fish wallpaper, spotted at the spotted pig

the folks at carnegie mellon realized that all the energy being spent by people accessing over 60 million CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) protected sites daily could be used for something productive - digitizing books. now, thanks to recaptcha the time you spend logging on to facebook and ticketmaster is also spent helping to digitize books from the internet archive and old editions of the new york times. genius

vintage paget double water bottle set.
image via: snooping around on self-hosted ebay auction image directories while looking for other things.

see ya! - i’m heading to canada for a week.

“ball bearing” clip picked up in pennsylvania.

a impressive collection of jaunās gaitas magazine covers. i wish i could read latvian to know if its content was as great as the covers.

“Dogs are a natural part of the outdoors; children are not. Kids are poorly suited to the harshness of the outdoor environment with their thin skin and shallow learning curve. This little video explains it all.”

via backcountry.com

the interactive experiments of rafael rozendaal

“In August 1974, Philippe Petit, a Frenchman with a passion for walking on wires, captivated New York City as he stealthy made his way to the top of the World Trade Center. Once there, he walked across a cable strung between the Twin Towers, a historic feat that’s vividly depicted in a new documentary, Man On Wire”

via gothamist, interview with Petit here

i picked these up (gratis) at the jack spade store on greene street, this little box of matches is the perfect color combo and size to turn something you’d normally never think about into something special.

a quick update to the projects section of the site today adding a logo/packaging project i did for finley, a new beauty product line.

“alphabetized bible”, 2008 by tauba auerbach

NYSun | July 15, 2008

While most major museums have some fakes in their collections, few like to advertise the fact. But in an unusual move, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition for 2009 that will call attention to a group of forgeries among its collection of Coptic sculptures.

A third of the museum’s collection of Coptic sculptures were actually made in the mid-20th century, the museum’s curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art, Edna Russmann, recently told the Art Newspaper. Coptic art refers to Egyptian art dating from the Late Antique period, between roughly the fifth and the mid-seventh centuries C.E. The art is called “Coptic” because art historians long believed it to have been made by early Christians.

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by pes

(thanks laurel)

Dipping Duck Orchestra«, 2007 by Kitty Clark.

via vvork

“Rrring (Payphone)”, 2007, Site intervention w/ balloons by d.billy

daruma-otoshi is a japanese building demolition technique that takes a building down one floor at a time on ground level. the process uses mechanical supports to replace the buildings structural supports and lowers the building down as it is demolished. from afar it would look like the building was shrinking over time. the company that created this method claims it helps to reduce the environmental impact, making sorting for recyling much easier and also lowers the amount of potentially harmful airborne debris. pretty genius if you ask me. there’s an awesome time-lapse video here

via gizmodo

fleet foxes “white winter hymnal”

Peter Saville on Anton Corbijn’s Control: “Yes, that film was not very good. It’s great there’s another better film that’s been made already”, referring to Joy Division: The Documentary.
photo from Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins. all 200 copies (at $400) of sold out in two days.

footage/documentation from FLUXCONCERT 20080613 is up

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.