Archive for January, 2009

Marc Alcock - Graphic Design & Art Direction

Nice portfolio site.
 

Unisphere

Unisphere

I sort of had this idea that the World's Fair grounds out in Flushing was like, in the woods or something. But no, it's actually a fairly sedate park. Albeit out in the ass-end of Queens.

 

Unisphere, Jr.

Unisphere, Jr.

 

Queens International 4

Queens International 4

 

Queens International 4

Queens International 4

 

Long live the great unity of the people of the world

Long live the great unity of the people of the world

 

Panorama of the City of New York

Panorama of the City of New York

 

Faux-ney Island

Faux-ney Island

Am I right?

 

Bird’s eye

Bird's eye

Looking down on Brooklyn.

 

City of Bridges

City of Bridges

Neil pointed out that all the public housing in the Panorama is painted the same vivid red color, because it was such a point of pride at the time the Panorama was constructed.

 

Park slope

Park slope

It was sort of a night of built to scale.

 

Watershed moment for Park Slope

Watershed moment for Park Slope

 

Stompin

Stompin

On our way to Flushing for Queens International 4.

 

Desperate Man Blues

I've been meaning to rent/buy/watch this for a while now. and it's on Pitchfork.tv for the next week. Now if they would just post Season 4 of House. I swear I could watch it all in a week, pitchfork!
 

PhotoRec Step by Step

Open source software to recover lost files from camera memory cards. Seems to be working like a charm. Remember, self, to copy things to a computer before you delete them from the card.
 

Games Carries play

Games Carries play

I think this was during Little Big Planet.
edit: It was actually Fallout 3.

 

GPS Visualizer

Web-based app to convert GPX files to SVG files usable in Illustrator.
 

The Obameter

Record of campaign promises kept by the Obama administration. The little widgets with the Obama faces on them are sort of ludicrous, but I'll be checking this thing every few days. Also, No. 502 is getting his daughters a puppy.
 

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Molly

Molly