Vintage Russian Poster Collection
Here is a nice collection of vintage Russian posters.
(via Kottke)
Pig 05049
This is a pretty neat project by Christien Meindertsma. She spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Pig 05049 to be exact. Some of those products include ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel. The results were put into book form with pictures of all of the items from that single pig shown at 1:1 scale. Pretty freakin’ cool.
This project also won an INDEX award.
Saturday Morning Animation – Catwalk – Black Cat Crossing
Saturday Morning Animation – The Lighthouse Keeper
Lorax Print by Mt. Pleasant Press
Will someone else please go buy this awesome print from Mt. Pleasant Press based on the Dr Seuss book The Lorax . I am not buying this even though I want to and it is a great deal at $30 considering there were only 20 made. Just too many other posters to frame at home and I am trying to save some money.
Saturday Morning Animation – Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
The true story of Major League Baseball player Dock Ellis pitching a no hitter in 1970 while high on LSD. An amazing story as told by Dock himself. Dock sadly died last December at the age of 63.
Animation by James Blagden.
(Thanks to Joel Huggins from his twitter feed for this one!)
Over 40 – October, 2009
OCTOBER, Mofos!! Finished my rebuild of a ’83 Peugeot road bike. LOTS of puppy time. Steam cleaned the carpet which turned out to be a total waste of time. Actually, not much to see here. Except for the GIANT CLUB SANDWICH I ATE ON HALLOWEEN!!
Vivian Maier – Her Discovered Work
Viviam Maier Was a street photographer from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. She was a native of France but lived for 50 years in Chicago where she took most of her images. She was very much unknown until now. A year before her death, John Maloof purchased a box of her negatives at an auction which had obtained her things from a storage locker that had delinquent payments. At that time, he had no idea what treasure he had: turned out to be about 30-40,000 negatives with some 10-15,000 still undeveloped.
He is now developing them and posting them on a blog.
Early Russian Color Photography
Over on The Twitter @scratchbomb submits this awesome find of early Russian color photography from Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The photos were taken during 1909-1912 and again in 1915 to document the state of the nation before the start of WWI and the Russian Revolution. He developed a three plate photography system that would take three negatives of the same scene yet each was shot through a different filter. Projecting the images through the correct color light could recreate the full color composite. I imagine this was not an easy thing to do.
Unless you are in the digital age. Now they can be brought to life as originally intended. The Library of Congress purchased the collection of nearly 2000 negatives in 1948. Here is a bit about how they were created and then recombined today.
And here is a self portrait of the photographer himself:
Saturday Morning Animation – Cardboard
This is a pretty sweet stop-motion animation by the dutch animator Sjors Vervoort.
(via Boing Boing)
Over 40 – September 2009
Bought an old bike from the thrift store that I am turning into a grocery getter and commuter bike. Kinda fun. K. and I went to Portland to see Patton Oswalt and, as a testament to my lameness, was too shy to ask him to take my photo for this project when we happened to see him after the show at the stage door. Boo. I replaced an aging side fence and the new one is AWESOME! And we got a new puppy. We named her Penny. She is a good dog.
Saturday Morning Animation – Bottom of the River by the Tom Fun Orchestra
Flat Advertising Lighters
Good ‘ol Draplin points us toward this amazing collection of flat advertising lighters over at Flickr.
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