Archive for May, 2008

Ellie in the Room for one colour

Ellie in the Room for one colour

Inside Olafur Eliasson's "Take Your Time" at MOMA. The entrance to the exhibit is bathed in yellow light such that everybody looks black and white, though the camera sees through such tricks. Olafur Eliasson, 1997.

 

John Darnielle is the Master of Reality

John Darnielle is the Master of Reality

Poster I did for the John Darnielle reading at the Housing Works Bookstore Café.

 

Archaeology awareness playing cards

"The set also contained other cards such as the jokers that provided additional information about heritage preservation." via slavin.
 

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82

"Apropos of Mr. Rauschenberg, Cage once said, 'Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.'"
 

Scott and Shackleton’s abandoned huts in Antarctica

Constant cold preserves the last camp of the Shackleton and Scott expedition.
 

Mile-High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were

Wired's collection of planned and imagined architecture.
 

Encyclopedia of Life

E. O. Wilson's collaborative project to catalogue every species of animal and plant-life on earth.
 

7th st

7th st

Sunken courtyard across the street. The trees are lit from beneath and are more blue than one might expect.

 

Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

 

Lowest Manhattan

Lowest Manhattan

 

Brooklyn bridge

Brooklyn bridge

 

Riveting

Riveting

 

Approach

Approach

 

Interior

Interior

 

Census Atlas of the United States

"...is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented."
 

Corbis Readymech Cameras

Interestingly (?) they don't actually say when World Pinhole Camera Day is, but no doubt I missed it. Hope to have one of these up and running in time for next year.
 

3 Legged Animals

"sleep for me sleepless / dream for me dreamless"
 

Irene

Forms of life dance along to the song. Sort of.
 

Cyberduck

Cyberduck is a free FTP (file transfer protocol) client for use on your mac. Not as easy to use as transmit or as venerable as fetch, but usually gets the job done.
 

The Elements of Web Typography Applied to the Web

A porting of Robert Bringhurst's indispensable reference and guide to typography for use with CSS and (X)HTML. Sporadically updated, but worth reading.