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A Beautiful Rendition

Flatiron

Photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a minimum of ten hours taking hundreds of shots to create each one of his Day to Night. Weaving and blending thirty to fifty parts, the photo-collagist extraordinaire created seamless, surrealist scenes of New York City life.
- via Flavorwire.com

flowers

not a chrome bean

This reminds me that I need to stand next to/underneath the newest giant piece of art in Chicago that is not a chrome bean. This is just awesome anyway - from Korean sculptor Park Chan-Girl. - more here

- In July

...they Road Along the Dark Highway

With the mighty return of the band Kyuss touring again, one day a month or so ago I was looking up videos on youtube of new and old Kyuss live clips. I found a clip of a this small 2 piece band opening for Nick Oliveri on a solo tour he was doing - the video was a internet only behind the scenes clip. The band opening for him was Le Chat Noir based in Devon England, a retro rock garage band made up from a boy on guitar - Teddy Hesper and a girl from Los Angeles on drums - Eileen Spruce. They have 2 full albums out on iTunes and 2 older albums when they first started out. Their sound is amazing, blues rocking guitar with aggressive edgy twangy accents. With their setup, its very hard to not see a White Stripes similarity - and it is there with the sound and the tone and lyrics but with liberal amount of desert/stoner rock. Its very easy to see a Kyuss, Fu Manchu, and early Queens of the Stone Age element. Despite being born in London and having a pleasantly polite English accent, Teddy Hesper sings the great stories of each song in a rough, beer drinking "Tennessean-esk" droll. The songs are that of bitter romance, violent pulp fiction noire, speakeasys and the traveling between them. Eileen Spruce is not just a drummer just better than Meg White, or Samantha Maloney (of Motly Crue/Peaches/Eagles of Death Metal fame), or just a good drummer for a girl - she is an amazing drummer full stop. Period. Case Closed. They have been together since the middle of the last decade, touring mostly England, Belgium, and surrounding countries and when I asked Teddy Hesper about when they would be coming to the New York City area and if they needed a street team he replied

"Hopefully one day we'll try to organise a US tour - it's just such a big logistical task, not to mention a financial nightmare for a poverty-stricken band!"

He did go on to say that when they do find themselves over here we'd all go out a grab a couple of beers.

Le Chat Noir - Check them out

Alt. Trans.

Better than Most

Ball-Point Portraits

"Extraordinary ballpoint pen portraits by Italian artist Juan Francisco Casas, who recreates his subjects in meticulous detail from photos he takes when they least expect it."
Via Lost at E minor

Top Gear - I Love You

Here Cpt. Slow James May talks about tonight's episode of Top Gear where they started off with the newly improved 70's Jensen Interceptor, then eventually turn into a 1970s cop drama. Awesome - the Lotus F1 car available for purchase didn't hurt either
Top Gear

O.K. - This. Is. Awesome. - !

This soccer ball has a battery that charges as the ball is shaken / played with.
Then the child has a source of free electricity! Very similar to some of the vehicles made at the Red Bull Creation a week ago. Seen here

Uh...(2-syllable "Damn")

Adam Savage - Bay Area Maker Fair via PBS

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Funny

a thought...

In college people always pick either Philosophy or Psychology.

Hardly anyone ever takes both.

Yet I would say Psychology is ONLY useful if there is a problem, if all is well in the world then Psychology isn't needed.

Philosophy can be used in the Good times and the Bad times.

Psychology can only be used in a Microcosm view, while Philosophy can be used in Micro and Macro -Cosm views.

People majoring in Psychology in college outweigh the number of people majoring in Philosophy.

While Philosophy has more house-hold names than Psychology by nearly 6-1.

Then again the number of wealthy Psychotherapist outnumber their Philosophical counterpart.

2011 Aston MArtin V12 Zagato

This car is amazing - the Vantage looked alright, I am a much bigger fan of the DB9 and Vanquish. The Vantage just looked like a squashed version of the two. Then on top of that I never much liked the Zagato models, the DB4, DB7, Ferrari 575 - they always looked like a weird bloated version of the norm, when the originals had curves and chiseled cuts. This is a huge difference in their performance. This is the best looking Zagato, and they totally cut the original fat off the car. [Insert a Jeremy Clarkson "WOW" Here] Around the front end is just minutely filled out on the grill and front sill, then the huge simple and gorgeous cut of the vent on the side. The best part is the rear end, the line from the top of the windscreen to the tiny lip of the trunk lid. The Out-There but fitting triangular taillights sockets with the round taillight are Awesome! Then the side windows leading to the Amazing rear wings - Beautiful -

Ladies on Asphalt

Carving the Mountains from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

Hey look, a video of my future girlfriend!
...although I'm not sure of which one...

iPhone 5 Rumor Mill...

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