What a perfect day, a wondrous day, for today a baby is born. My friends Erik Brandt and Elisabeth Workman have tied their lives together and shot out a whole ‘nother life into existence. This child you see before you has three glorious names, one more excellent than the last, all in a circle: Beatrix Lulu Sakile!!! She was born at 6:45AM this morning (CST) and is already dancing on the dance floor with the whole world. As per request by the parents, I issue you the demand that you get down and boogie in celebration too!

Musical selections below!
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Drodding about the internet helped me happen upon the image you see above this sentence. It is a high-quality patch made in the real world reflecting the alternate-reality depicted in the 1986 story “Watchmen.*” This patch is presented by The New Frontiersman Watchmen fangroup, made by the people who were in charge of promoting the 2009 Watchmen movie, I’m pretty sure. Inspired heavily by this excellent manifestation of what was and what wasn’t, I went on a hunt for other, more “real” patches from the Vietnam war, as worn by the real soldiers on either side of the conflict.
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And so, BlackOsprey shall be at a place with a bunch of works. Aaron Horkey makes ultra amazing fantastic works of magnificence. He’s the most insanely wonderful detail oriented illustrator I know about, and he’s got this show coming up. It’s at Remick Gallery in Windom Minnesota and the opening night is on September 12th 2010. It’s totally free and there’s refreshments. Dranks. It’s from 2-4PM which means it’s more of an Opening Afternoon sort of situation, which is more than totally appropriate for his excellent works.
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Apparently David Choe is the most baddest of all dudes or something because he’s always hanging out with naked women and terrifyingly brutish looking men. Did you know this? Just four days ago he released these photos he took of Danny Trejo. Choe is known on the whole for his undeniably masterful paintings, but he’s also an intense photographer. And he’s got a book out right now to promote, and Trejo has a movie coming out (“Machete”), so they called each-other up on their dial-tone phones and decided to have a play date.
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Designer / Bookmaker / Illustrator Sami Foust has created a teeny tiny book. Five copies of a teeny tiny book. This book is called “Foust Feast” and it’s all about the foods that are served up at her extended family reunions. Ever so cute, ever so tiny. And with some ever-so miraculous hand-drawn letters and tiny stuffings, too.
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We live in a time, right here right now, where many things are called beautiful. The state of modern art is in such a broad, diverse place right now that basically everything goes. We are still reacting off of Pop though, so more often than not the objects you’ll see in a gallery are derivative of something found. For example, artist mister Richard Prince whose photographs of cowboys were (and are) lifted directly from cigarette ads. But this work right here in this post, it’s all new. Designer / artist Jacob Lysgaard not only drew the feathery headdress in this image, he took the photograph of the boy wearing it.
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I’ve always liked bunny rabbits, those cutest of little land mammals that lived under the sheds of my childhood neighborhood, driving everyone up a wall with their eating of flowers and greenery. Oh how they were hated by everyone else! I though (and think) it’s cute to see little nibbles here and there and everywhere, and yes, since you asked, I AM a gardener as well. But most people want them to die, especially people who plant gardens and wear real fur coats. You know who doesn’t want them to die? Designer Dave Whitley. He’s a bad mother and he knows that bunny rabbits can be bad mothers too. Battletime begin now!
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Recently, personally, I’ve been struggling with the idea that everything I do in life must be aimed at functioning in our global community in a way that will allow me to continue living the way I’m living. AKA it’s all got to be for the cash monay. Harsh, yes? Totally harsh. Then today, right now, comes along an amazing set of photos done out of love and in the spirit of experimentation, a set so beautiful that, gosh, what do you know, I bet people WOULD give this man some money for some prints of his work! Smart, God, smart.
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Although I’m sure there are many… pieces… missing from MST3K – pieces of brain matter, sensicality, other bits of film and metal, this is the piece we’ve got. What’s going on right here is the collected POSTERS from the movies watched and spoken on by the MST3K robots and dude. The films this crew watched ranged many years, through the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, etcetera, through graphic design terror and genius. Turns out the posters for the movies they featured on this show have QUITE a range and, now that the internet is around, are totally sitting around all over the place. And now they’re all here.

A big fat gallery of posters from the MST3K movies. Here. Now. Instantly.
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A wise character on a TV show once said: “Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.” This is the exact same concept that is going on in the photographed objects going on here in this project by artist / designer / photographer Ben Innes. They are called “Separations” and they are exploded objects held up by string and photographed against single-color backgrounds. They make a person understand the nature of the object in a way one, even one who uses these objects every day, does not think about.

Components. Many, many components. I am not capable of making these objects.
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Let me show you something drawn on black. Then more on white right afterward. Some colors glittered all around, and like the title of this post suggests, some fatboy outlines. These are the illustrative works of Tin&Ed. They’ve got their eye on perfection whist living the fabulous life of whimsy. This is the line you’ve got a real option of riding your bike on if you’re going to function in this hipster aesthetic world. It’s like a bio-dome of confident light-bike speeding. Don’t run into the wall! Tin&Ed don’t.
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Let me begin here by apologizing to you for not showing this artist earlier. Mike Brodie aka the “Polaroid Kidd” is a photographer who’s ushered his work into the houses of hundreds of patrons, photos, ironically enough in this sentence, of the homeless. Not homeless necessarily by necessity, but more likely and more often than not by choice. These photos are taken by Brodie and of his friends and associates. All along the road and all along the railroad tracks. All the way from Florida to California to Minneapolis and back again.
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Sometimes, all you designers, sometimes, you’re sitting there making something new. You’re making something new and you’re listening to your favorite album, one of the most popular albums of all time, Nirvana’s “Nevermind.” And what comes out? Slime. That’s what happened to A.C. Bananas when he did just that. And what was the slime? This font. This font is called “Splatter” and it’s also totally free.
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When I become king of the world, this will be one of my main thrones. In fact, I think I will put this one in my conference room, to encourage wild thought. This chair goes by the name “Proust Geometrica” and is designed by Atelier Mendini – operating out of Milano. This chair is magic. It is a timeless desire to place upon objects the images we’ve got in our heads. This is an embodiment of that desire, and a step further, it’s not just ethereal, not just blasted from a dream. This is precise, straight lined, sharp. It smells like pop art and sounds like lowbrow art. And it’s pretty. It’s modern. It’s for the home.
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Every once in a while, and by every once in a while I mean every time a chance happens upon you, you’ve gotta make a Star Wars photo post. You must especially do this when you’ve been collecting rare Star Wars photos in your pocket and have an overabundance of them and just gotta unload them all unto the world. This is one of those times.
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The perfect and most appropriately absurd contraption for getting around your city whilst remaining in “natural” mode is this – the “Parkwheel.” This wheel of grass and walkability is designed and executed by David Gallaugher and a couple helpers from his school Dalhousie architecture. It’s a grass wheel. Walk around in it with no shoes or socks on.
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This bike right here sat, the day I saw it, in the parking garage next to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Childrens Museum, and MCAD. It sat down on the bottom level, lookin all good, all covered in stickers from face to rear. What you’re about to see is a sneak-snap documentation of this parked bike including each and I hope every sticker on it.

It’s got things you might recognize too, including a lovely Burlesque Design sticker right under it’s toothy grin.
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If you’re anywhere near my age, young or old of heart, you “remember” the Pokemon craze when it first exploded unto the western world. Pokemon Red, the less-cool Pokemon Blue, the ccg card game, the restaurant toys, all of it very fun. There was a cartoon, too! But none of it really went very much in depth, into the personal lives of the characters. Why would it? It’s a friggin kids cartoon. But did you ever notice, you heavy-hitting fans of the Pokemon world, did you ever notice that the main character, Ash, was a bastard child? Truly the world was not ready for this storyline, and thustly it was never explored. Until NOW!
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Let me show you this sketch journal. It’s done by a fellow named Ian Hands (cool name, friggin awesome!) who’s also known as DEPT H. This is one of several of his sketchbooks done in mixed medias, all sorts of marker, pen, paint, ink, pencil, all done in such a detailed and layered fashion that one can scarcely consider it a book of simple sketches. Nay I say, though they may be jammed healthfully in with a collection of sketchbooks, the contents of these pages are no mere sketches. Masterworks on tiny pieces of paper they are, truly colorfully delicious, arranged in a way so very tasty they be.
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Designer Eric Gorvin is one of those fabulous new-age designers seemingly obsessed with saying what is happening. Also he’s good at arranging letters with the correct amount of space between them. He’s a designer and a typographer from and in Minneapolis, and he has this very simple poster for you!
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This lady, this lady named Lady Gaga, she is releasing a remix album. First she had a new-god-level selling debut album, then she made an EP, now there’s this sort of “greatest hits” remix album. Since there’ve been countless remixes of her work already before this studio-approved one, I had to take a tiny dig at it. And while I was at it, I saved the psd file for you so you could too. All of that’s below.
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An epic story for a simple skateboard crash! Truly a strange sort of deal going on here in this box-o-shirt we were sent to review by LTD Tee! Inside a nondescript white plastic bag came a lovely cardboard box decorated with a hand-printed silkscreen in brown ink. The design uses both the illustration seen on the shirt inside as well as an epic tale of the artist/designer. Inside the box is a tiny stash of high-quality stickers as well as another bag, transparent with instructions, containing the shirt. The shirt itself is branded exclusively with the “LTD Tee” logo, printed inside the shirt above, again, the story of the artist Porous Walker.
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With each new age, especially ones that come with technological or social changes, aka all of them, there comes some artwork that defines the age. Not so much defines the age as epitomizes the craft. Here it is. The computer age spewed pixels, and in its horrible terror of colors in perfect squares made a thing that was unique. Still is. Here’s a set of illustrations as made by Alex Peverett, all out of pixels in such strange arrangements. All of them have fabulous titles too, like “CtadLSCrambl (2010)” (pictured above.)
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A tiny documentary in four photos of the insides of the photographer. It’s Ibai Acevedo’s strangest moment in four frames. Acevedo is a multitalented photographer whose filled herself with some colorful liquids and… let it all come out… upwards?

Devour such a lovely situation en large.
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I was writing a post for the greatest industrial design project posting site on the planet Yanko Design today and I happened upon an amazing quote. It’s the one you see above. It’s got LEGO in it. Sometimes things so simple as a recollection of someone else’s childhood ring such a true bell in you it brings a tear to your eye. That happened to me here. Not just about the building block toy, but about the knowing what’s fun and knowing what brings you joy as a kid remaining lit through to your adult life.

Thustly, I have made this LEGO post. It is full of LEGO.
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