Colorful. Clean. Simple.
I love Sweden.
Maybe the whole set? With a dedicated shelf?
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Recent auditory delights… and there goes your weekend:
Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Deerhunter – Microcastle
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Don’t look at the last one too long if you get motion sickness.
Click images for links to videos (unofficial).
While doing some research on travel journals and itinerary logbooks I came across the Modofly Moleskine on joshspear.
These are wonderful little notebooks that take the sketchbook to a new level. An already handy and functional essential, Modofly has added that extra bit of creativity to distinguish your moleskine from everyone elses.
“Which one is it?”
“It’s the one with the tentacles.”
“Oh! That one.”
See what I mean?
And no, these sketchbooks will not actually make you an artistic genius. Unfortunately.
While perusing minimalsites.com for inspiration I came across the online portfolio of Kalle Gustafsson, a Sweden based photographer. After doing a little research it would appear I’m late to the party: smashing, iso50, computerlove and pretty much every site on the interwebs I enjoy that celebrate visual design goodness has already featured/mentioned the site. However, that doesn’t make it any less good. Actually not sure which I like better, the clean minimal website design by Ole Martin Kristiansen, or the actual body of Gustafsson’s work.
While observing the site with proper scrutiny I feel the sensation of tranquility… like savoring a cup of chamomile tea, whilst relaxing in a sauna and getting a foot massage. Aahhhhh, everything is better now.
Try it and see if you can’t agree. And while you’re at it check out some of the other Skarp Agent photographers.
Also noticed an interesting video by Gustafsson on the portolio site, done for Sophia Somajo.
Stockhom Calling:
I’m looking forward to seeing the industrial design documentary Objectified when it comes out sometime next year (2009).
An (apparently) unfinished list of featured designers/studios, from the Objectified homepage.
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Smart Design (New York)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
Seeing this designers who’s who list gets me pretty excited about the film, which I suppose is the idea. Oh, and the director is Gary Hustwit who’s other film Helvetica was wonderful and informative. I recommend it to anyone inquisitive, even those who care little for “design” per se. I watched it online through Netflix’s WatchNow feature (for you Netflixers) but I’m sure you could rent/buy it elsewhere. Like from here.
Pentagram, design firm and maker of all things good-looking, has just finished up some work on a new release of Ian Fleming’s “Quantum of Solace” to coincide with the latest cinematic offering.
The book collects together all of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories in a single volume for the first time and includes stories [...] from A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and [...] Quantum of Solace – Pentagram
Not surprisingly, it looks good.
And here is the trailer for Quantum of Solace. Haven’t seen the movie yet but if it’s anything like the last one it should be worth the admission ticket.
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ~G.K. Chesterton
So, at long last, I have acquired a passport (of the biometric variety). Exciting, to be sure, but also sad. Why sad, you say? Well, it is sad because I am entirely too old to have just now obtained a passport. Sad because it is like a mirror showing me just how little I have traveled and seen of this magnificent planet. I suppose it shouldn’t upset me too much when, depending on where you search, apparently only 20-30% of U.S. citizens have current passports. But still, what took me so long?
How much there is in the world that I have never seen! Never seen or experienced. But so exciting! I cannot wait to scuff my passport up and drag it along with me to wherever it is I will go.
First trip, a baby step to the north.
I’ll be heading to Canada for a bit o’ fun in the snow. Deep, fresh powder to be more specific. I’m heading up to Whistler, Canada in a little over a month’s time to enjoy the scenery and killer slopes for a little skiing (or will that be freefalling?) down the mountainsides. But I’ll save that for another post, perhaps.
So where should I go next? I’m thinking somewhere warm to contrast with the trip to the icy north.
- Some inspiring travel quotes (including the Chesterton one seen above) as well as intruiging content can be found over at BraveNewTraveler.
(through the city of Singapore… at night… in F1 race cars)
Wow, just watched the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix at the Marin Bay Street Circuit (thanks for hosting Jeremy). Pretty incredible stuff.
For those of you that haven’t been converted to F1, by which I mean, people who have never seen an F1 race, this is some exciting stuff. The 2008 season is the first one I’ve really kept pace with throughout it’s entirety.
Well, for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet the Singapore race was memorable for many reasons. One, it was at night. Ok, I know what you’re thinking. So what. I drive my car at night all the time. Just a quick question. While doing your night-drives do you drive 200 mph, bumper to bumper, next to a concrete wall? Didn’t think so, you’re too busy texting to even think about traveling at that speed. Yeah, anyway, night race. And it was through, and I do mean through, the city of Singapore. Under overpasses, around the bay, over bridges, and even passing under the grandstand at one point. All that to say that it was a spectacle even before the engines were fired to their ear-splitting 19,000 rpm rev limits.
Then the racing began! I won’t get into the play by play but there were many twists and turns in this race (sorry, I had to). Final results were devastating for Ferrari, which I cheered happily as a Mercedes-McLaren fanboy. All in all a very entertaining event.
I can’t wait for the next race in Fuji, Japan! You should check it out.
Some really great action pictures from the race, including some nice tilt-shift photography, can be found at boston.com , go and look at them.
Some more photos below. See bernardoh’s and acroamatics’s flickrsites for originals.
Someone please buy me this recliner to go in my living room.
