You’ve gotta love Nina Katchadourian and her series of self-portraits, taken with a camera in airplane lavatories. Nina locks herself in the lavatory and pretends to be the subject of a 15th century Dutch painting, using her clothes and whatever bathroom supplies are handy. The ongoing project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010. Here are…
Looking for a designer to help you with your next project? How about an illustrator to help bring your story to life? If you’re looking for a collaborator for your next project, then you might want to check out CollabFinder – a site dedicated to connecting people and their skill sets. Registration is simple (although…
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/8596045 w=572&h=429] Bored with his ad agency gig and the uninspiring work he was producing, Ji Lee – now Creative Director of Google Creative Lab – decided to take matters into his own hands in 2002. The result was the ad-spoofing Bubble Project, in which Lee placed blank speech bubbles on ads around New…
(from swissmiss) 9 year old boy – who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store – is about to have the best day of his life: If you feel so inclined, here’s where you can help with Caine’s Scholarship Fund.
If you’ve been following Ze Frank over the years, then you probably already know that he’s back! I had heard his name tossed around years ago, and thought Ze Frank was some kind of clothing label. I was wrong. You can get involved right now, by going to the site and describing a dream in…
prostheticknowledge: A Twitter profile from Smart Argentina (@smartArg) features all the frames to a text art animation, a car commercial. I put this gif animation together to see what it looks like – the idea being that you press / hold the ‘j’ button on your keyboard to automatically jump to the next tweet in…
Wow. Check out this powerful video from Gary Vaynerchuk’s address at TED, where he talks about pursuing your passions and dropping all excuses. Also: interesting article from Paul Graham, called “How to Do What You Love”, from January 2006.
Drawing machines have always fascinated me. I love the ways people have hooked up pencils, pens, charcoal and chalk to various equipment over the centuries and given them the task of making marks on surfaces. Some machines are quite elaborate, while others are very simple. Here are a few: And my personal favorite:
Mark Stewart has been playing the guitar, saxophone, cello and percussion in Paul Simon’s backup band since 1998. Like most of us, Mark has seen a fork nearly every day of his life, but never realized its musical potential until he found one in the garbage. Check out his Chaludeu (“the hermaphrodite of musical instruments”),…