light, bold.

mirror, mirror.

OH SHIT! Expendables are coming in on a MOTHERFUCKING ZIP LINE!! #ClassicAlready

madlib: doom x jadakiss

more summertime jada: might gotta take my shirt off.

prayway.

isolated pusha t verse from the i don't like remix.

google london looks depressing as hell.
raw spaces are not always appropriate.

so bout it bout it might roll up in a tank.

isamu noguchi and louis kahn.
1961 model for the 'adele levy memorial playground', and 'constellation' at the kimball.

gold vs chickens.

Let’s look at the data that Apple and Google each have at their disposal:

• Precise information on the when and where of the movement of their customers.
• A database of the location of WiFi routers by MAC address that is being constantly updated that they can use to connect wireless and wired behaviour.
• Network access data. Google knows what everyone searches for by IP and by cookie.
• Credit card data. As of March 2011, Apple has over 200 million active credit card numbers on file each attached to an apple ID, which you have to have associated with your iPhone in order to use the app store.
• Search history data (even via so-called Private Browsing).
• IP and geolocation account login data (either through Gmail or me.com in Apple’s case).

via.

if i had to pitch to samsung, i'd say their next big android product should be completely dark. offer consumers a way to use their smartphones secure in the knowledge that they're not being tracked, not being profiled, not being logged. the way RIM used to do with their BBM service, pre-RIM meltdown.

1. hardknock in that white on white.
(summertime).

42, 20, and 18 million views reaffirms every prejudice i maintain about human nature.

like those rolled pellet tongues of pigeons.
(from the best book in the world)

A holotype is not necessarily 'typical' of that taxon, although ideally it should be. Sometimes just a fragment of an organism is the holotype, for example in the case of a fossil. The holotype of Pelorosaurus humerocristatus, a large herbivore dinosaur from the early Jurassic period, is a fossil leg bone stored at the Natural History Museum in London. Even if a better specimen is subsequently found, the holotype is not superseded.

italians don't blink.

Chapel of the Blessed King, Wieliczka Salt Mine.

apologists.

Stegosaurus, one of the many dinosaurs first collected and described in the Bone Wars, was originally named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877, from remains recovered north of Morrison, Colorado.

lewis chaplin.

discovery 1984-2011.

bmd: know canada.

ternary plot.

sports and infographics.

OOBIES

what do you think about, david?

60 years in 60 poems. (html5 explosion)

camelot, ash thorp.

prometheus is worth it for the UI and the landscapes alone.

What does Stout/Kramer do? Are you graphic designers?
We are trained as graphic designers.
The profession is constantly changing and as we see it, can no longer be defined.
Our way of working distinguishes itself by being conscious of the position the designer can take in the process.
We don’t want to set ourselves up as merely designers of a message.
We see ourselves as editors and directors of communication.
As editor the designer interprets the content and context of a message.
As director the designer is responsible for the appropriate means of communication.

Does your work have a recognizable style?
Yes, definitely.
The final solutions are the result of an analytical and rational way of thinking and working.
The design is simple, clear, without fuss. Dutch. *barf*

Which influences do you recognise?
At the moment we are doing a lot of research into ‘communication within organisations’.
This research significantly influences our thinking about the designer’s position.

gerd jansen.

reflections on the wall of the cave.

the traces of your presence.

commercial work can be creatively satisfying.

arbus by winogrand.

fred herzog and the written word.

feeling the pull.

the thriller long version.

1933 shanghai slaughterhouse.

sam doctor.

the church machine, by matt storus. (skip to 6:00).

roman signer.

velcro was invented in 1941 by Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral.

potential spaces.

the meeting place.

NaCl.

velcro and nasa.

(commerce by artists).

If I start this story, it will take two hours. I'd seen this palace—it was not an Arabic palace. It was done by an Italian in the 17th or 18th century for a sultan. At the end of it was the harem, and at the end of that was a huge bathroom, a room about the size of our living room with a slight divider—one for going to the toilet, where they used a hole in the floor, and the other was for bathing. Have you ever seen Egyptian vases—we have one in the living room—tan colored with little white lines? I thought it was translucent onyx. You could call it a tan marble with little white streaks. The floors and walls of this [room] were all that material. At the ceiling there was a dome made out of the material, and instead of pieces of glass, they used thin sheets of onyx and the light came through that.

The building outside looks kind of cold. I'm really not crazy about the white marble because it's too cold, but we had no choice if we wanted translucency. If I had known that what I was dreaming about was alabaster, and if we could have had proper tests taken to find out if it could stand water, that building would have been a dream. We would have covered the structure with the same thing. These X's would have been covered with a marble. It would be opaque because it would be stuck against it, and it would be all in one material. I doubt if it would stand up to the weather of the United States. If it did, it would be wonderful.

bunshaft on beinecke.

cantando.

* bad photographs of beautiful, internally-lit explanatory display panels at the AGO

now here.

running hot and cold.