I snapped this beautifully decorated facade of Cine-Theatre Girondin from the tram in Bordeaux. You can see it in more detail if you click on the largest size at Flickr.
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Green walls
The lovely plant wall outside Musee du quai Branly in Paris. Wouldn’t you like growing and green walls at your place? At least some of the plants were growing in little pockets of kapok or something similar attached to the wall:
Spoonflower
I’ve been aware of Spoonflower for quite a while; it’s such a good idea to extend printing on demand to fabric as well as books and paper.
Obamafication
I’ve watched the story of Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster unfold right from the beginning, about a year ago. The design is so good, and it’s wonderfully appropriate in the circumstances that a street art design has become iconic and so appreciated that it has become mainstream. Now you can obamify yourself at Obamicon.Me. It’d be fun if everyone adopted one of these as their avatar at Twitter and other places on inauguration day to celebrate.
Iphone pouch
King’s Park
On Monday a friend showed us a few sites around Perth. This was a decorative metal plate in the aerial walkway at King’s Park that took my fancy. I wished I had paper and a crayon so that I could have done a rubbing of it! A lot of the paths around the Park were a rusty colour, and apparently it’s because the bore water that is used to water the grass and plants is so rich in iron it stains everything rust. The park has great views of the city of Perth.
Cool cuttlefish and blenny puppets
Raggy Rat has made a couple of beautiful marine-themed puppets for Portland’s Seafest: a cuttlefish and a tompot blenny.
There are some great photos and commentary on the making process here. I love the mixing of different types of fabric, and the wool in particular reminds me of Mimi‘s use of wools. I’m looking forward to seeing photos taken at the festival, too. (And look at this cool jellyfish cake!). Thanks for letting me post your photos, Cat!
Cursters
There are a lot of monsters out there on the web, and I tend to be pretty selective about which I like. Some of Erin Currie’s Cursters I like a lot, particularly the ornate ones, like this or this, or this or this. Erin has an Etsy shop, too.
I hadn’t heard of munnys before seeing the monster above. Interesting to see a cross-over between urban graffiti and stencil art culture and toys.
Butterfly colour palettes
I once had an idea to make colour swatches from Australian landscapes for people to use when designing webpages. My main site Spirits Dancing dates from that time; it’s sorely in need of updating in other ways, but I still like the colours, which were sourced from a eucalyptus tree. So I was interested to come across a thriving community website based on a similar idea, COLORlovers. Check out their colour palettes sourced from butterflies.
(via Laughing Squid)
