January 30, 2010
Nouvelle Vague is a French band that performs bossa nova covers of punk and new wave classics. They’re currently touring the U.S. Songs and tour dates at their myspace. I’m not sure who did the original song for this one. The clip, found on youtube, is a slightly edited version of a scene from the [...]
January 30, 2010
These are some new collages on book pages from flickr user xactorocker. There are a couple more, and some drawings, on his page. Oh, and he’s 7. His father is an art director and illustrator with a portfolio at trustzabo.com. Here’s some of dad’s work;
January 13, 2010
Dull Bulb & All is a clean and simple art blog heavy on large images. Very good taste, which is to say very close to my own. You tend to get around 5 or 6 pictures of work from each artist selected for a post. Above, all from Dull Bulb & All, Katharina Trudzinski’s assemblage [...]
January 9, 2010
Above, from BibliOdyssey posts: A TIME TABLE from the book Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of One Hundred and Forty-seven Maps and Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables..’ by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, 1883, from [...]
January 8, 2010
The Wikipedia article traffic statistics site lets you enter a term, select a month and year (formatted with “200902″ representing February, 2009), and view a graph of daily wikipedia page views for that subject. I made the above animation using the page view statistics from January, 2008, through January, 2010, for the Wikipedia page on [...]