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If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations;
by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs

I crawled up the rickety and rusty ladder to see what there is to see up on my roof. There seems to be some pretty cool graffiti up there along with a fairly mundane view of some sort of skyline.

So when I was over at grainedit on a work field trip/design book shopping spree, I picked up some Soviet-era Czech Matchbook Covers. The design of these things can be pretty amazing considering they are such mundane & everyday objects. My favorite is the one show above. It appears to be a large ear of [...]

From bibliodyssey.

Tiger Versus Deer. The first piece of art I have purchased. It’s a velvet painting I found in Austin at a gallery called blackmail I spotted it in a shop and it was love at first sight. As far as velvet paintings go, it is a high quality one.
As far as I know it came [...]

BibliOdysey has some great scans of illustrations from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) did the fun illustrations.
Link.
Also:
The politics of Oz.

Someone has assembled a pretty great archive of film title sequences.
Forget the film. Watch the titles.
link.

Dedicated To All The Taco Truck Vendors.
From the Taco Truck Flickr Pool.
More Taco Information:
My taco truck near my work.
Chow article about taco trucks.
A taco truck finder that would be much cooler if it showed trucks in the bay area.

So my friend and ex-coworker has an interview all about the art he creates with his 1977 Trans-Am. He makes what he calls “Burnout Drawings.”
It takes 0.5 seconds to render a piece but there is quite a bit of prep involved. If I look at the total time invested to date (1998 to 2007) I’ve [...]

It’s pretty cool. Clicky.

Actually its a gif. I did this at work. Yes, I had my reasons.