Made a minimix of stuff that I’ve been feeling lately. Feel free to download.
‘Inspiration’
Art of The Title Sequence
February 22nd, 2010
Here’s a quick one. Art of The Title is a site dedicated to movie opening titles and man… there’s a lot of them. Not only video, but interviews and glimpses of the process aswell.
One of the most recent ones is the opening title for Het Klokhuis, directed by John Kelly the mastermind behind such gems as The Seed and Procrastination. This one has been making the rounds, but I still thought that it would be worth mentioning.
Bike EXIF
December 29th, 2009
Inspired by yesterdays post, I went looking for some bikes and stumbled upon this. Bike EXIF is about bikes and shooting bikes. It’s currated by Chris Hunter. A Creative Director out of Sydney, who delivers some very nice images of some very nice bikes. Me myself wouldn’t mind an 70′s Japanese, maybe one like in the image above. A Honda CL 350 (cafe racer), heavily customized. Probably never will get one though, as I don’t have a license either.
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The Times Magazine
December 18th, 2009
From The New York Times:
Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather. Unlike birds, we can also alphabetize. And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world. To offer a nonalphabetical option for navigating the entries, this year we have attached tags to each item indicating subject matter. We hope you enjoy.
A Journey Around My Skull
December 10th, 2009
A Journey Around My Skull is mainly about artwork for books, but might include Polish poster art aswell. Tons of stuff. The guy is really dedicated. The most recent post is part 3 of a series on Iranian children’s book. Beautiful!
“Unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature.” Recent obsessions: illustration and graphic design.
Decode
December 10th, 2009
Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.
The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code. They are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If they love your work it could even become the new Decode identity.
Happy coding. 8 December 2009 – 11 January 2010. As it happens to be, I’m in London during this time. Must go see.
Geoff McFetridge at Do Lectures
December 9th, 2009
Do Lectures is about people that do stuff, giving lectures about doing stuff that might inspire you to do stuff? In this clip you can watch Geoff McFetridge redefining what Graphic Artist do in this lecture entitled “The Best Inventors Have the Commonest Problems”.
Sci-Fi-O-Rama
December 9th, 2009
Sci-Fi-O-Rama is once again one of my favorites. I thought they had disappeared, but apparently they just changed their url and hosting. But anyway this site, as some of the ones a I have mentioned before, is just jam-packed with good stuff. It’s pretty much about all things sci-fi and psychedelica. From old pinball machine graphics to record sleves by Hipgnosis.
The Auteurs
December 3rd, 2009
So when you downloaded all the blockbusters and there’s not one cool torrent to be found anywhere, you might want to have a look at this. For a small fee you can stream some quality cinema to your screen. The Auteurs brings us a nice little collection of stuff outside of the mainstream.
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But Does It Float & Space Collective
December 3rd, 2009
These both sites are filled with an immense amount of inspirational stuff. But does it float has a nice vibe to it and compared to fffound, Dropular or Buamai these images usually link to the creator behind the images. It’s curated buy Folkert Gorter and Atley G. Kasky. Folkert is apparently also one of the forces behind News Today, nowadays known as QBN. As for Space Collective it’s all about spacey, scientific and pseudo-scientific stuff.