The homies at Aesthetic Apparatus have a new shirt. It is about Indie Rock. It say’s “Indie Rock Still Sucks”, which I suppose could be ironic, if you’re that sort of person, but if you see me wearing it, you know I’ll be dead serious. You’ll be able to tell by the look on my face.

So serious.

Aesthetic Apparatus official description:

INDIE ROCK…
STILL SUCKS

So, we made this shirt. It can be taken a couple of ways. You know what we mean. Right?

American Apparel Tri-Blend “Tri-Black” t-shirt. (Men’s sizes M, L, XL)

Go buy it at their site. DO IT NOOOW.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies gray category.

A hundred and twenty-three years before 1995, there was railroad built in Costa Rica that connected San Jose to Limon in the Caribbean coast. A hundred and twenty-three years later, the Costa Rican government shut it down. Some years after that, in 2003, photographer Guillermo A. Durán and his pal (unnamed) took a two day hike along the length of the lost railway. This is that journey nutshelled inside a collection of some fabulous black and white photographs. Be prepared for some nature-rules-rocks.

This journey officially begins in the tiny town of Turrialba and aims for Siquirres town, down inside the Reventazon River canyon. If you’d like to take this entire journey en español, take a peek at the blogspot blog that accompanied along the trail: Cuenticos 506. This is a sort of journey every photographer aught to have to take: one that follows a trail set by a person or organization before them, one where they’ve got to capture a set of images inside a wholly especial set of events during a set of days that had been laid down over a long set of years. In this case, that amount of days for the photographers was two, while the remains of the events they collected was over a hundred and twenty three!

While the photographer’s ultimate goal, that one where they attempt to collect the heart and the soul of their subject, is ultimately impossible, try they must. And try we must to support, for even the most lofty goal is important for the human spirit to run after.

Now take a peek at this one.

To get in contact with the photographer Guillermo A. Durán, email over to gds506 at gmail.com. To continue to fawn over his works with your eyeballs, take a look in the gallery below, then head on over to his official http://duranfoto.net/ internets.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

Let me show you something sharp. This set of masks and mask related works right here belong to designer / artist Tan Howe Qin. He’s got what some people might call… a style. If you take a close look at his angles, his color pallet, his deep, deep distain for curvy lines, you’ll see it! Then smell the electronics. Buttons and light reflections everywhere. Grays! Grays blacks and whites for everyone!

This is a modern sort of sack of lines and circles. This is the sort of work that might never have been created if it weren’t for the great understanding of math that is computer graphics. Tan Howe Qin takes full advantage of the simple max-out then-reduce method of mayhem in his works. Masks especially here, then for fun, a couple of his alternative works like the Be@rbrick toy, a Tofu special edition, some Star Wars droids on superjuice, an amazing ape shirt that should DEFINITELY be produced by X-LARGE, and a few things that I don’t know the name of but recognize as pop.

Oh and a customized image of one of Michael Lau’s Gardener toys.

Super cool!

Then take a jaunt on over to his portfolio blog page for additional works and/or to hire him for his magical work-making hands and brain. He has an alternate name: Room-99, and he lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sometimes people need to know that for site-specific works, you know?

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies gray category.

Just incase you missed it, right here in this post is the entire set of clips from the Betty White / Mother’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live. You might be thinking “what in the world is going on here? WFDJ doesn’t show shows, that’s for tv!” But look, this was one of the greatest episodes of Saturday Night Live in recent times, and the bumper cards with Betty are fantastic! Look at that one with her holding a boombox! Utterly fantastic! So show some respect to your elder, get down and giggle with one of the head mothers of comedy Betty White and all the other chuckle mommies on this very special episode of SNL.

Show preview with a few words with Betty White on how nervous she is!

Lawrence Welk Show opening skit with all the ladies: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, and small-hands having Dooneese, aka Kristen Wiig.

The above-average kindly-worded monologue from Betty.

NPR Radio with Molly Shannon and Anna Gasteyer. How do you like my muffins?

The Manuel Ortiz Show.

Sally O’Malley & Dotty O’Donaghan on Weekend Update.

Weekend Update: Really?!? With Seth, Amy, and Tina!

Tina Fey is a census taker with the US census bureau finding not Christopher Walken, but Betty White. Betty White pronounced BLAAARRRFENGARRR.

Bronx Beat with Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph. Pool noodles! Pool noodles. It’s leather weather. She’s ya mutha! Delichus delichus.

Scared Straight. Ass.

Gingey: she’s a lesbian.

Debbie Downer at the lingerie party. Debbie reveals the source of her downer ways – HINT – it’s Betty White… in the past!

MacGruber rocks through several episodes with his Grandma MacGruber.

PLUS PLUS here’s a “web exclusive” clip called Joyologist. I love it I love it I LLLOVE IT.

And if you’re in to watching the entire episode at once, here’s that too.

Jay-Z was also in this episode and did a pretty neat job and dedicated his set to Betty White which was very honorable and fabulous. And of course there was this really really really wild digital short where the cast of SNL sang the Golden Girls theme song to Betty to which she responded with a hardcore version, complete with blood, backflips, and a kind “Happy Mother’s Day Mother******s.” Yay!

Note: this last video seems to be travelling around virally in a weirdly underground way because it doesn’t seem to appear on the NBC website. The only way we have it here is because we didn’t label it on our super sekret youtube channel. Sekretz! The quality is shitty. The content is gold. Enjoy!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Celebritarianism category.

Get yourself all readied up for some crash scenes, fellows and peoples, because here comes some. Illustrator/designer Scott Teplin outta New York City has a set of pictures he drew that you’re about to see. Called “Crashes : Graphite” and full of what you might expect given the nature of this description and the picture above. Crashes galore! And all in glorious white and gray tones. Experience the fabulousness of the detail, and don’t worry, there’s no human body parts in there.

Each of these 17 pictures is done strictly in pencil on fine white paper. If you look hard enough at your local bookstore, you might soon be seeing Teplin’s works hit the shelves. Posters, books, and whathaveyou. All of that fine stuff showing the extent of his illustrious career in illustration.

NOTE: in fact, there’s an example of that right over at X-ing Books where you can buy prints of his Alphabet series if you do so wish!

Now! For some bashed up vehicles! Enjoy the magled death!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies destruction category.

Ryan McLennan is an artist who uses graphite and acrylic on canvas. The show these paintings are from is called “The Strain of Inheritance” and it opens very soon up at Joshua Linger Gallery. The centerpiece is shown above: a 52″ x 68″ giant called “Departure.” This piece features a giant tree trunk intertwined with bones, bears, and bison, it reminds a fellow of some of the oddest passages from the book “Ender’s Game” – where a giant’s been slain, his carcass having become home to animals and humans galore.

All’s recycled, all’s used.

Widness the severe sharpness and depressing eyeballs of the animals here. Look also for the bears made of leaves draped over the living animals. And the bones. And the vines. What a set of lovely connections.

Ryan McLennan
The Strain of Inheritance
October 17–November 14, 2009
Opening reception, Gallery II: Saturday, October 17, 6–9 PM
http://joshualinergallery.com/

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001
For more information, please visit www.joshualinergallery.com, or contact Tim Strazza at 212.244.7415 or
tim@joshualinergallery.com.

Some examples of sizes:

Work Ethic Acrylic and graphite on paper 47 x 54 in. 2009 (Moose circling a tree) - The Storyteller Acrylic and graphite on paper 30 x 22 in. 2009 (Single moose missing leg) - The Widower Acrylic and graphite on paper 30 x 22 in. 2009 (Ox and single skull)

This post was placed most effectively in the World Famous Design Junkies environment category. Tell all your friends to go out and give a little bit of bread to a squirrel today!

This right here is a Treasure Chest post. In it you’ll find all the ammo you’ll ever need to be the most popular kid on the social network. Lots of fun, nicely designed and/or just utterly wild to look at items. If you can identify any of the items further than they’ve already been identified, please do so! The treasure chest is also a place for lost and lonely images that need a home. These internets exist to spread knowledge, power, and equality. Strength and honor. Tubes and internets.

“Running water never grows stale.”
Bruce Lee

You can find another post like this at Lost and Found – both of these posts are no-kill shelters for lost and stray images from all over this freaky silly world.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies weird category.

Check out this business card/mailer sketch by Justin McKinley. Is silly, it’s yellow, but it’s got guts, and guts is enough. It’s set reel nice and it has what it needs. Justin McKinley, Graphic Designer and Critical Thinker. And check how it matches his online portfolio! Yellow, black, white, and gray. Who knew? Lowriders knew.

I’d find myself aghast should I publish an entry on Justin McKinley without mentioning his bike-and-click skills. See his flickr stream and follow him on twitter.

Contact
justin mckinley
2540 3rd ave. south
minneapolis, mn 55404

p. 507.381.8977

e. jjjjustin.mckinley[at]gmail.com

aim. mckinley826

Cornflower blue and primer gray! MCAD Portfolio Week!