Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Today’s theme is things that are good. These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980’s subway photography. The top fonts of 2009. “The primary goal is to change…
Today is MLK Day so perhaps you’d like to kill time with first person Tetris? Behold the sleep suit! Alligators and birds breathe similarly! (psst… this is actually about dinosaurs,…
Tomorrow, we’ve been told, will be another day as well. Richard Nixon as art critic. Christophe Gilbert’s photo-manipulations are pretty rad indeed. Can doctors use your eyes to determine if…
Conceptual art we can get behind: the biggest disco ball the world has ever known. Goodnight Keith Moon. No, we don’t speak German, but we do like these pictures by…
True story: this entry briefly read “morning of coffee”. I tell you this because I trust you. The top ten places you can not go. A guide to making cartoons…
Resin macrophotography. Because it is cool that’s why. US Geological Survey map of the moon. (via Metafilter.) It’s been a long time since we’ve talked about the red devil squid.…
Still here for you, never you worry. The misfits of modern agribusiness. Design Sponge has some lovely terrariums to show you. 2010 is here, so now we have robot border…
Don’t tell anyone, but today is the last day of the year. Other rad things you can make out of books. Can farming save Detroit? Sema Bekirovic takes some pretty…
It is getting increasingly hard to fill this section with anything but year-end retrospectives, but I like this graph quite a bit. Hubble’s best images of 2009 (see above). The…
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you…