Your Handwriting –> Digital Font
Pilot has created a program that turns your handwriting into a digital font.
Major downside is that you can only use the font on their website to send emails to people… you can’t download the font to use in other applications. But this must mean its only a matter of time until there’s a program that does let you create a downloadable font, right??
What Love Is
Just watch it. I know it looks goofy at first glance, but it’ll probably move you to tears.
From StoryCorps:
Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.
Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Animator: Tim Rauch
Animator: Tim Rauch
September 3, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Must See
Labels:
must see, sentimentalism, video
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Must See
Labels:
must see, sentimentalism, video
Tastemakers >> Jerry Zipkin
1972. Zebra rug, dark lacquered walls and ceiling, loads of art on the wall. A fixture in his day who hung out with the likes of Nan Kempner, Nancy Reagan, and Bill Blass. The man had style.
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Imogene + Willie
Four great things: the classic gospel song “Wade in the Water,” the voice of Patty Griffin, a cool video, and a Southern selvage denim company. This video was made by John Moessner for Imogene + Willie Jeans.
Imogene + Willie is a denim (and more) store housed in a cool old gas station in Nashville and i run by Matt and Carrie Eddmenson, a couple with experience at other industry standbys like RRL and Levi’s. But not only is it a store selling new and vintage denim, they actually make their in-house brand of selvage jeans on the premisis and they’ll customize your pair for you the same day you buy them.
In love with their building… I’d like to move in please.
September 2, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Masters and Their Crafts
Labels:
masters and their crafts, Southern, store, style files, video
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Masters and Their Crafts
Labels:
masters and their crafts, Southern, store, style files, video
Retro Travel-Inspired Graphic Design
Love these retro travel-inspired pieces designed by Caroline Popham as press invites for UK fashion brand Jigsaw.
Mabona Origami
Amazed by the precision and expressiveness of these origami creatures by Sipho Mabona.
And of course loove the stop-motion animation video made from his creations. This video was created as an ad for Asics and won multiple international advertising awards.
Also love these installations of the figures suspended in air…
Click through for more, including a couple of examples of the absurdly intricate 2-d patterns these are made from.
These are what two of her patterns look like unfolded…. !!!
Thanks Monica!
September 1, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, must see, paper stuff, video
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, must see, paper stuff, video
Listening To >> Summertime
Late-summer heat has this song playing on repeat in my head. Here, the classic jazz standard by George Gershwin performed by a few of the greats. Amazing to hear how each of them interprets it, no?
A very spare, introspective version from Ella Fitzgerald.
Possibly on the other end of the spectrum from the one above by Ella, Big Mama Thornton, who I l-o-v-e, brings something totally different to this classic… Though not the classic arrangement, this might be my favorite.
A very lush recording from Ella with Louis Armstrong, and maybe the version that comes to mind when you think of this song.
The original recording by Billie Holliday.
August 31, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Listening To
Labels:
classics, listening to, summer
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Listening To
Labels:
classics, listening to, summer
First I Reconized That You Were…
Finnish born architect Eero Saarinen met Aline Bernstein in 1955 when she was working as an art editor and critic for the New York Times and she was assigned to write an article about him. As the story goes, they fell in love instantly, and this list of things he loved about her was written shortly before they married.
