Season of mist

mnmal:

A short video prepared by Evan Calkins from Hoban Cards showing his work hand printing cards on a 1902 Chandler and Price letterpress.

I’ve talked about the wonderful work that Evan does before, but when I saw this video I had to post it here. Everyone knows I love machines and working with my hands.

Enjoy and don’t forget to visit Evan’s blog.

ruineshumaines:

big house (by wangyuanling)

Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite)

neil-gaiman:

It’s the Year of the Dragon on Monday…

Here’s an Arthur Rackham Dragon. 

christineandian:

One of the major themes for our wedding that surfaced early on is the drive to do as much as we can ourselves, or with the help of our friends and families. We’ve both found that the sometimes arduous work involved with creating something yourself is vastly out-weighed by the pleasure of looking…

neil-gaiman:

It’s by a Russian art student called Max Overkill, and I thought it was absolutely wonderful.

I especially love how grumpy I look, and the fish.

ruineshumaines:

Nostalgia (by harvest_ja*)

bigweek:

Jake Coyle for AP:

“Electric City,” an animated futuristic series Hanks has been developing for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring. The series includes 20 episodes, each three- or four-minutes long.

The future of new media is streaming online and on demand.

neil-gaiman:

FROM TODD KLEIN’S WEBSITE:

GO FREELANCE 1st Printing

Issued in October 2011, the first 500 copy printing of this 11 by 17 inch signed print in collaboration with artist Shawn McManus is now available. GO FREELANCE! is a board game that outlines the lives of two budding comics artists. It’s written, designed and lettered by me with over fifty wonderful spot illustrations by Shawn in a 1950s-advertising art style that’s sure to bring a smile. Here you’ll meet Artie and Scribbler as they make their way from childhood to retirement through the challenges, pitfalls, rewards and catastrophes of a creative livelihood…their original creations, terrific T-Man and the mysterious Master of None…plus other characters like the Old Pro, and a special guest appearance by a certain Top Writer! (hint: initials NG) The print is on ivory-colored Wausau cardstock paper, printed in black, and highlighted with green watercolor, each hand-painted by me. Shawn and I have individually signed each print. My price is $20 plus shipping. A detailed description of the creation of the print on my blog is HERE. For a larger image of the print go HERE. To order using PayPal, click the button below.

ruineshumaines:

La fortezza (by simpli58)

merlin:

I can’t stop looking at these.

Reeeeally looking at these.

Stunning.

(Source: ollymoss)

marchempel:

Death, a character from The Sandman [Vertigo/DC Comics]. Media: India ink, watercolor and graphite on bristol board. The Sandman is a trademark of DC Comics; all rights reserved.

theastralcity:

Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.

To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.

The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.

Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.

The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.

I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.

For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w