Archive for June, 2009

PSA of the Day: Unfortunately, this moving business is taking longer than expected (is it too much to ask of our stuff that it unpack itself and put itself away? Seriously), so we’re taking today off to get this mess sorted out.

Not to worry! We’ll be back to our old junk-mongering selves in no time. Meanwhile, why don’t you spend some time getting acquainted with Gay Talese’s legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” I know you’ve been meaning to get around to it, and since you’ve got nothing better to do, now’s as good a time as any. You’re welcome.

Be well.

Love,

TDW.

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Gary Varvel.

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Tee of the Day, Too: “IOWA: Cooler than California since 2009” by Abby Miller.

Trufax.

[buy.]

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Mashup of the Day: Artist Jeremy Eaton created a bunch of illustrated mashups featuring classic cartoon/comic strip characters for an ongoing project called “Cartoon Jumbles” which will be on display at The Secret Headquarters comic shop and gallery in LA this Friday, July 3.

More info on the show and artwork from this series can be found here.

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Paul Conrad: “SpongeBob SuperTeam”

Conrad reimagines the SpongeBob SquarePants gang as a Jack Kirby-esque super-team for Nickelodeon Magazine’s SpongeBob 10th Anniversary Celebration issue.

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Doorbell Design Concept of the Day: World-class inspirationist Dominic Wilcox imagines the doorbell of the future, which comes complete with a built-in home visitor statistics display.

One commenter at the source gets it just right: “Yes there will be blogs about how to improve your home stats through home decor improvements. And even how to hack the doorbell to bump up the numbers.”

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Buy This: Wafer-shaped iPod Shuffle case from Incipio.

This will end badly.

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Paul Fryer: “Chess Set for Telsa”

The vacuum tube pieces light up when plugged into the board.

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This x That:

• The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club.

• BBC has 13-year-old ditch iPod for Walkman to compare. Obvious observations follow.

• Gabriela Piserchia and Leandro Lobosco spend their time upcycling dead technologies. (via.)

• François Knorreck’s motorcycle sidecar is an actual, full-size car.

• 15hp motor + a shopping cart + MIT students = LOLrioKART. (via.)

• Thomas Thwaites builds a working toaster from found material.

• Marc Steinmetz photographs makeshift tools used by German prisoners to escape. (via.)

• Persepolis 2.0: Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic novel remixed with current crisis. (via.)

• Colin Christian’s Bunny Sees Boobs is the cutest, most inappropriate vinyl toy around.

• WuzOne mashes up Jeffrey with Waldo/Wally.

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