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Vichcraft

posted May 18, 2016 #

Selecting a single portfolio item from the impressive portfolio of Jenna Blazevich - aka Vichcraft - is a difficult task but I'd like to make sure your attention is steered towards her sculpture piece, The City Beautiful, a 3ft x 6ft installation comprised of bullet casings in an art deco style. The homage to Chicago gangster history is obvious and the amount of work to hand place each of those pieces is astounding.

Once you've wrapped your brain around that, browse around the rest of the offerings. The branding, illustration and typography work is stellar.

Oldweb.today

posted May 18, 2016 #

Docker containers, a handful of emulators, VNC support over Websockets and lots of other tech I don't really even understand all come together for oldweb.today - a site that lets you browse the Internet from era's long gone. Want to see this site ten years ago? Have at it. It's surprisingly not that different. I don't know if I feel good or bad about that.

Barcelona Superblocks

posted May 18, 2016 #

I don't claim to know much of anything about city planning but I'm certainly fascinated by this Superblock plan being implemented in Barcelona. Basically, they will quadrant the city into super blocks (nine blocks of existing blocks) and restrict traffic to locals only in an attempt to cut pollution (noise and otherwise) but a significant portion. It's surely going to upset people in the short term but the communities and open spaces it creates in the long term seems like it'll be worth it. Oh, and that photo of the city is unreal. Love it.

posted May 18, 2016 #

I wonder if my grandfather would've even bothered to FIGHT HITLER if he knew I'd have to one day tell my son's about female "ghost-busters."

posted May 18, 2016 #

damn new ghostbusters script is woke https://t.co/yM48AK4NKq

posted May 18, 2016 #

Hey make sure your band writes a song about the approaching Singularity it's the thing to do these days don't be left out

posted May 18, 2016 #

Maybe I am eating a bag of doritos and a bag of peanut butter M&Ms at the same time. right now. with a beer and a wine. maybe I am.

posted May 18, 2016 #

That feeling when you answer your own @StackOverflow question. https://t.co/YzH7r40TZ7

posted May 17, 2016 #

This is our future: https://t.co/1IOyZlMU2q

Impossible I-1

posted May 17, 2016 #

The folks at The Impossible Project continue to, slowly but surely, revitalize the world of the Polaroid. Not only have they been consistently producing new film for old Polaroid cameras but now they have released their own camera - the Impossible I-1. The body of the camera looks very similar to the classic Polaroid 600 type but they've cleverly added a ring flash and packed it full of modern technology, including an iOS app for remote triggering, double exposures and full manual control.

The gallery of images on the site taken with the camera are the exact vibe you'd hope for, just the right amount of desaturation, vignettes and haze. I'm glad someone is continuing to keep this format alive. They're doing a helluva job at it.

Jeff Leonard, Programmable Fine Art

posted May 17, 2016 #

I'm fascinated by the fine art work of Jeff Leonard for two primary reasons. First and foremost, the result of his efforts is beautiful and chaotic. Even when there is a pattern to be found, there's a madness to it that I find appealing. Secondly, it seems that many of the more recent works are actually painted by a CNC Painting Machine. The process of moving paint around is programmable to a certain extent but much of the result is happenstance. Even with the controlling arduino, there's a level of expression here that is unintentional - does that make it any less art? It's a curious question worth a bit of pondering.

OST WXNA

posted May 17, 2016 #

In the near future, Nashville will have a brand new radio station; a technological achievement that you might not think is all that worth getting excited about. I see your point. However, this particular station - WXNA - is going to be host to a wide variety of shows, meaning tons of podcasts and setlists and enjoyable mixes to wade through for the foreseeable future.

One such forthcoming bit of goodness is Sam Smith's show OST, a two-hour block of Tuesday nights devoted to soundtrack music. He's already posted a preview mix and it's wonderful.
If you require more of this sort of thing immediately (and I can't see why you wouldn't), don't forget the repository of mixes Sam compiles under the Cinema Sound moniker.

posted May 16, 2016 #

Ridiculously excited for the new Everything Is A Remix to premiere at @outpostpdx this week. Come on out! https://t.co/C4TmAYArrr

Jayme Lemperle

posted May 16, 2016 #

What do you do when you find amusement and enjoyment in a company but learn that their owner has a questionable history of despicable actions? Do you boycott the company because the owner is awful or do you find ways to celebrate the employees who aren't crap?

This past weekend I ducked in to the Rip N' Dip pop-up shop in the Lower East Side and enjoyed all their absurd cartoony cats, lo-fi drawings, alien heads and skate decks. Everyone that worked there was extremely nice and the artwork was crude but amusing (as it should be).

However, doing a tiny bit of research on the owner results in multiple allegations of domestic violence on top of gross skate culture style exploitation in other forms. Not something I have any interest in supporting or helping others support. Maybe these allegations are hearsay? Maybe not.

The artist responsible for much of the Rip N' Dip aesthetic, Jayme Lemperle, has a lot of amusing illustrations and doodles but has, supposedly, also been screwed by the company. So, instead of supporting a questionable company, go support the artist, a more worthwhile endeavor anyway.

Catacomb Saints

posted May 16, 2016 #

"Are you interested in seeing a dilapidated old church in the forest with a skeleton standing there covered in jewels and holding a cup of blood in his left hand like he's offering you a toast?"
Fortunately, historian Paul Koudounaris could not say no to such an offering and came to know and document an the first of many East German chapel's containing "catacomb saints" - extremely adorned skeletal remains left to personify the glory of the afterlife.

This Smithsonian magazine piece reads like an Indian Jones story (one of the good ones). The skeletons often took years to prepare and the value of their adornments is impossible to determine. It's a bit macabre but also undeniably fascinating.

Dan Lam

posted May 16, 2016 #

While I can't imagine these Dan Lam sculptures hanging around my house, I am fascinated by their texture and organic nature. The still images don't really do them justice but if you dive into her instagram you can see fantastic examples of the near disgusting nature of their prickly spines and globby excretions. Pretty gnarly but in a great way.
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