This week’s HOUR has the United Steel Workers of Montréal on the cover. They also got a full story in the Voir (french) here. Congrats to all of them, Linda, Rachel and everyone at UHW. Great way to gear up for their album launch at Club Soda next weekend.. “United Steel Workers Of Montreal w/ […]
Entries from January 2009
USWM coverage and new album
January 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: montreal + canada + the world · tivo + movies + music
Time lapse
January 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This time lapse “play” is so well done — it’s shocking to think how long it took. The ride/out the window part is excellent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY
Tags: design + art + typography · hacks + do it yourself · tech + the internet · thinking + zen
Supervisions by Andreas Gefeller
January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Stunning artwork by Andreas Gefeller. “In the series Supervisions, Gefeller employs a technically elaborate method to scan the surfaces of urban sites.” Works since 2005 | Works from 2002 – 2004 His other two series are also worth a look; http://www.andreasgefeller.com/soma/works and http://www.andreasgefeller.com/halbwertszeiten/works
Tags: design + art + typography
Bookmarks for January 21st through January 28th
January 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bookmarks for January 21st through January 28th
These are my links for January 21st through January 28th:
- The MacTipper Blog: Enable CD/DVD Sharing On All Your Macs
“Excellent tip” - Op-Ed Contributor – Back on Walton’s Mountain – NYTimes.com
“Thoughtful Op-Ed from Douglas Coupland” - WRITING ON WATER: THE ECSTASY OF SURFING | More Intelligent Life
“Surfing piece from the Economist's offshoot quarterly lifestyle mag (… with Paris on the cover – bleh)” - EverSave 1.0.1
“Auto-magically save all docs between app switches or at intervals” - Japanese Road Trip in Transforming Toyota Truck
“Wow” - Hex Color Picker
“Lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel.” - favicon.ico Generator
“I had to make a stevey.com favicon — this is the place to butch that nice PNG to and ICO” - Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns
“worthy of review” - Toxel.com » Transparent Gadgets and Creative Designs
“Some cool stuff” - NFB.ca
“The NFB reaches a new plateau finally — "Welcome to the NFB's new online Screening Room. Here you can watch full-length films, clips and trailers – all free for home viewing."” - Layers | Screen forensics
“Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image”
Tags: links + bookmarks
The Surfer’s Journal
January 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
A great buddy got me a gift subscription to The Surfer’s Journal. First issue arrived yesterday and it’s the Winter ’08 one seen above (which I as holding off buying). So stoked. It’s a beautiful magazine — easily the best Surf publication out there. http://www.surfersjournal.com
Tags: design + art + typography · surf + skate + snow
God Went Surfing with the Devil
January 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on God Went Surfing with the Devil
God Went Surfing with the Devil is a very interesting looking documentary. Seems to have some beautiful photos and shots… (We worked with a film company quite a while back on a doc called “Encounter Point” with an Org called Just Vision) “In 2007 it emerged that a small group of young men were surfing […]
Tags: montreal + canada + the world · surf + skate + snow · tivo + movies + music
Jay in the cloud
January 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Jay in the cloud
Jay in the cloud Another cold day riding Jay Peak on Saturday. Once you were in the trees — it was fine – but hiking out on the wind exposed runs was brutal. Found some good pow lines but nothing spectacular. Sunday we went to a closed down private ski hill and had some of […]
Tags: surf + skate + snow
Watching Rick shape a beautiful object
January 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
IMGP7382.jpg Been loving watch Rick Malwitz shape this wooden fish (Hollow Wood 6’2 Quad). He’s been posting photos of each step and it’s looking pretty damn sweet. Follow along at.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodfrank/sets/72157605848243625/
Tags: surf + skate + snow
50 years of Space Exploration
January 21st, 2009 · 34 Comments
The space nerd in me can’t stop looking at this. Stunning / beautifully drawn info-graphic of the past 50 years of space exploration. View large | View HUGE on flickr
Tags: design + art + typography · tech + the internet · thinking + zen
Paintings by Josh Keyes
January 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Paintings by Josh Keyes
Loving Josh Keyes arcylic paintings; Especially going back and seeing his progression of this idea over the past 6 years. http://www.joshkeyes.net/paintings.htm
Tags: design + art + typography
Masstransiscope
January 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Beautiful idea.. now that I’m back to being a subway rider this is appealing and something I can imagine working wonderfully on Montréal’s metro. “Bill Brand’s 1980 public artwork restored in 2008 can be seen on the Q and B trains from DeKalb Ave. in Brooklyn going into Manhattan toward Canal or Grand St. Look […]
Tags: design + art + typography
Bookmarks for December 29th through January 18th
January 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Bookmarks for December 29th through January 18th
Some links for December 29th through January 18th… Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator“NIce old timey effect.” Georgia On My Mind“"Mathew Carter’s graceful serif typeface Georgia is re-discovered by Web Designers. Featured here are 32 web sites that rely heavily on Georgia to display their content."” BLACK CAB SESSIONS“One song. One take. One cab.” Maoz Vegetarian – Union […]
Tags: links + bookmarks
European surfers rejoice
January 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on European surfers rejoice
There’s about to be many stoked European surfers over the weekend. The grays and blacks above are swell over 40 feet. Looks like the coast of Ireland/UK goes off the charts Sunday afternoon. http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW-Surf-Charts/1/
Tags: surf + skate + snow
Perfection of Canada’s East Coast
January 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Perfection of Canada’s East Coast a couple days ago. How cold do you think that water is? Hint – it’s probably almost slushy (37 F). http://magicseaweed.com/photoLab/user/31569/
Tags: surf + skate + snow
Linda and Stevey
January 11th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Linda and Stevey Some fun crazy news.. Linda and I are going to be parents. Linda is 12 weeks in and we went in Saturday to hear the heart beat which was amazing … We’re sooo excited !! Linda is due next July (towards the end) – she’s been doing great – bit of morning […]
Tags: family + friends