I like this, 'cause it's weird...

Isn't that reason enough? Besides, it's been like two months since I've posted a music video.


Animal Collective "My Girls" from Chad von Nau on Vimeo.

Shepard Fairey On Art & Beautiful Mistakes

Video provided by PSFK Conference in Los Angeles. You can find the whole blog post with quotes here.

Type, Video, Constitution

Nice combination of the above mentioned elements by Andrew Sloat.


Article 2 (for BHO) from Andrew Sloat on Vimeo.

A Evironmentally Friendly Font?

Believe it or not, SPRANQ has created Ecofont, a typface that reduces ink-usage by 20% due to the addition of small circles. The font is available for free at their website. Green gone overboard? I don't know... What do you think?

The Buchstabenmuseum

Core77 has posted a photo gallery of images taken from The Buchstabenmuseum (aka Berlin Museum of Letters). Below is an introduction provided by Core77:

'Since May 2005, the Buchstabenmuseum organization has been rescuing typographic icons of our time. Today, the Buchstabenmuseum preserves an immense collection of historical letters from all over Berlin and beyond. Enjoy a visit yourself (by appointment only) or enjoy our sneak preview right now."

You can find the photo gallery here.
You can find the museum's website here.

Thoughtpile by Herman Miller

Thoughtpile is a site created by Herman Miller where visitors can both browse through ideas relating to the topic of the day, or even contribute their own idea. The website is both simple and fun to use/interact with. As a special bonus, each day a lucky contributor wins a brand spanking new Herman Miller Embody Chair. Check the site out here.

Clever 2009 Calendar by DJ DSL

More of DJ DSL's work can be found here.

The Sharing of Your Best Ideas

Interesting video describing the Creative Commons initiative, which is a new way to think of copyrighting creative material with looser restrictions to promote sharing and common resources to all creative types. It's currently being used on legally questionable photo sharing site Flickr. Check the clip.

United Airlines, Time to Fly

And for my first post…I am including a link that has a few videos of United Airlines current AD campaign.  I am intrigued by this.  The music by Gershwin is so fitting.

I'm not trying to turn this into Cory's music blog I swear (But, I guess I'm not trying that hard to avoid that either, this will be my last for a while I promise). New one from Gnarls Barkley, feeling the song, feeling the animation. Mysterioso!

Flip That!

Flip books never get old, especially when you're doing something new with them. Radical new video for the Kraak & Smaak track "Squeeze Me". Jumping Jaaks.

Shapeshifter Patriot

Fun and kinda creepy new video from The BPA aka Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim. Content seems somehow apropos today. Blast off.

The New Pepsi

The new Pepsi can, and a lineup of previous Pepsi logos, courtesy of PSFK.

Vicki Dasilva - Fine Art Photography

Beautiful photographs involving fluorescent tubes and a very long exposure. You can find more great images at her website.

Help Me Obi-Wan

Not sure how it works, but it's sweet! I can finally live out my fantasy of having Princess Leia beg me to help rescue Skywalker during my Dj sets.

Ascender Creates New Droid Font for G1 Smartphone

Ascender created a new font, "Droid," for Google's Android platform that is found on the G1 Smartphone. According the the blog at Metropolismag.com, " Droid was intended to split the difference between the cutesy primary-colors seen in Google’s logo and a severe, squared-off 'techno' font. Steve Mattison, Ascender’s chief type designer, says: 'There was a fine line between wanting the font to have character but not cause too much commotion.' "

Ascender's press release and 5-page type specimen pdf can be found here.

Airport Wayfinding and Signage

Airports are big, and have a lot of people, and a lot of those people have never been to that airport before and are in a hurry. This translates to one of the more challenging and important signage systems. The link will take you to an interesting article about how to approach a project like this, what works and what doesn't, and lots of examples.

This is Absurdly Awesome

Nagi Noda (1973 – 2008)

"Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo." (From: SpeakUp)

Fun With Music Packaging

For their upcoming new album, Skeletal Lamping, the group Of Montreal will be exploring objects that could be considered slightly more useful than a CD, which has become increasingly less useful. Below are just some the items that will be accompanied with a free digital download of the album. Click the link for a better look at some of the offerings, and an explanation from the artist himself.

Art and Photography

Some Monday morning munchies for everybody. Two artists' websites that have some cool stuff.

Gregor Graf: nice "conceptual" photography, some nice installations, all in German, mutterficker!





Nancy Abens: beautiful nature photography

The worlds first underground stadium. Stadium Laptop.

Cool... check check it out!

Esquire Going Digital for 75th Birthday

This week Esquire magazine will be the first to introduce "digital paper" on a mass produced publication level. Sounds pretty sweet, right? The possibilities are endless. Alas, click here to see the fairly unimpressive results. Well, at least the possibilities are there. Click this post's title for a little more explanation.

Word(le) Up!

 Here's an interesting tool (particularly interesting if someone can suggest how it might be useful). Wordle is a site that the will generate word clouds out of blocks of copy or web sites you link it to. Above is what the text from this blog boils down to. How about that?

Digging For A Cause

Since I haven't posted about records in few months I figured we were due. Here's a couple sweet drawings that give you a little insight into my dark psyche. Record collecting ain't for everybody.

Graphics, don't just sit there, move about!

Cool database I stumbled across of motion graphics sample reels from a variety of artists and firms.

http://xplsv.tv/movies/?start=0

If you have an aversion to techno-pop or graphic scroll overkill a lot of these examples probably aren't for you.

Kick it homeskillet.

Light, light

A design installation exhibit on Light in tokyo.

Cotton Candy

Cool short video on a recent Brooklyn exhibition by artist Takashi Murakami. Murakami has gained some recognition recently for being the artist of choice for the ego formerly known as Kanye West. Think Andy Warhol, on acid, and from Japan.

Disclaimer, I deem parts of this video unfit for young minds.

A little Inspiration for your wish list!

How to Run for Office

CLICK HERE for entire comic.

Tevis has generated internet attention with an online ad that pays homage to the webcomic xkcd. He raised $95,162.76 from more than 5,700 online donors as of July 28, 2008. Tevis's platform includes abolishing the sales tax on food, raising teacher pay, and protecting an individual's right to privacy. This is Tevis's first run for political office. He seems like a great, smart guy and it's sort of amazing to see what happens when an information architect — a web nerd (with a blog) — runs for office.

Interesting Illustrated Lennon Interview

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a 5:15 minute film about it.