Speaks for itself …

One of my favorite parts of my gig is having to go out treasure hunting for various projects and photo shoots. While in the fox holes and hot boxes that are junk stores and antique shops, I’ll snap shots with the Mobilization Station. I don’t always post them to the Mobile BS Report, but it just so happened that this is one of my all time favorite photos I’ve ever taken. It’s a toss up with this one…

Forgot to check the year on this Hamilton MFG’Co. type drawer is from, but it caught my eye from three aisles away. As soon as I was toe-to-toe with this beast, I was staring straight down all the drawer handles. The in-your-face nameplate handles and how they look infinite, the weathered wood and drawer labels were all it took to capture this moment forever. And there you go.

Here’s to junkin and type.

A few Irish lads making some purty damn good tunes. Two Door Cinema Club.

Who wouldn’t want an ant colony in their scanner?

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This infographic trailer for Waiting for Superman blew me away this morning.

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Here we are, 17 days away from the 2010 World Cup … and it couldn’t get here soon enough. I’m sure by now, you’ve seen this Nike commercial on the tube or online. Did you know it was an 18-month long project and involved director González Iñárritu? Neither did I, until I browsed the W+K section of the interwebs.

Make sure you’re fully ready for the World Cup with this free iPhone app by ESPN and this amazing World Cup calendar.

On Friday, Element’s Trio video launched with it’s first part from Chad Tim Tim. What was planned to be a part for the now defunct Sole video, the footage and project were briefly shelved while a new plan and project were developed. Which evolved into Trio, three video parts, from three of Element’s best, released once a week over three weeks.

From the inception, this project saw many twists. From the original intent of the video project, to the theme, name and riders involved. There were meetings, there were talks, there were changes. And in when the whole thing was a sitting duck, Ricki “The Dude” Bedenbaugh, who was never going to give up on the project came through with the intro you see here.

It was all over after that. The project was renamed and revamped. And now here we are, 2 parts away from an amazing video.

Got to tip my hat to everyone involved.

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Seriously? Who leaves their credit cards in a bowl on their coffee table?

US vs. England on my birthday … can’t wait. I love the World Cup.

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Dammit Nike, you did it again. Another amazing commercial.

Thanks to Ryan for the tip.

*Update — 02.18.10

Filmer extraordinaire and all time date keeper (you would not believe how this guy can recall dates of events),  Ricki “The Dude” brought to my attention something which I had completely over looked when I posted this.

A few years ago, DVS had a series of commercials that are very similar this Nike spot. The series was called Echo.

Just saw this commercial for the first time tonight, while watching the Cavs take on some team from Orlando.
Amazing.

Your favorite Arts and Literature magazine, Annalemma, just posted a new feature today. Just happens that Chris fellow over there, happened to run a photo of mine to pair with the story written by Ben Tanzer, “Goddess”.

See the full photo over at Annalemma or after the jump.

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The photo was taken at a diner named Norma’s.

Without a doubt, Evan Hecox is my favorite artist. Which, coming from a guy that couldn’t give you a favorite movie, actor, album, or band, I’d say that’s a pretty stout remark.

Love his style, the subjects, the attention to detail, the colors, everything. I was hooked the very first time I saw his art work and designs for Chocolate. I have the books and some prints. Between my sister and him as inspiration, they were two of main reasons that I got back into print making.

This video created for the recent Arkitip, Incase Curated is complete inspiration for me and the product ain’t too shabby either. So, hats off to all those involved in this project, it is top notch and made my day. Cheers.

Akritip – Curated
Arkitip – Hecox Prints
Incase – Curated
Incase – Hecox Product
Evan Hecox

There isn’t a single thing I don’t like about this spot. The style, the story, it’s all amazing. Created by Marc Craste for RKCR/Y&R.

Think NBC will create anything this good to promote here in the US? No? Me either.

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LEGOs will forever be on my favorites list. Especially if they keep making amazing short films and commercials.

Well done, indeed.

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What is this, two post this year for Chase? He’s probably gonna get some sort of an ego from this, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t take great photos.

Every year Chase pulls together his favorite photos from the year, makes some sort of video and puts them up on the web. This year he took it an extra step, printed out his favorite forty at Mama Sauce Print Shoppe. Signed um and gave um out at gifts. It looks as if he might have forget to print, probably the best of the eighty tho.

Chase Heavener 2009 Year in Pictures.
Chase Heavener 2008 Year in Pictures.

My dad was able to convince mom to let us go away on a little camping trip. Just the two of us, men doing manly shit. We headed to the Northwest corner of the state to Cloudland Canyon State Park.

We hiked into the canyon down to the waterfalls. Which included the 600 stairs down and back up. An amazing part of the country. Neither of us could believe that this place was in Georgia.

Our campsite was about a 1/4 mile walk from the parking. We hauled in all of our supplies for the night and morning. Ate lunch, then headed in. I can’t be positive, but I’m pretty sure this is where they filmed the Disney movie “Bambi.”

After the hike out and back to the site, it was wood cutting and chopping time. Prepping the fire then some hot dawgs, beers and rum. The night was cold. Close to 32˚. Woke up close to 7:15 and broke down the site and made a mountain man breakfast on the Coleman stove.

Men being mountain men.

More photos on my Flickr page.

And from the “Wished I Thought of That” department…

You know you’ve taken something from the curb too, imagine if you were followed and interviewed about one of your curb-treasures.

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This is how I’m giving out my x-mas presents this year.

This is why I love the interwebs … get to work, with your morning cup of coffee, make some rounds and then, bam! You hit a road block of great work.

Whilst casually carousing the internet storefronts, I passed the windows of FFFFound! where I saw the top illustrations of Rich Gemmell, that lead me to Booooooom’s post on the UK based illustrator. Great style, textures, colors and themes.

This is the best X-mas commercial in at least 5 years.

Sometimes my friends make things and sometimes these things end up all over the place. This is one of those things that’s all over the place.

Brilliant. Pure brilliance … all of it. The story, the art—the man was on fucking acid and threw a no-no. Dock Ellis is my new, favorite pitcher.

The count-by-count story was originally recorded for the NPR show Weekend America. More info here.

Presented by: No Mas
Art by: James Blagden

I will laugh at pretty much any fart joke.

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Abigail Uhteg’s The Complex of All of These is: two months, 3,000-ish photos, intaglio and letterpress, handmade flax and abaca paper, german bradel binding and handsewn endbands, set to Ratatat. Wow, is really all I can say about it.

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A short while ago, I chased a link on Coudal to a Life database of images on Google from Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan — Asia’s first World Exhibition.

Not being one to shy away from an internet adventure, I casually clicked on the other images surrounding and wholly shit, was I in for it. Done-deal, I was in deep. And that’s when I was sucker-punched with the image of the stump sculpture. That one that sent me off, having to find out more.

The Stumps are from the British Columbia’s Pavilion. The overall theme of the 1970 Expo was Progress and Harmony for Mankind. The theme of the B.C. Pavilion was described as “The Vastness of Our Country, The Diversity of Our People and the Dynamics of Change involve us constantly in Discovery” and had 25,035,000 visitors during the exposition. Source: Canadian Heritage site.

Designed by legendary architect, Arthur Erickson and shot by Larry Burrows,  it was awarded Best Pavilion by the Architectural Institute of Japan. The fact that this was the winning exhibit, I would have imagined there to be more information about the design readily available. There’s barely a mention of it on the architect’s site. Never-mind the complete lack of imagery. This photo of people on the stumps and this image from The Rotarian are the only other images that I was able to find. At the 54 second mark of this video, there is a grainy 8mm shot of the towering stack of stumps. From that pulled back angle, it looks as though they could reach more than 200 feet.

Although I wished I found more details about The Stumps, while searching I came across plenty of extra, amazing imagery and information …

It appears as though, initially the Expo was going to be called JEXPO’70. Various logo explorations.

Canada’s stamp collection. Which  you can pick up for $6.

The US’s Air-Supported Cable Roof.

Expo ‘70 Ticket.

Switzerland’s Aluminum Tree.

Miscellaneous Ephemera.

West Germany’s Pavilion.

Exhibition map.

Seven more photos.

Spread from the 1970 Design Journal with Expo ‘70 feature.

Britain Expo ‘70 Brochure Cover. On Flickr.

I quickly became fascinated with this entire Expo. Not that hard to do after seeing all the imagery from it.

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More about Expo ‘70:
Life – July 17th, 1970.
Life photos by Larry Burrows and Carl Mydans.
The US Pavilion.
Arthur Erikson’s Design Philosophy.
16mm Black & White Minolta Photos: 1, 2, 3.
Expose Museum.
Soviet Pavilion: 1, 2.
Expo ‘70 Flickr tags.
Expo ‘70 Book on So Much Pile Up.
Expo ‘70 Passport.
Expo ‘70 Britain Brochure: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
British Pavilion.
1966 Print Magazine with Jexpo ‘70 Feature.
Google Translate. You’ll need it.

mindthegap, November 20th, 2009 – February 20th, 2010.
Prism: 8746 W. Sunset Boulevard – West Hollywood, CA 90069

“mindthegap, the inaugural exhibition of Prism, highlights the works of Philip Frost and Barry McGee, two artists whose diverse output includes graffiti, film, sculpture, painting and large-scale interactive installations … ”

More info.

I got animal love, you better believe it. I also got love for friends … put those two together and you get the opening night of Animal Instincts.

This group show was to benefit the Humane Society. It also featured one of Amber B.’s lovely new characters and plenty of other great art. There are some more pics up on my Flickr page.

More about the show and a description of Amber’s Cellula here.

Lori just posted some more photos and words at the Eden Blog.

Follow the cup and ball, easy enough, right? Faaaaaaaace melter.

Well played by the folks at weareom. Be sure to watch the making of.

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Photos from the project.

Anthony Pappalardo in Circle Board in New York City. Film by: William Strobeck

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Hell yeah I like seeing how stuff gets made … who doesn’t? I’ve always been a huge fan of seeing the process it takes to create, well, anything really. Which is probably the reason that I can sit and stare at How It’s Made for hours on end. The only difference between that show and these videos here are the production and direction that goes into them.

I recently came across the Passion for the Details video by Bespoken Clothiers while scrolling through the pages of Esquire. Which after seeing reminded me of this amazing commercial that pals Craig Metzger and Kirk Dianda created awhile back. I know both of those guys have extreme attention to details and both are amazing to work along side of.

Both are executed exceptionally well and romanticized the detailed process that goes into making a product.

A great short film by the Eames’ for one of my, as well as most, all time favorites the Polaroid SX70.

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Here and there you’ll see something in it’s test stage, preliminary stage, or just before mainstream gets a hold of a concept and it blows your mind. Think of the yellow line on the football field on televised games.

Well, that’s what LAIKA is, a mind blower. Now, the common application of this might be far off, if at all but, it’s still damn cool. Investigating the potential of dynamic fonts, this is the bachelor thesis of Michael Flückiger and Nicholas Kunz Hochschule.

“We devised a system in which a typeface would not be defined static font styles anymore but would be able to change it‘s shape and appearance at any moment reacting to a broad spectrum of inputs.”

More about the project at Laika Font.
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Virgin White, the art/furniture show of Anthony Pappalardo’s amazing stools and tables is at Future Project in Brooklyn. I’ve been  a huge fan of these handcrafted four-legged resting structures since the first time I saw one. They’re meticulously made from small blocks and would love to have one of these in my apartment.

It’s nice to see a pro skateboarder peruse their other ambitions and hobbies and make something amazing and desirable. I’ve also been a long time fan of his.

If you haven’t already seen it, make sure to watch his Epicly Later’d mini series.

More of his video parts.

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Well, here we are, twelve days away from the tip of the greatest sport on Earth and possibly even the Universe. This year is gonna be a good one, nevermind the fake refs.

This regular season might be one of the best in the past ten years. Major moves by all the top contenders. Everyone jocking for the greatest free agency market in the Association’s history. LeBron and Shaq. Kobe and Crazy. KG and Sheed. Orlando and well, you got VC, sorry.

Aside from the very little talked about and little aired Free Darko-Adidas commercials, this is one of the only other NBA spots for the Three Stripes that I’ve enjoyed.

What’s the Swoosh up to?

The 27th can’t get here soon enough.

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