April27
Trade Winds
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
Icelandic neo-classical composer Olafur Arnalds embarks on a brand new collection of tracks. Each track from this series will be created and released within 24 hours and made exclusively available online as a free download on Found Songs.
As a child, i could stare happily for hours at pinwheels. I'm fascinated by wind-up toys and automata, adore Perpetual Motions. So when i saw the website of Roland Olbeter, i found myself utterly captivated. (via inspired mag)
Danielle of Music is Art has a killer mix tape up + info on upcoming Deli Magazine's Best of NYC Fest. Hands down, MIA is pretty much the best music blog going.
UnAmazing made me smile. So did Shoebox.
I love things which are visually pleasing and work well. Add to that a swell portfolio and you have the work of London based web and graphic designer Kardo Ayoub. Oh yes, and he tweets @amentis.
This made my eyes all skwoogly.
Well then, i must be bleeding brilliant: Night owls appear to have the edge over early risers.
Enjoy André Michelle's simple audio synthesizer ToneMatrix.
Some wonderful work here by artist and designer Lotte Geeven.
Manystuff has some fine links. Public Collectors, for instance.
Have i mentioned photographer Sarah Hoskins previously? No? Well now i have. Nice work.
Let's not forget the current meanderings of Retinart: A Shadow of a Letter is Cast.
Caffeine.
for Twitter: @pieratt and Troy's Twitter Script for Firefoxers.
MP3s: Future Primitive. Sex and Candy. Falling. Manhattan Took Us First. Sack-O-Woe. Amazon's Free MP3s.
Games: Glum Buster. Mental Repairs, Inc. Madhouse. Bang! Heroes. Revisit: Dink Smallwood.
Recipe: Sun Tea with Simple Syrup, Lemon, & Mint Leaves.
Retail Therapy: Want a Nabaztag Rabbit by Violet? You can buy one here.
Revisit: For the students of college graduating class of 2012, most of whom entered class in fall 2008: Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead. Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino. They never heard a gas station attendant ask "Want me to check under the hood?" Beoit College Mindset List.
Revisit: Thrown head-first into the throes of this world cursed to notice the details. The Ward-O-Matic.
Revisit: Design opinions expressed in 200 words or less: A Brief Message.
Found Sentence: Cats wouldn't like laser pointers so much if they knew about snipers. ∞
Listening To: Land of Eternal Sunset, Almadrava.
Finish this sentence: I keep telling myself .......... .
