THINGS I FIND ON THE WEB
Roo and I will be gone to Europe until September 15th! You can follow our travels on our new Eurotrip blog (which is why I’ve been light on posting). We’re going to be blogging as we backpack through 12 different cities and 9 different countries. We’ve already started blogging our preparations and where exactly we’re going. You can also keep track of our blogging at @ajeurotrip2010 and our Facebook page.
illustration by Tania Kaufmann
See you in 6 weeks!
These are the latest additions to The Netflix Instant List
Got anything you want to add that is not already on the list? comment below.
The Babysitters
Body Heat
Bubba Ho-Tep
The Bicycle Thief
Collision
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor; Millennium: Part 1: Men Who Hate Women)
The Greatest
Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger
Jackie Brown
Jake Johannsen: I Love You
The Treatment
Flickr user, Tom Simpson, has uploaded around 150 photos of Disneyland during the construction and right after it opened. You can also check out this home movie of Disneyland I posted awhile back.
Here’s Sleeping Beauty’s Castle before and after.
(credit: @LettersOfNote)
Construction workers, while excavating Ground Zero, came across some wood timbers flecked with oyster shells.
(photo credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
…the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.
(photo credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.
(photo credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
Read the whole article here.
(photo credit: Getty)
She & Him’s video for Thieves, directed by Norwood Cheek.
In the video, Deschanel and Ward are kids talking on tin-can telephones and sending each other notes that they somehow don’t receive till they’re grown up. The romantic drama that unfolds is all depicted in the newspaper of the era, the Telegraph & Bulletin. (via)
(credit: Paste Mag)
These are the latest additions to The Netflix Instant List
Got anything you want to add that is not already on the list? comment below.
Alice Neel
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Baxter
Below
The Cats of Mirikitani
Flakes
Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home Elvis
A Girl Cut in Two (Fille coupée en deux)
Good Will Hunting
Happy Accidents
Hopscotch
In a Day
Intermission
Mary and Max
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Mongolian Ping Pong
My Best Friend (Mon Meilleur Ami)
Paranoid Park
Pierrepoint
Pizza
Plunkett & Macleane
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sorry, Haters
Touching the Void
Twelve and Holding
X-Men
Y Tu Mamá También
You Kill Me
Jonas Bergstrand is a Swedish born, London based designer and illustrator.
Check out more of his stuff here.
Twitter Treats are the links I’ve posted on my Twitter.
These are just quick links to some cool things I’ve tweeted or re-tweeted. See previous here.
This will be a two-weeker due to last weeks holiday.
The cat is out of the bag, told work that I’m quitting and leaving for a 2 monthish trip to Europe. Roo and I will tweet: @ajeurotrip2010 and blog our travels at andrewandjenni.com. We leave July 31st for Toronto to visit his family, then leave August 4th for London. Here’s where we’re going.
The next Dallas Dr. Sketchy, featuring Melissa Meaow, is NEXT SUNDAY!
@lettercult ‘s {alphabattle} J is up and ready for viewing. Here’s mine, made of Gojo Hand Cleaner.
My New Favorite Comic : Cat vs Human
Cavs owner’s letter mocked for Comic Sans font. Remember, when writing scathing letters, always consult a designer for the perfect font.
Fun Fact: The IKEA catalogue is the 3rd most distributed print material in the world following the Bible & Harry Potter.
(via @MarcDSchiller)
Beck has been posting some sweet mixes over at SoundCloud under the name Planned Obsolescence, I really liked June Gloom.
Need a passport? Hurry, Tuesday (July 13th) the fees are going to increase by up to 35%.
(via @Orbitz)
@pieratt released a sneak peak of @lookwork, a site that organizes all your inspirations, ideas, through a gallery of thumbnails, that you can configure to view in many different ways, as well as sorted and tagged. A image-bookmarking service. It’s how I wanted Evernote to be, but it wasn’t.
Portland designer, Frank Chimero (@fchimero), has a new blog post, Holiday. It’s is a great read for anyone in the industry.
@hoodinternet has a new hood x anatomy mag mixtape with six new hood tracks. View the track list & download now.
Why are they ruining “Let The Right One In” with an American remake, “Let Me In”? See the barfy trailer and cringe.
This was stuck in my head after late night grocery shopping. Roo & I sung along & danced in the soup aisle. They play the best songs then.
Waste more hours on the internet reminiscing your 80′s childhood.
I forgot about this, this and this.
Newest installment of WE’VE NEVER MET webcomic.
(via @davidhopkins)
Also in webcomic world, my friend Will Strode has four more pages of The Life I’ve Been Sold (warning: two pages are NSFW) Start reading here or just see the new pages.
Roo standing next to a piece by his favorite sculpture artist, Jonathan Borofsky.
Fun fact: In the 1940s, Eleanor Abbott invented the board game Candy Land as a diversion for children recovering from polio.
(via @TalentZoo)
New flyer design for Ruby Revue Burlesque Show.
Pacific! the Swedish pop duel has a new album called Narcissus, out September 13.
The concept album (and modern day ballet score) is based around the Greek myth of Narcissus.
You can listen to some more off the album, but only on myspace 
Check out a single from the new album below:
Listen here to Venus Rising:
Conceived as a … (more) live performance to accompany a modern dance ballet, Narcissus is a testament to Bjorn Synneby and Daniel Hogberg’s creative nous, and in a modern era of listless imitation, should be cherished at the vanguard of creative pop.
Due for its world exclusive at Gothenburg’s influential dance studio Atalante in October, the ballet itself comes choreographed by Sweden’s extra-ordinary danseur Olaf Persson. Olaf and two female dancers will star in the live show and feature in a series of videos that accompany the album. (via)
Check out some of Pacific!’s older stuff here. And their remake of Don’t You (Forget About Me).
Fstoppers does fashion shoot only using an iphone.
Fstoppers likes to show behind-the-scenes on how professionals shoot. This was to prove that it doesn’t matter what kind of camera equipment you have, you can still get a good shot. View more info and the high res images here.
So before I say anything else let me start by saying; I created this video to simply show that you should not be limited by your camera. Obviously there was a lot that went into this shoot including a professional model, hair and makeup, a studio, lighting, and a retoucher. We may create another video in the future where we shoot with only natural light but this video is simply about the camera. There are so many photographers who are obsessed with noise, sharpness, color, dynamic range, megapixels, chromatic aberration, moire, distortion, etc. So many photographers get wrapped up in the technical side that they forget how to take compelling images. This video is for them. (via)
(credit: OnePlusInfinity)
