nymag travel does baltimore..

link



we really need to go on a john waters hunt this summer!!!

We also need a sidebar for awesome gifs

Cat Ladies

do it.

found through dlisted and gawker.

Quick Thought...

How about a Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Foghat, and Journey dance party? I mean, why not?

I dont know, but there will be nightmares involved.

YAYYY

Becky graduated this week!!!



You should probably hire her cause she is amazing!

Becky is a

Grapheme-colour associator and Ordinal-linguistic personification, higher synesthete.


aka, through associations later in perceptual and cognitive processing, yet still unconscious, she sees numbers and letters as colours that have different levels/semi-linear relationships to each other as well as personalities and familial relationships


Take a bite out of that and chew on it for a while!

PROOF that someone at NOTCOT.org may or may not look at our humble blog.

Look at our post right below this one,

Then look at this...




"I can hear you laughing through the wall" post time: 5/15/08 8:52 PM

NOTCOT.org post time: 5/15/08 10:47 PM

Seeee we DO exist!

Lucy and Bart

I know you've probly seen this^ and this^ within the last month or so on every design blog invented, kinda interesting, kinda not...
BUT!
Have you been to their website???
Their homepage is trippin' me out maan...

omg I love this!

Not that my hair wouldn't probably completely fall out if I did this or anything...

But I kind of really want this hair.

Much Respect

In a perfect world I would have been born Maya Hayuk. I guess I can just keep on truckin'

: O= [puke-face}

Besides this photo already being ten kinds of wrong,

I just thought this kid's tattoo was to a new level of shittiness that should be documented.

Makes me throw up in my mouth, more than a little bit.

This is worse than a tribal tattoo or chinese character x100.



The photo is from a facebook album that came across my newsfeed.
And is now for the world to see.

Yes.

I should probably print this out super large format with my leftover printer money so that it can take up an entire wall in our next apt

Ongoing/Upcoming

- the Whitney has a show of Robert Mapplethorpe's polaroids from 1970 to 1975, which include portraits and still lifes.

- the blog Hi & Low has a bit on this Clarendon clock, being a huge fan of the typeface I love it, but on a weirder note, I was going to create a clock illustration showing a synesthetic view of numbers for my thesis but scrapped it last minute.

- same blog, these shoes. I am nowhere near a crazed sneakerhead but I want.

- these headphones (audio cubes)

Sister Corita

I am sure you have probably seen this on Design Observer or heard about her, but I wanted to post about one of my heroes, Sister Corita Kent.

She was born in Iowa and entered the sisterhood in the Immaculate Heart community in Los Angeles at age 18. The Catholic church was going through some changes and things were a bit more liberal, so the sisters and brothers of the community were artists and activists and such as well. Sister Corita was an artist who created amazing screenprinted posters that while infused with her faith, broached larger topics like love and peace (no doubt the community around her loved this being california in the 60s.) Her Ten Rules for the art department at Immaculate Heart College have been passed around by many in the creative community. There is alot of truth in what she says, (she seems to have been what many teachers try to be today), and it is a cool piece in itself. She broke away from the Sisterhood to move to Boston to be a full-time artist and continued to create her amazing pieces.

I find it surprising that I never heard her name mentioned in my design history classes (at Parsons, no less!) as we learned about Seymour Chwast and Victor Moscoso. Granted one started pushpin and the other had a large influence over the psychedelic scene, but so did she and is just as respected by those who know her work. Maybe I am just ignorant of her influence prior to being told of her by a few teachers. Maybe I slept through/skipped the week Alvin Grossman said something about her or was daydreaming when she was brought up in history of graphic design, but its a shame that she isn't mentioned on par with other designer/illustrators. Julie Ault put together her mongraph "Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita" which several teachers have shown me in studio class. Maybe she is discussed in illustration history classes, I am not sure. There needs to be a big show of her work in the near future, as I have seen her work being talked about for awhile now, and if the Whitney can put on a show of psychadelic art, then she should get some larger recognition. Even if you despise the idea of god, or even moreso the Catholic idea of god, the work is powerful & beautiful enough to appreciate.

Design Observer article and slideshow on Sister Corita

Wikipedia article on Sister Corita

Corita Art Center

Amazon: Come Alive!

Sister Corita's Ten Rules

It goes to show you that not everything is going to be fed to you in the proper class at school and the more you explore the more you find.

I always wondered how exactly it worked...

amazing!





p.s. this could easily find its way onto the triumph of bullshit

I sent the Copyranter this photo I took monday near where we live and he posted it!!!xxx movie seeking band of horses in brooklyn





so between the 2 of us:

jezebel...check!
fail blog...check!
copyranter...check!

my next proposal would be this photo for
stuffonmycat AND icanhascheezburger.



we need to think of a good caption!

Um

JusTice ReleAsE Party
Uploaded by hepooh

I wasn't gonna post this at first because it was just another justice video of a concert, but that was until the DJ Funk part.

Look Here...

I FOUND this and it is from a Flickr set on advertising from 1950-70. pretty sweet.

Paul Smith Sunshine

Paul Smith Sunshine perfume, found on the Die Line, go HERE for the british online store (couldn't find it in the american one)

Visual Perception

HERE is a link to full size

The cat that could bring down Yoda Cat.

The Brick Testament.

The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible.
Made completely out of legos.

seriously.

how adorable are these two kittens? the close one with his little half colored nose and the back on with his teeny blue eyes open so wide like he's scared to death. omg adorableee

I saw this on digg and now I'm going to have nightmares about clown meat.

We should make our neighbors dress up all of the cats and dogs in our building like this.

Um yes thank you

The video is pretty much how I feel when I play that song.  And I love that song.  I think I may need therapy.  Go HERE for a pitchfork interview and video link where Xavier explains some stuff including their love for Metallica and Pantera (Pohntéra) but not all metal.  I also love how the other one says nothing and sits there looking like a muppet. I love them.

Pretty sure you said this was your fav Justice song

p.s. the teenagers are playing a free show on sunday at 3pm @ the park slope american apparel
the hipsterness of this event makes me vomit in my mouth a little bit, but still...pretty sweet.