Consistently Infrequent.
L’Italia
Ah, the first Open Road post of the season. That’s right folks, it’s Italy for 10 days to travel by plane, train, boat, and automobile. Many a foto will be snapped, and notes will be documented. I am very excited for this trip—2nd time hopping the puddle. See you in June with a full report.
Until June—Bobby
Earth
When Discovery’s Planet Earth was on, I was absolutely memorized. I would record them in HD, watch and rewatch them all the time. That said, I am very excited to see that Disneynature is set to release Earth—narrated by Darth Vader (US version.) It is from the same people behind Planet Earth and there is some footage from that series that makes it into this feature (and I’m okay with that.) I’m just hoping that it will be showing on an Imax theater. Be sure to dig around on the Disneynature site and watch some of the behind the scene’s footage.
Rauschenberg
My good friend Charles first turned me onto Robert Rauschenberg and it wasn’t all that long ago I was up in LA looking at his work in person for the first time. I can definitely say that I was hooked the first time I saw his work and I very frequently find myself thumbing through the book I keep nestled on my book shelf. Here is a write up on NY Times honoring the artist.
Cigarette Cards
Don’t you wish that smokes still came with these amazing caricature cards?
Field Guides
A very nice little stack of New York subway maps. {via}
Horses, Brews, and Caps.
It’s Derby Saturday. And instead of spending all morning reviewing records, reading expert picks, drinking Mint Juleps, and placing some big time bets via simulcast gambling with Red’s roommate—I’ll be heading into the office to fine tune the catalog. I’m not mad at it but, I hope I can get in and out before the ponies hit the track. Everyone knows I break late.
“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.” Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.” – Jack Handy
A great collection of throw back beer adverts. Just a head’s up though, I couldn’t get it to go past the first page. Here are some of the one’s that I enjoyed or chuckled at. The beer that Red and other Reds drink. Three Little Beers. The beer for Billy’s. Burger beer, it just sounds yummy. Colt 45 ‘bottoms up’. The beer they’ll be drinking it Kentucky today. Nationally preferred. Just a great ad. The Real Gusto. Drinking and driving. Goebel. Guinness is good for you. It’s OK. Alaskan ice cream.
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A very nice collection of bottle caps. {via}
Sweet As A Peach
While doing some more research on peach-crate labels, I came across this wonderful crop. Good stuff.
Presidential Faces
How important is a presidential candidate’s choice of campaign font? Could the choice be important enough that it could make or break the campaign? Since we are down to three choices for the next inhabitant of an office with no corners, here are a few links to articles about a candidate and their font—Mr. Obama, J. McCain, & Mrs. Bill Clinton.
That’s about as political as I’ll get around here and since it’s technically about design, the previous post is as political as it will get around here.
Likes to Party All the Time…
As I was searching for some information on another post I’m typing up, I came across this photo opt. And the very first thing that came to mind was this song…
Horsefeathers.
After watching the Earth trailer, I got all adventurous about adventurers and I flickr’d across this set of portraits.