Genesis finally makes sense
Writer/performer/artist Merrill Markoe visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky last year and absorbed all the “proof” there that the world was created just 6,000 years ago and that dinosaurs walked among humans. As if through divine intervention, it suddenly, recently dawned on Markoe how to help the museum make their case. So she created this [...]
Read More »“I have never drawn PEANUTS for children.”
David Desmond shared with Letters of Note this well thought out letter he received in 1977 from PEANUTS author Charles Schulz. His point about the dialogue being beyond “a small child’s scope of understanding” is interesting. I’d like to do a little experiment where people of different ages from children to the old explain what [...]
Read More »RIP Leo Cullum, New Yorker cartoonist
Leo Cullum, a New Yorker cartoonist for 33 years (and a TWA pilot for 30 years) passed away on October 23. He was 68. You may not immediately recognize his name, but most SunFiltered readers I’m sure have chuckled at more than a few of his 819 cartoons published in the magazine. By the 1980s [...]
Read More »Recycled t-shirts: a new green fashion trend?
When I wrote about t-shirt refurbisher Stay Vocal in September, I said this was the only company I knew of recycling t-shirts in this particular manner. Turns out the idea is out there… though still relatively under the radar. British green social media site Green Thing is now in the recycled t-shirt business: it’s SAVED initiative takes donated used shirts, adds some embroidery and other fun items, and then sells them.
Read More »David Chipperfield at the World Architecture Festival
The third annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) starts today in Barcelona, where a five-person jury has whittled more than 500 entries down to 236. These range in scale from very large, like South Africa’s Soccer City, to much smaller structures, like the Costa Rican Bamboo House. The jury itself is kind of a big deal, with starchitect Arata Isozaki, MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll and structural engineer Hanif Kara at the helm. But as this is a forum for world architecture, there are lots of big names in each of the 15 categories.
Read More »Little Monsters
Lady Gaga just Tweeted this slideshow she put together of many a monster who dressed in her likeness for Halloween. It’s pretty cool to watch see the diversity of her fans: age, shape, sex, sexuality, race. They’re like a rainbow coalition of freak flag flyers! Another remarkable thing after watching it is just how many [...]
Read More »Flow chart: What hat should I wear?
This wonderfully illustrated flow chart by artist and Twitter-friend @K_Essenpreis will help you decide what hat to wear this Fall. Click here to see larger size.
Read More »Done in 60 seconds
Mark Wong and Chris Slaughter won Empire Magazine’s 2010 “Done in 60 Seconds” short film competition with their terrific reenactment of TOP GUN in 60 seconds. In such a short amount of time, it does an excellent job of capturing all the main scenes from that movie. Makes me wonder whether it’s necessary for it [...]
Read More »Robyn’s Indestructible
Robyn, the Swedish pop star I obsess over, is set to release her third and final album of 2010, Body Talk Volume 3, in November. To gear up for the release and yet another American tour she’s just released the video for lead-off single “Indestructible.” It’s a sexy affair featuring couples making out while she [...]
Read More »Chinese urban professionals going back to the land
A young couple decides that the urban corporate rat race is no longer their scene, and chooses to buy a piece of land in the country to start their own organic farm.
Heard this story before? Probably… with the young couple in question coming from LA, Chicago, or New York. Turns out this lifestyle choice is no longer uniquely American, though: Chongming Island, China is turning into a destination for disaffected Chinese yuppies looking to get back to the land.
Read More »The A-List does a spelling bee
Way back in my storied school days, spelling bees were awful experiences that invariably left me traumatized and speechless. It’s not that I can’t spell. I’m actually amazing at it, and when the other kids got their turns at the podium, I always knew all the words they were being asked, down to the very last syllable.
Alas, whenever it was my chance to go up and get asked a word of my own, I totally blanked. I completely freaked. And somehow it was always a word I wasn’t quite sure how to spell all of a sudden. So out of a combination of shaky nerves and rotten luck, I would lose every t-i-m-e.
Starting two years ago, the horror came back in an avalanche of misplaced vowels and wrong consonants when splashy spelling bees started being thrown at Diane von Furstenberg’s boutique, filled with literary lions battling it out for a paying audience to benefit clmp (the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses). And they asked me to join in! Here was my chance to disgrace myself all over again, in front of all sorts of big names, and I seized it with the will of an arrested child playing with the very same mental blocks.
Read More »Jenny Odell: creative cartographer
My ongoing obsession with Things Organized Neatly recently introduced me to what is likely to become another obsession: Jenny Odell‘s satellite composites. Working entirely from imagery found using Google Earth, Odell chooses a theme like boats (above), silos, parking lots (below) or swimming pools and creates meticulously arranged mazes of those objects. She’s probably working as large as she can with the resources available to her as a student, but I would love to see a wall-sized version of some of these patterns.
Read More »Naked News: Free birth control, men kissing everywhere, and Jesus’ HIV status
The new health care plan may make birth control pills free for women. Jon Hamm makes out with Jason Sudeikis on Saturday Night Live! And yes, we consider this important news. Okay, we’re kind of over the whole Betty White thing, but props to the old lady for speaking out about gay marriage. A South [...]
Read More »100 best signs at Sanity/Fear DC rally
The always reliable BuzzFeed scoured the Interwebs for the 100 best signs from this weekend’s Colbert and Stewart sponsored rally to “Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in DC.
Read More »How many people in an ad agency does it take to change a lightbulb?
I’m not sure who first originally wrote this, but it’s quite hysterical. It’s particularly funny (and so true!) to anyone who’s worked in advertising, but a lot of it applies to many industries. Without further ado: How many people in an ad agency does it take to change a lightbulb?
How many copywriters does it take to change a lightbulb?
Change? I’m not changing anything.How many art directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
Does it have to be a lightbulb?How many creative directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
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You sort it out. I’m late for my plane.
Fate of the World: climate science meets PC gaming
Frustrated by the pace of climate policy in the US and around the world? Think you could do a better job of creating change that maintains economic and political stability while addressing the threat of global warming? Red Redemption, the British game maker who created the BBC’s popular Climate Challenge, is giving you a chance to prove your ability to save the planet with its new offering Fate of the World.
Read More »An architect defends his masterpiece
The Classroom + Laboratory Administration building at Cal Poly Pomona, known to students simply as CLA, has served as something like a second mascot for the school for almost 20 years, but last month the landmark was slated for demolition due to flaws in its design and construction. Even though the building has become an icon for the city too, not just the school, no one in Pomona, not even the students, seem that upset or are as outspoken about it as the building’s architect, Antoine Predock. Predock, who calls CLA “one of the most important of [his] designs,” says that tearing it down will create an “irreplaceable loss” and “a void in the Cal Poly campus fabric.” It’s “the new campus gateway,” he says, “a pivotal, landmark building” and a point of origin on a “difficult to navigate campus.”
Read More »The world’s gender inequality
The World Economic Forum recently came out with their 5th annual Global Gender Gap Report for 2010, which, according to Time magazine (Oct 25th issues), ranks 134 countries on “a percentage-based metric that calculates how much they have closed their gender gaps in education, politics, health and economic opportunity.”
Read More »20 iconic musicians’ clothing
Can you identify all 20 iconic musicians in the latest poster from Moxy Creative? You can also get posters of each individual outfit. I also like their poster of famous eyeglass frames. [Via]
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