CFS Loves

CFS Loves 68

  • Peace Atlas by AWH for Wired Italia. Each country is sized according to their peace index rating, with the larger the country code the more peaceful the country. Sometimes I curse the hippies, but gosh, how lucky am I to live in such a sweet country. Hey, what’s up Denmark? You’re chilled out too.
  • NIN art director, Rob Sheridan, has an amazing archive of wallpapers that are available for you to download. He has a wicked sense of humour; as evidenced by presents unwrapping children!

  • A sneak peek at the High Line extension in New York City. When I was there last year I spent a couple of hours up there lapping up the sunshine, it’s one of the coolest urban places I’ve ever visited.
  • How Freelancers Can Succeed: Ande Schurr talks to TV presenter and reporter Simon Pound. Lots of good advice and a balanced view to freelancing.
  • Check out this transforming owl (and the graphics, they’re great):

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Mr. And Mrs. Wallace A. Wolf Eating Breakfast before He Leaves for His Job as an Automotive Mechanic ..., 10/1974

  • TWEET by Oyl Miller, a fantastic piece of writing. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness…”
  • An owl transistor radio! The owl, made in Japan, is 8 inches tall and fat with a plastic body and gold medal wings, eyes, legs and speaker holes in the crotch.
  • Charley wrote some wise words about the trials of being a modern woman and the ladies who inspire her. “So thank GOD for the women who inspire me.  The ones who remind me that nobody ever got anywhere by compromising on their own truth.  Those women who sang songs that put them in jail, wrote books that provoked, played instruments better than their male contemporaries, spoke their minds, carried on regardless.” Mandatory reading. As I said on Twitter, I feel exactly the same way except I’m shorter.
  • I write like? This writing analysis tool declared that my personal diaries resemble Dan Brown’s style. Guess I was recently ranting about the queues for the Louvre. Who’s tone are you perfecting?
  • The Concentrators – a short story by Sue Francis that nails the frozen-in-time feelings of small town New Zealand life.
  • An interview with Alexis from Sleighbells. I cranked the album constantly while I was away, love them. On Treats: “It’s a social record, it’s not the kind of record that you want to listen to by yourself in your room, it will make you want to go out and have fun and dance and forget about all the other crap that you normally worry about.”
  • (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) – a number from the Hotrats, Supergrass’s covers project. The album Turn Ons came out a while ago but I have been enjoying it this week.

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  • In spite of playing the Queen, Helen Mirren is a hot babe. “I am a little notorious,” Mirren remarks, still teasing. She says nearly everything with a mischievous twinkle, like a naughty teenager appending “ … in bed” to the end of every sentence. NYMag delivers yet another great interview.
  • Issue 2 of online photography magazine Télégramme is now out. It features the work of Kelley Smith, Shannon Doubleday and Atchi Toyoshima. (And one photo from me.)
  • Woolfiller is an ingenious way of patching up holes in your cardigan, and gosh darn it you know I have like 30 holey jumpers.
  • Are blogs dying? From the Economist, ‘An empire gives way’. I don’t think they’re dying, but rather, just one part of sharing.
  • I am scared of black holes and space etc. I know broad topic… Anyway, this magnetic silly putty makes me feel the same way. Watch it EAT the magnet.

  • I find it funny when I’m far from home and I always want to listen to things from New Zealand, or things that remind me of the past. From my Europe 2010 playlist: Second Chance, Liam Finn. My arm swinging with the music as I grasp the rail on the tube, thinking about where I’ve been. This gorgeous video was directed by Angus Sutherland:

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This CFS Loves edition comes from Paris. I am whipping around the world at the speed of light it seems. Let’s pretend for a moment I am writing to you from a charming Parisian pied-à-terre, my dachshund at my feet.

Not a garret that somewhat resembles a hotel room, just now with 8 people sharing it. It’s so funny… the room retains the original hotel feel – tacky painting, a desk for correspondence, a side table, there are just 4 sets of bunks shoved in. It’s very ‘romantic’. That said, my fleeting roommates are lovely! We’ve been sharing beer and shampoo – instant friendship. As such, this little collection of links is vaguely travel themed…

  • Tourist Magazine - an ever evolving platform for art, music, some kind of fashion and literature, edited by Sanna Helena Berger.
  • This one is just pure inspiration. Graphics, interiors, products – the Protein feed is brilliant.
  • By the way, if you want to make me happy like a crocodile at a playground, you can still cast a vote for me in Cleo’s Wonder Women campaign. Email cleo@acpmagazines.co.nz with a vote for Amber Parkin / Blogger. Put WONDER WOMEN in the subject line and include your name and contact details. Sweet as. I mean, merci!

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CFS Loves 64

  • Forgotten Storefronts in Williamsburg. I liked this because I stayed just around the corner from North 5th Street and Berry Street and know the derelict air of which ScoutingNY speaks.

  • ‘So you feel like Jim Morrison wandering the desert of Wayne’s World 2, with the claw of the hawk god about to pluck you harshly from your pleasant reality?’ Japanese ads for psychiatric drugs.

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CFS Loves 62

  • I like visiting K’Rd project space, publishing venture and bookshop ‘split/fountain’. Their blog is nice to visit too.
  • Musical interlude – feel the good vibrations:

  • Presumably blogged by every tough girl in a lace dress already, the Crystal Brass Knuckle Duster (I am going to realign your chakras motherf*****) by Debra Baxter is the Best. Thing. Ever.

  • Also somewhat soothing is Rainy Mood – a wet weather audio track.
  • 50 awesomely nerdy tattoos. The awesomeness is debatable but it’s a funny archive! By the way, narwhals are not nerdy, they are all about majesty!

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  • Photography’s longest exposure – a pinhole camera was strapped to the side of a bridge in Bristol for 6 months.
  • Ensuite – A collection of inspired and inspiring things as seen by Clarisse Demory from Paris.

  • The Graffyard uses QR codes to preserve grafiti after it’s been scrubbed off – yow, what an idea!
  • WANT: A Julian scarf from Wintercheck. It’s a scarf with zip pockets in the side, for stashing you keys, cellphone and expensive things you shouldn’t take out and about with you, but you do. The perfect solution to mega bags and overstuffed pockets.

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  • A gem for anyone who writes on the interwebz, Word Off strips the cruddy code you get when you paste words into WYSIWYG editors. No more <span>!
  • Author Daniel Okrent is questioned about the history of the Prohibition. ‘So that’s how powder rooms came to exist’ and other tidbits.
  • Amazing and disgusting all at once – the Simpsons parody Ke$sha’s Tok Tok in the opening  sequence. Love it!

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A bunch of possibly unrelated links that were much loved in the CFS mines this week…

  • Baked In – thoughts on product development and human marketing.
  • A fascinating article about the great travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor – The Man Who Walked.

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  • Double the lens and triple the fun with the new 3D Holga. What a vision!
  • Q&A time. William Gibson talks about ‘Creator’s Block’, termites, essays and all sorts of other fun things.

  • Japan – The Strange Country is an animated infographic film. While I can’t speak for the content (generalisations, much?) the illustrations are really well done. I like the ramen making robots! Perhaps mute it and use your own soundtrack…
  • LCD Soundsystem’s new album is a banger. Yes, you should stream THIS IS HAPPENING.
  • Check this out! Slinky magazine racks and other exciting designs by Aussie John Quan.

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CFS Loves 57

  • Skateboards by artist Marilyn Minter, as seen hanging in Behati Prinsloo’s model apartment. How gorgeous are they? Minter’s work reminds me of a great series by New Zealand photographer Anne Noble called Ruby’s Room.
  • Grain Edit is a nifty site showcasing ‘classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period’. Discoveries include La Boca’s record sleeve designs – all in that sci-fifties style I adore:

http://grainedit.com/

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CFS Loves 56

  • Let’s start this grab-bag post off right with gratuitous picture of an amazing sweater from The Needleworker’s Constant Companion [via here]. CFS loooovees:

  • Stack Magazines – an indie mag subscription service – they’ll send you a regular selection of swoon inducing reads.
  • Last weekend I went to Tiger Translate with some buddies (check the photos by Nivin!). A good time was had by all, thanks in part to the free tequila, and partly because of the super fresh work that had been installed in the space, an old Masonic hall. Frank at Hypebeast has written a proper, smart review of the art and music event.
  • Inject a little safari style into your look, with inspiration courtesy of the film Out Of Africa.

  • In Auckland? Love reading? Enjoy drinking? Then join me for the innuagral meeting of the Book Club For Drunks. There’s no mincing of words here – we read books with a nod to sweet liquor, then partake in beverages while having a chat. First up is The Catcher In The Rye, so come along and have a scotch or two…
  • I don’t know about you, but I absolutely despise those janky rubber bracelets “for” charity. Same with plastic flowers… they’re a waste of materials and space. Giving is good, but I don’t want your junk. However, I’ve just read that Aussie brand Kit have created a scent for Guide Dogs Australia. Give $5 and you’ll get back something rather special; a braille embossed vial of fragrance. Lovely!
  • The death of advertising. Crap, I work somewhere with a foozeball table.

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CFS Loves 55

  • I’m so behind the times – but I finally caught Iron and Wine’s ‘Boy With A Coin’ music video. A beautiful song and a similarly elegant video:

  • The best online planning tools (brilliant for nerds like me – I’m currently doing a digital marketing certificate, didyaknow?)
  • Created by entrepreneurs and sustainable business advocates to share innovative ideas, Sheepless is a fantastic online magazine.
  • Unphotographable – a text description of pictures missed. I seem to write a lot of these sorts of accounts in my notebooks…

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  • I have been reading experimental writer Kathy Acker’s work of late (for a travel writing class) – and the story of the punk woman behind the words is fascinating. Coilhouse has a published a great introduction to her work and attitude.
  • Types Of Bitches. Oh man, I don’t recommend laughing really loudly at this at 1.27AM when all your housemates are asleep…
  • Caged Birds of Bethnal Green – Lillian is putting together a map project which documents E2 from people’s memories. It’s a super interesting idea; so if you know the area and have something share, you should participate!
  • McNally Jackson is a bookstore/cafe in New York. I love their suitably bookish interior design:

  • The making of a book cover. The design of ‘Blameless’ by Gail Carriger is condensed into 2 minutes. Not the best design work ever, but illustrative of the process that goes into making something ‘as simple’ as a cover:

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