David Lynch directs music video
I don’t know if it’s the fact that David Lynch directed this beautiful video or if it’s the pretty girls, but I end up liking this song. I guess that’s the main this a video should do for you, so in this case it’s all good. Band name by the way is Au Revoir Simone.
King of cards
Leo Burnett ad agency has commissioned a set of cards featuring artworks by leading artists and designers that will be sold on behalf of UK homeless charity Shelter. To launch the set, the original artworks for the cards will be on show at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London until Monday. The above is by Alexander Mcqueen.
It’s all part of the House of cards campaign from earlier this year. See more after the jump.
I will not sign this letter
In 1961, New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons contacted John F. Kennedy after seeing Presidential autographs for sale in a store. At the time, George Washington’s was priced at $175, Ulysses S. Grant’s at $55, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s at $75, Teddy Roosevelt’s at $67.50, and JFK’s at $75. Below is the response mailed to Lyons.
Through Letters of note
Why not
This is Kevin Costners wet dream in Waterworld. With an amazing 3400 square metre and witdh of 38m i don’t think you can get a bigger boat. The witdh makes for perfect big living areas, instead of long narrow cabins. If you want to travel and never leave home check out more on WHY
More pictures after the jump
London Design Festival
If you’re in town, don’t miss out on the London Design Festival which run between the 19th. and te 27th of september. If you’re in to graphic design there’s a poster show curated by legends Pentagram at Victoria and Albert Museum
Legal graffiti on train
Thalys, the European company providing TGV trains between Paris, Bruxelles and Amsterdam, decides to customize one of the trains, inviting SozyOne (Bruxelles), Jonone (Paris), Zedz (Amsterdam) Seak (Cologne). They painted four cars of the European train the other day at “Gare du Nord” in Paris. They had 3 hours and 15 minutes to finish the painting, that’s the new time the new Thalys needs from Paris to Cologne.
Last meal
This one hits hard – a series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners’ last meal requests before execution, by James Reynolds.
More pictures after the jump.
I like the fact
That you can take something as boring as a Dictionary and turn it in to a story. Made by artist and typographer Sam Winston
