Off the Wall

Fun times: Yuksek's video for Off the Wall.

BIG ❤s for V-Day

I love the concept behind BIG Design's Valentine's heart sculpture. From the description:

For four years, Times Square has hosted an annual heart sculpture to celebrate Valentine’s Day, selecting a special architect to design a romantic public art installation in Times Square for all to enjoy.

This year’s 2012 Times Square Valentine heart sculpture is “BIG ❤ NYC” by BIG Design, which utilizes the flow of people, air and movement to bring its heart to life. More people = more love. A BIG red heart pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. Bigger crowds make the heart burn brighter.

A single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart beat even faster to create a brightly burning heart.

The 10-foot tall glowing sculpture consists of 400 transparent, LED lit, acrylic tubes that form a cube around a suspended red heart. The transparent tubes refract the lights of Times Square, creating a cluster of condensed city lights around the heart.

(Photos by christiNYCa)

Tissue Series

Lisa Nilsson uses paper and the gilded edges of old books to create these beautiful anatomical illustrations in her Tissue Series. Stunning...and must be very time-consuming.

On Repeat

Currently on repeat:

Paula Scher MAPS exhibit

Paula Scher's amazing map paintings are currently on view at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York. Though I've loved them for a long time, I had never seen one of the paintings in person, so I ventured to the gallery last weekend to see them firsthand. I highly recommend you do the same if you're in the NY area (and hurry, because the exhibit is only up until February 18th!) If I happen to win the lottery or miraculously come across a large sum of money, I'd like to buy one of these and hang it on my wall. Until then, I'll just stare longingly at the iPhone photos I took (which hardly begin to do them justice).

Let there be Light

I'm loving the landscapes of Michael Light. First two available as prints on 20x200, and the third of my hometown.

Somebody That I Used to Know

A good cover, here.

Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays! from callie on Vimeo.

Sound + image

This video is pretty fun to watch.

New Jackson 'The Night Mail' from Fergal Brennan on Vimeo.

This $*@% is Bananas...

The making of Chiquita's Banana font.

Chiquita - Making of Banana font from Erik Post on Vimeo.

Do You See What I See?

Synesthesia, which I wrote about here, is endlessly interesting to me. As a creative person, the idea of this additional sensory experience is incredibly intriguing. (Am I missing out on certain sensory awareness?) I was reading this post about the condition, which mentions the documentary Do You See What I See.

At my high school, all students were required to give a speech to the entire school in order to graduate. My speech centered on perception and the idea that everyone sees things—including color—differently. I concluded that people's differing perceptions are what makes self expression so important. By expressing the way you see the world, you're sharing something with the rest of the world that might not be evident or exist otherwise, due to differences in perception. It was admittedly a 17-year-old's version of this topic, and much more based on my own beliefs than rooted in science, but ever since then (and even before), this idea of differing perceptions among people is one that has amazed me.

Do You See What I See explores these differences as related to color. Apparently, even language limits (or enriches) color perception; when words for certain colors don't exist in a specific culture, its people don't see a difference between that color and another one. (As a side note, I do have to wonder about the researcher's methods in the trailer below. He shows a member of the Himba tribe a TV screen with different squares of color and asks him to identify the differing square. I can't imagine TVs are very widespread among these people, and wonder if that's really the best way of testing them?) In any case, the documentary looks like an interesting one, and I'd like to check it out. Watch the trailer below for more information.

Food Rules. (So does this book)

Michael Pollan + Maira Kalman?

Sign me up!

Are you typical?

Two new ways to waste time

Two new websites to check out for all your (unrelated) humorous needs:

1. Halloween or Williamsburg - Is that a costume?


2. Trend List- Design trends seen a lot. Not really sure if this one is supposed to be humorous, but it is..to me, at least.

Mourir Auprès de Toi

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

Learn more here.

Luctor et Emergo

Possibly the nicest graffiti ever. Seen on 14th Street.


(Luctor et Emergo = "I struggle and emerge")

Flick Chicks

Mindy Kaling, you're so right.

New York from above

New York from above.




Photos by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Conversations with Siri

Me: Siri, you're so smart.
Siri: Thanks for saying so!

Me: Siri, who made you?
Siri: Like it says on the box... I was designed by Apple in California.

Me: Siri, will you marry me?
Siri: My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.

Me: Siri, you're pretty.
Siri: Oh, stop.

Me: Siri, you're fat.
Siri: You're certainly entitled to that opinion.

Me: Siri, I love you.
Siri: I hope you don't say that to those other mobile phones.


I don't, Siri. I don't.

Spreading Good Cheer

I'm liking the Cheer redesign (didn't they just redesign, though?) Even the banner ads are fun to watch; I caught one on the sidebar of my Spotify. Very different for a detergent (navy blue?), so I'm sure it will stand out on the shelf.

Pentagram Papers 41: WTC

I'm a little late on this post, but Judith Turner's photographs of the World Trade Center (as featured in Pentagram Papers 41: WTC, released for the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks) are beautiful. Check out more information here.

Oliver Jeffers

Between paintings, picture books, and illustrations, Oliver Jeffers has a bunch of great work. I especially love looking at the pages of his sketch books.






You also might know him as 1/3 of You and Me The Royal We.

Facebook Flower Bouquet

I love this idea.

Tattoos of Truth

Tattoos on Truth made me laugh.

Boardwalk Empire

As an awesome ad campaign, Boardwalk Empire (HBO's show that takes place in Prohibition-era Atlantic City) is running a vintage subway train on the 2/3 line in NY. Read more here.

The Wolves

Pinteresting.

Do you Pinterest? If so, follow me here...It's becoming my new obsession.

Kiss My Spatula

A new food blog I'm liking: Kiss My Spatula. Especially nice because, at the end of each recipe, she lists a "music pairing" to match the recipe (and many great photos). It's no secret I love anything that combines my multiple interests. Food + photography + music? I'll take it!



Visit the site here.

Rock me like a hurricane

For your hurricane entertainment, a mishmosh of hurricane songs for you, from me:
Hurricane Mix

Stay dry, people...

Art of the Menu

Combining my loves: Art of the Menu.
Already including some of my favorites!

Tesco Home Plus

Here's a smart and awesome idea: Tesco Home Plus, a grocery chain in Korea, devised a way for people to buy groceries while waiting for the subway. They've created graphics that look like supermarket aisles along the station walls. People can use their phones to scan QR codes printed on each "item" in the aisle, which adds the item to their cart. They can then pay and have their groceries delivered to their house. It's like FreshDirect on steroids!

Tesco's argument is that because Koreans are hard workers, they have little time to do their grocery shopping. This system allows for an efficient use of time. Read more here.

Gavin Potenza

Nice illustration work by Gavin Potenza.

Little Dragon: Ritual Union

Take a listen to the new Little Dragon album here.

Il Lee

Il Lee's ballpoint drawings on canvas are beautiful.



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Today

Pretty:



After turning 30, Jonathan Harris began the personal project of taking photos every day and documenting them online.

Typeverything

Have you seen Typeverything? There are all kinds of wonderful typographical goodies to be seen.