more info about this unbelievable device here (via adrian shaughnessy)
me news
good hope
this popular ‘hoax’ was wrongly attributed to a hacker, who had reportedly managed to modify the data in google ‘street view’
in fact it is a ‘user upload’ to the ‘panorama view’ photo layer in google earth: a funny little UFO flying over ‘cape of good hope’ south africa… i tried to find it on google but it appears to have been removed… the coordinates are as follows 34°21’12.33″ S, 18°29’24.02″ E
ok.. it’s summer time i know, it’s a bit quiet online and there aren’t many good stories around this week :)
sexual paraphenalia
could this guy maybe have a bit too much spare time? who knows, it probably really does help improve his typography skills though, drawing a swear word a day
handmade type workshop
…numerous books have been published this year that act as lookbooks or compendiums of handmade type, but Charlotte Rivers’s Handmade Type workshop goes one better, offering for examination and inspiration the work of some 40 designers and illustrators, but crucially also offering ‘tutorials’ from these creatives which show, step by step, how they create their typography. And the range is mind-bogglingly inventive and original; from the tiny paper scraps used by Amy Borrell and the beans used by Vladimir Koncar to the string and pins utilised by Me Studio and the embrodiery stitching of Smart Emma…
mm… ok, sounds promising: a new typography book from thames & hudson compiled by london-based design journalist ‘charlotte rivers’, which features work and detailed tutorials from talented designers such as ‘hansje van halem’ (oh and they asked other ones, like me, too) due for release this summer…
…and hardly anyone here
…photography is great at representing the hardware of the war machine,” he told his good friend and writer Stephen Mayes, a month before he died. “But the truth is that the war machine is the software, as much as the hardware. The software runs it, and the software is young men. I’m not so young anymore. But I get it. That’s really what my work is about…
the very last twelve, poignant pictures shot by british war photographer ‘tim hetherington’ just before he was killed whilst working in libya last april, have been published by newsweek this week…
