and iPhone background screen version here.

Made in 1977 by the Charles and Ray Eames (of furniture god status) office, this film takes us from a picnic into outer space and back again to the atoms inside a human hand. Vidoes like this are a good reason to follow the Design Within Reach blog, even if I can never afford anything from the store, ever.

Mid way through I startled myself asking, Holy hell, where would that newly discovered habitable planet be in this? 20 light years out, says National Geographic’s blog on Gliese 581. It also contains this awesome quote:

Roughly three times more massive than Earth, the newfound planet is tidally locked to its star, which means that one side is perpetually basked in daylight, the other side constantly dark.

Aliens, if they exist, are most likely to live along the line between shadow and light, a temperate region known as the terminator, the scientists said.

Imagining the view from the terminator, Vogt said, “You basically see this star sitting on the horizon. You see an eternal sunrise or sunset, depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist.”

Here’s my first blog on the experimental film Crock, which I warn you, is a bit vulgar.

iPhone in hand, I’ve been taking some pictures. Here’s two and a video, more soon.

The Sugar Shack, created with on site materials found in the closed school.

Local artist Ethan Rose's synchronized music boxes

Just read about her project, she’s hilarious. She’ll send you a coconut, a sailor hat, a Big Gulp full of stuff from afar… I can’t sail the world, but I sure would like to, so I’ll support it. Double points for her cool glasses.

I pledged $26.71, because I wanted to pledge over $25 and I liked the way those numbers mirror each other.

What should my spirit animal be though? Hmm.

Thanks, Kirsten, for the link.

So, how to celebrate fall? Launch a squirrel? And a bunch of nuts, separately?

“Visitors are requested not to break down doors in search of liquor, even when authorized to do so by the host and hostess … Weekend guests are respectfully notified that the invitation to stay over Monday issued by the host-hostess during the small hours of Sunday morning must not be taken seriously.”

Note it says the small hours of Sunday–quite the party people! Found in an article on The Seven Vices of Highly Creative People on Salon.

Image: jonbarad

How adorable is this video for her mom? Wait till the end, it’s worth it. Having creative friends is so nice. For me. And my blog.

Yes. Yes yes yes. Their YouTube page, and on Twitter, too.

(Get it, aye + aight=aye-ight! ha. ha ha ha.)

Via ecorazzi

Back when my little sister was in town, I wanted to show her what Portland is like. My friend Audrey called with the perfect offer—paper maiche-ing (how do you spell that?) masks for this video.

We went to an apartment off Powell and squeezed into a living room with four other people, including the director Daniel. Each of us had a tub of goop and a stack of torn up grocery bags. The whole kitchen was filled with previously papered molds with hairdryers stuck in them. They said they were working in morning and night shifts for multiple days to make about 60 masks…and that’s before painting each!

These look like they’re coming out at you, but they’re indented.

The woman who made the plaster molds for the masks did really detailed work, so filling places like the nostrils and the wrinkles around the face took some real patience with tiny strips of paper and the end of a pencil.

I can’t remember why we were asked to write our names in them. They credited us in their official video, as mask makers, so nice of them! It’s one of the top google hits for my name now, ha.

I get the big sister award for introduction to Portland awesomeness! She didn’t know Blitzen Trapper, but I bet they will hit remote Colorado soon.

The application has two parts: First, pick something in the world that bugs you, and make it better. Film or photograph the process and upload the photos to your Flickr ². Second, create a 3 minute or less video that covers these questions: Who are you? What inspires you? What is your obsession in life? What is your greatest regret? What is your guilty pleasure? Upload the video to YouTube.

Applications are due weekend after next, July 10th (this deadline was extended from earlier). Remote work from another office is ok, so you can hang out on the roof of their awesome Portland building and bug Ava in the W+K radio station and Kirsten down at Literary Arts and everyone at PICA. It’s a regular beehive ³.

A search of Flickr and YouTube for combinations of “Wieden and Kennedy platform,” to check out the submissions, gave nil results. There’s lots of W+K produced videos on YouTube, though, including this, which is the top result for the above search (skip in about a minute):

I learned about Platform from Creativity Online, which gathers interesting print and web work into daily digests. Subscribe, it never fails to inspire.