Simian Design

These are my delicious links for December 21st:

• Box'O'Snakes – Amazing photographs of snakes like you've never seen before

These are my delicious links for December 16th:

• PHOTOS: "Alien" Jellyfish Found in Arctic Deep – Flaming Farts of Fire are Fantastic.

These are my delicious links for July 27th through July 29th:

• Andres Amador creates large-scale art on beaches that wash away in hours. – Many of his stunning images, which start out as simple squiggles in the 39-year-old's notebook, span an incredible 500×300feet and are raked into the grains in a race against the tide.
  Using a canvas crafted by the elements the patient American waits for a full or new moon to make sure low tides offer him plenty of space to muster the incredible patterns.
  And just a few hours after etching his grand designs the curves and contours will be washed away – leaving the beach surface looking as if nothing had ever happened.
• Jaime Jones – Nice matte paintings, love the style. Very nice stuff by Jaime Jones.
• ZeroEdge Aquarium Corp. – It's what you get when you combine an Aquarium and a zero-edge pool. Gorgeous.

These are my delicious links for May 16th:

• Why Johnny Cash Owns Chuck Norris. – LOL. When Chuck was five, he was a normal five year old. Johnny had already earned man points by working in his dad’s cotton fields. That is a true bad ass. By the time he was six, Cash did more hard work than most men do in their whole life.

  Great list, even though it somewhat goes back to that awful Chuck Norris tripe.

• That Tiger basically FLIES THROUGH THE AIR LIKE IT'S SUPERMAN – Wow. I think I might be really scared of Tigers now. A truly fearsome Tiger attack.

These are my delicious links for April 14th:

• Pin-Up Picture list – Nice. A great collection of actresses in classic pin-up poses. Large list, great collection.
• Dan Mumford: Jules Verne – Dan Mumford is a freelance illustrator, designer and screenprinter based in London. I love his style, very great, strong lines. Great print- maker. Fantastic work.
• The Biggest Bugs on Earth – Bugs tend to freak us out. Mosquitoes, spiders, wasps, centipedes… you name it. If it crawls, bites or buzzes (especially anywhere near our faces), then we squirm, swat and run. But what's worse than a little bug crawling on, or biting you? How about a really, really big one?

  Here are some pictures of the biggest bugs on Earth.

These are my delicious links for March 30th:

• Stunning Underwater Photography. – Some great photos.

These are my delicious links for March 16th:

• The Hummingbird Whisperer – This guy literally has hummingbirds eating out of the palm of his hand. Amazing video footage.

These are my delicious links for February 11th through February 13th:

• Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting | Field & Stream – 1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.

  2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap – life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap – funerals are expensive

• Star Trek Inspired Corset – Wow. Now I need myself a Capt. Kirk outfit to complete the role-playing experience this will entail. But certainly the most fun you can have playing Star Trek, I can guarantee you that.
• Shuron Eyewear – These are some eyeware frames I can get behind. There are about 5 I'm seriously looking at. The retro feel of them just appeals to me.
• Paper-Based Visualization Competition: The Winner and More … – Winners chosen for the Paper-Based Visualization. Some very nice entries, worth browsing.
• Mindfuck Movies – "Some movies inform. Some movies entertain. And some pry open your skull and punch you in the brain."
• Japanese Bladesmiths – A unique behind-the-scenes visit of the crafstmen who hammer out the best and most expensive kitchen knives in the world in the city of Sakai, Japan.
• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Arctic unicorns' in icy display – Nice video of these Narwhal. They're just odd. The BBC filmed the whales during their summer migration, as they navigated through cracks in the melting Arctic sea ice.

  The team believes this aerial footage, which forms part of the BBC Natural History Unit's new series Nature's Great Events, is the first of its kind.

• A House that Takes Outside/Inside to the Extreme | Design & Innovation … – I like this (in the proper climate). California architects of the 1970s were a big force in popularizing the idea of indoor/outdoor living, with houses that featured huge patios and glass-walled living rooms. But a new villa in Germany pushes the idea to its logical extreme.
• Phantom Corsair from 1938 – Boing Boing – Wow. Why don't they build cars like this? This is super-mega-fantatically-awesome. Seriously. Build this and jetpacks, so I can die happy.
• Surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters – CNN.com – Fascinating. Did you know Oscar the Grouch was originally an alarming shade of orange. In Pakistan, his name is Akhtar and he lives in an oil barrel. In Turkey, he is Kirpik and lives in a basket. And in Israel, it's not Oscar at all — it's his cousin, Moishe Oofnik, who lives in an old car.

Wow.  I’m totally in love with the work of Chow Martin.  Amazing stuff.

These are my delicious links for February 4th through February 5th:

• A Snake of Unusual Size – Neatorama – HOLY CRAP BATMAN! This snake, this monster measured 42 feet long, weighed about 2,500 lbs., and slithered through the rainforests 60 million years ago devouring crocodiles.
• Great retro Helvetica ad from Linotype – This is fantastic.
• Monks in Space (an Aliens3 movie that never was) – There were many iterations of the Alien 3 script. One of the more exotic ones was the Vincent Ward & John Fasano "monks in space" script, illustrated here. Looks fantastic.
• Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites – A great list of ways to address some of the pain points of building and maintaining a modern website.
  List is split this into two sections. The first he calls “below the line,” which are more system level (some things straddle the line) The second section, which he calls “above the line” are common application level components that typically depend on one or more of the components above.