I just backed LINX over on Kickstarter. It’s is a super simple toy that will most certainly unleash your inner architect. All you need is lots of LINX and lots of drinking straws.
Real or Just a Ride?
The above video is embedded in a fantastic post on work-life balance over on Deliberatism.
(via @Aarron)
Brooklyn Beta
This Brooklyn Beta video made my day. Thank you @boltron!
Brooklyn Beta is a fantastic conference organized by my studiomates Cameron and Chris. Brooklyn Beta is my twitter stream come to live. A small group of incredibly talented, smart and *friendly* folks.
Three Primary Colors
Three Primary Colors is a collaboration between OK Go and Sesame Street explaining the basics of color theory in stop-motion. Try to watch this without smiling.
(via Brain Pickings)
Cycle-Skating
This Cycle-Skating video, a sport of 1923, made me smile.
(via the kids should see this)
5-year-old Analyzes Logos
Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd asked his 5-year-old daughter to comment on some popular logos. Made me smile.
(via Brand New)
Inside B&H conveyor system…
If you are a photo buff then you most probably know about the mothership of all photo stores, B&H, here in NYC. The most fascinating part of B&H has always been their conveyor system. Let’s say you decided to buy a new lens, you’re on the third floor, they’ll put that lens into a basket that then is being transported down to the register at the exit, silently ‘floating’ through the store.
The Lense folks secretly put a camera into one of the baskets to see how it works from the inside. Again, this might be only fascinating if you have actually been to B&H.
(via Coudal)
London Cafeterias 50s – 60s
Before chains like Starbucks took over the world of cafes, young Londoners of late 50′s and early 60′s met in places like these.
(via bblinks)
The Neche Collection Video
This is a wonderful profile on Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, foce behind Winterbureau, a Chicago-based creative studio. In order to celebrate her grandfather’s collection of ‘things’ she started The Neche Collection. You might have recognized that orange calculator in the beginning, we turned it into a Tattly!
Yummyfun Kooking
My daughter is completely obsessed with Yummyfun Kooking, a seriously adorable, quirky cooking show made for kids. (I love watching the show myself.) Ella loves the show so much, she asked me to sign her up for actual cooking classes. And I admit, that makes me happy.
So, here’s a brand new episode that Claire Crespo, the chef in the show and mastermind behind it all, *just* launched:
Ah, so apparently I can’t embed it, but you can watch it here.
Check out Claire’s website at yummyfun.com (warning: Flash Site) or buy her DVDs over on Amazon.
And here’s the Series Trailer:
Why I started CreativeMornings…
A few weeks ago I traveled to Atlanta to hear Ben Chestnut’s CreativeMornings talk. Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Magazine interviewed me briefly, asking me a few questions on why I started CreativeMornings. And just now, he sent over the link to the above video.
Wow!
So excited and thankful for Ron to put this together. CreativeMornings is entirely built on such generous gestures. We have now 22 chapters, run by close to a 100 volunteers and backed by numerous sponsors. A humbling and inspiring network of global creative types that believe that we are all contributing to something valuable – human connections.
Thank you Ron.
Improv Everywhere Documentary
Would you go and see a documentary about Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere, the king of NYC flash mobs, such as Invisible Dogs, No Paints Subway Ride and Black Tie Beach just to mention a few. I would! And we can, if we help them reach their Kickstarter fundraising goal. They are currently at a $115,253 of a $125,00 goal. And there are only 25hours to go.
I just backed the project. Will you?
Sh*t New Yorkers Say
(via Kottke)
CreativeMornings Video: Jamer Hunt
2011/09 Jamer Hunt from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
Our September CreativeMornings/NewYork speaker was Jamer Hunt. He has dedicated his career to pursuing design as a means for reinvigorating the public realm. Currently the Director of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons the New School for Design, he focuses this CreativeMornings talk on the subject of scale. From insects to typography and even bicycle transport, Jamer explores how changes in scale influence the way we approach problems.
A big thank you to Sy J Abudu for producing the video!
Vernacular Typography
For the past 10 years, Molly Moodward has been photographing environmental typography and organized her images by place and category on VernacularTypography.com. As of now, the website has over 5,000 images of urban typography from 10 different countries, including Argentina, The Bahamas, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the US.
Molly just started a Vernacular Typography Kickstarter Campaign to help build up her digital archive. It’s a beautiful projects which helps preserve, and promote the vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment.
Totally backing this campaign. Join me?
Life-Cycle
Get a bike. Lock it to a post. Take a pic every day for a year. And this is what happens:
A project by RED PEAK For Hudson Urban Bicycles.
(Thank you Tania)
PROTECT IP/SOPA Explained
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
More info over on fightforthefuture.org/pipa.
And as a reminder: The New York Tech Meetup is organizing a protest of the PROTECT IP Act (the Senate version of SOPA, the Internet censorship bill) outside of the offices of New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. That’s 12:30 PM on Wednesday, January 18th at 780 Third Avenue (at 49th St.) in NYC. Here’s more info.
Mark Your Calendars for Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionized printing and society.The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.
The movie’s world premiere is February 3rd at the SVA Theatre in New York City with Steven Heller moderating the Q&A afterwards. Tickets are on sale now over on their screenings page.
Burning Man 2011 X Dr Seuss
In case you haven’t heard of the amazing kids book Oh, the Places You’ll Go Pop-Up. It’s a fantastic book.
And I admit, I am not the Burning Man Type. But this mashup-of-the-two moved me.
(via michaelgalpert)
tubalr
Tubalr allows you to effortlessly listen to a band’s or artist’s top YouTube videos without all the clutter YouTube brings. To get started just type a band’s or artist’s name into the search box and select only or similar. Oh, and if you’re interested in saving your favorite videos, register an account.
(via unplggd)
The Future Belongs to the Curious
Congrats on the fantastic spot, Skillshare!
SuperEmbeds
Wistia just announced SuperEmbeds, an dvanced tool for video embedding. Fantastic! Found it via Ben Chestnut that gives it the thumbs up.
The Joy Of Books
After organizing their bookshelf almost a year ago, Sean Ohlenkamp & Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp decided to take it to the next level. They spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.
(If someone can tell me the couple’s names I would like to add them to the post and give them proper credit!)
This. Makes. Me. Happy!!
(thank you Alexandra)
