THING I USED TO DO

I used to make things in my small studio in Seattle...I'd spend countless hours cutting small images from books, guide books, old magazines, dictonaries and the like, to paste them together to make odd little books.

Myles found this book I made back in 2006 and sent me a picture of it this morning (above) with the subject title: "you should do more of this".

I think it's time to do it again.

BLOWING MY MIND

If you have 2 minutes then you need to watch this, it is pretty amazing. Unfortunately I don't have an embed code so you have to go here to watch the video or click the image below. Be patient, let the video load and try to figure it out.

SABER-TOOTH

When I was in kindergarten and we started to learn about dinosaurs, I remember the Saber Tooth Tiger as being the on that I liked the most. I think I liked it because it wasn't a pure dinosaur...it had fur and massive teeth and had the ability to be more sly and cunning then a T-Rex that had a peanut for a brain...and so my obsession with the Saber Tooth began. Tonight I came across this geometrical rendering of the Saber Tooth and I have to say I enjoy it greatly:


Kindergarten was a great time for me, as I sit here writing about the Saber Tooth other memories have suddenly been hitting me. Like on St. Patrick's day, I remember my teacher filling us in on Leprechaun's. She passed around peanuts in their shells and had us hold on to them until all the other children in the class got one. She then had us open the shells to get to the nuts, at this point she had us split open one nut and look at the one side that had the little chunk of extra meat on the upper portion. She told us that this was where leprechaun's lived, that the shape we were looking at was their feet. I believed it and in a small way I still do today.

My teacher ended up dieing of cancer...it was my first experience with death and I had no idea how to deal with it...so I just kept playing and enjoying life...I'm pretty sure my teacher would have preferred it that way. She was awesome and totally loved life and mythology.

Saber Tooth Tigers and Leprechaun's are pretty awesome as well.

FULL DISTEFANO

For the full weekend of DISTEFANO click here.

DISTEFANO

I'm going to be documenting Chris DiStefano while we are here in Austin...here's 1 from the day so far. For those of you who don't know Chris DiStefano, he's the marketing guy at Chris King and just an all around great character.

You can follow his wanderings here & here & here.

I've also been tag teaming twitter with slate here if you want to follow our doings in Austin.

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It's raining in Austin today...bummer.

So I'm looking at design sites, drinking coffee w/ chris distefano and slate, & having visions of the sun.

EIFFEL EXPOSURE

Got off the plane today in Austin, TX and was overwhelmed by heat and humidity. It's been nice to be in a t-shirt all day and drink beers until 10pm on an outside patio. As nice as it is, I think living in the sun and warmth year round would wear me out. I'd exist outside far too often to be intrested in films, art, and reading. Portland winters are good for this...they allow rest, focus, knowledge, fires, and hearty drinking.

Speaking of more exposed skin...above (click photo to enlarge) is a great scratch that Ethan acquired this summer, somehow he was able to fall just right to create the eiffel tower. He was showing it off at the soap box derby so I couldn't resist taking a photo of it.

"...BEING STYLISH IS NOT just about clothes--it's to do with posture and with manners."

-paul smith