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Recently in Awesome

Just some things I’ve starred / noted / pocket-ed lately.

Oracle. Being awful. This made me so irritated. Was happy to see someone (@andrewparker) noticed, and wrote something about it. via the Gong Show

A nice presentation with good advice about blog design. via Note and Point

Remember David Hammons? I freaking loved this part of art history. via Things Neatly Organized

Sometimes I wonder what is an actual ‘good’ outcome for a startup. via AVC

“Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that read them—think about video tapes, cassettes, or floppy disks.” via National Geographic

Mmmmm, font. via the Font Feed

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” via but does it float

I’m not sure I’d call this minimalism. But it is fun. via Design Milk

“If my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements, that I like.” – Donald Judd. [speaking of minimalism]

I’m not there.  via Laughing Squid

“Who owns your UX philisophy?” via Brad Feld

And these two that may not seem related but I’m really trying to make time to write about why they are, actually, very related

Sriracha sauce and the Republican party 

Art on art on art

This is just mesmerizing.

From the Font Feed. Beck’s new album isn’t an album at all, but a bunch of sheet music so that you have to play the album yourself (You would, Beck. You would). But then this person decided to recreate the album cover with cut paper. Which is really beautiful to watch.

Take seat, make relax: ten days in Turkey

A few things I’ll remember about İstanbul, Selçuk, Pamukkale and Bodrum:

  • Drinking Turkish coffee down to the grinds, and then trying to get one last drop
  • The flag
  • Hearing the ancient call to prayer in the middle of a modern city
  • Getting caught up in the hustle of İstiklal Caddesi at 4am
  • Diving into the most intense blue of the Aegean Sea
  • Breakfast meze…. mmmm
  • Dancing like crazy to the Grease medley in a club full of Istanbul hipsters, who seem to find this completely normal
  • Waking up to find out that our bus was on a boat
  • Sitting at a roof top bar overlooking the Bosphorus & talking to an intensely handsome Turkish man… via an iPad + Google translate (#ThankYouSteve)
  • Standing on an ancient pillar on top of a hill and surveying the amazing countryside around Pamukkale
  • Delicious warm menemen on an unseasonably cold morning in Selçuk
  • Being hustled out of the Aya Sofya, and turning around to get one last look at the empty grandeur

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Teşekkür ederim, Türkiye. I’ll be back.

Toast. We need toast.

Toast with butter. Toast with jam. Toast with peanut butter. Obviously, toast with cheese. Winning combinations, all. Embroidery? Not a toast topping I’d considered.

The work of Judith G. Klausner. Creative props, yo.

h/t Colossal Image from jgklausner.com

we could all use more jawa.

@chriserdman turned up some awesome today: random, excellent and occasionally star wars related sketches from grayhood.

furthermore, were i in the market for a tattoo, i would ask the artist, dan gneiding, for permission to use this jawa sketch. why? just look at it. and tell me you disagree. image from the artist’s website.

ARTH101

Happy Birthday, Brancussi. Nice doodle, Google.

Bubbles and Pies

Working on data presentation and visualization is useful not just to help the end consumer of information, but because it forces you to engage with the stats in a more meaningful way. Creating a display usually uncovers something new that wasn’t initially even in the scope of your exploration.

A project called Many Eyes gets at the core of this idea by making it easy for people to upload and interact with their data sets. Brief interview posted at CultureLab today with the founders. Quotable quote: “Visualization is a gateway drug to statistics.”

This also reminded me that I’ve never posted this amazing video right here:

It’s the process

Want. And even more? Custom-style for my Dodocase. Yes please.

h/t to DoobyBrain

Moleskine Silk Screen Printing from Moleskine ® on Vimeo.

A Case Study

On how to turn up the awesome, via MKTG: “Cab fares have really been going up these days – thanks to street artist The Tailor. The New York-based artist has added some flair to the fare stickers seen on taxi exteriors by adorning their plain stick-figure decals with iconic, easily recognizable clothes and accoutrements.” Artist website.
karl lagerfeld!

Track 5, 1:54

Google Reader share on Monday (hastily written, but you know what I meant):

The launch of the Beatles into iTunes was, maybe, a big deal given what it indicates for the long term direction of music. And their ad campaign was obviously Don Draper-esque in it’s ability to tap into everyones collective nostalgia (and I wasn’t even born until five years after Lennon was shot).

But you know what was an even bigger indication? The way Greg Gillis unleashed a sound bomb –  unannounced – on the world. And got everyone who’s even moderately ahead of the curb super-freaking-edge-of-their-seats excited. Can’t download it ’cause your ass didn’t get the memo fast enough and the site is out of bandwidth? Too bad. This ain’t pay-for-play and we’re not negotiating with your record company.

You know who was talking about the Beatles announcement? Your mom. And I don’t mean that to be fresh.

Mat Honan has an elegant post over at the Awl that gets to the heart of this perfect congruous happenstance. I recommend reading the whole thing. But this about sums it up: My favorite Beatles moment today? It’s the sample of “Imagine” that hits at 2:58 on track 13 of the new Girl Talk.