Ghost in the Machine

Check out the amazing work of Erika Iris Simmons, an artist specializing in using non traditional media... old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, credit cards, etc.


In her latest series, Ghost in the Machine, she brilliantly showcases a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels.

Nice stuff: Ghost in the Machine.

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60s & 70s Scandinavian Design Logos

Check out this groovy little set of Scandinavian Logos from the 1960's & 1970's courtesey of Canadian Oliver Tomas.

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VW 4Motion

Great concept and super nice Escheresque illustrations by Brian Harrison on these ads for VW via DDB, New Zealand.

There's a few more in the campaign over at Sir Fredericks. And speaking of Escheresque...

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Good Comedy

These are awesome. Check out the rest of Marc Johns' ever growing Post-it Note Drawings.

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Retro Records Vinyl Flashback

If you're like me and you're instantly attracted to the above record sleeve images, courtesy of El Estratografico, then you'll really dig the 9,000+ images over at the Retro Records Pool!

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Thanks to the Easy Dreamers...

Eye Yi Yi!

Feast your eye on this and behold - The Far Side Flickr Pool.

A flickr group where you can view and upload photographic recreations of your favorite Gary Larson Far Side comics.

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Big gracias to flickr and The Rocketeer for the cool shot.

Searching The Galaxy

Dig the awesome Tag Galaxy, a German site with a spacey, 3D planetary interface dedicated to search Flickr images in an completely different and fun way.

This is just one of 13 lesser know, content specific search engines featured over at Smashing Apps. Each search engine listed has some interesting and different ways of searching or unusual presentation.

A few others worth noting are FindSounds.com, a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples, and the aptly titled PDF Search Engine, a book search engine that gleans sites, forums and message boards for pdf files. Perfect for finding and downloading e-books.

Check out all 13 from the smart folks over at Smashing Apps.

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Pimp My Flickr!

If you're a Flickr user you're really gonna dig these two new third party features.

First up is a new free photo viewer called: Blow Up. Blow Up makes use of the recently opened-up Flickr API to show your Flickr photos in a really sweet fullscreen display.

Simply enter your Flickr name and all your sets are immediately viewable. You can even download the code to embed it on your blog or website. Perfect for showcasing your latest awesome shots. Check it out: Blow Up.


And if you're truly into Flickr, there's also a really hip new iPhone App called AirMe. AirMe enables you to take a shot with your iPhone (or any cell phone with a camera) and then instantly uploads the photo to your Flickr account, plus it even adds some really cool smart tags like your city and country - and they put them on your Flickr map.

Genius!

Want even more from you flickr? Check out PhotoJoJo!

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Thanks to Cool Hunting for the Blow Up heads up.

Saints and Sinners

Music and description for "Come, Saints and Sinners," illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia.

From the book Favorite American Songs, selected by Margaret Bradford Boni (paperback edition of a book published by Simon & Schuster in 1952).

Thanks to Sir Scrubbles and his groovy flickr set of Vintage Print.

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Eye Candy

How's this for an exciting first post of the new year? Check out these groovy little collections I found over at flickr: Signs!

Vintage Illustrated Supermarket Signage


Vintage Transistor Radios

Happy New Year Y'all!

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