NPR’s First Listen is streaming the new Beach House’s album until its upcoming release on January 26th. It’s def. worth a listen, and a contender to be on my list of top music for 2010. Will that hold out for the whole year, it’s hard to say…
Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Streaming Beach House’s New Album
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Navigating Your Wine
Candy Chang’s above photos shows a great implementation of paring food and wine together. The icons are informative, distinctive and have a sense of humour. As Candy noted in her post that the duck icon has holes in it, probably because it’s a game bird.
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Process for the World’s ‘most expensive’ ham leg on sale in London
If you’re a vegetarian you might want to skip this post, but if you’re a food lover you might find the process for the World’s ‘most expensive’ ham leg on sale in London interesting. 50 pigs were feed “on a diet of acorns and roots to give the ham a distinctive flavour and and cured for three years”. Apparently the experience has a “melt-in-the-mouth texture”…
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
A Season in Deleted iPhone Photos
Considering how much time our mobile devices are with us, it’s not much of a surprise that over time the photos taken with it show a visual timeline of experiences. The above film taken by Christine Whuang shows each image from last summer disappearing as they’re deleted. She described it as “a weird catharsis in watching all these photos fly by and disappear into nothing.”
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Track 08
As far as visuals go, Track 08 is pretty cool. I’m not entirely sure what it is that I’m looking at but I don’t care. There’s a solid bit of work tied together under the Track 08 theme. Def. worth looking at for a kick start of design inspiration for the day.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
JACK GIF. NOT ME — 17:36 10.01.10
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
From Penn Station to New York Landmarks: Measuring Walking Distance and Time in Manhattan #ideas
If you’re a fan of walking like we are over here, Walking Off the Big Apple is a site to check out. In their latest post they document how long it would take to walk to some of the more popular landmarks in Manhattan with a starting point of Penn Station. We’ve embedded the map that they created, all you need to do is click on one of the bars to see how long their specific route would take.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures #style
There’s way more to think about when posting a profile pic as OKTrends points out in their post about the 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures:
Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?
After reading about this I don’t think I’ll look at anyone’s pic the same way again…
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Charting the Beatles #design
Michael Rylander points us to a great visualization Charting the Beatles. Designed by Michael Deal. For the Song of Keys diagram above he explains “The differences between each pictograph reflect the different relationships between songs within each album. For example, the pictograph for Abbey Road hints at the tonal architecture of the Abbey Road Medley, as the pictograph’s shape has a more narrow pull towards A-major/minor and the home key of C-major”.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Love Machine #design
Thomas Fuchs illustrates a heart a day, on December 11, 2009 he created Love Machine. If this concept seems familiar it’s because I posted about it at Design Notes a couple months ago… Thought it might look good over here at Link Drop Today.
