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Bookmarks for January 13th

By Ed Fladung | January 13, 2010
  • Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
    must read press release from SVP at Google, about China's censoring authorities' organized and highly sophisticated hack attacks on Google's infrastructure as well as 20 other large companies, in various sectors as part of a plan to uncover information on human rights activists in China. This is no joke.

    I repeat, this is a google press release, not conjecture. [via DF]

  • THERES SPACE FOR OL DAT I SEE by @_m_i_a_ – TwitVid
    how crunk is MIA? chick can do no wrong. prepare to have your mind blown. best to watch this with large headphones on.
  • A Torturous Interview: John Yoo Does The Daily Show (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
    John Yoo is the legal scholar behind the total crap that Bush/Cheney used to justify torture. this guy is insane. must not miss episode of the Daily Show. In part two Yoo admits that he never met Bush, the guy who he essentially gave Imperial powers too, simply because Cheney asked him to.
  • Robert Hodgin | Portfolio
    generative computational art, you may know him as Flight404. awesome. [via surfstation]
  • Retro Music Posters by Paul Gardner
    absolutely sick design work. i love this style. you will too. something for everyone.
  • Bodhi Oser's new portfolio site
    run. don't walk. to check out Oser's new portfolio site. one word: fuckingimpressive. Oser (working under Tom Adler's Art-Direction), is responsible for almost single-handedly changing the face of how surf culture is marketed. The singular design aesthetic and definitive photo editing used for Quicksilver/Roxy and mostly all of your favorite surf books, Oser's influence in surf culture can not be underestimated or oversold.
  • Surfstation – Joe Klein
    "Over the past 30 years, Republicans fed the delusions that you can have low taxes and world-class public services, and Democrats acquiesced in it. It would be nice if we had an honest national conversation about revenues–and the sun-setting of many of the Bush tax cuts this year provides the perfect arena for it–but don't count on that taking place."

    - Joe Klein

  • James Cameron's Avatar Movie Performance Capture Featurette
    amazing behind the scenes featurette on the wholly new capture tech behind the movie. James Cameron is a genius. He really does get across the "uncanny valley". I loved Avatar.
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Bookmarks for October 23rd

By Ed Fladung | October 23, 2009
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Bookmarks for September 13th

By Ed Fladung | September 13, 2009
  • Maureen Dowd – Boy, Oh, Boy – NYTimes.com
    This basically sums up my thoughts on the vast teabagger of this summer right up to Joe Wilson's douchbaggery – "But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it."
  • Mexico Now Enduring Worst Drought in Years – NYTimes.com
    we're definitely feeling the first signs of a drought, here in Nayarit, rain fall is way off. usually we're swimming in rain this time of year. Lately it's been sprinkling every 4 or 5 days. the winter is gonna be rough.
  • Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' – Telegraph
    "…according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution." and ""It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules."
  • YouTube – Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper
    DJs, beatmakers and sound sampling peeps check this out before it disappears, a youtube clip that isolates all 4 tracks on the Sgt. Pepper intro. awesome for sampling and cool just to hear/see the tracks isolated.
  • Jordan : History of Flight
    beautifully done artwork and flash site for the Jordan/Nike brand. this site is awesome. as for Jordan sneaks the III, IV and V were my favorites. the rest became too gimmicky. great artwork on that timeline site.
  • Kid Vlogs From Apple Store, We Smell a New Commercial Campaign
    "Kids. They grow up so fast these days, with the Twitter and the MySpace and Tamagotchi and sports drinks. You've gotta hand it to them, though: they've got their technology and they know how to use it.

    Which is why the dense YouTube account of Nicholifavs, filled with a kid who vlogs exclusively from New York City's Fifth Avenue Apple Store, is merely a natural progression in the realm of Things Kids Do Now." via Beau Colburn

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Bookmarks for July 31st

By Ed Fladung | July 31, 2009
  • Nick Drake – River Man
    your inspiration for today. beautiful video by Tim Pope.
  • Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale – Anil Dash
    is Apple slowly self-immolating when it screws over iphone developers with all this secrecy garbage? maven indie iphone devs are fleeing the platform in packs. is the iphone's golden years over?
  • Custom Letter — LetterCult
    holy crapola. so much juicy good typography here. loving it. inspiration for days. [via @Nybe]
  • Scientists Are Concerned About Cancer in Animals
    new nasty, virulent forms of cancer are being discovered in wild animals, that are the result of heavy carcinogenic environmental contamination. are human beings really the top of the evolutionary chain? How did cheap crap from Wal Mart become the thing we collectively care about most? [via @jimmoriarty]
  • Isolator
    my new favorite app. when you need to concentrate on something your doing in a particular application (like writing a blog post in Safari or designing something out in photoshop) just hit the command keys for this app and it hides all your other app windows and the dock and presents your current working window on a black background. hit it again to return the windows. should be built into Mac OS X.
  • Minimal Mac
    one my new favorite blogs. tons of tips on reducing the visual clutter on your desktop (both the virtual and analog ones). less is more.
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Charley Harper + Habitat Skateboards

By Ed Fladung | July 28, 2009

Skatedecks

Habitat Skateboards are putting out a limited edition line of Charley Harper skatedecks and shoes for it’s sponsored pros. Real classy. I’d love one of these up on the wall. Serious collectors items.

Charley Harper is a mid-century modernist illustrator and painter whose popularity is deservedly surging at the moment partly due to several high profile projects by Todd Oldham and Ammo Books.

[via @thescout]

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Bookmarks for June 14th

By Ed Fladung | June 14, 2009
  • Stop Smiling Magazine: VISUAL RESPONSE: GEOFF McFETRIDGE
    "We asked Geoff McFetridge — founder of the Los Angeles-based design studio Champion Graphics and a member of the Director’s Bureau — to offer his impressions on the differences between living in California and his native Calgary. Included here are several bonus questions that did not originally appear in Issue 36: Expatriate"
  • Daring Fireball: Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
    ok, You're using Apple's Mail app and you have 2 or 3 IMAP email addresses (dot mac, gmail, maybe your own domain) and your inbox is swamped with crap and you're having problems answering emails. This Apple Script created by John Gruber helps you stay organized. You just flag the messages that you know need to be responded to and once per day you run this script. It automatically moves all read inbox mail to archive folders, effectively cleaning up your inbox for you! awesome.
  • Jordy Smith's Rodeo Flip In The Mentawais
    pretty impressive
  • :: andy gilmore :: design ::
    damn! i'm loving this guy's design work. beautiful abstract geometric stuff. awesome.
  • Border Film Project
    Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, we have received 73 cameras — 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen — with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.
  • How AT&T Should Handle the Twitter iPhone Price Backlash – Advertising Age – News
    if yer not in the know, Apple introduced a new iPhone 3G [s] this past monday. Of course, when Apple releases a new product millions of people all rush out to buy it. But when you have to buy it with a contract from AT&T things get dicey. When people started seeing the how much it was going to cost them to upgrade all hell broke loose on twitter. This article explains the bru-ha and why AT&T is not doing the right thing. My two cents: AT&T and most telcos are zombie corporations just like GM and Citibank. They don't exist to serve their customers, they exist to serve the interests of their shareholders. and that's it.
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Bookmarks for June 6th

By Ed Fladung | June 6, 2009
  • Horticulture Jamming | GOOD
    your word for the day: "Horticulture Jamming". yes, two words, whose counting? awesome concept.
  • SO MUCH PILEUP
    wickedly awesome graphic design artifacts and inspiration from the 60s to 80s. rediculously cool stuff here. [via Le Joy]
  • Ritz and Oreo go retro: idsgn (a design blog)
    beautiful new minimal packaging. i love how everything comes around.
  • Brand New: Bing sets New Record in Horizontal Scaling
    Microsoft's new search engine "Bing" has the fucking worst logo I have ever seen. When I saw it for the first time, my eyeballs started to twitch uncontrollably and my hand inexplicably reached for the nearest steak knife and plunged it into my eye socket.
  • the secret life of ants
    amazing video (6:37) of an excavation of an ant city. i'm pretty sure one of these days some scientist will prove that ants (and probably bees as well) have a collective consciousness (hive mind).
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Bookmarks for April 19th

By Ed Fladung | April 19, 2009
  • Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama
    "A 36-year-old historical tract attacking the imperialist exploitation of Latin America has become an improbable overnight bestseller after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez abruptly presented a copy to Barack Obama." – add Obama's moves to open relations with Cuba and I don't know how much more happier I could be about having Obama in office. This guy has a shopping list of wrongs (our country has done over the past 40 years) and he is righting every one of them. Obama is an inspirational dude. I know I've linked it before, but for a good primer on the subject of exploitation of Latin American read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".
  • Voules Random
    great indie electronic mp3 blog. tons of great music here. try Wolfy vs. Projections. reminds of the old 'Moon Tribe' years, albeit my kind of electronic music stops at royksopp. if you can dance to it, i probably won't dig it. it took my 10 years to appreciate Daft Punk.
  • Shawn MORTENSEN ::: PHOTOGRAPHY
    amazing body of work by Mortensen who recently passed away at the age of 43 (?!). Mortensen seems to have been at the epicenter of several different underground art movements over his 20+ yrs shooting. His list of subjects is *deep*. more info over at SuperTouch
  • SuperTouch » FIRST LOOK: “McGEE, TEMPLETON, PETTIBON” AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
    McGee, Templeton, Pettibon. curated by Aaron Rose. great photos from the Berlin show. put this show on the very long list of "things I'd do if i had endless loochie"
  • Legwork Studio
    ridiculously sweet website from a design shop in Denver. love the scaffolding content. For extra bonus, peep the "about" video, redonkulous. [via Eli's tweet]
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Bookmarks for April 1st

By Ed Fladung | April 1, 2009
  • How to Write a Professional Biography – Mahalo
    pretty useful article with good, concrete step by step advice. everyone could use a bio refresh!
  • grain edit · House Industries interview
    Great Interview with Andy Cruz, the art-director behind the Alexander Girard series released by House Industries. House Ind. is releasing a Girard type family and in addition to the fonts, they have released new tshirts, a nativity set, alphabet blocks, a children's puzzle, lettering and Marliyn Neuhart designed Casa dolls. Basically, a bunch of cool toys for modernist loving grown-ups.
  • how 2 shoot a water shot and line up shot | on surf photography
    this blog post is schizophrenic. the first part is total crap. i dislike posts like this. there's been a few, recently. instead of giving helpful, clear advice, the synopsis of part 1 is basically: don't ask questions and get a pair of balls and a camera housing and get out into the line-up and don't get in anyone's way. The author's writing style isn't cool in that old-school curmudgeon vibe that you expect from Brewer/Grannis/Servais etc… Part 2 is way better and (gulp!) actually helpful. Alex Laurel's part 2 is down to earth and to the point.
  • Labuat | soy tu aire
    sometimes the internet can show you beautiful things. this is one of those. takes a minute to load but worth every second. delightful.
  • okayplayer – Video: Documentary on Big Daddy Kane
    One of my favorite MCs growing up. this a 17 minute doc following a true legend of hip-hop. worth a look. incidentally: why does he look like Ghostface's older brother?
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Bookmarks for February 20th

By Ed Fladung | February 20, 2009
  • Santa Barbara Edhat | Shaping Bay
    great article on up-and-coming Santa Barbara shaper Ryan Lovelace. Ryan is making some really nice hulls. me wants to buy. me wants it now.
  • UNEARTHED 2006
    "Graham Bury and Danielle Rubi’s exquisitely rendered photographic portraits combine a style that is more 1906 than 2006 with a large-scale format that is innovative and contemporary. Employing the antique Van Dyke process Bury and Rubi unearth regional notables and elevate them to the status of cultural icons. At once a photographic exhibit and a site-specific installation, the seventeen images of Unearthed hang in an idyllic garden setting, each piece suspended from its own freestanding armature." – looks like a beautiful project.
  • Sweet sweet sugared Pepsi Throwback
    "PEPSI WITH REAL SUGAR COMING TO USA!!!" this is awesome news. I f*cking hate high fructose corn syrup. i've been dying to try red bull cola, which is also made with sugar and has cardamon and ginger much like India's Thumbs Up which for my money is the best cola available.
  • The Art of M. S. Corley
    diverse, amazing illustration styles on display. especially like the "alternate universe" book cover series. so nice.
  • NewerTech miniStack v2
    I had one of those Lacie Big Disks, the 1 Terabyte version that has two 500gb drives in it. and then thing went on the fritz, so i salvaged the drives, the data was mostly all backup data. The rub is that I couldn't find hard drive enclosures for the two IDE uATA drives that has FireWire. most enclosures either don't have a fan (bad) or are USB2.0 (worse). I spent about 4 hours combing the internet and came up with nothing. Until this. This enclosure from Newer Tech fits IDE drives, has FireWire and is shaped like a Mac Mini. and it's $50!
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Bookmarks for February 12th

By Ed Fladung | February 12, 2009
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Feliz Año Nuevo

By Ed Fladung | December 31, 2008

feliz año nuevo

Happy New Year and Feliz Año Nuevo from the Quality Personages to the global gypsy mosse.

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Flava

By Ed Fladung | November 9, 2008


art by Patrick Moberg

Pretty much says it all.

[via Andrew Sullivan]

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Sketchbook

By Ed Fladung | October 23, 2008

fins illustration

fins sketch, digital this time. just playing with ideas.

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Tubus Eternus

By Ed Fladung | October 2, 2008


illustrations by Ze Bird at Tubus Eternus

Lots of cool surf bloggie shturf going on in Portugal. Peep the gorgeous illustration goodness happening over at Tubus Eternus, I especially like the raw skills on display in the napkin and coffee stain sketches (top left above), so nice. Help from a little google translation, and I’m waiting to see his wine stain sketches.

Paulo Ribeiro hipped me to ‘Tubus Eterno’. Paulo also has a nice english-language surfy blog, holdin’ it down for us surf/tech/design workers. ¡Thanks Paulo!

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