"A Serious Man" Trailer

The latest from the Coen brothers. I've never felt the urge to watch a trailer over and over again before.

Fascinating articles I want to keep track of...

From Boing Boing:

Flurb, a free science fiction ezine. Must take a look.

A crazy true story about "Dutch Schultz," a 1930's mobster who, upon his death by shooting, rambled a bunch of rhyming nonsense that some believe is a riddle to find the seven million dollars he buried in New York that no one has ever found.

And an article about "best of" Hubble space photographs. Beautiful.

From Wired:

An article about how placebos are getting more effective, and what characteristics (color, shape, text) do what to our brains. I smell a short story

What a photo

My friend Kristy gets mad props for taking this crazy beautiful shot of our friend Brooke cliff-jumping in a prom dress. Huhmazing.

Meat

Funny. Photography by Dominic Episcopo, found through Oh Joy!

Skeleton alphabet

LOVE. IT.

(source. This Make Something Cool Every Day group is awesome)

X-Ray

This X-Ray illustration by Stan Chow (both from his alphabet set) just became my new desktop background. I found it via the Make Something Cool Evert Day flickr group.

More illustration

How's this for gorgeous? Lots of amazing stuff at Illustrative, a German illustration show. Must explore further.

Bear Illustration

For future illustration reference. (source)

Housework sucks and talking plates

Funny housewares from MOMA and Materialistic (found via decor8 and Oh Joy!)

Home

These are just a bunch of images I've been  collecting for a while of things I think are neat that I may want to incorporate into my future home. I love the tiny tiles and recessed shelving from the first picture. The second picture, well, who doesn't want an ongoing game of Exquisite Corpse in their house? The next two are nice and calm and light. And the last picture, that one's my favorite. Doesn't it just look colorful and fun and warm and relaxed? I want my home to have the feeling of that photo. Not sure exactly where all of these are from, but most of them are probably from Design Sponge.

Colors

I love lots and lots and lots of colors, all squished up together. From Design Sponge and Oh Joy!, respectively.

DIY music box

The Curiosity Shoppe is selling a music box mechanism for which you punch the tune yourself; they suggest Modest Mouse.

Chalkboard table

This was the result of a before & after on Design Sponge today. I don't know how I feel about the idea of mixing chalk with food, but I really dig the hand-drawn place setting.

Pretty knives

I covet these knives so hard. Here are instructions on making the knife rack (isn't using an Ikea item in a DIY how-to akin to using Ramen in a recipe? Not that I don't love Ikea or Ramen), and from what I can find, the knives are called Shun Komachi  (but they don't look quite the same). They have been sold at Williams-Sonoma and TJ Maxx.

two interesting websites

magcloud.com - publish your own magazines without worrying about the publishing

ponoko.com - accessible product manufacturing based on your own designs

Found in ReadyMade magazine.

Secret passages!

People build secret passages in other peoples' houses for a living. Beware the cheesy music on their website. Found at blog.makezine.com.

Floating ships

This lady has ships hanging from her ceiling. Hot. I also dig the cardboard castle found later in the same post.

Caravan Playhouse

My children will have one of these one day.

Steven's Happy Accidents

A dude explains his bright and cheery home stylings. Just kinda happy.

Triangle flags

These triangle-flag garland things are showing up everywhere. And I like them, though I could do with a little more color than those pictured.