LEGO Ice Cube Tray

Vroeger ('vroeger') speelde ik ontzettend veel met LEGO - het speelgoed van de eeuw wat mij betreft. Deze ijsblokjes in je Campari!
Helaas niet in NL verkrijgbaar...

Lego gifts>>

Typography: some nice links

'Do I look fat in this paragraph?'

Thinking with type - Ellen Lupton >>

'Helvetica. Thats that font that looks kinda like Arial. Right?'

The scourge of Arial - Mark Simonson >>

'You saw a font somewhere, and can't figure out what font it is?'

What the Font >>

GAME: recognize a company's logo by a single letter?

Retail alphabet game >>

On: the Dashed Line

Nice article over de stippellijn >>

Serious Games: Rock Paper Scizzors

Op de website van de World Rock paper Scizzors Society vind u tactieken om iedereen met dit vermaarde spel (steen/schaar/papier) te verslaan! De wereldkampioenschappen worden in November gehouden in Toronto.

How to beat anyone at Rock Paper Scissors >>

Educational Games (by Zefrank)

Zefrank (Designer en famous American videoblogger) explains to us in three games the principles of Buddhism, Christianity and Atheism. Pick your favourite

Christian >>

Atheist >>

Buddhist >>

Line Rider

Probeer eerst dit:

Line Rider >>

En kijk dan eens hiernaar:

LineRider op Youtube >>

Met dank aan Steven de Haer voor deze toptip...

Animator VS. Animation

Leuke animatie voor iedereen die wel eens met Flash werkt. Door Alan Becker.

Watch it! >>

Nooit meer KLIKKEN!

http://www.dontclick.it/

Port Porto Portugal

Wegens vakantie in Portugal...

Kika and Bob

Geproduceerd door Submarine.

trailer >>

TV-serie over dandy dichter Lord Byron

Deelde Lord George Byron het bed met zijn halfzuster Augusta Leigh? Hoewel daar sterke vermoedens voor bestaan, hebben historici nooit keihard bewijs gevonden. Dat heeft de makers van de driedelige BBC-serie Byron, die vanaf vanavond bij de AVRO wordt uitgezonden, er niet van weerhouden flink wat incestueuze seksscenes in het script op te nemen... (door: Bart Funnekotter)

lees verder op NRC.nl >>

(Why) I love Lavazza

Lavazza 2006 >>

Coffee with great taste ...

Emoticon-poem about Soccer

Trout in Cohoes

Three color silkscreen by Kurt Vonnegut
Edition Size:77Paper Size: 22" x 30" (portrait)
Signed and numbered in pencil by Kurt Vonnegut
Hand printed at Petro III Graphics, 1997
Price: $1000.00

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A Scanner Darkly

Nieuwe (2006) film van Richard Linklater, gebaseerd op de gelijknamige roman van Philip K. Dick. (zie hierboven, met fantastische cover door Bob Pepper). Wederom heeft Linklater de volledige film 'overgetrokken' (zie eerdere post Waking Life ).

Trailer! >>

Balthazar Klossowski, Count de Rola

Child Prodigy With Famous Friends.
Balthus' advanced age hides the fact that he was a child prodigy. The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke helped publish his first drawings when Balthus was only 13.
Born in Paris the son of a Polish father and a Russian Jewish mother, Balthus grew up in Berlin and Geneva before returning to Paris. Rilke, Matisse and Pierre Bonnard were among the famous friends of his parents.
He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934 where he caused a stir with his erotic "Guitar Lessons". Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain and Joan Miro collected his works.
Miro called Balthus, who never attended an art school, "the greatest realist painter of his age."
Balthus was known for his provocative paintings of young women, often with surreal elements in the background.
Unlike most of his famous contemporaries, Balthus remained faithful to figurative art. His later works showed adolescent girls absorbed in romantic dreams.
The scenes in his paintings were in the "fin de siecle" style of the last century, bourgeois and slightly decadent salons, where girls are reading or sitting near an open fire.
The atmosphere of his work has been compared to the ambiance evoked by the books of French writer Marcel Proust. Balthus painted some 350 works, sketched a thousand drawings and compiled 50 sketch books.
While living largely as a recluse, Balthus was a welcome guest in modern high society and lately struck friendships with modern singers and actors.
At a birthday party in 2000, Tony Curtis and David Bowie were among the guests.

The aristocratic title he claimed, Count the Rola, is doubted by some.
This enigmatic painter died in februari 2001 (born 1908).

(source: Yahoo!)

Klaus Haapaniemi

Zeer fashionable Finse kunstenaar. Naief ogende monstertjes met donkere ondertoon. Inaco Ribeiro en Suzanne Clements gebruikten werk van Klaus voor hun Cacharel-collectie. Zijn ontwerpen zijn verschenen op tops, jurken, rokjes en in de eerste sieradenlijn van Cacharel.

Bekijk de site van Klaus Haapaniemi >>

En vergelijk werk van Nederlandse collega's

Fons Schiedon >>
v-i-a-v-i-a >>

To make a Mojito

Painting by Vero Cristalli. 'To make a mojito' (detail) >>

Mojito was een van de favoriete cocktails van schrijver Ernest Hemingway. Hij zou er massaal veel gedronken hebben in La Bodeguita, een bar in Havana. De cocktail is midden negentiende eeuw geboren op Cuba uit een ander drankje, The Drague.

- handvol verse munt
- limoenen
- rum
- rietsuiker
- water of soda

Knijp in een gekoeld cocktailglas een paar parten limoen uit. Vul het glas driekwart vol met gecrushed ijs. Voeg 1 eetlepel rietsuiker toe (strooi). Dan de stukken limoen en de (gekneusde) muntblaadjes. Overgiet met rum (Havana Club) en maak af met wat water of soda.

Een lepel om de cocktail te mengen.

Seat Ibiza Vaillante

"The SEAT Ibiza Vaillante is a comic-book hero fantasy come true. It was created by the SEAT Design Centre in Martorell, whose aim was to suggest the driver of a fictional car could be transported to a make-believe world and participate in the most unexpected adventures. For this reason, SEAT does not plan to manufacture a production model Vaillante, or to sell one in the future. Quite simply, it is a virtual car inspired by comic-strip fantasy for this motor show only, whose mission is to highlight SEAT's sporty and young image, while also enhancing the launch of the new Ibiza 2006 range [...]"

Lees verder >>

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