I wouldn’t let my baby play with an ape, but it’s still pretty cute. Full story here.
«japanese matchbox label by maraid.
More Japanese matchbox covers, and some Eastern European examples.
# design, eastern europe, japan
SHEEEEEEEIT by dunkr.
Also, this is the 500th post at Tumble. Sheeeeeeit.
« »SE/30 System & Newton 2100 by jd_wages.
Click through and read the description: it’s a whizz-bang setup.
« »A wonderful photo frame (for real photos, not digital) by Irina Block.
« »It’s a radio. Lift to increase volume, twist to tune. Brilliant. Via monoscope.
« »Mon Stir [Close-up] by Lizette Greco.
This couple turn their kids’ drawings into soft toys.
« »Saturday Night! by brian cors.
Yeah, I know this is being posted everywhere. But it is a great photograph.
« »I’m going to see Al Seed‘s latest show, The Fooligan tonight. Based on this image alone, I can’t wait!
# glasgow, performance, theatre
I’m slightly disturbed by how happy wearing this sweatshirt makes me! I got it from Blue In Green, who come highly recommended.
« »By Laurence Willmott. (A concept rather than a product, as far as I can tell.)
« »Primary School headmistress hides children from paedophile menace, using smiley faces.
« »fascism by illegalphotos. A response to this idiotic poster campaign by the Metropolitan Police.
« »More here. My sister and I used to do drawings on unused punch cards my Dad bought home from work.
« »Jon Hicks’ skin for Google Reader looks nice on the Eee PC (and seems to speed up the thing, too, oddly enough).
« »Retirement by Laura Mary. The people are paper cut outs slotted into the back of a Holga. Clever.
« »King Weave by YMC. You just poke the buckle bit through the weave, so for the first time in my life, I didn’t have to get a cobbler to punch extra holes in a new belt. I have a lot of YMC stuff. A key part of my ’1950s geography teacher with a shady past’ look! See also: MHL.
« »IVY is an external hard disk which shows the content of the hard disk on its skin.
« »From a brilliant game of ‘guess the album from an MS Paint version‘ at Optimo (Echatio).
« »Jack, Holga box and Janet by Donovan Hide.
Dig my ‘thieving junkie’ look.
« »That’s a chart of my name, made using the Google Chart API. It can do much more useful things, obviously!
« »Bel-Air, a plant-powered air purifier by Matheiu Lehanneur. (Via BLDGBLG.)
« »I love the Powell & Pressburger logo. This post by Momus on Morrisey reminded me.
« »Colin Pantall takes great photos of his daughter watching telly. (Via MetaFilter)
« »optimo espookio 66 by biotron.
Terrifying Little Edie accuracy from Janet.
« »One of many glorious images available at Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils. Via Plasticbag
« »I got a serious case of the giggles when I saw this snap over at Future Perfect (a reliably fascinating weblog).
« »I have no idea how this ended up on my computer, nor why I am now sharing it with the world.
« »A close-up view of an experimental instrument by Phil Archer (No relation). Via Get LoFi.
# circuits, instruments, water
Hannah reveals the secrets of festival planning.
# EIFF, hannah, logistics, organisation, planning
Jena Six (1 of 3) by whileseated.
“In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a “whites only” shade tree… The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.”
« »Tigh Beg on Loch Feochan, Argyll by Ned Trifle.
(I’m spending a few days at this place next week with my Aunty, Uncle and Cousin. Can’t wait!)
« »As seen on Street Use, a superb weblog devoted to improvised technologies.
« »Pan blaster by Gerard.
Galactic gargle not shown.
# instruments, steel band, trinidad
Available to buy from the Antique Barbed Wire Society.
Via newthings.
« »Snail Like by TenAtronic.
A detail from St. Peter’s Seminary at Cardross.
« »Clearances Pisser by Mot.
This is one of the urinals in The Lismore pub, each is inscribed with the name of a figure in the Clearances for you to aim your piss at. Keen sense of history, the Scottish.
« »Peculiar response to child-growth by returning pilot. Click on the thumbnail to view full-size.
# baby, cannibalism, funny, silly
fisheye james (fayou bob) by Le Patron.
Podger, Hunty and Siân. This photo makes me want a fisheye Lomo.
But freyou, surely?
« »The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.
# architecture, spam, visualisation
These bugs are controlling our brains, and the cats are to blame.
# cats, culture, parasites, science
From a wonderful gallery of BBC Radiophonic Workshop snaps, many never before seen. It’s a shame they’re mostly of very poor quality (bad scanning, bad compression or both).
# BBC, delia, music, photography
Still From Laddy And The Lady, by Henry Coombes, uploaded by Mot.
# art, film, glasgow, tramway, video
Tumble As A Graph, by Mot.See also: all photos tagged with websitesasgraphs.
« »air so thick with particles, i can’t breathe, by glowingstar.
# air, industry, japan, pollution
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, by Mot.
Here’s a torrent for video from Day 3 of Mr. Nitsch’s bloody extravaganza.
(Via Grey Lodge)
« »New bridge over the Clyde, by grrrrrr.
# architecture, bridge, glasgow
Briony danced outside a pub to mark the opening of the Anderson Magee show at Limousine Bull, Aberdeen.
# art, dance, performance
Since 1970, all of my drawings have been made with just one kind of mark. I put the pen on the paper and flick it… Most of my drawings contain thousands of marks.
« »Morse Video, by Mot.
This is a still from a video by Andres Ramirez Gaviria that “uses Morse code to visualize and sonify a section of the index from the book, Point and Line to Plane, written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926.”
« »Contact Sheet, by Mot.
These photographs by Janet are for the book we’re working on with art duo Anderson & Macgee.
« »Maothowie by optovox. The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression. — Chairman Mao, not talking about MetaTalk.
# funny, mao, metafilter
Gio Ponti Plates, by Mot.
They match the colour scheme of this place rather well, no?
« »Children, by Govan. (I’ve been meaning to photograph this for ages myself)
# art, children, graffiti, stencil
WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog is hosting a stabilised version of the Zapruder film. (A torrent is also available.)
# conspiracy, film, JFK
Ian Dury and the blockheads, by uground1 (better known as Andy Rosen).
« »Cathy Wilkes Installation, Selective Memory, SNGOMA #7, by Mot.
The Selective Memory show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is one part mince, one part brilliant, and one part truly great. This is a little detail from the truly great part.
« »russiantattoo-d, uploaded by Mot. More tattoos, and a review of the book from whence they come.
# culture, prison, russia, tattoos
A Wee Girl With Her Unhappy Goose Friend, By Hannah, photo by Mot.
« »Gerard Removers, originally uploaded by Gerard.
This is very funny indeed if you have a friend called Gerard. Though it gives him the fear.
« »Woke Up This Morning, Diddley Bow At My Door, by Mot.
Woke up this morning, diddley bow at my door. Also woke up this morning with no discernable musical talent, but, hey, it’s fun twanging away noisily! Must resist urge to buy distortion pedal…
« »
A still (I think) from Cathy Wilkes’ new film piece, Most Women Never Experience. (Read me gushing about her most recent show in Glasgow.)
One of “three projects investigating what constitutes the self… the relationship between self-perception (a passive concept of the self) and active construction of identity” with regard to Flickr.
« »noma @ glasgow implodes, originally uploaded by biotron.
Off to see him again tonight. Gives good drone.
# drone, glasgow, guitar, live, music
Royalty, originally uploaded by Finiky.
Ducks are such smug gits. (I’m just testing posting from Flickr, in case that wasn’t obvious.)
« »Originally uploaded by mimbrava. Proof that the Intelligent Designer was actually quite high on the job.
# flowers, nature, passion, photo
Photojournalist Robbie Cooper captured images of gamers and their real-life selves. Here are their stories.
# games, identity, photo, photography