virtual suspects

From the people that designed the first laptop (and now make a lot of them for the military: GRiD)….

An industrial design consultancy from silicon valley:

»ideo

Here’s a thing they did. Things are great!

»PsyOp:Converse

He makes shirts for threadless but also sells them here. Everyone’s a winner.

Extreme Beginnings

»Glennz

So for some reason I was searching for feathers, oh because I was going to cover a wall of the office in paper feathers (which didn’t work)… but I did find the website of Michael Wandelmaier who is cool. His friend Jessica is also cool. Actually I have no way of telling weather those individuals are in fact cool or not but they do make cool things so they get some points there.
The things they make are illustrations and sculptures. Jessica’s approach to photo illustration is similar in a way to Franck Juery’s.
The pages bellow link on to some cool illustration blogs… enjoy.

»M. Wandelmaier
»J. Fortner

This could be really cool: hollow out an egg, wash the inside with liquid emulsion and use it as a pinhole camera.
Precious moments!
But to reveal them you have to destroy them.

This is amazing. Shows some dedication

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

»blublu

You can now kill time AND zombies at the same time!!!!

»BOXHEAD: Zombie Wars

UPDATE: Jun 5th, 14th Place - vsPiotr 126 BILLION!!

Feels so strange that I should even be talking about the Bill Henson thing… he’s been doing it for 20 years and all of a sudden the K-Rudd says that he’s got no artistic merit?!
I purchased the catalog from the National Art Gallery exhibition he had that myself and sixty thousand other people saw. Am I on the federal police watchlist now?
Fortunately I don’t have kids so I’ve never really seen a kid naked in recent years so I can’t be a pedophile… I have been to an art gallery though…

As the planet slowly melts and temperatures skyrocket some have resorted to riding bicycles to work, a quixotic [thank Zeb for our word of the day] attempt to secure their passage to valhalla in slightly cooler conditions.
This has spawned a cycling renaissance with more and more people dusting off their two wheeled friends. All this excitement has spawned a crazy new fad: fixed gear cycles.
Fixed gear, on the lame end, means a bike with only one gear with a freewheel at the back which allows you to coast down hill or down a sunny promenade at your leisure.
On the hardcore end we have bikes ripped from velodromes by speed-crazed couriers and adopted by foolhardy 3/4 late sipping commuters known as fixies. Fixies have no freewheel and often no brakes so when hurtling down hill you have to work your legs as fast as the cranks want you to and in the no brake option, opposing the cranks’ will is the only way to slow down.

So needless to say I’m jumping on that bandwagon. Slowly fitting out a Blucher (Kevin Wigham) frame with some deep Vs and a wussy freewheel.

The best source of inspiration can be found here:
»Fixed Gear Gallery

And check out the Polish Pride:

I found this image series on Polanoid.net. It’s by a photographer who calls himself Franck and who has obviously photographed what I wish my dreams would look like. Rather sneaky really.

»Franck Juery
»Franck on Polanoid