last year i pointed hyperbolation readers to an article about light transmitting concrete. today i was looking at luxist and saw a little blurb about the new litracon lamp. pretty cool! now where is that $600 i had laying around…
photos from cali are trickling in.
check out this column, written by fred sasaki at new city. it’s based on something that really happened to my co-worker’s wife. it’s good to know that there are people out there perpetuating stereotypes such as ‘slick italian playboy’.
an excerpt:
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URBAN BELINO: Your husband, does he work it out?
URBAN PIXIE: Does he what?
URBAN BELINO: Your husband. Does he lift the weights? (He flexes his arms, his big muscles bulging in tightly wrapped Lycra.)
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talk of earthquakes over at meghan’s weblog – oddly, i’ve experienced two and my first was…in illinois.
tonight was the reception for the alumni art exhibition at elmhurst. lindsay’s photographs were selected and they were awesome! all of the work was pretty cool, even if some of it really creeped me out. the exhibition is installed at the accelerator artspace, which is the first floor of the little physics building that houses an actual particle accelerator – a kevatron first built in the 1940s for the university of chicago, then moved to elmhurst in 1973. on the refreshment table was a little cake with digital numbers (very cool – eric wants some for his next birthday) flashing ’32’ for the accelerator’s 32nd year at elmhurst. you can see the accelerator – it sits right there in the middle of the room and is giant and silver and red and very futuristic looking. i took some photos which i’ll post soon (i know i know. i swear i’ll post photos soon) you can see here.
also, what a sweet car. corresponding back-story here (title: thirty is the new thirty).
qoop is still in beta, but they’ll print up a book of photos from your flickr photostream! awesome!
i’ve always wanted to take a road trip like the do in the movies – one that is full of carefree fun, convertibles that don’t muss your hair and cathartic moments of bonding, etc etc. but getting back to reality – what i’ve always wanted to do is take a road trip to see all of the weird landmarks in the united states, like the world’s largest frying pan and the world’s largest rubber band ball and the world’s largest ball of twine. now i can finally do it because there is a handy website that lists all of these modern-day wonders: what’s large where in the US.
so – who’s in?
scientists have discovered a bug that eats the tongue of a fish then latches onto the nub and replaces it. read all about it.
you can buy abram games prints in various sizes and finishes. once i improve my cash flow (and frame the prints and posters i already have), i’m buying at least 10 of these. they remind me of those awesome eric nitsche posters i saw at the national atomic museum in albuquerque. they also remind me of most of the animated tv shows i like (samurai jack, powerpuff girls, foster’s home for imaginary friends), most of which have to do, tangentially at least, with russian constructivism.
via drawn!
andy wrote a great piece for STA’s website about the spring workshop at hamilton. there is a great photo gallery attached to the article where you can see the group’s prints and a lot of photographs from the weekend, some of them mine! woo! i’m a (web-)published photographer!
from STA’s homepage (the news & announcements tab), scroll down to ‘8-2-05 The Wood Type Workshop just keeps getting better!’
the little girl in this illustration is how i imagine myself sometimes. this is a japanese language textbook cover, illustrated by taro miura. [courtesy drawn!]
check out treehugger, a site where you can find links to all kinds of cool, environmentally friendly stuff. there are some particularly awesome things in accessories, including circuit board organizers from biome, lokta paper journals and stationery sets from vickery and jimi, the non-wallet.
eric gave me a link to this cool comic strip generator. you can see what others have created too. if you decide to make one, post a link to your strip in the comments!