tape

via flickr

- more axonometric perspective flattening in aakash nihalani's urban tape installations. awesome.

quoted

via behance

- clever words by clever people.

little people

via little people

- fantastic miniature street art projects by slinkachu. check out the blog for more brilliance.

dan tobin smith

via dantobinsmith

- loving the varini/rousse-esque perspective play in these images by UK based photographer Dan Tobin Smith - shame the jay-z cover wasn't done in the same way.

spider men

- "look at their awesomeness" says ella.

"i agree" says christian.

thingpart

- sweeeet.

manifesto time, not peanut butter jelly time

via ffffound

clinging on to summer

- and dance.

desiderata

- ""Desiderata" (Latin for "desired things", plural of desideratum) is an inspirational prose poem by Max Ehrmann about attaining happiness in life." via Wiki

clever man.

alternative parenting

via pieterhugo

- how does one define badass?

i think Pieter Hugo comes pretty close in his series The Hyena and Other Men. portraiture photography and parenting strategies at their best.

monkey with the hand on the lap is my favourite.

linguini-tron

life on film

- saturday afternoon tune.

piano man

- sweet independent short.

this is the future

- i have nothing to say but that this man needs some serious financial support. now.

hunter

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"

// from 'Security' by Hunter S. Thompson, age seventeen, 1955

stille berge

via bookcoverarchive

- there's really nothing like the peace of the alps at night. Michael Schnabel seems to know that too and has captured it beautifully in these frames amongst many. the rest of his work is quite extraordinary also.

“Photographing the Alps in my own vision was a creative process that developed over years. One day – or night rather – it clicked. … The night and its silence gives the mountains a sublimity, feeling of raw creation and aloofness that I strived to capture in my work.”

manifesto time

via ffffound

ksubi cool

via theselby


- this is george gorrow, who along with good friend dan single created the ksubi fashion empire from scratch. somehow i don't think george gives much of a damn what other people think. if you doubt that, then have a read through their 60minutes nineMSN interview. the plane he is holding is made from their shredded old financial statements.

"The success we've had has allowed us to enjoy life to its fullest. Over the last four years we have done enough things to last us a lifetime."

"Work hard and keep true to your beliefs. Just design clothes that you want to wear. Do not think about a market, do not learn this word, do not think about money and drink a bottle of wine a day."

"It makes us feel great that people are behind us because we are just good guys and trying to do a good thing and if we can in any way, we would love to incorporate you in the fun we are having and we would like to take this moment to thank our loving families, girlfriends and friends that have made this all possible."

i like george.

room with a view

via d2.no

- Hotel Juvet is the brainchild of Knut Slinning: a landscape hotel with a minimal, architectural elegance. think i could sit for hours in that chair.

"At the farmstead of Burtigard, Alstad, in Norddal municipality, a tourism enterprise has been established that is quite out-of-the-ordinary; a landscape hotel that offers a short-stay holiday concept based on geotourism."

james may, the dude

via likecool

- if you don't know james may then you might want to catch up on a couple of episodes of one of the world's most awesome tv shows. as top gear presenter he is already laughing in the face of people with regular jobs, so why not extend that privilege to housing. how many pieces you say? well roughly 3 million pseudo-bricks made from 217 lego bricks, so that's a cool 816 million.

"I'm planning to stay there for two or three days, or until it falls down - whichever is sooner. I'm pretty relaxed about it, but will just have to be careful moving around. If I wake up buried under a pile of bricks I'll know it's gone wrong."

why not?

yacht life

via d2.no

- italian yacht manufacturer Luca Brenta does justice to the art of sailing. still think i'd go for a wally.

kitchen porn

via d2.no

- i know i haven't posted for a while, but when you come across something like this it must be shared. Wiedemann Werkstaetten make hands down the most beautiful kitchens i have ever seen. 8m single length stretches of prime timber. add a splash of stainless steel and done. that's their biggest one - not to be outdone by their smaller, equally elegant solutions of concrete and earthy tones. natural, minimal, gorgeous. i want.