If Star Wars Were Made by Studio Ghibli - Illustrations byLap Pun Cheung
Very much in the visual style of Studio Ghibli (creators of Totoro, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke), illustrator Lap Pun Cheung brings us some tasty scenes of the Star Wars epic that I will gladly watch all over again if ever it is remade this way.
Book of the Day — The World's Major Languages
"From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. " The World's Major Languages by Bernard Comrie.
Kurt Cobain's Handwritten List of His Top 50 Albums
1. Iggy and the Stooges, “Raw Power”
2. Pixies, “Surfer Rosa”
3. The Breeders, “Pod”
4. The Vaselines, “Pink EP”
5. The Shaggs, “Philosophy of the World”
6. Fang, “Landshark”
7. MDC, “Millions of Dead Cops”
8. Scratch Acid, “Scratch Acid EP”
9. Saccharine Trust, “Paganicons”
10. Butthole Surfers, “Pee Pee the Sailor” aka “Brown Reason to Live”
11. Black Flag, “My War”
12. Bad Brains, “Rock for Light”
13. Gang of Four, “Entertainment!”
14. Sex Pistols, “Never Mind the Bollocks”
15. The Frogs, “It’s Only Right and Natural”
16. PJ Harvey, “Dry”
17. Sonic Youth, “Daydream Nation”
18. The Knack, “Get the Knack”
19. The Saints, “Know Your Product”
20. anything by Kleenex
21. The Raincoats, “The Raincoats”
22. Young Marble Giants, “Colossal Youth”
23. Aerosmith, “Rocks”
24. Various Artists, “What Is It”
25. R.E.M., “Green”
26. Shonen Knife, “Burning Farm”
27. The Slits, “Typical Girls”
28. The Clash, “Combat Rock”
29. The Faith/Void, “Split EP”
30. Rites of Spring, “Rites of Spring”
31. Beat Happening, “Jamboree”
32. Tales of Terror, “Tales of Terror”
33. Leadbelly, “Leadbelly’s Last Sessions Vol. 1″
34. Mudhoney, “Superfuzz Bigmuff”
35. Daniel Johnston, “Yip/Jump Music”
36. Flipper, “Generic Flipper”
37. The Beatles, “Meet the Beatles”
38. Half Japanese, “We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love”
39. Butthole Surfers, “Locust Abortion Technician”
40. Black Flag, “Damaged”
41. Fear, “The Record”
42. PiL, “Flowers of Romance”
43. Public Enemy, “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
44. Marine Girls, “Beach Party”
45. David Bowie, “The Man Who Sold the World”
46. Wipers, “Is This Real?”
47. Wipers, “Youth of America”
48. Wipers, “Over the Edge”
49. Mazzy Star, “She Hangs Brightly”
50. Swans, “Young God”
Edgar Degas Meets Misty Copeland
Photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory coax the images from the Paris Opéra Ballet that Edgar Degas painted from American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland for the March 2016 issue of Harpers Bazaar in advance of MOMA's Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty.
Also check out their NYC Dance Project
Book of the Day — The New Sentence by Ron Silliman
The New Sentence by Ron Silliman turns its bright intelligence onto syntax and linguistics.
Book of the Day - How To Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch
It isn't an uncommon experience, friends asking me how to read a poem. I often quote this book, How to Read a Poem And Fall In Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch in my answer.
Intensely Vivid Photographs Iran’s Mosques By Mohammad Domiri
Mohammad Domiri, a remarkably talented Iranian photographer, has amassed this startlingly gorgeous portfolio of the interiors of Middle Eastern mosques.
Spine of the South – The Andes in Timelapse
From the project:
In 2015 Overland Collective photographer Eric Hanson traveled the Andean spine of South America, from Ecuador to Patagonia. For seven months, he traveled almost entirely solo, via a mixture of public transportation, trekking, and a Great Wall Wingle (if you don't know what that is, it's the finest vehicle known to man). Along the way, he took a few hundred thousand photos.
Edo Japan With Computers — Imaginative Animated GIFs
Atsushi Segawa had been making animated GIFs out of ukiyo-e for a while when he was commissioned by Japanese computer maker NEC to mix computers and computer use into Edo-era Japan.
Hong Kong At Night — Photos by Peter Stewart
Photographer Peter Stewart, brings us these stunning night cityscapes of Hong Kong.
Eerily Beautiful Monkey Portraits by Hiroshi Watanabe
Papercraft Wigs and Gowns from Asya Kozina
With a penchant for papercraft, artist Asya Kozina created these funny and gorgeous paper wigs and gowns.
Logos And Paintings Undercutting Each Other — Graphic Designs from Eisen Bernard Bernardo
Eisen Bernard Bernardo, Philippines-based graphic designer, brings together modern logos with well-known paintings, making each a little suspect, and the whole pretty awesome.
Design Wish - Plain Moleskine Cahier Extra Large Notebook
There are so many great sketching notebooks in the world, and in my design practice I have tried a lot of them. These Plain Moleskine Cahier Extra Large Notebooks are my current favorite. They don't feel oversized, but they do feel expansive. And, unlike some of the other Moleskine line, these feel like they are working notebooks, neither precious nor showy.
photo by Michele Palazzo
Photo of the Day - The Flat Iron Building in Jonas Blizzard by Michele Pallazzo
Photographer Michele Pallazzo captured this stunning painting-like photo from the #blizzard2016 of the iconic Flatiron Building on 14th Street in Manhattan.
Photo of the Day - Animated GIF Flyby of Saturn's Rings
The rings of Saturn are only about 30 feet (10 meters) thick in most parts of the main rings, other parts however are often up to several kilometers thick. The rings are made of dusty ice, in the form of boulder-sized and smaller chunks that gently collide with each other as they orbit around Saturn. Saturn’s gravitational field constantly disrupts these ice chunks, keeping them spread out and preventing them from combining to form a moon.
Book of the Day - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
This is delectably told and imaginative, a thought experiment worked its way all the way out. When humans are sent the plans for an interstellar propulsion system, and the governments dither on in their dithering ways, it is the deeply intellectual Jesuits who act. This science fiction, speculative fiction, reframes a great deal of our past in terms of our potential future actions.
Painting Your Walls with Light - Lamps by Calabarte
Polish artist Przemek, also known as Calabarte, transforms African gourds into these lamps that paint your walls with patterns of light.
Hunting Blinds Deep in the German Forest: Photographs by Robert Goetzfried
Here is a new series from our favorite, Robert Götzfried, a series of amazing architectural finds deep in the German forest: hunting blinds.
His entire site is full of amazing photo sets: www.robert-goetzfried.com
