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Someone named DrFaustusAU on deviantART channeled Dr. Seuss and made a little rhyme and image:

There goes Gozer!
Gozer goes quick!

Ignore Walter Peck,
as the man has no…

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Quote is from Francis Bacon, the car is a 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale (via asaucerfullofwheels)

From the Wisconsin State Journal:

Madison teachers will soon be handing out Apples to students.

The School District for the first time plans to buy more than 600 iPads for use in the majority of schools this spring. Another 800 iPads are expected to be in classrooms by next fall, all paid for with money from a state settlement with Microsoft.

Microsoft better get over those Windows 8 tablet hurdles.
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The 1963 Chevrolet Corvair by Bertone
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Body by Ghia.
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How awesomely retro, yet fresh is the work of Cristiana Couceiro?
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A rare Keaton Music Typewriter you can buy on Etsy for only $5,295.
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Michael De Pippo, like every great, self-motivated designer, didn’t wait for permission to create something he loved despite the fact that this something contained copyrighted material.
In this case, this copyrighted something was the members of The Electric Mayhem from The Muppet Movie:

I love the Muppets. And with the movie coming out in the next couple of months, there is no better time for a fun little side project involving the best band ever conceived: Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

My idea was simple; create a vintage concert poster for each band member (Dr. Teeth, Janice, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Zoot and Animal). Using clean, crisp vectors, negative space and few colours, I wanted to keep them as simple and stylized as possible; reminiscent of retro posters from back in the day.

There’s a happy ending to this story. Disney loved Michael’s posters too and decided to license and sell them at Acme Archives.
His posters are incredible and it looks like many of the limited runs for each character are already sold out. A quick search on eBay reveals you can still find them, albeit for over double their original $60 price tag.
*For those of you who haven’t seen the original Muppet Movie (1979) or are too young to remember, the title of this post is from this scene in the movie.
Check out these insanely awesome posters:





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Over at Wired Science, Jonah Lehrer looks into how we identify good ideas:

I’ve always been fascinated by the failures of genius. Consider Bob Dylan. How did the same songwriter who produced Blood on the Tracks and Blonde on Blonde also conclude that Down in the Groove was worthy of release? Or what about Steve Jobs: what did he possibly see in the hockey puck mouse? How could Bono not realize that Spiderman was a disaster? And why have so many of my favorite novelists produced so many middling works?

A big part seems to lie in letting your ideas marinate in your head for a while to give you some distance and perspective.

iFixit.org sounds very interesting. Probably because I grew up spending a lot of time in junkyards and my dad’s basement fixing shit too:

We have been traveling to developing countries in Asia and Africa, visiting e-waste scrapyards and small repair shops, meeting “fixers” who breathe new life into gadgets that the western world has tossed away, and photographing the journey. Part travelogue, part investigative reporting, part soapbox, iFixit.org promises only one thing: a clear-eyed, thoughtful look at global repair culture.

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Alex Rainert is right, you can’t not see veins or think of a heart when you look at these visualizations of geotag density in cities by Eric Fischer.
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