Mesmerizing video shot of a 1,981,290 gallon aquarium tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan, inspiring me to shoot more video with my Canon. Via Chris Glass. 7.31
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Inspiration for today: Random Got Beautiful, an online collection of random photographs. 7.30
Abandoned places in various parts of the world. 7.28
Interesting article on outsmarting the "Facebook Lobster Trap". 7.28
The Tour wraps it up today, but the inspiration is ongoing. It's Nice That spent last week writing up some impressions of Nike's Stages art exhibition in Paris. Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. The focus of Part 5 is on the series of custom designed bikes that were commissioned for the show and that Lance has been riding in various stages. Be sure to click through the photos. 7.26
Blind photographer Alex Dejong describes how he uses an iPhone to shoot and edit photographs. 7.25
No more blindly messing about. Here's an explanation of Photoshop blend modes. 7.24
A great new identity system for the City of Melbourne. 7.24
Commercial Appeal, photographically-based work by Jason DeMarte. 7.23
Lab Partners have some pretty great work going on. Check them out. 7.23
A far cry from what we're seeing in the Tour this month, but very cool. Motorcycle helmets from Colette in Paris. 7.23
I love dumpsters, and I love pools. This is perfect. Brooklyn's "lo-fi urban country club". 7.22
Some really evocative photography by Gorka Gondra. This, this, this. Via Monoscope. 7.22
The importance of walls in the shaping of human history. 7.22
A how-to video from Wired about street portraiture. 7.21
David Buckingham makes sculpture, a lot of it text-based, out of cut and welded found metal. 7.21
Creative Mornings has a great idea going with a different version of nametags, ones that open up conversation and invite ideas. This time the question was "What would you do if you had your own storefront?" 7.21
Neville Brody has designed the cover for the August issue of Wallpaper. 7.21
Kottke's giant Apollo 11 post in honour of today's anniversary. 7.20
Extremely large format photography by Shaun Irving. 7.20
A Kitchen Diary is a blog about simple, real and delicious food. Good recipes and clean nav going hand in hand. 7.20
Your moment of experimental alephs. 7.20
A reminder from Jason Santa Maria to sit down and reconnect with an object. 7.19
It may be a good evening to perfect a cocktail, perhaps a gin & tonic. Perhaps even this one. Or maybe you'll get an idea perusing this NYT article about summer drinks. 7.17
Lichen, a gallery show at Factory Fresh featuring work by Loro Verz, Apolo Torres & Mundano. 7.16
Illustration and other work by Leandro Castelao. 7.16
Signs made by the homeless, from the collections of author and legendary Texas musician Joe Ely. 7.15
A pencil by RCA graduate Alexander Hulme. 7.15
Great cover from USSR in Construction. Via iLT. 7.14
Step 2, Attempt 2: Smelting Iron Ore in a Microwave. 7.14
Woodtyper is full of Notes on Large and Ornamented Type and Related Matters. 7.13
There are only four outdoor phone booths left in Manhattan – and they’re all on West End Avenue. That's it: four. 7.13
Routemaster pencils, getting me inspired for my upcoming London trip. Beautiful. Via the Ministry. 7.13
I've posted about his work before, so I was excited to see that Brent Humphreys' Le Tour, a photo study of the Tour de France, is currently showing in Austin over at Mellow Johnny's. Hope it finds its way to Boulder. 7.12
Alberto Burri's amazing concrete installation in Sicily. Entitled Grande Cretto, the piece commemorates the destruction of the town of Gibellina in a 1968 earthquake. 7.10
Liking SlickMap CSS, a stylesheet for displaying sitemaps directly from HTML navigation. 7.10
I'll be right back. I'm going to be browsing The Design Disease Pool for the rest of the afternoon. Via JC. 7.9
The new bridge at the Hoover Dam, pointed out by Chris Glass. 7.9
"It's simply rearranging the deck chairs on this logo Titanic." The Kraft logo updated again. 7.9
Aegir posts about a new text information service for buses in Brighton & Hove, and the design of the campaign that has accompanied its debut. 7.8
I photograph manhole covers whenever I can, and when I can't, someone on this list at Drainspotting has done so for me. Amazing list of manhole cover photography linkage. 7.7
"In the late fall and early winter of 2006, bracing himself against gusts of freezing wind, a slightly apprehensive Michael Wolf stood atop rooftops in downtown Chicago with a medium-format camera. In looking at prints from the first few weeks’ worth of digital images. Mr. Wolf saw tiny wisps of life in the windows of his futuristic cityscapes. After enlarging them hundreds of times, he was able to really see the people inside the buildings." Life Behind Glass. 7.6
The Morning News picks up Trevor Paglen's I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World. 7.6
Bowery typography from Michael Surtees. 7.6
"Picasso reduces the bull to a simple outline that is so carefully considered through the progressive development of each image, that it captures the absolute essence of the creature in as concise an image as possible." 7.3
Roads and circular fields in Egypt, photographed by NASA from the International Space Station. 7.2
Poster Cabaret, always worth a browse for some inspiration. 7.2
Louise Naunton Morgan runs thehumanprinter which generates printed products by hand using the same type of processes as digital printers do. 7.1
Lettercult presents The Best of the First Half, 2009, their take on the best custom lettering so far this year. Lots of inspiration there. 7.1
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