Today's Acquisition

La Roux
Marina and the Diamonds
Major Lazer
Metric
Dirty Projectors

Kanye West posted this on his blog just recently. The guy never ceases to impress me.

RIP Dash Snow

Amazing Shadow Art

Check out this article about these two british based artists' named Tim Noble and Sue Webster. It's the most amazing thing I've seen in a while.

JUST SAY NO to dry web tech manuals!

For the past couple of years I've been suggesting to anyone who asks me if they wanted to set up a website what should they do. And for every inquiry I've recommended blog sites as an easy and cheap alternative. Well since I've been looking into updating my personal website myself, I've been doing extensive research and have stumbled on to a CMS and publishing platform that seems to blow the free bloggers out of the water!

The site is called squarespace. An all in one inclusive site that is reasonable priced and has all the tools you need at your fingertips. Even non geeks with no coding background can set a website easily with this online web application/solution. It's super customizable and cuts developing time down to a minimum so that designers can focus more on design and not on the techy stuff or waste money with hiring a programmer. Seems like technology is getting easier and easier these days with the end user in mind. That being said I wanted to share my discovery with others in order to make this world a better place. Generally I don't like to advertise for companies or products but because I find the services this website offers so amazing I thought I would just put it out there for everyone to share.

I love Legos

When I was a kid I would spend hours playing with my lego sets, mostly building houses and what not. One of my dreams then was when I grew up i would buy every lego set ever made and assemble them and display in a room dedicated to my collection. Well I've since lived out 16 years of my adult life and still no lego collection room. But soon I may start! They're planning to come out with an Architecture series that will feature 6 iconic buildings including a Frank Lloyd Wright version. AWESOME!

New Inspiration

It's been at least a year and a half since I earnestly sought design inspiration or actively kept up with design trends that lately I've been down on myself for having let myself fall out of the loop. But recently I've found a couple links that has spurred my excitement and I feel are worthy of posting. My boyfriend purports he sent me one of the links a few months ago but I seriously have no recollection of it. Bad girlfriend am I.

This agency has latched onto some good things and I'm looking forward to seeing more of their artists in future. A few of the artists with this agency work with some lesser known but awesome musicians. I recognize La Boca who's done album covers for the DC recordings crew. Quite a few have these artists have cycled through my itunes playlist. I've always believed good album covers leads to good music, mostly because I've noticed any artists worth their salt tend to collaborate with other inspiring artists.





This site is great for classic design inspiration from the 50s thru the 70s. It's a blog site that continually updates their articles. I stumbled onto them while looking for 70s book cover inspiration. Totally worth looking thru.

Videoless

Been posting mostly videos lately so figured that maybe I can change things up a bit and maybe inject a little personality this time round. Well whatever little I have to inject. A friend sent over a link to a youtube hindi cover of common ppl that led me to the original version sung by jarvis cocker and i must say i'm kicking myself in the arse for missing that boat the 1st time it came around in the mid nineties. Must have been after the tailend of my britpop phase. He is one sexy muther! MREOW! Sigh, shallow as it may sound makes me glad to have my own little brit boy to contend with. Yum.