Calder with his self-designed BMW. His face too is a good design.

Via the always interesting Wary Meyers, authors of the fun Wary Meyers’ Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs.

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While at art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my American friends Paul and Eugene and I lived in a rented seaside house in a nearby fishing village. The day we moved in to our house in Shad Bay we found a framed map of our cove, and it showed a little island across the water from us marked ‘Treasure Island.’ For the next year we tried to get hold of a boat to get over there.

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How did the decision to hang the gongs in the window come about? “Without eyes, our house is just a faceless shed?” Cool 70s modern house near the river, North Vancouver.

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“Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel.

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In the “on the fridge” category.

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When she was younger, comedian Maria Bamford played a Star Trek character in a touring show that visited malls across the USA doing things like Jack in the Box promotions. She played a Bajoran – you know, those people from the planet Bajor in Deep Space Nine:

“Greetings!

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Does letterhead design reveal anything about the owner? Was Elvis himself responsible for that cool but unexpected minimal design (and if so, the terrible kerning of his name, too)? These are all from the blog Letterheady which collects letterhead stationery from an a wildly divergent group of people, organizations and eras.

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For those who don’t know, Mary Margaret O’Hara is a cult Canadian musician who produced only one album, the weirdly perfect Miss America, in 1988. It’s said that she never released another album because she’s reclusive, but in fact she never stopped working publicly.

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70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L’Ogre on Vimeo.

Can you identify the unidentified paintings in this video? It’s a music video for the song 70 Million by Hold Your Horses, directed by L’Ogre.

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There are more tunnels and round things where this came from: see  y o u h a v e b e e n h e r e s o m e t i m e.

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