My friends over at Holstee JUST released this fantastic video which celebrates cyclists through the lens of their manifesto. I got chills watching it. You?
Lookwork RSS Reader
Lookwork RSS Reader seems to be the reader I have been waiting for: ALL VISUAL, built for artists and designers. Lookwork creates a flood of images built from your RSS subscriptions and lets you create a personal library by tagging the images you want to keep. You can backup your data via Dropbox and follow others. Now if only one could try it with my own feed without having to subscribe for the $5/month right away. Bummer.
Update: The folks of Lookwork told me via Twitter that they are going to introduce a 7-day free trial soon! YAY!
Nest Chair
Meet the Nest Chair by Twig. 100% handmade in the USA. Custom colors available. Beautiful!
Typo St.Gallen (Conference)
I am thrilled to be speaking at a small conference near my hometown in Switzerland on saturday november 19th. Typo St.Gallen is focusing on typographic topics and asks the question if there’s still such a thing is typical Swiss typography. If you live close to St.Gallen, consider getting a ticket, there’s only a few left. You should know though that the conference will be held in German. (not sure how that will work out, me presenting in German, should be interesting)
The Spirit of Journalism circa 1940
Found this Manifesto for the Spirit of Journalism circa 1940 over at Brain Pickings. Made me look!
Drawing the NYC Marathon
The wonderful Christoph Niemann did the impossible yesterday: He ran *and* live-sketched the NYC Marathon at the same time. He drew with good old analog paper and pencil, then snapped a photo and tweeted it out to the world. I followed his stream with sheer amazement all day. I laughed when he ‘upped the ante’ and pulled out a canvas and oil paint at the end. Gotta love Christoph’s sense of humor. Hat tip!
You might know Christoph Niemann from his NYTimes Abstract Sunday Column, his I LEGO N.Y. book or a CreativeMornings talk I posted a while back.
You can follow his entire Marathon experience on his two twitter accounts: @abstractsunday and @abstractsunday1 (Looks like Twitter has a restriction on how many photo tweets you can upload a day, he had to create a new Twitter account mid-way through)
♥ / Houzz
A big thank you to Houzz for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed!
It’s the Wikipedia of home design, the Flickr of design-idea sites, and the online equivalent of clipping photos from magazines. It’s Houzz — and it has quickly become our daily obsession. Photos? Browse 200,000+ gorgeous spaces and save your faves to an ideabook. Professionals? Search 25,000+ architects, interior designers, contractors and more. Information? Articles from design experts and a vibrant community are ready to solve your design dilemmas.
Best of all, you can get Houzz on your iPad or iPhone – and we can’t think of anything better to enjoy with our coffee on Sunday mornings.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
11/11/11
Image by Jason Hawkins
If you’re in New York next week then don’t miss to rsvp for the CreativeMornings talk on 11/11/11 with my wonderful studiomate Jessi Arrington. (rsvp opens on monday morning at 11am. We fill up within minutes!)
It is going to be an unusually *colorful* CreativeMornings as Jessi is color-lover-extraordinnaire and the undisputed rainbow queen. After her CreativeMornings talk we will form a rainbow parade (this is what we’re talking about, line up monochromatically and march through DUMBO. And yes, there will be a marching band!
If you can’t get a ticket to the actual CreativeMornings, fear not, and just meet us at NY at 9:45am in front of Galapagos Art Space.
With that said, you need to dress in a single color. Embrace your inner monochromatic self and join the fun, wear your favorite color!
RSVP for the 11/11/11 CreativeMornings talk opens up on monday morning, november 7th, at 11am, here.
Tree Stand
Now this is what I call a stylish (Christmas) Tree Stand.
Rewrite
Rewrite is thought of as a kind of isolating workingbubble, that can work as a satellitedesk anywhere one can feel the need of concentration and shielding – in open space offices, public spaces or at home. Just what I need today.
Murmuration
A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s greatest phenomenons; a murmuration of starlings.
murmuration
/merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n.
1. an act or instance of murmuring.
2. a flock of starlings.
(via Mrs.Easton)
Lighting Vest
The Lightning Vest is one of the coolest bike accessories I have seen in a while! It is a hand-netted, highly visible safety vest made from a custom developed 3M reflective material. It can be worn all year, day or night and layered over jackets or t-shirts. Neck opening is wide enough to pass over your helmet and netting is large enough for your hand to access your pockets. It is lightweight and compact enough to fit in your pocket without ever getting tangled. Brilliant? YES!
(via velojoy)
Menagerie
The lovely Sharon Montrose just came out with a new animal photograhy book called Menagerie. You can buy her photos as prints. (I keep picturing a GIANT print of the cow or the white goose one in our living room.)
Stop doing things
You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things. – Pilcher
(quote from Andrew Zucerkman’s CreativeMornings talk)
The Knife Maker
The wonderful folks behind Made By Hand just released their second short about a Brooklyn based writer turned knife maker. Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash. Wonderful!
Made by Hand is a short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand — sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.
Art & Exploration
Having grown up on the Swiss country side and being allowed and taught to be adventurous and self-sufficient at a very early age, the below excerpt from Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs makes me sad about living in a city with kids.
“What is the impact of the closing down of the Wilderness on the development of children’s imaginations? This is what I worry about the most. I grew up with a freedom, a liberty that now seems breathtaking and almost impossible. Recently, my younger daughter, after the usual struggle and exhilaration, learned to ride her bicycle. Her joy at her achievement was rapidly followed by a creeping sense of puzzlement and disappointment as it became clear to both of us that there was nowhere for her to ride it—nowhere that I was willing to let her go. Should I send my children out to play?
There is a small grocery store around the corner, not over two hundred yards from our front door. Can I let her ride there alone to experience the singular pleasure of buying herself an ice cream on a hot summer day and eating it on the sidewalk, alone with her thoughts? Soon after she learned to ride, we went out together after dinner, she on her bike, with me following along at a safe distance behind. What struck me at once on that lovely summer evening, as we wandered the streets of our lovely residential neighborhood at that after-dinner hour that had once represented the peak moment, the magic hour of my own childhood, was that we didn’t encounter a single other child.
Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with?
Art is form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted–not taught–to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?”
(via Raul)
Kinect Effect
Moving and inspiring.
(via Tim)
Copy Paste Character
Copy Paste Character did an impressive update to their site. Lots of new and helpful functionality. Plus, they launched an iPhone App.
Copy Paste Character let’s you copy the ‘hidden’ characters that come with the computer’s typefaces, so you can paste them into emails, tweets, text documents, forums and whatever else you might need to spice up with an extra ♔, ฿ or, ❒.
Copy Paste Character is developed in Stockholm, Sweden, by Konst & Teknik & Martin.
Search Instagram
I use Instagram daily on my iphone and love it. I just wish the content wasn’t as trapped. I was seriously excited when my studiomate Rusty just told me about the site called searchinstagram.com. (Let’s just hope I am not killing their servers now)
Tattly + Field Notes
Tattly + Field Notes have teamed up to bring the ultimate “get stuff done” set. These are pretty much perfectly sized for sliding into a stocking this holiday season. Field Notes + Hustle Pack, $15. (There were only a handful of these sets made and they are sure to go quickly)
SO&SO
SO&SO is a lovely new short-form journal for the wandering interneteer. The current, second edition tries to resolve the Atheist / Agnostic distinction. Interesting.
(Hat tip to the creator Alasdair Monk.)
Happy Halloween
Here’s the current Halloween status at case Eisenberg. Can I just say what a good sport G is? Last year double rainbows, this year Superhero-family! He deserves a medal!
Happy Halloween everyone!