a minor obsession: faces, “ooh la la”
Why listening to Faces’ “Ooh La La” brings tears to my eyes and make me thinks of the past and the future.
orson welles, herman melville and led zeppelin all got together and took ‘shrooms
Alex Itin’s multimedia interpretation of Moby Dick, starring Orson Welles, Led Zeppelin and Herman Melville. Along with other Moby Dick art that has inspired me to read the novel.
why i so love “texting guy almost runs into a bear”
This scene could only happen in America, where we’ve protected enough wilderness for black bears to still exist, while at the same time crowding that wilderness with dense suburbs.
video: a little part of it in everyone…
Laura Marling sings Neil Young’s “The Needle And The Damage Done.” Great version and a nice stop-motion animation video that pretty much nails the meaning of the song. Produced by Jack White.
video: wes anderson directs a sony commercial
Film Director Wes Anderson’s commercial for the Sony Xperia mobile phone.
video: field notes: red blooded on vimeo
Field Notes releases Red Blooded notebook to its standard line, available Valentine’s Day and every day thereafter, with a sweet pop-up video from one of their own — a love letter to his wife.
ice cube: “what i love about the eames is…”
“… how resourceful they are.” You really haven’t heard about mid-century modern icons Charles and Raye Eames until you’ve heard about them from Ice Cube. I have to say, Cube knows his stuff and uses the Eames in this two…
old-timey infographics from the london underground
The London Transport Museum has put up a collection of 7,000 posters dating back to the 1930′s for users to browse, allowing them to search by artist, theme, date and color (or colour, as the case may be). The collection…
charles bukowski on the literary hustle
Via this isn’t happiness: Charles Bukowski outlines his modest terms for a poetry reading. If you hire Bukowski, I’d imagine you wouldn’t know what to expect. However, as he notes, “Auden gets 2,000 a reading, Ginsberg 1,000, so you see…
total world destructive power
Flickr user Chris Spurgeon has some great pre-lunar presentation slides from NASA, including this chart on the destructive power of weapons through time. His collection also includes several artist renditions of various stages of a mission to the moon —…
