Mark Spurgeon is collecting photos of old hand painted building signage on his site - Preserve. Most shots are from New Zealand and Australia so far, so if you have anymore, send them over »
Lots of great stuff on there, but I’m really taken by these massive numbers painted on doors above and below :)
Very jealous of all the places Tom Robinson has been, but loving his collection of Feet First photographs taken there.
Via: Elastronauta.
A commenter put me onto this new movie 180° South, specifically it’s a film about surfing, sailing and climbing, but generally it’s a remake of a legendary trip and film from 1968. Interesting slide show of the trip here too (narration over photos, so simple, so good, can’t believe I haven’t seen this sort of thing before?)
Trailer:
It’s this original trip that has really caught my imagination - Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia & Black Diamond) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The North Face), plus three other chums set off in an old camper van to surf, ski and climb their way through South America, on their way to be the 3rd team to climb Mt. Fritzroy (Cerro Fitz Roy) in Patagonia (it’s that iconic granite slab used on the Patagonia logo).
Unfortunately I can’t find the original film (Mountain of Storms) online other than this short clip (voice over is hilarious), but just ordered the dvd from the Patagonia store.
But the fascinating story continues today as Doug Tompkins (with a bit of help from Yvon) is buying up huge chunks of wilderness in Chile and Argentina and creating his own national park which on completion will be given back to the government. Apparently he’s now one of the top land owners in the world, with an estimated 2 million odd acres!
Side note: The first person to climb Mt. Fritzroy was legendary French climber Lionel Terray (with Guido Magnone in 1952) and interestingly the title ‘Conquerors of the Useless’ references the title of his autobiography.
I‘ve got a keen eye on Michael Rissi’s Vimeo feed, for jems like this beautiful Swiss Alps at night timelpase. Be sure to check out his daytime one too, amazing stuff.
Ha ha, this cracked me up, I didn’t understand it at first - can you see what’s not as it seems it this picture?
That girl climbing into the bunk has got her arse out right?
(Click through for the spoiler)
Just back from our wedding tour of the north, here’s some pictures of the Eleanor & Andy’s wedding cake that me & Nicky made!
What inspired me to ask Eleanor if I could make her cake was the Eugene & Louise bakery art show. I blogged about it a while ago and have been itching for a good excuse to have a go since. Working the Marzipan was a bit harder than I had expected, not quite the same as plasticine.. Definitely didn’t reach E&L’s standards, but I think El was pretty happy with it none the less :)
The best bit was making all the marzipan men for the top. So much fun in fact that ended up with so many that they couldn’t all fit on the cake. We had extra marzipan for all the kids to make their own, took them about 10 minutes to realise it wasn’t plasticine and start eating it!
I think me & Nicky had the most brightly coloured wedding attire at the wedding! Although with everyone else on our row we almost had the whole spectrum.
Had to post a pic of this amazing old bus ticket machine, I was bus conductor on the way to the church and had to stamp the specially made tickets with it.
I’m afraid we were too pissed to take any pics of the cake actually being eaten.. but I’ve got a vague recollection that it tasted extremely good.
For those interested, more wedding pics and cake making pics on my Flickr.
God knows how long photographer Chris McVeigh (powerpig) had to wait for these chipmunks to get in position to take these shots.. Worth the wait though, they’re amazing! All shots from the series here »
This one of Chewy handing over the nut cracks me up:
Make sure you check out the rest of his work, consistently awesome.
Via: Erica.
Apparently Neil uses old expired Polaroid film to create this vintage look, but it’s not just the colour palette, loving the angles and composition. These 2 shots are taken from his PULP ART BOOK project in collaboration with the rather tastey supermodel Joni Harbeck.
This was the first thing I saw after just watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo (The Mole), I’d love to see this guy do a remake of it.
Via: ISO50.
I was looking through the photos on my iPhone and came across picture of the breakfast I made the other weekend, felt the need to post it as it was making my mouth water. Full English, yum yum.
I‘m loving these cut out reminders that Lazyholic has made. Reminds me of something similar I used to do at university with pictures of Clint Eastwood reminding me to do stuff, but much less weird.. I think Nicky might come home today to find our house covered in something similar, I’m definitely feeling the lazy bug at the moment.
You should also check out her blog & Flickr, all full of good stuff.
Via: How Magazine.
Aw, they’re so cute! Check out Life’s Small Cars photo gallery. It becomes apparent looking at these tiny cars from yesteryear - modern small cars have got it all wrong, they just look like ‘a small car‘ that’s designed to be small. If they made them look like big cars, but in miniture, that would be way more appealing, well to me anyhow.
Via: Coudal.
I randomly stumbled across this photo of Sean Connery playing Bond on Kateoplis tumblr. I thought to myself - have I blogged about Bond before, probably not? Then I searched my site and found a random snap my mate got of Jaws & Odd Job on a night out, an amusing book on the Birds of the West Indies by a James Bond, a cardboard Aston, some inspired work, and mine and Nicky’s trek up to a Bond film location.
So I have blogged about Bond before, but you can’t have too much of a good thing eh?
This pic on Veronica Belmont’s Flickr made in laugh for obvious reasons. The more I looked at it the more I laughed - hard, harder and then stop.. Genius ;)
Via: Your Monkey Called.
What no bacon? Well I suppose bacon shaped balloons are hard to come by, those sausage shaped ones are pretty good though eh. Light Breakfast is a personal piece by photographer David Sykes.
Via: Full Beard.
Interesting photos of The World’s First Nuclear Power Plant, built in Russia, 1954. I’m a sucker for big industrial dials, switches, gauges and such like, this thing has a fair few. Not sure what that circular thing with the grid pattern is, but it looks pretty cool.
Via: Martin Klasch.
