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- SPECIAL FEATURE: 2010 Gift Guide: BOOKS!
- Data mining the intellectual history of the human race with Google Book Search
- British oral histories document rural life in late 19th/early 20th cen
- Star Wars text crawl dress
- Weird D&D advice-column questions
- Art Nouveau insurance ad
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's Kickstarter project to make a Transmetropolitan art book
- John K's new online store
- Indy cartoonist elated to find torrents of his work
- Cuba launches Wikipedia clone "EcuRed," but needs a little help
- National Security Archive director on "Wikimania," and the dangers of demonizing WikiLeaks
- Wikileaks: Cables show India accused of widespread, systematic torture in Kashmir
- Report: Designer arrested over pro-Wikileaks Anonymous press release
- House Judiciary Committee hearing on WikiLeaks: Video
- Security (BB Flickr Pool)
- Pro-Tibet protests in New Delhi (photo)
- The Peacemaker, Ice-T produced TV series on gang mediation, debuts tonight
- Of Spam, Ham, and lost email
- Gone Dead Gone, a new CD by SLT
- Due Date
- The incredible art of R.S. Connett
- SF Street Artist Sandwich Mashes Up Halo/Wikileaks
- The Boing Boing Formula
- Map collages by Matthew Cusick: portraits, seascapes & more
- Rocket to Russia: official hymn of the conquerors
- Elf Cam app for iPhone
- 76 Synthesizer: Stupidly cool iPad app interface
- Lori Nix's stunning, tiny dioramas depict an abandoned world
- Roy Doty's 2010 Christmas card
- The past year's 12 editions of Vogue covers, overlaid
| SPECIAL FEATURE: 2010 Gift Guide: BOOKS! Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:36 PM PST Welcome to the second half of the 2010 Boing Boing Gift Guide, where we pick out some of our favorite books from the last year (and beyond) to help you find inexpensive holiday gifts for friends and family. Can you guess who chose a Sarah Palin book?
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| Data mining the intellectual history of the human race with Google Book Search Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:01 PM PST Harvard's Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and colleagues have been analyzing the huge corpus of literature that Google digitized in its Book Search program, and they're uncovering absolutely fascinating information about our cultural lives, the evolution of language, the secret history of the world, censorship and even public health. It's all written up in a (regwalled) paper in Science, "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books": The cultural genome: Google Books reveals traces of fame, censorship and changing languages (via Beyond the Beyond)
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| British oral histories document rural life in late 19th/early 20th cen Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:54 PM PST  The British Library has posted a collection of 250 sound recordings made by oral historian George Ewart Evans, "between 1956 and 1977, many in Suffolk, with a smaller number in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The recordings document rural life and agricultural work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, folk beliefs about animals, medicine and witchcraft, folk and popular songs." I'm pretty taken by interview with unidentified borstal inmate used in preparing the book 'Horse power and magic' (London, 1979). George Ewart Evans collection (via Warren Ellis) |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:47 PM PST  Chenoa, a hairdresser at The Beehive in Vancouver, BC, made this amazing Star Wars text-crawl dress with matching headband. My friend dressed up as the scroll from Star Wars (via Neatorama) |
| Weird D&D advice-column questions Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:44 PM PST  Here's a roundup of some of the weirdest questions posed to Dungeon Magazine's "Sage Advice" column for dungeon masters and players of TSR's Dungeons and Dragons. Help, My Half-Elf Is Pregnant! The 11 Strangest Questions From The D&D 'Sage Advice' Column (via Neatorama)
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:41 PM PST  This early 1900s Art Nouveau Equitable Insurance ad originally ran in Harper's Monthly -- more than a century later, I still find it compelling. |
| Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's Kickstarter project to make a Transmetropolitan art book Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:38 PM PST  As the tenth anniversary of Transmetropolitan's final issue draws near, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has embarked on a Kickstarter project to create a limited edition hardcover featuring new illustrations from a superstar list of comics artists. The book will be used as a fundraising premium for CBLDF, which defends the free speech rights of comics creators, publishers and retailers. Artists who've been tapped for the project include: Aaron Alexovich, Martin Ansin, Brandon Badeaux, Edmund Bagwell, Joe Benitez, Rick Berry, Nicholas Bradshaw, Dan Brereton, Evan Bryce, Stephanie Buscema, Jim Calafiore, Cliff Chiang, Katie Cook, Molly Crabapple, Camilla d'Errico, Michael Dialynas, Aaron Diaz, Kristian Donaldson, Ryan Dunlavey, Gary Erskine, Simon Fraser, Richard Friend, Dan Goldman, Cully Hamner, Matt Howarth, K Thor Jensen, Lukas Ketner, Sam Kieth, Clint Langley, Jeff Lemire, Corey Lewis, Milo Manara, John McCrea, Kevin Mellon, Moritat, Dean Motter, J O'Barr, Len O'Grady, Alberto Ponticelli, Rodney Ramos, Paul Renaud, Afua Richardson, Darick Robertson, Jimmie Robinson, James Romberger, Nei Ruffino, Tim Seeley, Liam Sharp, Alex Sheikman, Paul Sizer, Fiona Staples, Dave Taylor, Spike Trotman, Pete Venters, Matthew Weldon, Pete Woods, JK Woodward, Annie Wu, ...and many others.Transmet is the comic that got me seriously interested in the form again in my late 20s. It's truly a seminal work, and the CBLDF is one of my favorite activist groups. The TRANSMETROPOLITAN art book (via Super Punch) |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST  If you're a fan of John Kricfalusi -- and who isn't -- you will love the T-shirts he is selling in his online store called Cartoon Thrills. You are sure to enjoy the jaunty music that begins playing as soon as the site loads as well. Who needs coffee when you have peppy sites like this available to provide you with the get up and go you need to make it through the day? |
| Indy cartoonist elated to find torrents of his work Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:28 PM PST Dubber sez, "NZ cartoonist Dylan Horrocks stumbled across a torrent of all 10 issues of his independent comic 'Pickle' on Demonoid. Rather than issue a takedown notice or complain, he left a complimentary note on the site and linked to it on his blog. Share and enjoy." (Thanks, Dubber, via Submitterator) |
| Cuba launches Wikipedia clone "EcuRed," but needs a little help Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:58 PM PST  As you may have heard, this week the government of Cuba launched a state-approved online encyclopedia, called EcuRed. "Its philosophy is the accumulation and development of knowledge, with a democratizing, not profitable, objective, from a decolonizer point of view," reads a statement on the site. There are already nearly 20,000 articles in the index—an impressive start. Perhaps next they'll mirror those 250,000 WikiLeaks cables (minus the ones about Cuba, of course). But, look. There. I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
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| National Security Archive director on "Wikimania," and the dangers of demonizing WikiLeaks Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:12 PM PST Thomas Blanton, executive director of the National Security Archive, was among those who testified today before the House Judiciary Committee on the aftermath of "Cablegate" and Wikileaks. Blanton believes efforts to tighten secrecy and crack down on leakers and press will be "fundamentally self-defeating." "There is more heat than light," Blanton stated, citing calls for broadening the Espionage Act and assassinating Wikileaks leader, Julian Assange. Hasty punitive reactions, he predicted, "will actually produce more leaks, more crackdowns, less accountable government, and diminished security."More on his statements here. (via Submitterator, thanks jennybean42) |
| Wikileaks: Cables show India accused of widespread, systematic torture in Kashmir Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:46 PM PST  A new set of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks tonight is parsed by The Guardian, and includes revelations that: US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees. Other cables show that as recently as 2007 American diplomats were concerned about widespread human rights abuses by Indian security forces, who they said relied on torture for confessions.WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir
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| Report: Designer arrested over pro-Wikileaks Anonymous press release Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:29 PM PST According to this item, Alex Tapanaris, whose name appears in the document properties for a PDF press release attributed to Anonymous during last week's pro-Wikileaks DDOS-a-thon, has been arrested. His web site is now offline, too. |
| House Judiciary Committee hearing on WikiLeaks: Video Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:22 PM PST Video Link. C-Span's archive of the House Judiciary Committee hearing today on WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, and the US Constitution. (via @EFF) |
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| Pro-Tibet protests in New Delhi (photo) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:42 PM PST  A Tibetan exile shouts while being detained in a police vehicle during a protest outside the hotel where Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is staying, in New Delhi on December 15, 2010. Wen, accompanied by more than 400 business leaders, seeks to boost trade with India and soothe tensions between the world's fastest-growing major economies when he visits on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi) |
| The Peacemaker, Ice-T produced TV series on gang mediation, debuts tonight Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:27 PM PST [video link] A new A&E documentary TV series produced by rapper Ice-T debuts tonight: The Peacemaker, starring ex-gang member turned mediator (and now, television host) Malik Spellman. The five-episode series starts tonight at 10pm. And, I'm proud to say, Boing Boing Video's own editor-producer-shooter Eric Mittleman worked on the show—he had some pretty intense behind-the-scene tales to share of what it's like to work on a project about mediating gang violence, with current and former gang members, in gang-controlled neighborhoods around Los Angeles. Snip from the show description: For the last 20 years Spellman has dedicated his life to ending gang violence, putting it all on the line to mediate truces between rival gangs in Los Angeles - adversaries sometimes separated by less than one city block. Whether he's in his classroom teaching life skills to middle school students, or riding through South Central on his bicycle, Spellman stays true to his purpose: keeping kids safe, out of trouble, and free from violence. Each episode of THE PEACEMAKER executive produced by rapper and actor Ice-T, provides an unprecedented look at gang life, following Spellman as he coordinates and oversees tense moments of mediation between enemies with long histories of hate and violence.Cyclists, didja catch that? Spellman's a two-wheeler. The Boston Globe has a review here, NY Daily News here, there's a Facebook page for the show here, and the official website's here, with video. I'll be watching. Oh, and Ice-T is on Twitter now: @finallevel. (Thanks, Eric Mittleman, congrats!) |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:56 PM PST  (Image: "SPAM (Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam)", contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by BB reader Gustavo Pugliesi Sachs of Montreal, Canada) Glenn Fleishman has a thought-provoking essay in the Economist about overeager spam filters, and collateral damage in the war on unwanted junk email: We should still be slightly behind the spammers, reading the small percentage of their most creative efforts that actually get through. And yet, from my own experience and stories I hear from fellow hoary internet veterans, something has broken. Many dozens of emails I've sent in the last year have never reached even a recipient's filtered folder. A few weeks ago, a note about compensation failed to reach the editor of this blog. (Yes, I believe him. Why do you ask?) Likewise, many messages never arrive into my inbox or spam folder. No rejection message arrives, to be decoded; no ham waits to be discovered among the spam. Mails are simply disappearing.The emerging ambiguity of e-mail (economist.com) |
| Gone Dead Gone, a new CD by SLT Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:46 PM PST  Someone is dragging a shovel and pick/Someone is playing an old blues riff/An old melody from a dead man's grave/I can feel it baby, feel everything rip --From "Say Goodbye" off of Gone Dead Done by SLT .Gone Dead Gone , the new CD released by SLT on Earring Records is the best old school Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds meets Iggy Pop and they get even quirkier-about-dealing-in-bloody-pop-mayhem collection of music by a Rochester N.Y. band since... well, since The Tumors released that secret tribute album to Aileen Wournos back in 1964. Really though, in a better world and in a time when you actually had top forty singles and CDs worth speaking of -- Gone Dead Gone would be the Nirvana-like bust out album for a new subculture of the aging burned and still enraged -- Generation F.U. -- a small but growing demographic slice of late boomer aliens. But why should you listen to me? After all, I've contributed 3 song lyrics to my old friends from Rochester's effort. Yep. For those of you who haven't stopped reading, the story is... I email an mp3 of "I Should've Been A Guru" to Mark Frauenfelder... and what does he do? He emails me back and says, "I like Guru a lot. Why don't you review the album yourself on Boing Boing?" So now I've got to be the fuckin' Houdini of words and wriggle out of this contretemps -- this situation tailor-made for the ever-popular summary dismissal that my words are just hype. The thing is... these guys actually deserve your attention. So never mind my three quirky topical contributions and let me call your attention to the rest of the work, as described on CD Baby as, "Love, sex, death and the decline of civilization. With a good beat." Oh hell. You're not going to believe a word I say now. So let me try this. To the first five people to email me at rusirius@well.com and who can tell me honestly that they actually like Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits... and miss The Sopranos -- in other words, that you don't only listen to techno and aren't easily harmed by music -- I'll send you a selection of 5 songs off of this CD... and you can post your own reviews in comments right here... Gone Dead Gone on Earring Records (Free download of "I Should've Been A Guru") Gone Dead Gone on CD Baby | Amazon Gone Dead Gone is also available on iTunes |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:36 PM PST  (Image via Wikipedia: Views of a Foetus in the Womb, c. 1510 - 1512, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.) I will admit to occasional single-minded ranting. You might think that, as an astronomer who studies the outer part of the solar system, my rants are restricted to issues like classification of planets, bad weather at telescopes, and the possible effects of secular perturbation on the perihelion evolution of detached Kuiper belt objects. But my other main job, being a parent to a now-5-year-old daughter, provides me a plethora of new things to rant about, also. My daughter provided me the very first opportunity before she was even born. Back then, she was code-named Petunia, and all I really wanted was some way to understand what Petunia's July 11th due date actually meant. The ranting really didn't begin until sometime in the third trimester. Here is an excerpt from How I Killed Pluto and How It Had It Coming from the moment when simmering frustration turns into full-scale rant.
Petunia was getting bigger. Her bones were hardening. Her eyebrows were growing. She had a July 11th due date, and, though there was not much I could do to influence anything, I could, nonetheless obsess about what, precisely, a due date means. I asked anyone who I thought might have some insight. I know, for example, that due dates are simply calculated by adding 40 weeks to the start of the mother's last menstrual cycle. But how effective is that? How many babies are born on their due dates? Our child birthing class teacher: "Oh only 5% of babies are actually born on their due dates." Me: So are half born before, half after? Teacher: "Oh you can't know when the baby is going to come." Me: I get it. I just want to know the statistics. Teacher: "The baby will come when it is ready." I asked on obstetrician. Doctor: "The due date is just an estimate. There is no way of knowing when the baby will come." Me: But of your patients, what fraction delivers before and what fraction deliver after the due date? Doctor: "I try not to think of it that way." I propose a simple experiment for anyone who works in the field of childbirth. Here's all you have to do. Spend a month in a hospital. Every time a child is born, ask the mother what the original due date was. Determine how many days early or late each child is. Plot these dates on a piece of graph paper. Draw a straight line for the bottom horizontal axis. Label the middle of the axis zero. Each grid point to the left is then the number of days early. Each grid point to the right is the number of days late. Count how many children were born on their precise due dates. Count up that number of points on the vertical axis of your graph and mark the spot at zero. Do the same with the number of children born one day late. Two days late. Three. Four. Keep going. Now do the early kids. When you have finished plotting all of the due dates label the top of the plot "The distribution of baby delivery dates compared to their due date." Make a copy. Send it to me in the mail. My guess is that you will have something that looks like a standard bell curve. I would hope that the bell would be more or less centered at zero. It would either be tall and skinny - most kids are born within a few days of their due dates - or short and fat - there is quite a wide range around the due date. One thing I know, though, is that the bell would have a dent on the right side. At least around here, no kids are born more than a week or two after their due dates. Everyone is induced by then. I am usually capable of allowing myself to give up in trying to get the world to see things in my scientific, statistical, mathematical way. But this one mattered to me. If I were at a dinner party with Diane and the subject of due dates was ever breached Diane would turn to me with a slightly mortified look in her eyes and whisper "Please?" I would rant about doctors. About teachers. About lack of curiosity and dearth of scientific insight and fear of math. I would speculate on the bell curve and how fat or skinny it was and how much it was modified by induction and C-sections and whether different hospitals had different distributions. Inevitably the people at the dinner parties would be friends from Caltech. Most had kids. Most of the fathers were scientists. Most of the mothers were not. (Even today things remain frighteningly skewed, though, interestingly, most of my graduate students in recent years have been female. Times have no choice but to change.) As soon as I started my rant the fathers would all join in: "Yeah! I could never get that question answered either," and they would bring up obscure statistical points of their own. The mothers would all roll their eyes, lean in towards Diane, and whisper "I am SO sorry. I know just how you feel" and inquire as to how she was feeling and sleeping and how Petunia kicked and squirmed (as an aside, my female graduate students wanted to know the answer to my question, too, and were prepared to rant alongside me. Times have no choice but to change.)
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| The incredible art of R.S. Connett Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:22 PM PST I recently came across the striking work of an artist named R.S. Connett, whose work brought to mind Ernst Haeckel and H.R. Giger. I contacted him and asked if we could run some of his work on Boing Boing along with his comments. Here's what he had to say:
Visit R.S. Connett's website, or view selected works. |
| SF Street Artist Sandwich Mashes Up Halo/Wikileaks Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:15 PM PST  Via UpTown Almanac, word of a new artist hitting the streets—well, the walls of SF: Sandwich, who's making bold statements with this Halo + Collateral Murder mashup. This is the second WikiLeaks-inspired piece he's taken credit for recently. Interesting stuff for sure. [Thanks Dylan] |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:00 PM PST  I got a cool package in the mail from Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord. I knew they'd found something important and special on the road, but had no idea how important and special until I opened it. Inside, THE BOING BOING FORMULA, and fittingly, it's "WOMAN." Contains Horny Goat Weed, Broomrape, and other herbs that purportedly enhance sexytime. From the label: A daily booster designed to help you revive the X factor of feeling good, feeling attractive and confident, being desirable, and creating a mood for intimacy and adventure. Users report new vitality, friskiness, clarity of mind, and rediscover that wonderful naughty spark, which threatens to become a flame at any moment, restoring the confidence our stressful lifestyles rob us of. Was there ever a more perfect description of BoingBoing.net? Maybe we should market a Boing Boing brand of herbal supplements. Or, just little pill-shaped candies. THE BOING BOING FORMULA. Your thoughts welcomed in the comments. Thanks, Yo-Landi and Ninja, you guys are the best. |
| Map collages by Matthew Cusick: portraits, seascapes & more Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:13 PM PST  Matthew Cusick's Map Works series repurposes printed maps into new works of art. Check out the seascapes and highways, too. He also has an interesting series called Passages which combine Bible passages with other works in a similar manner. Matthew Cusick (via Green Chair Press [h/t]) |
| Rocket to Russia: official hymn of the conquerors Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:55 PM PST  Joe feels the (slightly scary & very vocal) love (Moscow Arena) Our second and final show in Russia happens in Moscow, at a large black box called The Moscow Arena. Inside of the building walls, floors, ducting, integral support beams and even lighting and plumbing have an unfinished feel, as if the the venue is meant to be temporary. Pieces of tile are glued haphazardly onto cinderblock walls assembled without enough mortar. Light shines through the separation between the concrete and air moves through, too, mostly reeking of cigarette smoke. Forty minutes before showtime the rapidly growing crowd in front of the stage is clearly audible from the dressing room, loud enough that it becomes challenging to hear myself speak or hear the notes on my unplugged bass as I warm up my fingers. When we arrive on the stage the crowd howls with one demonic voice as Jeff counts us in to the opener: Ice 9. The audience claps, jumps, waves their arms, sits on each other's shoulders, even cries. I am drenched in sweat in four minutes and stay that way for the entire two and a half hour set, the drops moving continually from my head to my shoes. Elegant and surely expensive flower bouquets are passed hand to hand from the back of the hall to the people on the wall eight feet in front of us who then attempt to throw them on to the stage. They invariably miss, which is sad. One of the guys prowling the pit in black "SECURITY" shirt kicks the flowers beneath the stage. There are hands flung in the air grasping at notes, reckless air guitar playing, hair-flinging, head-banging and the waving of mobile phones, many of which are recording the event while the security guys attempt to shut them down but cannot reach through the press of people. We come off the stage triumphant, and Mick cackles gleefully. This crowd is pretty much a mob. Our exit from the club is across thirty feet of open pavement, through a cordon of security people and surrounded by a press of eager well wishers, yelling requests for autographs, photographs and here come more beautiful flowers, one bunch vigorously hand delivered into the van (and almost followed by the woman who, only slightly alarmingly, broke through) before the door is pulled shut and we take a short drive around a couple of extra streets so as not to be so obvious about the close proximity of our hotel. At the hotel bar several rounds of Beluga vodka shots (a local favorite) are consumed along with the ubiquitous after show pizza that Mick carefully husbanded from the dressing room through the throng. Mick makes the toast: "To Mother Russia!" Local print and online media had promised grand rhetorical hyperbole in the best promotional tradition. "In Saint Petersburg it will play its most lushie melodies!" and my favorite: "...official hymn of the conquerors!" We delivered.
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:08 PM PST My seven-year-old daughter Jane has been having fun with the Elf Cam iPhone Christmas app. It's got several nifty features, including a compass that, when pointed at the North Pole, will play the sounds of the elves busy at work in the toyshop, and a series of videos called "Ask an Elf?" where a snarky and rather large elf gossips about goings-on at the North Pole. It also has a feature that allows you to set up your camera on Christmas Eve to record Santa coming out of your fireplace (or walking into room if you don't have a fireplace), so you can show it to your child in order to prove that Santa Claus is real. The graphics and music are cute, and $1.99, the price is right. Elf Cam for iPhone |
| 76 Synthesizer: Stupidly cool iPad app interface Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:58 PM PST  Swedish designer Jonas Eriksson designed this incredibly amazing interface for an iPad app called "76 Synthesizer" which may or may not even exist (the internet isn't giving me a straight answer, stupid internet). I can't find it in the app store anyway, which is a shame because I'd buy it just to show off the great design more than I'd actually use it. Note to other iPad and iPhone designers: THIS! |
| Lori Nix's stunning, tiny dioramas depict an abandoned world Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:53 PM PST  Cliff Kuang, the editor of Co.Design, Fast Company's design blog, pointed me to the work of Lori Nix, who designs detailed miniature dioramas of a post-apocalyptic world. The twist is that Nix's photos aren't Photoshop manipulations -- they're real images of tiny, painstakingly detailed dioramas that Nix has designed just for this project. Nix built the 3-D scenes in her living room on nights and weekends with the help of an assistant, with each one taking anywhere from two to fifteen months to complete. Nix shot the dioramas on normal 8x10 film, making her minuscule creations -- about 20 x 24 x 72 inches small -- appear nearly indistinguishable from full-size scenes.There is a slideshow Lori Nix's work at the link. Lori Nix's Stunning, Tiny Dioramas Depict an Abandoned World |
| Roy Doty's 2010 Christmas card Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST  I am very thankful to have gotten to know Roy Doty, who has been illustrating for Make magazine for the last six years. I first became familiar with Roy's work in the late 1960s, when I saw his pleasing and deceptively simple illustrations in Popular Science magazine. For many years Roy drew a comic strip called "Wordless Workshop," which featured a pipe smoking suburban dad who wandered around his house and neighborhood observing the minor irritations that his family and neighbors experienced, and then coming up with an elegant solution to those problems that involved making a nifty contraption out of easily obtained materials. Roy is not only a very gifted cartoonist, he's a wonderfully resourceful inventor! Roy is 88 years old, and he still works full time for a wide variety of publications. He can turn around a drawing in a matter of hours, and I admit I have occasionally taken advantage of his ability to do this. Every year Roy sends out a Christmas card, and they are always very inventive and delightful. This one, titled "A Holiday Alphabet," features a number of Santa's elves contorting themselves into positions that resemble the letters of the alphabet. |
| The past year's 12 editions of Vogue covers, overlaid Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:04 PM PST  This is the shroud of Vogue, made from the last 12 editions of the magazine, overlaid. (Via Book of Joe) |
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