visual design

‘And after that she wove a garland for her hair. She pleated it. She plaited it. Of meadowgrass and riverflags, the bulrush and waterweed, and of fallen griefs of weeping willow.’ –James Joyce

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Two coaches, two different approaches

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Project Koko began in July 1972

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{ Full story | pics }

related { Who else wants a live monkey? }

And he shot out every street light on the promenade

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{ Rambo Coloring & Activity Book }

How many times I’ve left this town to hide from your memory, and it haunts me

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{ stereohell }

Wrapping paper in the gutter, moving slowly as the wind on the sea

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What does gift-wrapping do for the recipient? Is all this effort worth it for the recipient? For example, do recipients actually like gift-wrapped presents more than unwrapped gifts?

According to a study that was published 15 years ago by Daniel Howard, professor of marketing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, it appears so.

{ GrrlScientist/ScienceBlogs | Continue reading }

box { House Industries }

I got shoes untied, shirt tail’s out, ain’t got a ghost of a chance with this old romance

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{ Lola Dupré | more }

Many birds are named after their calls, such as the Bobwhite quail, the Weero, the cuckoo, the chiffchaff and the whip-poor-will

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And if you have five seconds to spare then I’ll tell you the story of my life

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{ Playboy Bunny Manual | Continue reading }

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{ Ex Playboy Bunnies | via Metafilter | more }

What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed

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Tonight I walked into the Fedex Kinkos store on Calhoun Street here in Charleston, SC to print our Christmas cards, only to have the clerk, Tammy Johnson, reject my order as obscene.

We Cringelys are known for our Christmas cards, I admit, because we make them ourselves and we’re naked.

The tradition began by accident and now our cards are so popular friends remind us to send them.  Making naked Christmas cards that are tasteful isn’t easy, either, but we do it.

{ Robert Cringely | Continue reading }

Uniformed Policeman: [describing the Batmobile] He is in a vehicle!

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{ via WFMU Ichiban }

Our house, in the middle of our street

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{ Don Shank, The Fredricksen House | more }

No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.

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{ George Loannaidis | Double Pendulum Experiment }

‘Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.’ —Fred Allen

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{ Mont-Sat, Poland. Your Regional Service Antenna. Sales, service and installation of antennas TV-SAT (houses, hotels, guest houses). | Mont-Sat }

Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that I said?

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photo { Elinor Carucci }

related:

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Make a miracle, D, pump the lyrical

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My to do list today is turn the party out, no I’m not Herman Munster or Dr. Spock

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{ When you can’t compete with your neighbour’s Christmas lights, just do the next best thing. }

previously:

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Regain your mustachoid glory and make heads turn once more

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The party started, let’s get retarded, now work him blue jeans

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two

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{ Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936 | Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, cup. | The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection | MoMA, until January 4, 2010 }