#1 & 4 from A Print A Day blog, this girl really cranks out illustrations, she is a machine! Look at this carniverous plant calendar she made. #2 Oct. 16, 2009 release date #3 sculpture by Kevin Francis Gray

Also, Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade download link.

Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real and create a new reality. At the same time, this “escape” is not into a never-never land. What makes a novel idea creative is that once we see it, sooner or later we recognize that, strange as it is, it is true.

Most of us assume that artists – musicians, writers, poets, painters – are strong on the fantasy side, whereas scientists, politicians, and businesspeople are realists. This may be true in terms of day-to-day routine activities. But when a person begins to work creatively, all bets are off.

Taken from “The Creative Personality” via The New Shelton Wet/Dry

Image by Wang Qingsong

Here is Seven hanging with the latest addition to my room. I have Ginny to thank for pretty much everything on my walls. Coming soon: boring pictures of my fancy new mattress.

I love to look in people’s houses. Thank you Todd Selby!

Sam Weber Illustration.

Photo: Tim Walker, from his current exhibition at the Design Museum London. Song: “Orphans” (lightly feat. the Cat) off the new Beck album Modern Guilt (links to neat video)

Bathtime Planetarium – I preface with this is Japanese and I can’t have it, you can’t have it either. Can be aimed up or down into the water, doubles as a sealife/aquarium projector. Via a new favorite blog.

TV on the Internet – Mighty Boosh + Weeds! (Via Dan)

Remi Thornton – These night stills feel like summer to me… maybe because I’m only willing to stand outside when it’s warm out.

J.Richel – Portrait prints, these seem like something Susan would like!

Read The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Beautifully typeset in PDF format.

The Lovely Light Pool – Self explanatory flickr pool.

Rediscovering Rasterbation – This is the best use of a laser printer, period. My personal preference is to leave the white margins.

GOOD STUFF:

• Matteo Ferrari – Photos of people with their cars way back when and now.
• Gorgeous – Hello Gorgeous!

TRAILERS:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Brad Pitt is born an old man and ages backwards
• The Go-Getter – Zooey Deschanel!, this film’s soundtrack is the origin of She & Him
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona – New Woody Allen, looks saucy?

STREET BEAR!

This post was going to be a list of things to do with my new and different lonely life. I couldn’t come up with enough things worth talking about, so this post turned into another “All the things I’d like to share with you”…

The Playlist’s Soundtrack Series: “Soundtracks” inspired by movie directors.
Postcards from Your Mother: Cute and funny (love moms)
Design Barcode: “Big Ideas are Small” – this Japanese firm designs down to the barcode.
Hot Lava in NY Mag?: Well, nymag.com.
A new Winston video.

For the record, this is what I plan to do with my time: Finish all the projects I’ve promised to friends. Read some books. Paste Rocky Balboa’s face onto the body of H.W. Plainview (followed with a venn diagram of similarities and differences: deaf, bastard from a basket, blank stare). Do good work at my new job (and try not to talk so much). Make local friends!

Mia Nolting’s blog and portfolio are wonderful. An impressive blend of hand drawn typography and illustrations.

Imaginary nature paintings. I appreciate how her web site is so well matched to her work.

New York Magazine has a collection of interviews with people who wear one color exclusively, including Rebecca Turbow of Safe Clothes (above) and Stephin Merritt. Also see, Helga Steppan’s See Through (below).

Our generation has no choice but to indulge in a revised futurism beyond the historically-anchored concept of Futurism. Uninhibited time-shifting and multi-directional time-travel are more advanced than constantly pushing the seams of forward progress. With no new territory, we cannot simply be the New Adventures of Lewis and Clark to etch our names in heavy tomes. We must move back and forth, side to side in our honest attempt to break new ground.

-W. David MARX, Neojaponisme Manifesto

Despite it’s narrow color scheme, Neojaponisme covers a wide range of topics in depth. I love essay blogs, even if this one calls my blog content into question … “#5. We refuse to abandon the Net to hollow carbohydrates!” Also see it’s less formal companion, Meta no Tame.

This is my personal best of 2007, similar to Lindsey’s. Here it is, in no order, with no theme.

• Dan’s Drawings – He taped original drawings to my Christmas presents to hide the shoddy wrapping job. I saved them, they are wonderful, so much better than any wrapping paper.

• World of Warcraft – No one wants to hear about this.

• Pilates – I started going to a pilates class at my gym 2 months ago. I bet everyone in the class thinks I am a mute, dyslexic, wobbly ass spazz, but I love it! My hopes are to be graceful (for the first time in my life) and appear to be 9ft tall.

• RVCA ANP Quarterly – This is here because after a subscription in June, and a month of complaints (this is a fucking free magazine! Why can’t I pay to have it delivered!) I finally received an issue Friday. It’s an 11” x 17” art magazine with no ads, refreshing!

•Albums – I don’t talk much about music because I’m not qualified, but this year I loved:
Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala, Beach House Beach House, Panda Bear Person Pitch, The Fiery Furnaces Widow City, Amy Winehouse Back to Black, Bill Callahan Woke on a Whaleheart, Bonde do Rolê all tracks, M.I.A. Kala, Gogol Bordello Super Taranta!, The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen, The National The Boxer

• Ffffound - I am so overwhelmed by the internet lately, it seems to double in size daily. Ffffound is a website (and an RSS feed) of images, mostly art and design related – 100+ a day. Browsing quickly through an endless stream of images as a means to find good art, websites, and portfolios is awesome. I recently read an article that addressed the issue of Ffffound not having an open membership, it’s invite only to join and post. A select group of people are curating images for a massive audience, but on the other hand if it were open to all the quality would surely diminish and the feed would be way too much to keep up with.

• Rocky Balboa – He came into our lives under depressing circumstances but we have grown to appreciate him, despite the bad attitude, smush face, and occasional stray turd. He is a loved and admired resident of the Duffy household. Flza calls him Old Grusome.

• I like/favorite most of the movies I see. I hated Ratatouille.