plsj field notes

2009

December
November 14
October 56
September 42
August 25
July 107
June 80
May 68
April 55
March 37
February 44
January 42

2008

December 95
November 56
October 33
September 30
August 35
July 62
June 88
May 79
April 63
March 81
February 47
January 16

2007

December 50
November 16
October 26
September 46
August 42
July 15
June 33
May 31
April 23
March 46
February
January
Why Does the Best Design of 2009 Still Look...
Aug 1st
Merino sheep by Sezzie D
Jul 31st
"The Merino Sheep" by Andrew Barton 'Banjo'...
Jul 31st
Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Jul 31st
Listen Listen
Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (1985)
Jul 31st
best of craigslist > new york > Grooming...
Jul 31st
Mark Richards - Core Memory
Jul 31st
More Fenwick illustration. This one really makes me wish he...
Jul 31st
sometimes you need things that aren’t yours by...
Jul 30th
Caroline Gaedechens - The Village & The Wolves
Jul 30th
CHEESE! One of two hundred wire sculptures by C.W. Roelle.
Jul 30th
Ray Fenwick journal He cracks me up. But I can’t...
Jul 30th
Sascha Pohflepp
Jul 30th
Doggie Lover Doll: The world’s first sex doll...
Jul 30th
Books by people who have raised apes in their...
Jul 30th
Linos portable record player. Awesome. via
Jul 30th
Honourable mention for “large family” in the...
Jul 29th
The School of Life
Jul 29th
Cargo Ship Spotting “Every day of the year, in ports...
Jul 29th
“A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses...”
— Alain de Botton
Jul 29th
Thatsit balans chair designed by Peter Opsvik The first...
Jul 29th
Warch Watch
The Clash - Clampdown (1979)
Jul 29th
Warch Watch
The Clash - London Calling (Live 1980)
Jul 29th
Best toy EVER and the battery is included! via
Jul 28th
“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer,...”
— Ruth Benedict
Jul 28th
Moira Hahn
Jul 28th
Prayer Requested by Christian Northeast
Jul 28th
Tomer Hanuka
Jul 28th
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous...”
— Jonathan Swift
Jul 27th
Barcode replacement shown off
Jul 27th
Ethics bureaucracies and student research
Jul 27th
A cat with a crab for a hat. Sweeeeet.
Jul 27th
“Permanent fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of...”
— Gen. George Patton on military...
Jul 27th
Tea Taste Test
Jul 27th
Not one of IndiaTimes’ 25 Must See Bollywood Movies,...
Jul 27th
Dan May - The Hunter
Jul 27th

Public anthropologist

“My research, writings, and teaching focus on violence, suffering, and premature death as...
Jul 27th
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority...”
— Cesare Pavese
Jul 25th
Taiaha - A Maori fighting staff 5-6 feet long, made from...
Jul 25th
Kendo To mold the mind and body. To cultivate a vigorous...
Jul 25th
Jul 24th
Indeed.
Jul 24th
Warch Watch
Another one for the asshats who tell me that “We’re all equal now - feminism won!”
Jul 23rd
I never get tired of interspecies love. via
Jul 23rd
Ryan Heshka
Jul 23rd
Gina & Matt
Jul 23rd
ThinkMule
Jul 23rd
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These,...”
— from Sheherazade by Richard...
Jul 23rd
Fat.
Jul 22nd
South Korea clones drug-sniffing dogs “Six puppies...
Jul 22nd

Design and politics

Teaching design research, from the perspective of a social scientist, is tricky — especially...
Jul 22nd
100 Years of Design Manifestos
Jul 22nd
Beyond the ability to respond
Jul 22nd
Arup’s Drivers of Change cards via
Jul 22nd
Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”
Jul 22nd

This week's horoscope

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Did life feel meaningless last week? Was your destiny a random sequence of...
Jul 21st
'Flesh-eating robot' is actually a...
Jul 21st
Henning Wagenbreth
Jul 21st
Jon MacNair
Jul 21st
Arphid Watch: Passport Sleeves
Jul 21st
Flavio Morais
Jul 21st
Andrew Brandou - The Lion and the Lambs
Jul 21st
“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages...”
— Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Moon...
Jul 21st
Catherine Deneuve (Photograph by Douglas Kirkland)
Jul 20th
Proust Questionnaire: Catherine Deneuve
Jul 20th
Warch Watch
Enid and I are watching metal documentaries and heavily rocking out. Global Metal (2008) is also a...
Jul 18th
Matt Furie Astounding stuff.
Jul 17th
Die Klarinette
Jul 17th
Desire Series #2, Frogs go through plastic surgeries by...
Jul 17th
“So, a reconstruction of time is afoot. A new frame of...”
— Dichterische Fragmente
Jul 17th
54% of Canadians oppose Afghan mission
Jul 16th
This PostSecret card really disturbs me, but I’m not...
Jul 15th
XXXL
Jul 15th
Beach House by Jon Klassen
Jul 14th
Butcher by Sophia Martineck
Jul 14th
Red Nose Studio
Jul 14th
“It’s not quite breakfast, it’s not quite lunch, but it comes...”
— Jacques (The Simpsons) on...
Jul 12th
Jul 11th
Danny Brito draws Ghost World’s Enid Coleslaw &...
Jul 11th
British Woollens print advertisement (1955) Interesting...
Jul 11th
Sheep in Menashe Kadishman’s art
Jul 11th
Chelsea Greene Lewyta Some of these drawings are mighty...
Jul 10th
Significant Objects
Jul 10th
Alone in the City by szilovicsadrienn I like the density of...
Jul 10th
The Case for Working With Your Hands
Jul 10th
Warch Watch
SENZ storm umbrella Wicked industrial design for our upcoming move to wet and Windy Wellington?
Jul 9th
Towards a new architect: an interview with...
Jul 9th
Toy-A-Day
Jul 9th
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Jul 9th
Malai Kofta Kofta grate boiled potatoes & paneer, add...
Jul 8th
Fletcher Hanks’ comics, available from Fantagraphics ...
Jul 8th
“Super! Really enjoyed it.” - Buzz Aldrin, on...
Jul 8th
“And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language...”
— Kathy Acker
Jul 8th
Stunning ink.
Jul 7th
“A delirious mix of broad comedy and wall-to-wall...
Jul 7th
Am I weird because I have pubic hair?
Jul 5th
Warch Watch
Sam Dunn & Scott McFadyen on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos They made the awesome Metal...
Jul 5th

PMRC's Filthy Fifteen (1985)

Bring on the metal and oversexed females! The PMRC released the Filthy Fifteen to the public in...
Jul 5th
We illustration
Jul 4th

To the Harbormaster

I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got caught in some moorings. I...
Jul 4th
Jul 4th
“Here’s my challenge. Right now, put aside 100 hours over...”
— Matt Webb
Jul 2nd
Warch Watch
Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2007) Zombie sheep FTW.
Jul 1st
“Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal...
Jul 1st
“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jul 1st
I find this much more alarming than amusing. via
Jul 1st
Ha! The comforts of ambient intelligence.
Jul 1st