Engineers Help to Save and Reconstruct the Past: The University of Arizona's awesome-sounding Heritage Conservation project, in which lost technologies are resuccitated.
Steve Walters' Screwball Academy: I think my favorite rock-poster-guy, Jay Ryan, apprenticed with Screwball. If I lived in Chicago and had an ounce of artistic talent, I would kill to do this.
Polanoir: "The first gallery project strictly devoted to the power of Polaroid photography." Highly variable, but some are really great.
Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart": Cornell obviously loved old movies, given how many of his boxes use movie stills, promo photos, and the like. This sounds utterly fantastic.
Dark Portrait of a 'Painter of Light': No shock that schlockmeister Thomas Kinkade is a savvy businessman, but he -likes to pee on things in public-. I can't describe how happy this makes me.
The Efficiency Project: My friend Jane Jerardi's upcoming dance piece at the Tivoli Theater in DC, featuring an original score by Scanner.
Minimiam -- French miniature photography: Little figurines exploring the world of food. These are -incredible-.
Mostar, Bosnia, erects statue honoring Bruce Lee: Muslim or Orthodox, Serb or Croat, everyone loves to watch Bruce Lee open up a can of whup-ass. (via Hit and Run)
Destructo hits Livejournal!: My friend Stephen Swift's little doodle game gets played out in a hysterical LiveJournal thread.
Pancam: A digital camera you attach to your moving vehicle to take panoramas. Insanely cool.
Dublin's 'Millenium Spike': What is the Irish tourist attraction really for? "There is a MASSIVE amount of energy being harnessed by it, absolutely MASSIVE."
Ruining famous album covers: A response to the recent Nike/Minor Threat dustup. (The Gang of Four one is shockingly good; "Spiderland" made me laugh.)
Al Murashah for President: A Lebanese art collective made up a fake municipal candidate; now they're wheatgluing blank "propaganda" posters throughout Beirut. (via Hit and Run)
The 10 most faked artists: Malevich is a surprising name to me; Utrillo and Dali were quite prolific, so I guess that's the appeal there. And I've read about the laughable number of Remington knockoff bronzes floating around.
desktopgaming: Make a "Double Dragon" screenshot your wallpaper.
Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their History: Tarzan is a sentimental favorite, but the 1873 Dean and Sons "Beauty and the Beast" is spectacular. (via Things Magazine)
Prints of Japan: A huge informational treasure trove -- hundreds of pages. (via citrusmoon)
Google Will Eat Itself: A slow wave corporate takeover/performance art project, in which Google Adsense funds purchase of Google shares. (via We Make Money Not Art)
Free Online Graph Paper PDFs: Very handy to have on demand. (via Making Light)
Polish Circus Posters: Wow. Crazy and gorgeous. (via Waxy)
Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised: Where is my jetpack and my moving sidewalk?
Eccentric Genius: Unconventional Contrivances and Machina Arcana: I know many people who really, -really- need a functional, bolt-through-plywood executive desktop ballista.
Maciej Ceglowski beats the crap out of "Hackers and Painters": He's got a beef with the Paul Graham/Dave Winer/ESR style of "hackers are" essay, and calls bullshit on Graham's qualifications to even -talk- about painting. (via Waxy)
Insite: Listen: A multimedia project featuring video installations, my friend Jane dancing, the prolific Jason Huddo, and my friend Lee on typewriter.
There%u2019s Someone at the Door, He Says He%u2019s From the Future.: Two men spend two years making a random 18-year-old gamer the subject of their art project, in which he is informed he is the savior of the future human race. Possibly the greatest conceptual art piece of our time.
Old circus posters: A scam SEO site, it looks like, but the graphics are still pretty nice.
The Blaschka Marine Invertebrates at Cornell University: Blown glass replicas of undersea creatures for educational purposes. Gorgeous.
Jay Ryan: Chicago's Poster Artist: I love Jay's work -- I have a Shellac poster of his framed on my wall. What's with the scare quotes around "artist"?
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts: Oh man, that's beautiful. I wants!
Origami maneki neko: If only it came with origami Saporo.
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay: Pieces from Ricky Jay's new book are being exhibited in San Francisco. And I'm not there! (via Redfox)
Kimprobable's DC gallery: Drew's monopoly on DC photoblogging is shattered! Shattered, I tell you!
PostSecret: See a secret, share a secret, via the US mail.
Blanco's Magic Tails & Dragon Tails: "I am Blanco Tailspinner - an ancient Dragoncat - and this is my friend Earth." Make sure to check out the free coloring book pages.
Alexandra Boulat, photojournalist: These are some of the most artfully composed photojournalism pieces I've ever seen. Gorgeous.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's stereometric model photography: Plaster + craft + equations + black and white film + vision = art
Tool Time at Pixar: Pixar's internal OS X sketching application
The Universal Whistling Machine: I want it to make friends with Blendy.
QuickHoney: A gorgeous illustration portfolio (not all pieces are worksafe) - the Soap Machine is particularly great.
we make money not art: A fabulous design blog
Town-walking robot stencil: Holy crow, is this a gorgeous project. A graffiti flipbook of a man/robot walking integrates into the city around it. (via)
World Power Systems Products: These are -incredible-. If Tom Swift, Boy Inventor, had been an artist, he would have made these.
"The Lonely Doll", a fabulously creepy '50s kids book: Cindy Sherman and Kim Gordon are fans. "As the publisher, I would get letters every day, saying: 'This book is disgusting and terrible. Why did you bring it back?'"
Chinese Whispers: "Concentrate and try to remember this phrase; you have to re-type it after it is shown."
Shangri-La, 1958: Twenty photographs, largely taken by the abbot of Tibet's Ngor Monastery before the Chinese invasion. (via)
Amusement park Spirographs and pinball action painting: These look fabulously cool, and you get the bonus of reading the ridiculous catalog copy! (via)
Mark Ryden: My friend Johnny wants to get one of these for his baby's bedroom. Maybe he'll be dead before she needs therapy.
Lost destinations: Urban ruins. Suburban ruins. Plane graveyards and abandoned New Jersey dinner theaters.
Every loss contains a memory of all the other losses.: A tree stump, a history lesson, a public art project, a memorial.
I knew him when!: My friend Drew's photos of the DC Metro system have been highlighted by DCist, the atrociously-named Gothamist spinoff. (Dig around and find pictures of me!)
Attack of the Catspiders: A beautifully done Blair Witch-esque series of photos devolves into a running joke on a GTA fan forum. Wonderful in about six different ways. (via)
Paul Laffoley: Wonderful, cracked artist puts together blueprintesque schematics of the coming eschaton and the alchemy of everyday life.
Amazing Revelations timeline: Like a Paul Laffoley poster put together in MacPaint; alternately, it's the religious version of every UI and design "don't" ever conceived.
The Times on Hong Kong art toys: I've seen these in Giant Robot, and they're fabulous.
Lost Brooklyn: Pieces of Brooklyn that have been withering since the Dodgers left.
Tête à Tête: Portraits by the late Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Clubbo: Music to Believe In: Forty years of fictional failure, as told in words, pictures, and MP3s. (via)
Satan's Laundromat and the Abandoned Subway: Sounds like a children's book, looks like a million bucks.
The Open Clip Art Library: Public domain clip art for use with open source software.
Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site: Dedicated to those halcyon days of "Trots and Bonnie", Henry Beard, Michael Gross, the "1964 High School Yearbook Parody", and an attempt to make MAD Magazine for semi-grownups. (via)
Look at Me: found photographs: "Showing off or embarrassed, smug, sometimes happy, the people in these photos are strangers to us. They can't help but be interesting, as stories with only an introduction."
Ace Doubles covers: Imagine picking up a perfectly innocent potboiler like "Agent of the Unknown" for some hard-hitting sci-fi fun based on the cover art and having "The World Jones Made" dropped on you. (via)
Vintage sleazy paperback covers: Nothing screams class like a book called "Backwoods Tramp". (via)
The American Highway Project: Photos documenting a lost America.
Celebrate genetic determinism through jewelry!: "Xq28 Inc was established to promote the possibilities of genetically influenced homosexuality and advance the concept with a line of jewelry, clothes and promotional items that the gay community could wear and be proud of."
Canada's Mint is funnier than ours: Although that Sacajewea dollar gag had me going for a while.
Wadi Rum: Sunset in the deserts of Jordan. (Bonus points for the Kogepan favicon for the site.)
The worlds are dust: Abandoned mining town on the Nambian Diamond Coast -- the houses are empty except for the dunes...
It's All in the Cards: A history of playing card design. (via)
Unknown gems of commercial art: I particularly like the ZEBO poster on page 2. (via)
The Illustrated Invisible Cities: Despina can be reached in two ways: by ship or by camel. The city displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea.
Gunkanjima: Battleship Island, an abandoned artificial island and coal mining town off the coast of Japan. (via)
The Onion interviews Chip Kidd: Book cover designer, comic book patron, Batman fan
WEEGEE's STORY: Drunks, whores, ghetto low-lifes, corpses: 220 photos of the Naked City from Weegee the Great
Hassling Ben: Bendependent + Voice mail = Hijinx.
Kitsch and Kalashnikov: Afghan wars, Afghan rugs: "Early pictorial, or 'aksi', war carpets are a fascinating hybrid of traditional abstract motifs slowly transforming into military objects. Where one might expect to find a 'boteh' symbol (an ancient precursor to our paisley), one finds instead a woman in a burka beside a tiny Kalashnikov rifle -- or a view from the ground of a B-52 unloading its deadly cargo." (via)
The Ixion Burlesque Company: "Epic Burlesque Theatre based on Greek Mythology" -- no word if they have a spinning fiery wheel act. (via)
Impossible objects: Two steps beyond a ship in a bottle.
David Graham's roadside wonders: Family trips to the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, WI, come with free lifetime nightmares for your kids.
IXI experimental music toys: "The idea was to try to use the 2 dimentional flat surface with boxes as parametre space for granular synthesis, rather than using sliders." And so forth. (via)
New England Ruins: Something there is that doesn't love a wall. (via)
Deconstructing Ira: Ira Glass, Steven Berlin Johnson, Todd Haynes, and the Brown semiotics mafia
Gallery of industrial art: Beautiful patent drawings and mechanical schema. (via)
Secret Label: The Paintings of Shiori Matsumoto: Some are a little too paperback-cover-y, but there are a number that are gorgeous and strange, like Magritte fed a diet of horror novels and Sandman comics. (via)
Howard Besser's T-Shirt Database: Man oh man, is this thing cool.
Karen Taylor, forensic artist: America's best police sketch artist got her professional start making waxworks at Madame Tussaut's. (via)
Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously: I have some problems with this piece -- I don't care for the anti-revisionist stance at the end, the counter-evidence is almost entirely from after the period of Hockney's concern, and I think Hockney's photo collages are actually pretty good -- but I can't argue with the conclusion. (see also)
Grotesques: "Pope-ass and other monsters..." (via)
Stranger a Day: Gorgeous large-format portraits of complete strangers. (via)
John Cale by Dave McKean: So save yourselves for the hounds of hell / They can have you all to themselves /Since the fashion now is to give away / All the things you love so well
"Laurence Olivier is immense!": Kempa's been on fire lately -- this covers Otto Preminger, Harry Nilsson, Saul Bass, and the Zombies. Free novelty MP3s inside! (via)
Old geisha postcards: I'd love to know if these had any meaning besides being, you know, photos of traditional geishas. Would you send one to your folks?
Decayed Machinery: Turbines and tractors and rusted-out springs, these are a few of my favorite things. (via)
Dogcow gear: Clarus the Dogcow says MOOF. (see also)
Medical poster gallery: Melanoma never looked so good. (via) (see also)
GUI obituary posters: Happy Mac, we hardly knew ye.
The missing Faberge eggs: One was in a minerals museum, misfiled as a lamp. Way to go, jewel thieves!
Camera Obscura: Random Photographs of Strangers: #108 is my favorite so far. (via)
Zombie Pinups: Check out the braaaaains on that one!
Me on my birthday: (A few years ago. I was so much older then, etc.) (Also, that is a homemade muted postal horn t-shirt. Don't ever antagonize the horn!)
Ricky Jay's Radio Journal: This, then, is what they invented the Internet for.
One small step for Coco: One of my favorite photos taken by my friend Drew.
Gentium: A universal typeface. (via)
Howard Hallis Lenticulars: The best Crackerjack prizes ever.
Prince Whipple: The black slave in 'The Passage of the Delaware'
Automobiles by Architechts: Le Corbusier's should have a roof garden.
Complexification: Proce55ing and Flash art by Jared Tarbell (see also)
Programmer's Font: This appears to be serious. Iain Banks, what have you wrought? (via)
Antarctica Dream Dollars: The lost Victorian colony of Nadiria and its gorgeous $365 note. Just beautiful.
The paper art of Anandamayi Arnold: The surprise balls are even cooler in person, and a shame to destroy on one's birthday.
What a mine looks like: The rest of the photos on the site are staggering, too. (see also)
