, Beautiful Thunderstorm.
Chile's Chaitén volcano erupting into a thunderstorm. amazing. best pictures of thunderstorms *ever*.
- Mexico?s Disgusting Response to Shark Attack
San Fran native Adrian ruiz was killed by a shark, surfing Troncones last week and in response the Mexican Navy has been trawling for sharks, killing anything that gets in their way. Horrible news.
- Wild Coast / Costa Salvaje
WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas.
- Mårten Lange | The Sea
Raul Gutierrez points us to the hypnotic horizontal sea photos of Mårten Lange. This series has more than a passing resemblance to my latest surfing-themed photos. amazing series, i’d love to see these huge.
- Farewell Books
awesome cheaply constructed photography books. very cool idea.
- Sam Flores doing a piece in La Condesa, Mexico City
great photos of Sam Flores mural in process. amazing. taken yesterday.
- Neutra-Designed Strathmore Apartment condo for sale
LA peoples, listen up, one of the legendary Nuetra Strathmore Apertments is for sale. $795,000. hefty price tag, but come on, it’s a Nuetra! Architecturally significant houses aren’t recession proof, but when the market goes up, it’ll go up more. good investment.
- The Temas Blog
"Musings about the Evolution of Consumer, Environmental & Health Policy in Latin America & the Caribbean". awesome english language blog on what's going on south of the US border. a great informational resource and very dialed-in.
- Bio-Baby | Environment-Friendly Mexican Diapers? | The Temas Blog
Interesting look at Bio-Baby diapers, made from organic cotton and polylactic acid (a biodegradable polymer). the diapers are made by 100% mexican owned Mabesa. we don't have any kids yet, but we're already trying to figure out what to do about diapers.
- YouTube - Iron Man After Credits
Iron Man was awesome. Robert Downey Junior was excellent. nearly perfect super hero movie, if not the GOAT. even Marcia really liked it. 2 thumbs up. don't bother to stay through the credits for the end scene, catch it on you tube.
- Dwell Design Leaders Film Series | Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is bananas. amazing designer, amazing apartment. interesting interview.
- Op's new "Open Road" summer marketing program is craptastic.
c-list celebs in badly designed, cheaply made, slightly surf themed gear, make em drive a vw combi, do a pyramid in the sand and run around tackling each other and sell it at walmart. ok. would someone please shoot the person responsible for this?
- YouTube - How Hillary Can Still Win
haha! awesome video. Hillary Clinton's campaign isn't just making history, it *is* history
- OneLessDesk? :: Heckler Design
perhaps the coolest desk i've ever seen. a lil expensive, but the design is so bad-ass. love the computer cable hidingness. [via joshspear.com]
- Hotel Habita in Mexico City gets a makeover
Hotel Habita is part of the Design Hotel collection, it's faces tot he street are pure glass, recently a team of artists covered the entire hotel surface in black and white graffiti, as a commissioned art piece. very cool, but I don't know if it'd make me wanna stay there
- Barry McGee on VBS.TV
Barry McGee has a 2 part series on VBS.tv. with Aaron Rose. They actually gave McGee the interview and he created animated characters for it. it's an art piece abut an interview about an artist. meta cool.
- Investing your money in Gold and Silver
killer video. essential in understanding how the US dollar is worth less and less.
- Thalia Surf Shop | Leguna Beach CA
these guys carry some wicked boards. i have total board lust. they're all ridable art and top notch boards by The Campbell Brothers Surfboards, Gato Heroi, Mandala, Rainbow Surfboards, Rich Pavel, Malcom Campbell, Michel Junod, The Swift Movement.
- The Death of Environmentalism - Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World
a long-format pdf. 37 pages. I haven't read it yet, but I'm interested to see what all the hoopla is about. apparently these guys are hated by the established environmental er um, establishment.
- Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival promo
brilliant promo video. a meditation on the finer points of having a mustache re: latin america's storied infatuation with upper-lip hair. hilarious and slightly creepy. the ending is genius.
- Vice Magazine | The Breakthrough Institute Wrests Environmentalism Away from the Dumbs - by Thomas Morton
Vice correspondent Thomas Morton interviews "Break Through" authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, about how to change the environmental movement to reflect current realities. basically they say that traditional (read: neo-hippy) environmental ap
- My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) …by Michael Moore
Michael Moore chimes in Hillary's awful campaigning tactics. and goes to Obama's side
- Shine | Yahoo!
shine uses the YUI ImageLoader, inspiration for LazyLoader Plugin. watch how the iamges load when you scroll. this is gonna be huge for the blog format, which really breaks down, when it comes to t
- Lazy Load Plugin for jQuery
absolutely ingenious tool for loading images above the fold first, and loading below the fold images on an "as needed" basis. the opposite of preloading images, for web pages with heavy image content. really useful jscript. apple is using this, yahoo's sh
- YouTube - Re: Barack Obama in Raleigh, NC
Obama brushed them shoulders off. hilarious yet classy.
- PASCUALES Y PUERTO ESCONDIDO | Vidascaducada?s
great short clips of big wave surfing at Pacuales and Puerto. awesome footage. Pascuales looks super gnarly
- 8106 | QUIERO CLUB: SHOWTIME
i'm digging on "Quiero Club" a nu-rave band from Monterrey Mexico. awesome song. I love the hand-drawn typography steez on the image.
- Bitching is the killer app for Twitter
i love that twitter is kinda like throw away blogging, for all the crap you don't want attached to your blog, glorified for posterity's sake. and comments coming in years later. so immediate and impermanent
- Apple - Trailers - The Fall
The Fall is a new film directed by Tarsem Singh (of The Cell fame). Looks pretty cool. The movie was shot on location in pretty much every city in Rajasthan, India (i see Jaipur, Jodhpur and Agra) which gets extra cool points. The Playlist gives the trail
- YouTube - The Job
hilarious role reversal video about day labor. corporate fat cats vs. mexican, central and south american immigrant workers. priceless. my pops sent me this a few weeks ago.
- Progresswear: Political T-Shirts, Anti-War T Shirts, shirts for Designers.
mix good politics and good design and you get Progressive Wear. awesome tshirt designs with "meaningful messages for thinking people". political wear doesn't have to be badly designed.
- Headlines - Gaffe-In | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Jon Stewart chimes in on the Obama/Pennsylvania "problem". god bless Stewart's soul.
- Inspiration: Star, Planets and Galaxies | PSDtuts.com
wicked space art and tutorials on creating space effects. I'm digging the whole space vibe reinvention. can't wait til it filters up the graphic design food chain. on the same note, does anyone else think that Leopard's time machine space vibe is interest
- Kanye gets Kar Wai | Spout Blog
amazing video for Kanye West's "Flashing Lights" using footage from Wong Kar Wai's 2046. amazing. hypnotic. awesome. I still love Spike Jonz's official video for the song, it's ground breaking as well. But I gotta say 2046 works beautifully on that whole
- Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware - Wired How-To Wiki
totally benign, reversible hack for Canon firmware. ridiculously cool
- Epicus bites Coda
web dev app for windows that totally bites Coda's functionality. except that it's super ugly and has awful icons and ui design
- EliHorne | web developer
killer, simple blog format. really nice minimal design and colorway. how bout this in a wp theme? update: turns out Eli is developing both a wp framework (probably something like sandbox) and a theme.
- April Fools: Can Ford Afford a Redesign?
great april fools joke. caught me. i was sitting thier bitching to marcia about how th enew one looks like an amateur logo from a swedish granola company. despite it's decidedly backward looking approach, i like the Ford logo, even with the gradient and drop shadows.
- YouTube - Superfriends wassup!!!
i don't know why i thought of this today but youtube rocks! the superfriends wassup budweiser parody is insanely funny. waaasssssuuup!
