Scare Isle Knit Monster
Sibling’s knitwear range for guys is fun. Their zany Scare Isle Knit Monster appears to be just for show. (via KRISATOMIC)
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Jesus lives, though not the trees
My flight path into Adelaide yesterday went over the area where the once mighty River Murray now trickles into Lake Alexandrina and the sea, and where an ecological disaster has been unfolding over the past decade of drought. Ironically, only minutes further on I saw this ‘Jesus lives‘ spelt out by lopping down trees. Join the dots, people.
Then I was delighted to glimpse of a large teddy bear on a bicycle on the grass between the Adelaide Airport runways as we landed! Apparently his name is Buck, he’s been around for 27 years, and his attire changes every now and then to reflect local interests. This time he was celebrating the Tour Down Under which took place in January.
Visual musing on rrsCloud
I spent a little time this morning playing with the idea of rssCloud being represented by a merging of the rss icon with a Chinese cloud.
Fail whale squirrelized
A bit of nonsense, made with the Squirrelizer! (apropo the photo crashing squirrel).
Iphone art: The Hedgehogerus & other flights of fancy
At the moment I’m entranced with drawing on my iPhone, mostly playing with the Brushes and Paintbook apps. My full set of iPhone drawings is here.
With Brushes I’m presently evolving some strange creatures in a strange environment. Above you can see the Hedgehogerus surprised, the Hedgehogerus nest and fairy, the two-toed Chubbachubb, and the double-pouched Schweep.
With Paintbook I’ve been making some very simple two-tone faces of (mostly) imaginary people. Here are a few favourites:
It seems as if there is an exciting new field opening up as people experiment with what can be achieved on such a small screen using just your finger. David Hockney has already had an exhibition of his iPhone drawings, and The New Yorker recently drew attention to the phenomenon by featuring an iPhone drawing by Portuguese artist Jorge Columbo as it’s cover illustration. But you get a better feel for the range, quality and some sense of developing community among artists using iPhone apps, at Flickr, for instance in the Brushes gallery.
Awesome: papercraft Ceiling Cat
Yes, I know now that this has been all over the web, but I only saw it today: Tubbypaws’s papercraft Ceiling Cat.
The Nano Song: puppets explain nanotechnology!
This cute Sesame Street style video won both the Critics’ Choice and People’s Choice awards in the ACS Nanotation NanoTube ‘What is Nano?’ competition for a video tutorial about nanotechnology. It was a ‘collaborative effort by a group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley including Patrick Bennett, David Carlton, Molly Felz, Nola Klemfuss, Glory Liu (singer), Ryan Miyakawa, Stacey Wallace, and Angelica Zen’.
Yay! a Fail Whale card!
I’m really happy – Yiying Lu sent me one of her cool Fail Whale cards! Here it is with my little sculpture. Thanks so much Yiying :)
Experimenting on hot cross buns
The Laucke flour mills site suggests the best place for proofing and rising dough is in an esky with some boiled water and the lid on, so that’s what I’m trying with my annual batch of hot cross buns. It will be a revelation if it works!
Update: They turned out so well – the best batch I’ve ever made, by far, and I’m sure it was because of the esky trick. The buns expanded quickly in a fluffy kind of way – they have never done that before, and have always previously taken such an age to rise. Might tempt me to try making bread again sometime.
