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Kansas City Public Library Garage Concealed by Giant Wall of Books
The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library is partially concealed by the giant book spines of the Community Bookshelf. The Community Bookshelf is…
The Dark and Unrelenting Comedy of “Little Murders” Turns 40
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of my favorite films, Little Murders starring Elliott Gould. It was the first feature film written…
Mario, A SXSW 2011 Film Promo by Joe Nicolosi
“Mario”, part of a series of SXSW 2011 Film bumpers by Joe Nicolosi. via One Cool Thing a Day & Barbara Slough
Please Pick Up After Your Pets
“Please Pick Up After Your Pets”, a new Threadless t-shirt design by Phil Jones and David Soames featuring various characters from cartoons and comics picking…
Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries Featured on Cover of Wired Magazine
Congratulations to our friend Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries for being featured as a “Maker Hero” on the cover of the April 2011 issue of…
Adult Swim Animated Promos by Cyriak
Cyriak Harris has created some wonderfully surreal animated promos for Adult Swim.
One of Those Days
“One of Those Days”, a lovely squid themed Shirt.Woot t-shirt design by Charity Ryan.
DOTKLOCK, An Open Source Programmable Clock
The DOTKLOCK by Andrew O’Malley is a digital clock running on the open source Arduino microcontroller. In its standard form, it displays the time and…
Random Comment Book by James Obriant
Graphic designer James Obriant brings us this handy dandy “Random Comment Book,” which makes it possible to put words in a person’s mouth with out…
Owsley Stanley (1935-2011), Legendary 1960’s LSD Chemist
Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III), 1960’s LSD chemist and the original Grateful Dead sound engineer (he helped kick start the live recording of…