This can only end well

wuchie: the metrics Made with Oregon pine, medium-density...

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:47:00 -0400

the metrics

Made with Oregon pine, medium-density fibreboard, and automotive lacquer.

Just a couple of t-shirts from SQY-T (Shanghai Quality Yarn...

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:36:59 -0400

Map of Shanghai

Trees

Bold Pencil Lines

Pantone 15-1157 TP

Just a couple of t-shirts from SQY-T (Shanghai Quality Yarn T-Shirts) that I’m posting on Tumblr because I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll probably never get them due to international shipping charges. International shipping charges pretty much ruin everything.

“Mother Protect” by Niki & The Dove Question:...

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:23:07 -0400

“Mother Protect” by Niki & The Dove

Question: When will I stop liking Niki & The Dove?

“And I love your hands; I let them lead me into the cage / So tender but your body was warm, so frail, / But your eyes like mine / The color of ice // You can’t keep me down, I am done, I am furious”

Having a mounted animal head in your house can be quite...

Wed, 23 May 2012 04:01:40 -0400

Having a mounted animal head in your house can be quite controversial, mostly because they don’t really go with anything - well that and they’re also mounted dead animal heads. So solve this ethical and aesthetic dilemma, White Faux Taxidermy creates painted resin sculptures of your favorite animals! And now since no death was involved in the making of each piece, you don’t have to worry about ghost animals lurking around your house.

Lighting design company, Estiluz, have crafted this wonderful...

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:16:45 -0400

Lighting design company, Estiluz, have crafted this wonderful balloon shaped lighting fixture. Fanciful, these fixtures appear so “light” they just might float out of the room. (Just kidding, they’re a bunch of spherical glass lamps; you’ve got nothing to fear.)

Cuppow, $8 and made in the USA, fits under the lid of your mason...

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:21:38 -0400

Cuppow, $8 and made in the USA, fits under the lid of your mason jar to turn it into a sippy-cup. Now you don’t have to take off the lid every time you want to drink from one. Hands saved from another useless task! (cup-POW)

Dear Ayn Randers

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:43:23 -0400

Dear Ayn Randers:

Ask Ayn Rand. She’ll solve your problems with rational self-interest!

“ What is this? Most people see a mass of black blobs and...

Wed, 09 May 2012 19:56:59 -0400

“

What is this? Most people see a mass of black blobs and then gradually recognize a photograph of a Dalmatian.

‘What is interesting is that the outline shape on the picture surface that is experienced as resembling that of a dog is not seen as an outline shape at all unless the dog is seen in the figure,’ writes University of British Columbia philosopher Dominic McIver Lopes. There’s no dog-shaped outline to notice; the contour of the dog’s body is invisible. To see the contour we must first see the dog … but how do we see the dog without the contour?”

Reblogging so this actually happens. IMAGINE THE...

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:57:43 -0400

Reblogging so this actually happens. IMAGINE THE POTENTIAL!

skullkid:

So I’ve got this brilliant idea for a video game, hear me out because it’s fucking awesome. It would be a sand-box type game were you play as a cat. There would be a complete and extensive character creation part where you would be able to make your own custom cat, size, build and more importantly patterns and even funky ones like camo cat. The art style would be likeTekkonkinkreet meets Jet Set Radio, a rich fun and colourful urban environment (with a fucking sweet-ass cell shading) and lots of rooftops and little streets to explore, japanese style, fuck yeah. Gameplay wise it would play like Jet Set Radio with a bit of Mirror’s Edge and GTA for the missions, but (and that’s my favourite part) you could totally just chill and explore the city; which brings us to the soundtrack. The music would change according to your console clock and would play different track every hour. Day time music would be more up tempo (think Vib Ribbon and Jet Grind Radio again) and night time would be more like the quiet stuffs from Animal Crossing.

Oh boy I want that game so bad.

“I Wanna Go” by Summer Heart

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:54:47 -0400

“I Wanna Go” by Summer Heart

I can’t wait for Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland to come...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:42:09 -0400

I can’t wait for Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland to come out.

Thank goodness I funded their Kickstarter page when I had the chance.

“Work like a Captain, Play like a Pirate” Words to...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:43:03 -0400

“Work like a Captain, Play like a Pirate”

Words to live by, assuming you learned how to read on the high seas.

James Thurber on Exclamation Marks

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:00:03 -0400

James Thurber on Exclamation Marks:

Don’t use an exclamation mark in a moment of anger. If you insert one in a fit of temper, lay aside the letter until morning. You will be surprised how silly it will seem then — not only the exclamation mark but the whole letter. That brings us to the colon, or if it doesn’t, we’ll drag in the colon. It is my contention that a colon could almost always be used in place of an exclamation point. Its use as a symbol of passionate expression is not, I’ll grant you, well known, and yet it lends itself to finer shadings of excitement than the exclamation mark….

[I]t will be helpful to learn that the colon, which is typed by striking only one key, can be employed in place of the exclamation mark in almost any given sentence where the emotion one wishes to express is of an amatory nature.

Take the sentence “You are wonderful!” That’s trite, and it’s made triter by the exclamation point, but if one writes it thus: “You are: wonderful,” it’s certainly not trite and it has a richness that the other hadn’t or hasn’t — “hadn’t” is better, I guess. Nothing so closely resembles the catch in the voice of the lover as that very colon. Instead of shouting the word “wonderful,” as the exclamation point does, it forces a choking pause before that word, thus giving an effect of tense, nervous endearment, which is certainly what the writer is after. Of course whether he should be after that effect, no matter how the sentence is punctuated, is a separate problem.

James Thurber, Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Guide to Modern English

“XXXO” by M.I.A, Oli Chang Remix “You want me...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:26:33 -0400

“XXXO” by M.I.A, Oli Chang Remix

“You want me be somebody who I’m really not”

Tender Co. researches and builds their clothes to tell stories....

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:10:21 -0400

Elephant Scooter

Mr Fox

Tender Co. researches and builds their clothes to tell stories. That’s why $110 is a totally reasonable price for a t-shirt, right?

“you got designer shades, just to hide your...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:34:00 -0400

“you got designer shades, just to hide your face…” - Mike Posner, from “Cooler Than Me”

Wrap around hand glasses designed by Linda Farrow and Jeremy Scott.

Moss balls. Mosser is in the business of selling moss balls, in...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:21:35 -0400

Moss balls. Mosser is in the business of selling moss balls, in desk-size terrariums. Could I grow moss myself? Probably. But if I did, it wouldn’t be in a little glass desk terrarium. It also wouldn’t come with a matching water-spritzer (something every terrarium evidently needs). Luckily, Mosser provides all that with their “simple round moss ball” and while “Types of moss may vary depending on availability … [they] only provide the most aesthetically pleasing varieties…”

IIIITTT’SS FINALZZ WEEEEK!!!! So finals week has started,...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:27 -0400

IIIITTT’SS FINALZZ WEEEEK!!!!

So finals week has started, and I’ve started to consider the advantages and disadvantages of buying 100G of pure caffeine. That’s 100,000 shots of espresso.

Who needs sleep anyways?

Let’s be honest, it’s the plot, premise, and idea of...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:38:02 -0500

Let’s be honest, it’s the plot, premise, and idea of redemption that carries Another Earth. Its characters are a bit unbelievable, which becomes apparent the couple times the movie slows down. That being said, Another Earth is a wonderful film and the image of the second Earth in the sky never becomes boring. I think I’ll definitely re-watch this movie as never before has a film screamed at me, “Look at your life choices!”

© Yuri Leonov

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:49:17 -0500