Brilliant

Found via a lil' fat monkey.
Rick Mereki's tumblr.

Dear Malaysians Ad

I don't usually feature ads but this one's briliant.

How To Steal Like An Artist

Austin Kleon gives ridiculously good advice to anyone who wants to be creative. Down to earth and extremely practical, anyone who wants to create any form of art can benefit from a read.

Blog & Roll (Again): Minimal Movie Posters

When I started out this blog I wanted to write certain features on weekly basis (like quotes, featured blogs and music video selections), to keep up my discipline in blogging, to attract repeat readers and to have a sense of continuity.

It didn't work, after which I went on a more ad-hoc basis. Perhaps this year I can try a little harder? Or perhaps it's too late to even bother?

Here's a cool tumblr called Minimal Movie Posters (self explanatory title), also found via khai's tumblr.

Markku Lahdesmaki’s Robot Series

More awesome stuff, this time art showcasing the inherent alienation of modern robot life. Heh heh. Click on the post title to visit the link.

A Cloud Castle

Well, paper, actually.
Click on the post title to visit the link and check it out. It's awesome.

Quote of the Week

Simpsons/Banksy

Too good not to share.

Blog & Roll: Don Kern

Post-It Genius.

Click on post title to visit site. 

Thanks Ash for the heads up. I hope you're well.

Blog & Roll: Stuff No One Told Me

I know, it's been a while since the last feature. Work saps away so much of me.

Anyway, I discovered this via another blog. Still in it's early stages, but already showing a lot of promise. Click on the title post to visit the blog.

LOL

Retro Cool

Penguin has reissued an impressive range of fiction and non-fiction titles in its iconic original orange colour-band covers. They're selling for considerably less than ones with the glossier covers. Nice.

Unfortunately, only a small range is available in Malaysia (as far as I noticed). Not nice.

Click on the image above to see the full range.

The Big Giant and the Little Giantess

SKR, this one's for you...
Beijing recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of communist China on an immense scale with much pomp and circumstance. In Berlin however, they celebrated the fall of communism in Europe and celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall's on a (relatively) smaller scale without any gigantic weapons, rockets, tanks or armed forces marching.
Click on the post title to enjoy more pictures from The Big Picture blog. I find the symbolism behind the performance engaging and meaningful. Hmm...I wonder if KL will ever see any public spectacle of this sort.

The Pursuit of Happiness Simplified

You may have seen this already. But even if you didn't, you'd have known it deep down inside, right?

Image courtesy of the awesome graphic design site typcut.

Tian Shu

I got back from Kuantan last Sunday night, physically exhausted but spiritually renewed. The trip was very interesting, it certainly triggered many questions about myself and my relationships with people around me.

Anyway, I found this via The Historian's Craft. It's an art installation by Chinese artist Xu Bing called "Tian Shu". It's amazingly beautiful and it speaks to me as someone who is ethically Chinese but cannot read more than a dozen Chinese characters.

Click on the post title above to read and see more.

Image courtesy of booklyn.com

Sometimes You Just Want to Dissapear

Mr. Liu's pretty crazy, but in a good way.
Click on the post title to see more of his photographs.

Blog & Roll: Terrible Yellow Eyes

Anyone who has read and enjoyed Maurice Sendak's seminal book Where the Wild Things Are will love this blog which features work inspired by the book.
Click on the post title to visit the site.

And oh yes, they've made a movie out of the book too ('they' being Hollywood, not the blog owners), coming out in October this year. Whether the film makers can create a successful feature length movie out of a short illustrated book with barely 20 lines of text while staying faithful to the original material will be something worth observing.

Here's the trailer:

KMR

Clearly Japanese, slightly surreal, absolutely beautiful.
Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese so the artist(es)'s name(s) is/are unavailable.
Please click on the post title to enjoy more of his/her/their great artwork.
Found via czina likes.

Blog & Roll: Desire to Inspire

I know I didn't really put up a Blog & Roll post last week, but since I linked other stuff, I think I can be forgiven. Anyway, I've concluded that the best approach to Blog & Roll is to try to put it up at least once a week without setting any particular day for it to appear. This allows me greater freedom to feature blogs without actually the whole thing turning into a chore.

Anyway, this week's blog du jour is Desire to Inspire. If you've ever read an expensive interior design magazine and wished your home could at least bear even a remote resemblance to the gorgeous houses found inside, the feast your eyes on this blog: it's bound to make you feel that way, but amplified a hundredfold.

Click on the post title to visit and enjoy.

By artist Patrick Moberg.

Via tcritic.