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Spike!

Posted on April 6, 2010 | 1 comment

Spike Press comes out with some of my favorite band posters. The first 3 pictured below, for the National, are incredible. Does anybody know what the images are that make up the colored portion of the prints? It looks like Rodin’s Gates of Hell (which is mind-blowing in person – check it out if you’re ever in Paris) but it seems like it would be hard to make a print from a sculpture, so I’m lost. You can purchase prints from their site or view a collection of prints from past and present at Gig Posters.

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Posted in Art, Music

Tagged Art, band, Bon Iver, posters, Prints, Rogue Wave, spike press, Spiritualized, The Decemberists, The National

Skatebot

Posted on April 4, 2010 | Leave a comment

I’ve gotta figure out a way to fit this blog into my new work schedule! I miss sharing fantastic pieces of human quirkiness like this cute little skating robot.

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Posted in Robots

Tagged Robot, skating

Vintage Minimalism Aglow

Posted on March 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

One day I’ll want to live in a house like a real grown-up. And when that day comes, I think I’ll buy something from KAM Lamp Company. Retro-y handmade deliciousness. The Swarovsky crystal light is like a Victorian disco ball. Love it!

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Tagged Art, Etsy, handmade, KAM Lamp Company, lamps, lighting, Minimalism, vintage

The Scale of Everything

Posted on March 19, 2010 | 1 comment

This interactive site, The Scale of Everything, is totally saweeet! You can zoom in and out to see the size relationship of everything from quarks to red blood cells to the Eiffel Tower to our galaxy. It’ll make you feel gigantic and minuscule at the same time!

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Posted in Nature, Science, Animals, Earth

Tagged interactive, site, The scale of everything

The Dangers of Getting Stoked

Posted on March 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

I was just thinking about this video today and it made me laugh. The Onion has so many pieces of gold but this may be my favorite.

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more about "The Dangers of Getting Stoked", posted with vodpod

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Posted in Random Interests

Tagged dangers, stoked, The Onion, video

LOST: I’ve got a serious problem

Posted on March 15, 2010 | 3 comments

Ellie is Lost with the Others by Jeremy Asher Lynch

I’m completely and helplessly addicted to LOST. I’m already mourning the end of the series and there are still 9 episodes left. The most common complaint I hear from people about LOST is that the show never answers any questions but keeps asking new ones. I couldn’t care less. I love being teased so I could go for another 6 years of the same thing.

Here are some cool LOST inspired art pieces. Even if you’re not a fan, there’s some cool stuff by some talented artists worth following.

The Swan by Carlos Ramos

Locke vs Jaco by Tasty "Shops"

Circle of Ash by Chris Ryniak

8 By Mattson Creative

The Number 108 by Ben Strawn

Rousseau's Transmission by Dan McCarthy

Hurley by Jimiyo

The Polar Bear Conundram by Dan May

The Swan Station by Rob Jones

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Posted in Art, Travel, Hobbies, Events

Tagged Art, fan, inspired, LOST, obsessed, posters

Road to Waist

Posted on March 12, 2010 | 5 comments

I’m loving these belt buckles made from recycled license plates by Vintage in Retrospect. You can have them write whatever you want on the cassette tape before they seal and ship it. Awesome. I’m trying to remember what cassette tapes I used to rock… The Misfits, The Descendents, Face to Face, The Smiths… Oh and Cyndi Lauper! What about you?

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Posted in Art, Music

Tagged Art, belt buckles, cassette tapes, license plates, Vintage in Retrospect

A Twisted Future

Posted on March 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

Nathan Ota is painter and illustrator based out of California whose influences include graffiti and comic book artists. He creates eerie worlds where trees are a living force who twist themselves into every being’s existence and the animal kingdom has developed a taste for pointy hats. I particularly love his images containing robots who appear to have become obsolete in a bizarre future where a thriving nature has driven technology out of existence. If the Matrix had an alternate reality, this would be it.

You can follow him on his site or blog and purchase his work at a number of places including Thumbtack Press.

Left Out

Repair

Broken School House

Hiding Out

Decision Garden

Dede the Tree Man

Schools Out

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Tagged Art, Broken School House, Decision Garden, Dede the Tree Man, Going Home, Hiding Out, Illustrations, Left Out, Nathan Ota, paintings, Repair, Schools Out

Jiggly Atoms

Posted on March 9, 2010 | 1 comment

In December the TED site started a video section called Best of the Web to highlight inspiring talks from elsewhere. I love these talks by physicist, Richard Feynman. I wish I’d had this warm and animated man as my grandpa to nerd-out with and teach me about jiggly atoms as a kiddo.