this is something i love

http://www.looseleafeditions.com/

i'm currently [finally] finishing work on a book which had been meant to 'accompany' an exhibition i had now six months ago, as well as finishing another book of photos taken while driving [being driven] across the country.

books of photos are great. but i believe this is better.

Danny Espinoza

Danny Espinoza is clearly awesome. just saw this post on WeLoveYouSo, and was very excited by the ideas at play. some things similar to what i used to play with once upon a time in design school, but highly refined (compared to mine).

His website is ok, but his Flickr is where all the best work is.

finally, he's going back to to 'normal'

i was just wondering a couple days ago if mister Jeunet would ever make a movie that was stylistically similar to his early work with Marc Caro. and then today, i see this:



i'm very excited.

nice shapes, nice colors, nice photographs. thanks Mr. Page

i am, and will always be a sucker for images where designers are holding up their work this way. or at least, you imagine that it is them. maybe a hand model?

anyway, Simonc Page is apparently this fellows name, and the work is pretty fun. more here.

Breakfast of Champions

Just ran accross this recording of Kurt Vonnegut reading from Breakfast of Champions at the 92nd street Y in 1970 (before it's publication):



http://blog.92y.org/index.php/item/kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/

Very cool to hear the man doing it himself . . .

amazing images on flickr

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2078/2179913540_27ce22466c.jpg)

Just before i left for switzerland, trying to make a point about image rights to the kids in my web design class, i noticed that flickr suddenly had a HUGE amount of images in the public domain, added by the likes of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, Kodak's George Eastman House archive, et cetera. They listed in 'The Commons," which means they are free to use as you should like (do a flickr search for anything, and choose the commons as the search, and you will be amazed).

Above is an image from the LoC's archive of 1930's to 40's colour images. 27 pages of Kodachrome images to look through. Absolutely amazing, and wonderful to see, and be reminded of, especially now that Kodachrome is officially on it's death bed (the last run of newly produced film was this summer, and they will no longer process it after december of 2010).

As per the existance of these images on flickr, it apparently is nothing too new. For instance, that image above of the man servicing a floodlight was actually added to flickr in January of 2008 (but the matter was pointed out on It's Nice That just recently).

Added recently (as in, a couple days ago) were some images from the library of New South Wale's collection, such as this one here:


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3813286232_2e1f13141b_m.jpg)

Got some time on your hands? Go do some searching through public image making's past.

i cannot wait to go here

the new high line park in chelsea:


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3407/3249173796_b410e56667_b.jpg?rand=185998932)

the high line was a section of elevated freight railway which recently opened as a park, after years of growing over, and turning into this lush patch of green. incredible.

Jenny Holzer, how did i forget about you for the last year?

i'm so glad i ran into this again today, exactly when i needed to. i was having a momentary mild panic attack about my recent shifts in life plans, and then i saw this. and was refocused (strangely) :



(http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/8182304e2cde30ea42ae675d64d397910ada1dcc_m.jpg)

what is this? what are either of these? not sure.

(http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/animalembryo06.jpg)

but it is clearly amazing.



(http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/animalembryo14.jpg)

more here:

www.hemmy.net/

(via lou O'bedlam)

(http://11.media.tumblr.com/O8WEIW6mApxhzd4jcOyIk8dyo1_400.png)