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These artistically drawn foam cups are the creation of artist Cheeming Boey and sell for about $120 to $220 each.
[via SeriousEats]
I love music and I’m at a “keyboard” of a different variety all day. I would love to have this shirt.
Not sure what’s up with the 50 states theme (see previous post), but this bookshelf is really unique so I had to mention it. The name of the piece confuses me, but I love the design. More at yatzer.com
‘Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends’, Ron Arad 2009
Once again Wooster has tipped me off to a great artist. This time it’s Charming Baker, with works in oil on linen, wood and paper. Describing his work in an interview with Artasty:
“I like it when something’s not quite right… I like to take people along a path which leads to a place they don’t expect to be. They might discover a personal or political subtext; they might simply enjoy the view. The effect I’m aiming for in my work is that slightly unnerving feeling you get when you have your arse patted in public, but you’re not exactly sure who’s patting it.”
From CharmingBaker.com:
NAME: Charming Baker MIDDLE NAME: Alan
INFLUENCES: Cheap books, heroes, girls, Zulus, odd-looking women, suburbia, da riddum, family, stories, horses, dogs, packaging, summer holidays, the smell of make-up and cheap perfume, powertools, tea, tomatoes, Britain In Colour.
Intelligence Is No Match For Adaptabiity, Charming Baker
Group Shot, Charming Baker
Let's Start A Rumour, Charming Baker
Monkey Chairs from Union Elemental
The site needs work (I couldn’t find any further details about these chairs aside from what is shown above), but I really do like the chairs!
Photographer Michael Wolf’s book, The Transparent City, was born out of a series of photographs he took from various rooftops in downtown Chicago. As noted in this article from Metropolis the resulting images are very Edward Hopper-esque. Compare:
The Transparent City photo c/o Metropolis Mag
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper c/o Wikipedia
From Metropolis:
Like the black Ford Model T of yesteryear, today’s urban workplaces come in only one color: one of a kind. A mass-produced illusion of nonconformity is now the industrial brand of the American workplace. Offices have become stacks of boxes for people who get paid to think out of them. They’re factories for making to-do lists, writing e-mails, and uploading quarterly reports. These office spaces are increasingly indistinguishable from urban residences. In some homes, office work happens in every room because electronic devices for generating documents and staying connected can invade any space. In today’s megacities, built to accommodate the roughly three billion new people who have joined us in the past five decades (it took thousands and thousands of years just to get to two and a half billion in 1950), we aren’t addresses as much as nodes on a network.
Who wouldn’t need these? This is the kind of thing that makes me love Etsy.
Mustache Pint Glasses from BreadandBadger
I officially love the name of this company, Bread and Badger.
Calexico + Threadless = LOVE.
I love the band, love the site, love the tees. You can download this song for free written and performed by Calexico and inspired by the Threadless design “Bird Migration“.
