This has been very private to me for many years, but I will now let you know what my favorite blogs are - aren’t you just lucky:
Ping Mag (Best web site out there. Always aware of everything before everybody else. Quite annoying really)
It’s Nice That (A good blog about a lot of design crap)
Dwell (Definitely the best blog I’ve seen about products from all over the world)
Kitsune Noir (An instant success, where Bobby S. writes about everything he runs into)
Ffffound! (A very good site to browse through when you get bored, as it sums up a lot of great work published on the internet)
Happy new year folks, and remember to stay tuned, as 2008 will be the year where people will actually visit my blog!
I got some good things for christmas this year, but unfortunately not this wicked instrument, as I would consider it to be!
Mybikes.dk has some really good stuff, but unfortunately the prices follow the good design, urgh, and you will probably look like a weird drunk Dane if you cycle on this in other places than Scandinavia!
Merry Christmas folks!
The other day I was reading in the Rem Koolhaas book called ‘Delirious New York’, and for those, who like me didn’t know it; Manhattan was sold to a guy called Peter Minuit i 1626 for no more than 24 dollars. Yes, thats right, two-four = 24 American Dollars.
Furthermore it describes how the grid of Manhattan was made in 1807, as simple as possible to make sure that the ‘unsophisticated minds’ could figure it out as well.
The grid is still, to this very day, part of New York, and for an architects point of view still a negative symbol of the shortsightedness of commercial interests, as you are not allowed to build outside of it. Poor guys.
When I am bored and tired I often use hours ‘flicking’ around on the internet. Besides constantly refreshing my email inbox and checking out the same news sites over and over again, I have a list of blogs that I flick through every now and then. In the last couple of weeks I have found some really cool illustrators, and finally I am prepared to present these people for you guys!
I urge you to check out following designers:
Julia Pott (English illustrator with funny drawings and cool style (picture) - Especially her Sketch Book is good)
Helge Reumann + Xavier Robel (Really good stuff. Really!)
Parra (The coolest kid in town -famous for the stuff he did for Ed Banger’s Justice)
Candy People (Danish illustrators with wicked drawings - check out their sketches)
Will Sweeney (Part of Big Active - very nice illustrations in general)
Micah Lidberg (Definitely worth checking out as some of her drawings are excellent!)
A bit too much ‘Vice Magazine’ for some, but I find Alex Brown’s pictures pretty damn cool.
I use money for all sorts of things. Mostly when I buy stuff. Or when i snort cocaine. Or when I’m out of toilet paper. Sometimes to impress girls. Urgh. Hmm. Argh. Zzzz.
Anyways, others use money to something else, that seems a bit more interesting than mine.
Thanx to Ffffound.
The other day I was watching ‘Bob Dylan : No Direction Home’ by Martin Scorsese for about the hundredth time in my life. And, about half way into the documentary, a poem is read out as a voice-over. The poem is one of the more famous onces by Allen Ginsberg, and is in his very famous book called Howls from 1956. ‘America’, as the poem is called, is written 51 years ago, but it is still as funny, relevant and brilliant as all other work by Ginsberg, and I can say that without being a nonconformist, long-haired flower child. So, if you don’t know already, you should do yourself a favour and read it right here!
By the way - if you want to know a little bit more about A. G. before reading ‘America’, this is what he is described as, on another homepage; ‘Spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer, songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school’. True Beat Generation, eh?