July 2007
37 posts
Carhenge, Nebraska →
Comic books
Adrian Tomine Daniel Clowes Paul Hornschemeier
Resolute Bay, Nunavut - May 9 - 12, 2004 →
Images of one of the most Northerly settlements in the world
Cascadia history →
The Pacific Northwest claim to secede from the US and Canada to become the independent state of Cascadia
Dawn Chorus by Marcus Coates →
Dawn Chorus is the latest in a series of films by Coates in which the human voice accurately mimics birdsong. In this multi-screen video installation 19 singers reproduce a recording of a group of wild British birds singing at dawn.
Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths - Yahoo!... →
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen s
Salton sea →
Salton sea is California’s largest lake and is man-made, a result of an accident and poor planning
Desire Lines →
A “Desire line is a path made across grass which ignore the metalled paths. Desire lines show the routes people take to evade top down design. Design thinks it knows where people should walk.”
“The measure or length to which the type lines are set should be related to the...”
– Setting the measure. How to Plan Print, J C Tarr, 1938, Crosby, Lockwood and Sons, London.
Prokudin-Gorskii Images →
Walter Frankhauser, a photographer contracted by the Library of Congress, manually registered and cleaned up some 120 of the original high-resolution scans
borges essay the (16 May 2006, Interconnected) →
Borges wrote an essay concerning John Wilkins, including the Chinese encyclopedia. This article shows Wilkins classification system: according to Borges, Wilkins “divided the universe in forty categories or classes, these being further subdivided into dif
Common mistakes made by comic book artists and how... →
Overview article on how to not make mistakes in comic books (which should spill over into other areas of visual design!), with some found photocopies of Disney how-to leaflets
Nina Katchadourian - Talking Popcorn →
Example of work by Nina Katchadourian - a popcorn machine’s popping noises are translated using morse into english. It’s first word ‘WE’. set in bronze popped kernels.
Her other work includes fixing spider webs with thread. Often these repairs are rej
