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Dark Side Of The Sun

Martin Margiela Sci Fi Sunglasses.
 



Styles from Super by RetroSuperFuture.

Existence Is Finite

Amazing, spooky Edgar Allen Poe book illustrations at Flickr. [Thanks James]

Nick Knight + Gareth Pugh, 'Insensate'

Watch this in HQ... AMAZING! More info here.

NiteLite July 18th

Design Sponge put out a guide to SLC this week. [Thanks Stewf!]

Summer Blockbusters Will Melt Your Brain

One of my favorite pastimes is reading the very lowest rated reviews for Summer blockbusters at sites like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. Here's a sampling from Metacritic's survey of the mind melting waste of celluloid called Transformers II:

"The reductio ad absurdum of a summer blockbuster. It is loud (boom!), long (two and a half hours!), incoherent (poorly explained intergalactic warfare!), leering (Megan Fox in short shorts!), racist (jive-talkin' robot twins!), and rife with product tie-ins (Chevy! Hasbro!)." – Slate Dana Stevens

"The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant." – Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

"This Transformers is a pile of glittering junk." – Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

"A horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments." –
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert 

"An impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore." – Christian Science Monitor  Peter Rainer 

"Transformers 2 has a shot at the title Worst Movie of the Decade." –
Rolling StonePeter Travers

Valentino Film

Now playing (for one more day).

Four Egg Cartons

Love the texture of these Four Egg Cartons, oil on linen mounted on panel, 12 x 24", 2007 by Chris Wright (via my new favorite design porn source The Strange Attractor). Speaking of eggs, I think we all know who's ga-ga for hens and chickens.

Ephemeral A

ephemeral A from FIELD

An edit of various scenes from our generative animation system. experimenting with agent-based simulations of social network behaviour.

The Catherine Tate Show

The title of the sketch "Aga Saga Woman" is a pun on the stereotype of the pretentious middle classes having an Aga oven at home. An Aga saga is a type of popular novel, set in middle England and populated by the middle classes of the sort that typically own Aga cookers. Agas are kitchen ranges, often very large and expensive, that are seen as epitomizing the prosperous and cosy middle-class English country lifestyle.

(More info at Catherine Tate Show, more clips here.)

Beatles Rock Band Promo

Passion Pictures are responsible for created this stunning promo video for The Beatles 'Rock Band' game. I'm not a huge fan of either but it's pretty incredible. (Thanks Eric @ Tong Media)

Big Fun / Easy Keeper & Farmers Market

Check out my work buddy Whitney and Ryan's letterpress tent called BIG FUN & EASY KEEPER at the Farmers Market this Summer. They are offering exquisite hand screenprinted and letterpressed treasures for a limited time. Give them your money!

It's hard to imagine how or why this guy transformed his apartment into the Starship Enterprise (Next Generation). Apparently he's sick of it now cause he's trying to sell.

  NYC DJ Junior Vasques selling his entire "master" vinyl collection on Ebay for $60,000.

Soft n' Strange

Hansigurumi '"knits the paculiar" at hansigurumi.etsy.com

Zero Fuel Coda

Coda, a zero fuel emissions car from California. Just heard about it on tha NPR.

Vintage Idaho Neon

Idaho has a wonderfully weird array of vintage neon signs. I remember a bunch of them from my childhood driving around the state and recently came upon a flickr group of the best ones.