Here’s your little does of “humanity isn’t completely doomed” for the day. A 9 year old boy builds an entire arcade out of cardboard in his Dad’s used auto-parts store. He gets one customer, filmmaker Nirvan, who then crowd sources a ton of people to come play this little boy’s arcade. The end result is the little boy saying it was the greatest day of his life.
I could stare at this beautiful wind map all day. Built by Hint.Fm, it uses hourly forecasts from the National Forecast Database to give you an idea of how air is traveling across the United States at any given moment. It’s incredible.
In February I photographed a few more cowboys for my All-Around Cowboys series. One of them is named Mike Querner and lives in Temple, Texas. After I photographed him, I asked if I could film him doing a poem so I could show people back home and online what Cowboy Poetry is all about. I figured this one would be a good place to start. Check out his quirky and funny poem after the jump.
I studied political science at the University of Texas, and by chance one semester, I took a photography course taught by Professor Dennis Darling that would eventually change my life. Dennis normally taught graduate journalism programs, but once or twice a year he would teach the course I took, for students who were majoring in things outside of communications and journalism. It focused around the basics of using a camera, but for me would be the eventual basis for a career change.
Well this year Dennis has turned 65, and has opened up the archives of his life’s work to some of us who have stayed in contact with him. For the last few months, a couple times a week we receive an email with a single photo and a short caption. The shot above is one of my favorite’s that I have received thus far. Taken in 1975, it is of a Ku Klux Klan member and his wife in East Texas. Dennis’ work is incredible and spans many decades. Luckily, along with me, he has also been forwarding his work to some folks at NPR, who decided to publish a bunch of it today on NPR.org. If you’ve got the time, I’d recommend checking them out. They’re powerful pieces of work.
It’s an understatement to say that us Americans like our cars. Fathom has beautifully shown us how much we love them by creating this incredibly detailed map of the United States. It has no outlines or features other than over 240 million different road segments around the U.S.. Despite only consisting of roads, major geographical features and population densities are reflected in the way the roads have grown around the landscape. More details here.
Let’s all have a meat machine dance party!
Shredder wants you for the foot.
Whoa, some weird cows.
Awesome People Hanging Out Together.
Great short on Winterhouse.
All it took was 6.24 seconds.
America looks like a shark or something.
Amazing Iron & Wine poster by Landland.
You missed the top. “Oh ah!“
Those fine fellas over at The Post Family have a fresh new redesign!
I’m a pretty big fan of this beautiful typeface called Helmut.
We’re getting closer and closer to terminator days.
No one wants to be that bored couple.
You don’t need more closet space. You just need Magritte Hangers.
What can I say? I’m a glass half full kinda guy.
The White House flickr stream is pretty neat.
It’s been a long time since someone has actually yelled, “stop the presses!”.
Lamebook.com has officially released an iPhone App.
I used to have an airedale, he couldn’t do this.
The world’s smallest horse, no you can’t ride it.
Please let this be the new Lil Wayne cover.
Connecting science and art.
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