Lot 49

Apr
5th

Thu

mark[sweep]: The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in the US

When President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to make iPhones in the United States, the late Apple co-founder supposedly quipped: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”

When I read this, it reminded me of something my dad presented to us as kids a long time ago- The Beer Game.

My dad…

Mar
22nd

Thu

Brad Colbow's Tumblr: It's Not File Size That's Killing iPad Magazines

bcolbow:

Since the announcement and launch of the new retina display iPad, designers have been pointing out the obvious, magazine downloads that were already huge are going to become absolutely enormous. But magazines on the iPad have bigger problems than file size.

I spent over a year working for a…

Feb
29th

Wed

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See

vondell-swain:

(full article by Seth Stevenson from slate.com)

American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38^th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore.

At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional conic projection. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways.

So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy?

I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret…

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Feb
26th

Sun

samspratt:

“Ron Fucking Swanson” - Portrait Painting by Sam Spratt

Being a fan of high-quality comedy television and not watching Parks and Recreation might just be the second most blasphemous thing you could do (the 1st of course being not watching Arrested Development). If for some reason you are in the “yet to watch” category, I present to you Ron Swanson aka exhibit A on what you are missing (youtube video).

If you have “seen the light” and are already familiar with Swanson Greatness, I humbly give you my painting of him. Features include: High and tight Swanson haircut, Swanson body hair, Swanson mustache, Swanson mustache chest hair (not groomed, grows that way naturally), Tammy tattoo, Tammy 2 tattoo, Tattoo of the text from Ron’s Speech to the boy’s basketball team, copious amounts of meat, the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness, Food and Stuff grocery store desk sticker, and Mulligan’s Steakhouse apron. High-quality Archival Prints Available HERE

Connect with my: portfolio website, tumblr, facebook artist’s page and twitter.

(via The Fantomas Website: Cortázar)

Feb
25th

Sat

In 1667, Paris became the first city in the world to light its streets, using wax candles in glass lamps.

— BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep

McDonald's to Offer McBaguette - WSJ.com

France is McDonald’s most-profitable market in Europe.

Feb
24th

Fri

(Source: oldlipgallagher, via pleatedjeans)

Correa means belt in English, Gürtel in German

— Gürtel case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drawing what you actually see—that is, drawing the plastic bull that’s in front of you rather than the simplified, idealized image of a bull that’s in your head—is something that does not come naturally to most people, let alone children. At its root, my gift was not the ability to draw what I saw. Rather, it was the ability to look at what I had drawn thus far and understand what was wrong with it.

— Hypercritical