First one for the year, first one for the decade! I hope you’re all still information and inspiration junkies. Ugh, I am. Need more links to feed my insatiable curiosity.
- I love Jason Hawke’s aerial photography- above is London’s Oxford Circus at night.
- There’s a new Eels record. (Eels, 2005 at the gilded St. James = the best show I’ve been to.)
- Tattoos in Japan – a new book dividing skin art by region.
- The Weardrobe 100 is a collection of 100 personal style shots collected from the top fashion blogs in 2009. I really enjoyed the diversity and ‘flipping’ through some great outfits.
- Photography, time lapse and romance: Light Writing Proposal ❤
- A reading list, of sorts, from Miranda July.
- Continuing on our literary theme of sorts, The Guardian’s books of the decade.
- This infographic was handmade by Russian cosmonaut, Georgi Grechko. It’s a cyclogram that shows a 96-day flight of Salyut 6. Some 22 parallel time-series show 1500 sunrises and 1500 sunsets during the flight, a schedule for space walks and baths, and visits of resupply ships bringing equipment, fresh fruit, and gingerbread. Not much more to see than that; but I loved the way he tracked it by hand.
- Running the Numbers by Chris Jordan looks at contemporary American culture through the ‘austere lens of statistics’. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. Phenomenal images!
- Caffeine pa-pa-power! Not all hits are equal. Use the handy chart to get more from your morning fix.
- Love Reference Library and their wonderful finds – like this Finnish Yearbook.
- A perfect mini-memory-time-capsule idea for books.
- Wonderwall – interior and object design for the likes of Bape and Nike.
- A timely and inspirational piece of writing – on reinvention and cooking; ‘A New Year For the Ages’ by Eric Hanson.
