One hundred wishes.

Kind of a sweet idea.



SilverCrow Creations - Sundries & Specialties

So true.

Some interesting print work over there at the onefoot store.

keegan wenkman :: One foot in front

(via AESTHETIC APPARATUS' newsletter)

I will eat more cottage cheese.

Great vintage posters from Chicago's Poster Plus.








Poster Plus - Shopping

Ladybug Chocolates.

These are cute and sound quite yummy.


Months in the making, we have created little ladybug shells, each one unique and filled them with a delectable raspberry ganache. The perfect gift for the Spring, they come in a set of 12 packed in a wood gift box tied with a red ribbon.

Ladybug Chocolates at John and Kira's

The Robot Museum in Nagoya, Japan.

Citizens of Nagoya, you are sooooo lucky.






While you're there, check out the excellent watches.


(The site's in Japanese, so I was flying blind. Still wonderful, though.)

ROBOT MUSEUM :: Official Site

Thanks for the excellent tip/blog fodder, monk!

Tenacious D + Foo Fighters.

Jack Black AND Dave Grohl. On the same stage. Daaamn.

Watch the video.

Clip Snag :: Tenacious D - Tribute with Foo Fighters

(via popurls)

Isaac Asimov had it right.

Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse, Protect Humans

The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots—and vice versa.

The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced last week.

(from National Geographic)

I'd prefer this in poster form.

Anyway, it made me laugh.


AllPosters.com - The World's Largest Poster and Print Store!

A giant Post-it surprise.

An Urban Post-it that could be easily removed and re-placed on any wall in the city to protect passersby from rain or sun.



Designing Critical Design - Part 2: Marti Guix and Dunne & Raby

Opera Resources on the World Wide Web

From: Stanford

The following listing includes opera information servers on the Web that we recommend for your additional browsing pleasure. We do not pretend to maintain an exhaustive list of all opera-oriented sites. Additional sites may be suggested for inclusion, but the editors reserve the right to accept or reject such suggestions. The sites listed are strictly educational and informational, providing general information about the world of opera. We regret that we cannot provide links to commercial sites offering goods and services.

Coordinate Sites

The following sites provide the same kinds of information that OperaGlass specializes in, and many links within the pages of OperaGlass are to pages in these sites. Naturally these sites are especially recommended!

• Opera Libretti and other Vocal Texts (Lyle Neff)
• Opera of America (Christopher Hapka): American opera composers and their works
• The Opera-L Synopsis Project (Neil Broderick)
• Vox Neapolis: Libretti (Marta Columbro)
• Bob Frone's Opera Page: current performances, links to company sites and fan pages, opera info with concentration on French Opera
• Great Russian Voices (Victor Han): many referenced individually under our fan pages
• OperaResource (Anne Lawson): links to synopses, libretti, pictures, sound clips, opera houses...
• Richard Wagner Homepage (Dirk Meyer)
• Opera Web: synopses, background information, discographies, amusements
• Eduardo Almagro's Kareol: synopses discographies, libretti and translations (español)
• Operaworks: synopses, libretti and English translations
• The Opera Archive (Prof. Clive Brown, Bretton Hall): critical editions and recordings rare works

General Sites

• CORPUS - Coordinated Opera Resource Pages (Mike Gibb): a comprehensive index of opera resources on the net
• Operabase (Mike Gibb): a searchable database of information on opera houses and festivals, and performance schedules, timelines of opera history (some info linking back to this site); multilingual! Also opera reviews (see below).
• The Opera Schedule Server (Tamas Maray): performance schedules, opera houses
• La Scala Archives (a searchable database of operas, artists, composers, librettists, characters, dates and places; the official archive of Teatro alla Scala)
• Classical Music Links (Marco Benedetti): topically organized links (many of the opera-related ones mirror this site)
• American Berlin Opera Foundation: scholarships for study and training at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Dictionaries of Recorded Opera and Opera Arias (Mario Biondi): dates, composers, librettists, sources, recordings, aria titles
• Wilhelm G. Busse's complete Verdi Discography
• CIRPeM - Centro Internazionale di Ricerca sui Periodici Musicali: bibliographic links and information
• Classical Insites: Classical music chat
• OPERA (Albert O. Cordell): research papers, Casa Verdi
• Directory of Musicians (Paul Critser)
• Jane's Opera Page (Jane Susanna Ennis): miscellaneous links, especially to British sites; also links to sources of the Wagner operas
• Richard Wagner Web Site (Kristian Evensen)
• The Aria Database (Robert Glaubitz): a searchable database of aria texts, translations, and sound files
• Singers and Samples (Carlton Higginbotham): Biographical information and sound samples of great opera singers of the past
• Frank Hoof's collection of Opera and Oratorio Libretti
• Sarasota Music Archive (Warren Kahn): recorded music research services
• Tom Kaufman's Bel Canto Page: including information on Mercadante, Pacini, Vaccai, and other composers
• KidsOp Intenrational Operas for children
• Theaterszene Köln
• Nibelheim (Andrea Kirkby): essays, performance reviews (UK)
• John Koopman's A Brief History of Singing from antiquity to the present day
• Classical Net (Dave Lampson): reviews, composer information, links
• Classical Singers' Association (Shigemi Matsumoto): classes, events
• Opera America: home page of this professional association of opera companies, with schedules, information on costume/set/prop rentals, and a personal directory
• Opera-L Archives: postings to the primary opera newsgroup, since 1995
• Operadata: opera performances (current information is free, longer-term and historic info requires subscription)
• Operissimo: a searchable relational database of opera recordings indexed by performers and roles; huge lists of operas and composers
• Opernarchiv: schedules, reviews, news (Deutsch)
• Suzanne Payne's Opera Links: companies, general links
• Operacalli (Alicia Ponce): Efemerides de Opera, Opereta y Zarzuela; extensive calendar of premieres, births, and deaths (English / Español)
• Daring Diva (Gary Poster): lots of useful information for singers
• Manuel Prestamo's Music Links (large collection of opera-related URL's)
• Centro studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca (Michele Girardi)
• Soprano Central (Craig Ross): biographies, pictures, schedules
• Homepage der Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft
• Sonances: 20th century music (Français, English)
• Casa Musicale Sonzogno: information about the operas they publish
• Stage Agent: information about American opera auditions
• Irish Opera Online (Gary Stephens)
• Richard Strauss Archive (official)
• Tenorland: biographies of great tenors, past & present
• Urpo Tienhaara's Rare Operatic MIDIs
• Richard Wagner Archive (Hannu Salmi)
• Wagner Society of New York
• Wagner Society of Northern California
• Basil Walsh's Michael Balfe Web Site
• Yahoo Opera Page
• Zarzuela Homepage
• Honoria in Ciberspazio: a participatory cyberspace opera under construction

Opera Review Sites

• OperaGlass Reviews: selected reviews of general interest, plus Judy Richter's reviews for the San Francisco Bay Area
• Opera West David Gregson's reviews for Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Fé, and Seattle
• Operabase: Indexed reviews from The Times of London and Corriere della Sera of Milan

Opera E-zines (Electronic Magazines)

• Culturekiosque OperaNet
• FanFaire (classical music, some opera)
• Mundo Clasico (classical music, some opera) [Español]
• Opera at Suite 101
• Opera News Online (Requires paid subscription for full access.)
• OperaWeb:
  • English version
  • versione italiana

USOperaweb

I want a Helvetica cake for my next birthday.

1000 pt. Helvetica cake, created by matt michaluk, alistair webb and adam tickle for Helvetica's 50th birthday. Beautiful.


michaluk.co.uk

Another cute clock.

Sweet little "Push" travel clock.
La DIFFERENCE

The Flipperoo Clock.

I'm a sucker for flip clocks. This is cute. Has a bit of a Flintstones feel to it.


Flipperoo Clock: GAMA-GO.com

Lovely quote.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Erich Fromm | March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980

(via wood s lot)

Um....eww.

Gizmodo | Reef Dram Sandals Carry Relief for the Perpetually Thirsty

Best of MacOSX Hints

This is a summary of the presentation done by Rob Griffiths at the MacworldEncore Conference & Expo entitled "The Best of Mac OS X Hints - Tiger Edition." This is for everyone who wants the hints without the 98M download of the hour-long presentation.

#1: Get TinkerTool

It has a whole mess of useful tweaks in it and it's free. Just get it, you won't be sorry:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

#2: Use Go -> Go to Folder to jump to Finder folders

Shift-Command-G for quicker access, use Tab for auto-complete of folder names. Works in Open/Save dialogs but is case-sensitive there for some reason.

#3: Remap shortcut keys

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse and click the tab called "Keyboard Shortcuts." You have to use the exact name of the menu command you want to change. It's pretty simple, you'll figure it out from there.

You can also add commands that Apple left out (like Secure empty trash in Finder).

#4: App switching tricks

(more after the jump)

Command- ` will cycle backward, scroll wheel, arrow keys, mouse to pick an app. H will hide the highlighted app, Q will quit it. Home/End will jump to start/end of list. Command-Tab works in Expose mode.

#5: Dictionary tricks

Control-Command-D will give a dictionary popup when hovering over words in an app like TextEdit. If you assign the dictionary to a shortcut key like F7, it'll always come up with the popup.

You can nav thru the dictionary with double-clicks on other words. Also, check out the Preferences on the Dictionary app.

#6: Use Preview's powers

Open a whole folder of images by Command-Option drag a folder onto the Preview dock icon. Change the sort order by Control-clicking on a blank section of the drawer. Tools > Annotation will allow you to add annotations to PDF's. Adding a keyword to a pic will allow Spotlight to find it more easily.

#7: Open files in trash

If you drag something from the trash on to a dock icon, it'll open up.

#8: Take the PRO features out of my menus in unregistered Quicktime

On the option menu for Quicktime Player, click on "Show Package Contents," go into Contents > Resources and rename "ProMenuitem.tif" to something else and it'll disappear. You can change any of the images there, but be careful!

#9: Download from the internet without a browser

/System/Library/CoreServices contains "VerifiedDownloadAgent." Add it to your sidebar and you can drag/drop links into it and it'll download the file.

#10: Run widgets one time to see if you want to keep it

When asked "Do you want to install the widget..." , hold down Command-Option and the install button becomes a Run button. To install it, you'll have to run it again.

#11: Set login background

Go to Finder>Library>Desktop Pictures and replace "Aqua Blue.jpg" with your own image keeping the name the same.

#12: Set Login Window Info

Clicking on the login window with your mouse will give you more info. To make it stick to something like the time/date, you must type (case-sensitive) in Terminal:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo Time

and it'll stick.

#13: Spotlight hits in Finder

Command-Space searches bring up a drop-down menu. If you hover over something after a search in Spotlight, you'll see the path to it. To open a Finder window of that location, hold the Command key down and click it, and it'll open to that path.

#14: Advanced Spotlight searching and tips

The pipe characer | acts as an OR. Minus - is NOT, Space is AND. Example = cat|dog(-mouse) is cat or dog but not mouse.

You can remove Applications and System Preferences and Contacts from Spotlight which will also speed it up. Look in System Preferences > Spotlight to uncheck it from your searches.

Anything added to Spotlight's Privacy tab (in Sys Prefs) will not be indexed. If you add your mailboxes to it, Spotlight will speed up since it has less stuff to search.

When searching in Finder, you can add criteria much like an iTunes smart playlist. With it, you can view everything in a folder by using a "Size greater than 0" criteria.

#15: iPhoto selective import

Before importing, click return twice and you can preview all the images on your camera and drag/drop the images you want. Shift-Command and you can click as many as you want. You can not delete this way, it's a read-only thing. Might not work with every camera. Check the date on the photo too.

#16: iPhoto movie books

Create an iBook and then Share>Send to iDVD. It'll be in your Movies folder with all the transitions and stuff.

#17: Change the "Welcome to Darwin!" greeting in Terminal

Do the following in Terminal which will also make a backup:

cd /etc

sudo cp motd motd_ORIG

sudo pico motd

#18: Change iTunes' arrows

To change the behavior of the arrows to be a search within your iTunes instead of searching the iTunes store do the following.

In Terminal with iTunes exited, type the following line:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

To reverse, repeat the above with NO at the end.

#19: Force plain text Mail

To display all mail as plain text, do the following in Terminal with Mail not running:

defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE

To change it back, make it FALSE

#20: Better Save dialogs

Make the expanded triangle the default for every program by typing this in Terminal:

defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE

#21: Make your screen saver run 24/7

It'll probably make your machine run slower, but if you want your RSS screensaver to run while you work, type the following in Finder:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Screensaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS
/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

This will return the job number, like 1411. To end it, type "kill 1411" and it'll stop running.

#22: Easily combine PDFs

Launch Automator. Click on Finder > Get Selected Finder Items and add to the right. Add "Sort Finder Items" too. Click on PDF>Combine PDF Pages and click "Appending". Then add "Open Finder Items". Save it as a Plug-In called "Combine PDFs".

After all that, select your PDFs with Contro-Click, then in your menu, you'll see Automator>Combine PDFs. Click that and you'll see your combined PDFs.

The stuff of travel fantasies.

Ah, steamer trunks. So wonderful.




Airdiem :: Page d'accueil

Gorgeous fabric print.

Etsy :: Floragraphica

(via treasuring)

More t-shirt geekery.

goats: the store

Diesel Sweeties: T-shirt geekery.

Lovely.

diesel sweeties: indie t-shirts (AKA tshirts)

(via Oneplusinfinity. Timmy, your blog is kicking ass. Seriously.)

This made me grin and giggle out loud.

A video of a little marshmallow of a robot kicking it to Spoon!

Marek Michalowski & Hideki Kozima :: Beatbots Video

(I'm genuinely embarrased that an armless/legless robot can groove better than I can.)


Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. If has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.

(Bradley, you made my day with this. As always, I love you thousands.)

Poetry & beautiful letterpress type.

The Nobel-prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's whimsical poem "Pi" juxtaposes the finite, impermanent world with the familiar never-ending 3.1415... This book's structure and typography echo the poem, juxtaposing the discrete stanzas with the numerical sequence, which starts on the cover and dances across the pages, oblivious to the words, continuing on the back cover, and finally slipping off the edge.

You can read the poem here: http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=9170

Etsy :: Pi (Letterpress Printed Artists Book)

(again, via Design*Sponge)

Excellent tea towels.

Taking tea towels to a whole new level.





Figments | Gifts, Paper, Ideas | Providence

(via Design*Sponge)

Hank Willis Thomas

I went to this site to look at one image and wound up clicking through the entire site. Biting, beautiful work.




Images from: 1) Unbranded series, 2) Branded Series, 3) Winter in America.

Hank Willis Thomas

Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings

From Mac OS X Tips

1. defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
Makes hidden applications' dock icons translucent. NO to reverse.

2. defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
Normally the arrows next to artists and albums in your iTunes library search the iTunes store when you click them. This command changes them so that clicking will search your iTunes library instead. Put NO at the end to reverse.

3. defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
This allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest. Put NO at the end to reverse.

4. defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE
Forces all mail to be displayed as plain text. Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.

5. defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE
Sets expanded save dialogs as default (showing column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.

6. /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
Displays the currently chosen screen saver to be shown as the desktop background. Press Control-C or Command-. to stop. More details here.

7. defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow AdminHostInfo SystemVersion
Displays useful system stats in the login window. More details here. Replace "SystemVersion" with one of the following for different stats:
SystemBuild
SerialNumber
IPAddress
DSStatus
Time
HostName

8. sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add shortname1 shortname2 shortname3
To remove accounts from the login window type this command with the short name of each account you wish to remove. More details here.

9. com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify TRUE
Skip disk image verification. Potentially risky, use with disk images from trusted sources. Replace TRUE with FALSE to reverse.

10. defaults write "Apple Global Domain" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBothPuts double scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bar. Use Appearance pane in system preferences to reset.

11. defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
Disables the unexpectedly quit dialog that normally appears when an application crashes. Replace "none" with "prompt" to enable again.

12. defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 2000 and/or
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit 30
Sets the history limit in Safari to a certain number of items and and/or a certain age.

13. defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Shows hidden files in the finder. Replace TRUE with FALSE to hide hidden files again

14. defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
Enables the debug menu in Safari. Type again but with 0 instead of 1 at the end to disable.

15. defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Deactivates Dashboard. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type "killall Dock" and press enter. Replace YES with NO to enable again.

Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

Juvenile? Sure. But funny.


YesButNoButYes: Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

Yay! Herwig's on Swap Meat!

Our buddy Herwig's silkscreen poster is featured on Coudal Partners' Swap Meat site today.


When Dan Herwig's mom was diagnosed with Leukemia last year, he joined Team In Training and ran the Chicago Marathon to raise money for research. Hand-pulling this print as a bonus for donors, Dan raised over $2000, and his mother's Leukemia is in remission. Proof, once again, that screenprinting is good medicine.

Coudal Partners Swap Meat

(I'm lucky enough to have one of these myself.)