SAMETIME 7:15

SAMETIME 7:15 is a collection of snapshots from 6 photographers who agreed to take one photo, everyday, at the same time, for a year straight. Each photo has a caption as you scroll over it.

Cars, buses, and bikes

Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.

David Shrigley

David Shrigley, artist from Glasgow. I love his awkward humor ex... Animations.

Zen Environments

"Easy on the fingers, heavy on the eyes"

ZenEnvironments, the work of Zach Johnsen.

Migration

Migration

James Jean

James Jean recently uploaded his moleskin sketches from 2008. Incredibly descriptive line quality and active subject matter. Click on sketch. Also check out his mural work for Prada.

Bike Lane That Travels With You

The Impossible Project

Sequal to Helvetica...?

Forgot about this little guy too.

Are you Kidding?

I was looking at Jenny's co-worker's blog and saw this. I think I have some rough drawings of this in my sketchbook for Susana's class. Also, anyone remember THIS picture...?
Merry Christmas, Petrrrrr

The Walkmen

Been seeing a lot of bands here in Seattle. Just saw The Walkmen, with Beach House, and Johnny and the Moon this weekend. It was a fantastic line up. Check out the Walkmen's German Expressionist overlay music video, "In the New Year," dark, contrasting, and full of emotion, very much representative of their sound in album You & Me.

One Floor Up

One Floor Up is my co-worker's blog, A COLLECTION OF SMART PRODUCTS, BRIGHT IDEAS, AND FRESH APPROACHES. I asked her how she came up with the name. She said she came across Shel Silverstein's "The Light in the Attic"...

on that note...

HOW NOT TO HAVE TO DRY THE DISHES
by Shel Siverstein

If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful, boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor--
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore.


I don't have a dishwasher.

secrets to long life

a 5-minute video about 3 subcultures from around the world whose people live longer than most

(First off, I know I'm SUPPOSED to make a comment on Katie's post, but I'm keeping it all out in the open, so deal with it)

Katie: I'm so glad I roped someone into the conversation. I thought Justin's posts were gonna push me out of the top place and no one else would read it if they had to scroll down.

It's really nice to hear what you have been up to and that you are well. I'm sorry you didn't get the first job you were hoping for. that sucks. But at least you have Health (insurance), Vacation, Income, and you seem to be enjoying yourself.
I'm afraid I can't say that I HATE my job, exactly, but I definitely struggle with it some days. Be glad you have a window next to your desk at the very least...(i've spent the past couple days power-washing silkscreens in sub-freezing temperatures so maybe that will cheer you up at work.)

Also, I forgot to put this up last time if anyone is interested.
Fresh Design & Print

Also, to TRY and keep with the theme, I have something for Justin: Fan Death?

hey Jeremy! lovely hearing about your adventures. i am doing well.

although i am honestly damn near ashamed to tell you of my life since SU. i too do not have an ID job.
after school...i had a "close call" it was pretty exciting when the VP of design and development Janet Vallino, of Skip Hop (a children's company in NYC) called me for a phone interview. she told me that she loved my portfolio, my research background and my internship experience, as she "really admires Eleven's work". we talked for nearly 2 hours we even talked about her flying me out to NYC to meet in person. i nearly shit my pants i was so nervous, but i pulled it off..she told me she would call me in two days as she had a few more people to meet with.
she never called...i called her, they chose someone else...someone with 7 years experience. she told me i was their "second choice". i cried for 5 days. i sat on the sofa and watched more seasons of the OC than any human ever should. i watched lifetime original movies which only made me cry more.

then i joined a temp agency in Boston.PSG (professional staffing group) they found me a job

the first place they sent me was a company called Specialty Catalog Corporation.
yup...you guessed it they design catalog.

but i was not assigned to your average Victoria's secret catalog...nope i was assigned to Paula Young. you probably don't know what Paula young is...i didn't either...so I'll tell you

THEY SELL WIGS...LEGITIMATE WIGS
i cried laughing! then cried thinking about people with cancer who actually needed said wigs.
then i just did my damn job
i was at SPC for a week my job was to take a word document with the wig descriptions and copy and paste them into QUARK (a program like InDesign) and be sure that all the style sheets were attached.

example : a. Extra long luscious wig with Curls
length: 17 in
colors: available in all Paula Young colors

yeah FUN!!!

after that...hard to follow i know i FOUND my current job.

i am working at what might be the lamest company ever, i am doing graphic design although boring (logo, envelopes, letter head, and monthly newsletter for the LIFT wellness program..yep it's a falls prevention program for people aged 65 and older. furthermore, since my graphic design career is less than stressful i also serve a secretary of sorts for my company LIFEplans. with a name like that i am sure you are all cringing but its actually not half bad. i miss the design world and creative people dreadfully but i love my boss and her boss and i have managed to make a few good friends here. in addition the benefits make it all worth while since i actually have a steady income and free health and dental insurance. i even have a freaking life insurance policy....(don't get any ideas of off-ing me, as it all goes to my mom...Mom don't YOU get ideas either) and FOUR WEEKS PAID VACATION!! so stop laughing at my lame job! jk feel free to laugh i do everyday i come into the office. so here i sit right now typing on this blog at my window cubicle facing the snowy parking lot in Waltham, ma missing my good old classmates at CUSE, dreaming of how much more snow we would have if we were still there and if Heckman is still wearing black turtlenecks and scrunchies. i love and miss you all..please tell me i am not the only one who hates their job!!

can't wait to hear more from everyone!!!

Big Dog Army Mule

An incredibly annoying video because of the mule's motor...but watch how it stabilizes itself when inhibited...



Developed by Boston Dynamics.

Poster Boy

Here is a video following Poster Boy, an NYC street artist whose only tool is a razor blade. He cut n pastes nyc subway advertisements.



Here is a link to more of his work on Flickr.

So.....

So....
leave it to Jeremy to be an asshole...
I think this blog is an awesome idea, though I have yet to contribute to it, and I have found some of the posts interesting and worthwhile. But I think this whole space might be a bit more personal.

I can find cool things online on reddit (token: INTERFACES) and a handful of other places online without finding out anything about the poster. I want everyone's cool webpages but, more importantly, I want to know about the people I haven't seen or spoken to since May.

So I'mma start it off and we'll see how that goes...
During the painfully glorious final days of SU(ID) I had to decide between returning to my Dad's home to complete a portoflio and look for a job OR move to Delaware Beaches to help one of my oldest friends run a Graphic Design & Screenprinting operation he "accidentally" started and found was growing out of control. Needless to say, I did not move back home and I have been living in and around Dewey Beach, DE since.

It's had its ups and downs. I enjoy the work, though it's not ID. We have had plenty of work to keep ourselves busy, though we haven't always been able to pay ourselves for all of it. I have learned so much about running a business and dealing with ACTUAL clients but I have spent more time doing that than actually designing (probably. Sometimes I exaggerate...) The summer was one big party that I mostly had to restrain myself from joining for lack of money and a desire to not be drunk by noon seven days a week (what can I say? I shot for the stars after SU).
Anyway, despite it all, I can't say that I regret the decision to come down here. Now I am ready to get out of here (did anyone else know how dull vacation towns are off-season?) and have been updating/finishing the portfolio that Heckman never got a finished copy of. I'm trying to get me a real job WHICH I am aware is a difficult thing to do right now (anyone has one they can hand me, no strings attached, I'll be pretty thrilled) but even a low-level position would keep me more sane than working two jobs and still not knowing how much money is coming in each week.
I have been trying to keep up drawing. I have to admit, though, I have drawn very few inanimate objects (read: products) in the past eight months, but I remembered that creative drawing was why I picked up a pencil in the first place.
There is, of course, lots more that I could say (and would like to say if anyone wants to hear) but I'll leave it at that for now in hopes that someone will actually read this and feel compelled/inspired/irritated enough to write their own little eight-month story...

(also, Ashley, you might be please to know that, since Christmas, I have developed a severe espresso addiction and if you're ever in DE, I'll brew you up a nice quad-shot)

Remember the Flip-books?!

What a pain in the rear it was to make those stick figure post-it flip-books.  Now there's a service Bob books that will take your home video clips (8 sec max) and create animated flip-books for your viewing pleasure! How awesomely cool? I'm thinking an IDSU video flip... 

Balloon-o-motion

How cute is this little guy?

After Hookups, E-Cards That Warn, ‘Get Checked’

interesting design solution to try to cut down on the spread of sexually transmitted infections. 

08 lecture posters

Good resource for poster inspiration with lots of info.  

Marc Johns : funnny illustrations

FLICKR : Marc Johns. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcjohns/. I like how he describes his work.

"I like to create absurd situations, by combining things together that don’t belong, or imagine what inanimate objects would say if they could speak. For instance, the pen I am using to write this draft would probably say: "I'm tired. Can we stop for a bit?" Or perhaps it would say: "I can't believe you're making me write this. This is rubbish. Signing cheques would be more inspiring than this." These are the things I think about. I think about alot of things. I think about thinking. Don't try it though, it's not worth it."

tar

tar art is an arts and aesthetics collective that creates, curates and produces content across a diverse media platform. tar art's work ethos aims for quality and artistry. "tar" is an anagram of art, the distillation of organic matter, sticky stuff we pave roads and secure roots with - a foundation. YOU CAN PAINT YOUR OWN MASTERPIECE (like the one above) ON THEIR HOME PAGE.

design mind MOTION ISSUE

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/videos/misc/design-mind-motion-issue.html

Feltron Eight

Nicholas Felton tracks all the minutiae of his life and produces a beautiful annual report. This year is his fourth report. Seemingly mundane information (# of miles walked in a day, hours spent at work) becomes rich and engaging when presented in interesting ways.

DAYTUM

Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data. Begin tracking anything you can count and display the results immediately... or just look around and see what other members are recording...WORLD OF WARCRAFT Ogul!

Diesel "Liquid Space"

Holographic fashion show.

Section Seven

Section Seven a design firm in Seattle. Inspirational interaction graphics.

Tagnautica - Explore the Flickr Tag Space

Taugnautica, an experimental navigational tool. Type in any word and explore flickr tags.

Excreta's Dream House

The poop house concept makes sense. The structure is essentially a tensile structure. You know the tents with "poles" which are really tubes filled with compressed air, rather than a physical pole? In this concept, the medium is water rather than air. The water can be pumped out of the walls and utilized for showering and washing dishes, and then pumped back into the walls (a gray water loop). Of course, not all the water will make it back, so the level of water will get lower and lower. Over time, the secondary outside envelope fills with household waste (food scraps, poop, etc) until it is full. So by the time the inside water envelope is empty, the outside structural envelope is full of shit and the house is complete. Tough to explain, because it doesn't really all add up.

But in any case, there are a lot of interesting ideas flowing through the heads of Andrew Maynard Architects, out of Australia. Below is a structure that might be designed for people who want to save trees from clear-cutting. The idea is that you can save 3 or 4 trees as a time, rather than just chaining yourself to one.

Necklush: NYC

i LOVE this scarf from Necklush!

ViVi Dot....for Ashley creative Buttons

omg...these scream Ashley...ever since you told me about the poster you created and hung up in Burlington. Hope these inspire you to share you love of buttons with the world! LOL

as cheesy as that sounds i mean it!!!

seem more ViviDot here!

ECG

The East Coast Greenway project is an attempt to create a traffic-free pathway from Maine to Florida for cyclists and pedestrians. The idea is not to have just a single path, but one that branches to connect all major cities (as shown below in the RI map, with a fork in the road for either Boston or Hartford). It's 21% complete.

HDR Photography

High Dynamic Range photographs (HDR) are becoming one of my favorite translations for digital photography. By overlapping multiple exposures into one composite image, a more "dynamic range" of lights and darks is rendered in the final photo. Here is a link to people's HDR images on Flickr. Here is an in-depth step-by-step guide to creating your own digital photos using this. technique

Handmade fonts

Mind Control

This is really cool, and really dumb at the same time: Mattel's new Mindflex game lets you control the height of a floating ball with your mind as you navigate it through hoops, cages, and hurdles on a circular racetrack. The goal is to move the little orb around the customizable course as quickly as you can (you control the speed of rotation with a hand-operated knob)

Social Experiment: Recognizing Beauty

Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world played one of the most intricate pieces ever
written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars in a Metro Station in DC. However, his identity was left incognito so that the public would play subject to a social experiment setup by the Washington Post. He played six Bach pieces over the span of 45 minutes. Days earlier, Bell sold out a concert in Boston with seats averaging $100 a piece.

Do we recognize beauty for what it is? What do we miss when we are consumed by the daily rush?

Link to the original article here.

These geometric forms are made by hand from recycled cardboard coated in beeswax, and empty spaces filled with moss, beeswax and even soil. All the elements are from the earth, yet they're held together in such confined and structured spaces...is it a comment on the state of our "wild" land being so limited, so contained? An artistic rendition of suburbia's encroachment upon our open spaces? Well, from the mouth of their creator, they're meant simply as "a stress reliever, something nice to look at and touch, or a little bit of the outside when you are stuck inside." Well, that sounds like a good explanation to me. Find these designs, and more like them, at layer by layer and bring some of the outside in.

Modishblog

Found this website Modishblog- it has a little something for everyone!


Check out these "mean cards" I particuarly like the one that says your degree is worthless! kind of funny.

Find this website, maybe Katie Mac and others will enjoy this website! Look there's a lamp for Grant, dog collar style. And a lamp for the earth lovers with leaves!




http://www.modishblog.com/

Subway map of the Milky Way

"Carl Sagan’s novel Contact alluding to a cosmic Grand Central Station + longtime interest in transit maps = Milky Way Transit Authority"

gorgeous wedding pictures by Karen Wise

well I'm sure I won't surprise any of you with this post! but seriously I am in love with these photos. So gorgeous!!
See more here!
Enjoy

just something to look at as I learn how to blog

Cool Coffee Stains

This is one of those things that is so simple but makes so much sense to me. These stamp mugs are designed by Valeria Migliolo & Barnaby Bard's.  

For Grant

Camera's made out of human skulls... They should make a Polaroid version where the picture pops out of the mouth.

Born to Run? Little Ones Get Test for Sports Gene

This is an older article, but it reminded me of Galactica.  So I  decided to share.  It is about  a company that will test your kids genes to see what type of athletics they would perform best in. Which I think is an interesting debate, we will have to see where the line will be drawn.  

Tiny house blog

This is my new favorite small house website, it has some good insight on how to beat the system and not pay rent.  

French People Rapping!

Hey Everybody!

I'm trying to figure out how to work this thing, here's the most recent cool thing i've found.