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The Making of an Origami Koi

THE MAKING OF AN ORIGAMI KOI from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

(sorta via visualattitudes)

Keith Jarrett Solo Concert

Keith Jarrett is performing thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Oh, how I would love to see that... Yay! Fabulous Jennifer is going to watch our offspring, so G and I can go and see the performance. Can this monday get any better?

ScreenToaster: Record what's happening on your screen

Record your screencast online

ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder that doesn't require any software. (sample above) Upload videos to YouTube or ScreenToaster, download as an .avi file. Download as a .swf coming soon. Excellent!

(via eHub)

Perpetual Desk Calendar

Whenever I see the ThreePotatoFour newsletter in my inbox, I drop *everything* and check out their new stuff. Most of the really cool items in Ella's room are from their site. Now check out this fantastic vintage Perpetual Desk Calendar! Is that a beauty?

CameraBag for the iPhone

Derek pointed me to another fabulous iPhone Camera App called CameraBag. Choose from a cool range of retro filters that you can apply to your pictures. Wonderful!

typography v.1.0

I dont' know what this note says, all I know is that I *love* childrens' first attempts at writing.

Cadbury: Eyebrows Dance

(via oneplusinfinity)

Konigi OmniGraffle Wireframe Icon Set

The Konigi OmniGraffle Wireframe Icon Set is a set of grayscale cursors and icons that come in handy when designing wireframes, aka user interface schematics.

Books need hugs too

Hug by Thomas Keeley.

Is that camera looking at me?

Hawkeye camera by Brooklyn based designer Thomas Keeley. Made me smile. Great find, itsnicethat!

Book Mobile

I agree with Szymon: I love the idea of this BookMobile.

Artsy Money Merger

Libra+Yuan+Euro+Dolar+Peso by TintaiMpresa

(via bauldoff)

Quad Animator for the Quad Camera

How cool: Michael found out about the QuadCamera on swissmiss, and I now learned about the Quad Animator that will turn images into an animated gif on his blog. Going full circle!

C is for Cow

I fully agree with BBlinks: I am constantly amazed by the cool art to be found on Etsy. Like this WalkingToJericho Cow Print.

The Known Practice of Using Domesticated Bears as Cushions While Drinking.

This print by Michael Hsiung made me smile. Available over at Little Paper Planes.

(via bblinks)

Leica Icons

Leica icons for Mac OSX and Windows folders, memory cards and discs. Yes, please.

(thank you holger)

Fifty People / One Question: Brooklyn Version

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

How funny was that 'closet answer'? And also watch what people in London answered.

Obama keeps his PDA! YAY!

Designing Web Interfaces

12 Standard Screen Patterns, by Theresa Neil

(via chrisglass)

New: TwTip

TwTip is a tool designed to find and show awesome tips that are shared by Twitter fellows.

Lorem Ipsum Generator for Web Designers

Handy options in this dummy text generator are: number of words or characters, specifying pixel width, number of paragraphs (with tags), etc. Fantastic!

(via simplebits)

A Gotham Hooray!

Jonathan Hoefler just delivered fabulous news to my inbox: "Fans of our Gotham typeface will be pleased to find that as of this morning, there are three times as many Gothams in the world as there were yesterday." Hooray!

Anonymous Postcard: Claims

Anonymous Postcard is a suggestion box for the world, designed to allow anyone to openly communicate to a third party without the complications of personal contact. Claims submitted by the public are turned into vague and largely indecipherable postcards and mailed toward the intended recipients. Tucker Nichols founded Anonymous Postcard in August 2008 in partnership with his friend Dakin Hart. Beautiful! And now, Submit a Claim!

(Thank you Susan!)

Blogging in a window display

Maxwell from Apartment Therapy is taking blogging to a whole new level: He'll be live blogging out of his temporary office (above) in the Bloomingdales windows from 12p-5pm, as part of the Big Window Challenge. Congrats Maxwell!

Messa di Voce: "Pitchpaint"

I am about to meet Zach Lieberman, one of the masterminds behind Messa di Voce. Yay!

A hole in a Fence

Last night, I watched A Hole in a Fence which plays in Red Hook, Brooklyn and was filmed in Spring 2006, Pre-Ikea. Living in a neighboring neighborhood to Red Hook and having gone to IKEA many times already, this documentary hit home.

(thank you peter)

Oh No!

oh no! Sculptures by Nick Van Woert

Who said you can't fit a washing machine in that bathroom?

Smeg LBL16RO: Washing Machine with sink.

Layered PSDs from Screen Captures

Layers for the Mac, captures your displays as a Photoshop layered image. Press the capture hotkey or customize your capture in the inspector and you'll obtain a full fledged PSD file with one layer per window, including menu and desktop icons, dock and menubar. Woo hooo!

(via konigi)

Quad Camera

QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just pressing the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple dimensions and repetitions: a 4x2 portrait, 4x1, 2x2 landscape, and 8x1 landscape. Love. Love. Love.



(via EmilyChang, that lady has her finger on the pulse)

Paul Rand on Simplicity

(via fabulous jasonsantamaria)

This made me smile.

Installation by spanish artist SpY.

(via itsnicethat)

Umbrella Bloom

Bloom by Sam Spenser.

(via szymon)

Cloud Cushions

Cloud Cushions by Donna Wilson. Yes, please.

(via szymon)

Helbotica Tee

Helbotica Tee now in Kid's size over at the ChopShop. (Nice T holding up there, Matthew, who says you can only do that with posters, right?)

(via oneplusinfinity)

"Validation"—a short film by Kurt Kuenne

(via inspirimint)

Veer T-Shirt Goodness

For Placement Only (FPO) and WhiteSpace T. Accentuate the negative. Oh Veer, how much do I love you?

Library Camouflage

I don't understand a word on this site, but I know I do like this library camouflage outfit. 

Shredded A Shirt

‘Shredded A’ T-shirt by illustrator Brock Davis.

(via visual culture)

A collection of Presidential Signatures

Barack H. Obamas first signature as a president . Beautfiful! And here, a collection of Presidential Signatures.

(partially via designnotes)