Pinhole Camera

I love looking at the ceiling on weekend mornings. The window and the morning sun create a pinhole camera so I can see cars and people passing by on the street below.

Morris Dancing

Don't know how I've never seen this until now, it's been around since 2003. Four Tet's track 'As Serious As Your Life' - Morris dancing in one fell swoop... became cool.

Garrett Reynolds 2006 Hogtied Vid

Just found this when I was tidying up a load of old files. A quick skwizz on YouTube will find more videos of Garrett, something I'd recommend you do.

This video is © NKE6.com - if you want me to take it down just let me know, but I think your shoes are lovely. Go buy some Nikes everyone.

Bennys Badekar

You might think I'm just getting old when I say this, but they don't make 'em like they used to. Dutch cartoon from the 70s called Bennys Badekar which is totally awesomed-up with a quality funk track called ‪Blækspruttesangen‬, or Octopus Song.

Jaime Martinez Animated gifs

There's just something about the simplicity of animated gifs I really love (click the image above if it ain't movin'). There's a bunch of them on Jaime Martinez's site which have a lovely calm, surreal feel to them. The rest of the portfolio's worth a look too.

I laughed so hard...

...I parked the fudge. (see the animated version that's funny)

Two Door Cinema Club

Fun video for the new Two Door Cinema Club's single 'What You Know' from their debut album 'Tourist History'

Released on 7th February 2011.

Morris Dancing

Don't know how I've never seen this until now, but it's worth the wait. Four Tet's track 'As Serious As Your Life' - Morris dancing, in one fell swoop, became cool... almost.

We Are From L.A.

I first saw work by We Are From L.A. a few months ago with this video for Yelle's track, La Musique. Great stuff on their site for Cassius too. I predict big things for these guys.

Pumping Iron '74

I got hold of this 1974 copy of Pumping Iron magazine for a friend's birthday and it totally pained me to post it to him. It had signs of wear, but was generally in great condition and full of amazing shots of people like Mr Schwarzenegger in his Mr. Olympia heyday.

For the design geeks among us, it's designed by Martin Stephen Moskof and it's 205mm x 275mm, 221 pages and a softback publication.

Thanks to Celine at Counter-Print.co.uk for great service, careful packaging and general loveliness - if you have the two key ingredients of good sense and a little spare money, you'll head over there right now and buy something amazing.

Cami

I've been meaning to post something about Bristol-based Cami for a while now. She's part of the Versus exhibition at Start The Bus Gallery in Bristol from 11th-18th November, as well as Inkygoodness collective exhibition at the same venue from 10th-30th December, 2010.

The Black Keys At Brixton

Went to Brixton this evening to see The Black Keys who were, frankly, awesome. One of the best live bands I've seen and can't stress enough how you have to make the effort to see them and if you haven't even heard of them, listen to them. Sorry about the crap phone photo...

Kraggy's Pope Band

There's a nice selection of diverse work on Kraggy's website and this doodle he did on the train made us laugh, so it made the cut. Enjoy...

There, I Fixed It...

This just made me smile today...

James Bond Contact Sheet

I tidied a drawer the other day, which is a pretty rare thing. Almost as rare are these images which are 007 promo shots. I think they're from the first Bond film, Dr. No. If I had the original contact sheets as opposed to a crap photocopy of a crap photocopy, I'd probably auction them off and retire.

Jason Freeny Anatomical Views

Big shout out to Jason Freeny at Moist Production, who's created some great images and hand customised vinyl toys showing the anatomy of various well knowns. From Mr Potato Head and a Lego man, through to Kidrobot's Dunny, and others like Qee, Domo and more. You can buy some of his stuff on his site and, if you're quick, a hand customised Nemo is up for grabs on Ebay until 21st September...

McBess

There's a great body of jolly lovely work over at Matthieu Bessudo's site - aka McBess. Above is an illustration for his collective, Salle Polyvalente, from ages ago, but I always like something with a stuffed animal on the wall, so you'll have to head over to Matt's site to see newer stuff.
He's got a black and white, 24 page, paperback book for sale, Malevolent Melody, which looks awesome. It's an edition of 3,000 and has a 7" vinyl in the back featuring music from his band The Dead Pirates. All for just over a tenner.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010

A truly stunning photograph, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo taken in California, has won the deep space prize in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010. It's a panorama of part of Orion, including the famous three-starred belt. Apparently, it's also got the Horsehead nebula and the Orion nebula.

Just looking at it for a while sets my imagination racing and kind of helps put things in perspective a bit. We are mere specks, aren't we?

Photograph: Rogelio Bernal Andreo/National Maritime Museum

Escher Ants Print

This is an Escher print I haven't seen since I was about 4. I think it's supposed to be oriented portrait but it was hung on the dining room wall like this so, bizarrely, it's now the only way I like it. Fits on the blog better this way too, sorry Escher...

Mike Rea Wooden Sculptures

Wonderfully crafted and intricate sculptures, for want of a better word, are the product of Mike Rea. I love this piece, titled "A prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawkin w/ Japanese Steel" from 2007, which is massive and actually accommodates a real size human. His website is a bit small and faffy, but well worth a look around. I'm totally in awe of his work.