These have to be some of the most meticulously created steampunk leather and metal creations I have ever seen. The influences of The Brothers Quay, Tim Burton, Edward Gory, and Jean-Pierre Jeunut are certainly present.
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via io9
A few weeks ago my wife had a bit of an accident in the kitchen with a cutting knife. As we quickly took action to slow the bleeding I scrambled to look online to see if the wound was serious enough to warrant a visit to the emergency room for stitches.
I landed on About.com’s First Aid site. And after reading some informative articles I clicked to watch this video on how to dress a wound. Would you believe that I first had to sit through an ad spot? The video is currently playing ad-free, but I’m not sure if that’s because they caught this monumental fail or if the campaign had wrapped.
My wife is OK, btw.
You’d have to be a seasoned comic art aficionado to recognize the name Alex Niño. Even when he was his most prolific you’d have had to be reading comics like Heavy Metal, Creepy, and The Savage Sword of Conan in the 70’s and early 80’s. Unfortunately all the innovative comic art at that time was pushed to the fringe titles. And Niño’s work was clearly before his time.
This November the Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn (of all places) is hosting a month long exhibit dedicated to his work. I’m hoping to trek out and catch some of this amazing work first-hand.
November 4th - 30th
Opening reception November 4th - 2-4pm (no mention if the artist will be present)
Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, CUNY
Art Gallery - Arts & Science Building
2001 Oriental Blvd, Brooklyn, NY
Powerful TED talk delivered by Dan Pink.
Science has proven that people motivated by money do not perform as well in cognitive tasks as people who aren’t incentivized.
Dan challenges business to shed their old ways and figure out how to better tap into the things that really motivate us:
Every once in a while it’s interesting to reflect on how the social web is impacting our lives and ways both big and small. Over the past few months I started to get an influx of enthusiastic reactions to photos I was uploading to Facebook from my mobile phone. At some point I think the figure finally tipped, where my non-New York connections outnumbers my local connections. These random photos, while trivial to my local friends, were a glimpse into the textured world of NYC.
I recently decided to take things a little further and upload a photo set taken with a better camera. The funny thing is, so far I haven’t gotten any reactions. I can almost see why though. There’s a certain spontaneous quality to my mobile pics. The lower resolution and the sometimes random pixelation actually adds to the charm of them. The above photos, while equally as spontaneous somehow don’t feel that way.
Nonetheless, I thought it might be nice to share them with y’all on my blog too. Enjoy.