Links published in August 2006 — Most recent at top.
A light one for Dave: New world record! Man wears 120 t-shirts at once. Like in that Friends episode when Joey wears all of Chandler’s clothes at once. Somebody should do this with socks. •
She drew the citi logo in a second. 34 years and 1 second: Video interview with Paula Sher. I love her signage design (big and bold and all over space) and her most beautiful map paintings. More artist interviews here (like Sagmesister or Mark Romanek). •
Google SMS. Jim, this is probably faster than searching wikipedia from your phone. Google devient affreusement omniscient. •
Animated live sketching. Going from skeleton… to skin… to undergarments… to fully clothed. •
Agassi vs. Pavel vs. Agassi vs. Pavel… Very clever photostitching. Will have to look into this myself. •
FWA presents 10 years of flash. Vote for the most influencial flash site of the decade. (via le toine) •
Bed jumping headquarters. I’m doing this and taking pictures next time I’m in a hotel. •
From the archives: The decline of fashion photography. Any thoughts on this? I don’t read look at enough (or any for that mather) fashion magazines to be highly critical.
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The evolution of speechballons. Conversations were quite prettier with those old speechbands or speechflags. QUIZ: Comment ça s’appelle en français une bulle de parole comme ça? (via Drawn) •
Eric Myer’s Sterotypes mixes and matches upper and lower portions of heads to make new faces. Over 400 possibilities with these 20 peoples. There’s a version with kids as well. •
Un an plus tard, le mystère est (a peu près) résolu. Gen partage ses connaissances en entomologie. •
Making James Chance even cooler, he went out with Lynda Lynch and she was in Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. •
Ross Lovergrove’s talks @ TED. One of the best design speeches I’ve ever heard. Trully inspiring, my creative juices are boiling. Design is a cerebral process. It is observation and a highly intellectual analysis of the world around us. A must watch. (via MocoLoco) •
Heille les amis, comme optimiste je vous dis qu’il reste au moins encore plus d’un mois d’été, de température de shorts and de flip flops. Mais si vous trouvez que vous n’avez pas encore profité assez de la métropole et des activités estivales qui y sont offertes, sachez que Le guide du routard – Édition Montréal été 2006 est toujours accessible et plein de bonnes idées. •
The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of technology and creative arts. •
Ron Patrick’s street legal jet powered Beetle. Yeah, you read it right a VW Beetle with a rocket up its arse. And this is the best quote: “Mmm, the car has two engines making the car a hybrid so maybe we can drive in the commuter lanes along with the Toyota Priuses.” •
A collection of bizarre vintage ads mostly based on fear. Daddy, we’re people dumb in the fifties? •
20 bucks gets you the hand drawn The Every Piece Of Art in The Museum Of Modern Art book. I should do this, get to practice my drawing a bit. 100$ deluxe edition comes with a complimentary admission and guided tour, by Jason Polan, of The Museum Of Modern Art. (via the Kottke) •
J’ai trouvé l’artiste qu’il faut pour les affiches de la STM! Ça reste encore extrêmement naïf (style propre à la STM) mais au moins la typo est mieux: Nata Safety Posters. •
Stranger than fiction. Will Farrell stars in a movie that actually looks quite interesting. Kind of like mixing Being John Malkovich with Adaptation. •
This is great: Long awkward pose. “People look foolish when posing for a picture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo… then secretly videotape them the whole time.” Like saying •
The Snakes on a Plane problem. “The tragedy of the best titled movie in the history of film.” •
Some of the links I post I am actually referencing them for myself, bookmarking publicly on the blog. So here’s another one which will probably be useful eventually: Simulating film from digital video. •
How to make a rotoscoped movie like The Scanner Darkly. I love down to the basics, step by step, raw tutorials like this. •
Pour Patrick: A geographical study of Lost. A map and time-line on one huge jpeg. •
Excellent Honda Element commercials. La preuve que la pub n’est qu’une (habile) symbiose entre le medium et le message. •
Costume of the alien (of Alien) in a tuxedo. Exhaustive explanations of the making of the different parts (with pictures of course). •
We-are-the-web-dot-org is fighting for net neutrality. And it’s kinda hard to take them seriously with those costumes. •
The Traces of an Imaginary Affair. A kit containing a set of nine devices which leaves marks on the body such as bite marks, carpet burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises. (Merci Francis) •
After a summer of terrible cinema (Art School Confidential set in 2005 with people who party like Pollock in 1955 and The Devil Wears Prada in which a postmenopausal late fifty-something is finally given a plot of her own only to latter confirm reasons for ignoring the demographic), type geeks and puritan graphic modernist can rejoice: Helvetica: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit has arrived. Oh and they have t-shirts too. (merci John) •
Andy Warhol dans une pub de télé japonaise et de compagnie aérienne (et quel style). •
The Penny Royal Caxton Bible. The King James version as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. •
Identity works info, explanations and reviews of 2006 rebrandings. Archives of past reviews go back to 1998. •
OK GO has cray-zy self-danced music videos: A Million Ways and Here we go again (this one on treadmills!). I think I would have trouble learning (read remembering) all the moves. •
It’s summer, go play outside. Bummer, it’s raining. OK, Francis says watch these movie trailers instead: 21 grams director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Pitt and Blanchett starring Babel, Sofia Coppola’s indie rock featuring latest Marie Antoinette, and last and certainly least Jackass: Number Two. •