The new Skinny Puppy live album – Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas – comes out June 15. It was recorded in Warsaw, Bratislava, Hildesheim, and Budapest during the last tour. I missed this tour when they were in LA so this will have to tide me over until they tour for HanDover.
10:58 PM
8:25 PM
Coachella announces all-hologram festival featuring only dead people. The pit during Mozart is going to be out of this world.
11:01 AM
Cool 2001: A Space Odyssey-themed Lego models. There’s a 6′ 1″ model of the Discovery One with EVA pods and detailed interior, a diorama of the Dawn of Man scene, and a model of the Leonov from 2010.
10:51 AM
This site has a really cool collection of architectural stationery, letterheads from old-timey companies. I love the detailed drawings and ornate lettering. I wish I had stationery that I could put something like this on. Maybe I could add an image to all my emails but that might be obnoxious.
6:39 PM
A look at the screen printing process behind Tim Doyle’s silkscreen prints. I took print shop in high school but we never did anything cool like this. I have a few of his prints hanging on my walls and it’s cool to see how they were made.
2:30 PM
Interesting article about how old movies are converted to 3D. It’s a complicated process where they go scene by scene and determine how “deep” inside the set everything is supposed to be.
10:18 AM
Someone’s finally gone and built a functional Akira bike. It cost US$121,000 and was raced across Japan for charity. Built to scale from the manga, the real bike turned out to be really long and difficult to turn. I guess it looks cool in the manga but doesn’t really work out in real life.
4:23 PM
I’ve never seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, but artist Jeff Desom probably watched it a hundred times to make this art installation. He combined all of the various shots from the guy’s rear window into one big panoramic time-lapse movie. Apparently in the movie the guy watches everything from the same spot in his apartment, so the angles and points-of-view matched up. Impressive.
11:17 AM
Titanic will be re-released in 3D tomorrow. James Cameron seems to have avoided the George Lucas route (besides, you know, converting it to 3D), but he made one change to have the correct stars in the night sky. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson contacted Cameron about that years ago and he took his advice.
Also, in this version Jack shoots at Cal first.
11:07 AM
I’ve mentioned my love of the Midori Traveler’s Notebook before. Sadly I haven’t had many travel adventures to fill it with. But anyway, there’s a company called Pelle that makes a similar journal but with some slight differences, like the elastic closure band is knotted in the spine so it lays flat, unlike the Midori. It’s available in 3 sizes and 3 colors, including a cool “burnt cognac.”
6:59 PM
The trailer for the Total Recall remake is out. Not bad, the CGI makes the future look more, uh, futuristic than the original. Although I hope there’s more glass breaking.
11:04 PM
Heh heh, drunk guy gets arrested and sings all of Bohemian Rhapsody from the backseat of a police car. Props for remembering all the lyrics while he’s drunk, I can’t even do that when I’m sober. But what would’ve really sent this video over the top is if the cops joined in.
8:49 PM
Good interview with artist Tyler Stout about his awesome screen print for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
11:52 PM
The guy sitting next to me on the subway yesterday was using a cassette player. He flipped the tape over and everything. He was either a hipster or a homeless guy, I’m still not entirely sure.
