Persian Cat Breeders

Megan and I are considering a Persian or Himalayan cat for our apartment, and while we haven't had much luck, I've much enjoyed the amazing websites that breeders maintain.

Sunday Morning

Oscar Grillo's blog

I followed a link from Kate Beaton to the site of artist Oscar Grillo, where he maintains an excellent illustration and cartooning image blog. It's worth following.

Today's post was on natural history artists:

This image:

Reminded me of the distorted skeletons in the Silly Symphony "Skeleton Dance":

Ansel Adams and Japanese American Internment Camps

I was surprised to find this collection of photos by Ansel Adams taken of the  Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, archived by the Library of Congress.

via c-monster

Prospect Heights/Hyrule

My neighborhood in 8-Bit. Turn your city into a game.

8-Bit NYC

via @volume-mag

Nicolas Moulin

Enjoying interventions by Nicolas Moulin

“Warmdewar”, 2006
16 mm film

“Bergenobliqusaml”, 2008



via Pruned.

Building Twins

Orhan Ayyüce has a good article up on Archinect on twin buildings. His main point:

As you can see[...], a developer can build two buildings with twin concept. He can save a lot of cash from the architectural billing and contract time, from the material purchases and double discounts, and, from the ease of proven installation and erection, all of which translate into large sums of monetary gain whose importance in American urbanism is paramount.

Next time you drive by a twin concept building, take a look at them and say, “Thanks Orhan, I see what you mean.”

via SuperColossal 

Call in tactical tree drops

Via @eatingbark: Guerilla Gardening - Seeds of Revolution.

Very excited about this game - incite revolution through subversive planting! Green the city and start insurrection. Their really in-depth development blog here. 

Related: The Urban Wilderness Action Center - looking for thoughts on urban wilderness

Lego fill-in (New York)

Lego interventions arrive in New York!

More Dispatchwork (Jan Vormann) found by @NewYorkology at the General Theological Seminary.

Noby Noby Boy shows the shortest distance between my home and my work

Which are apparently six thousand meters apart. I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone "game" use as much of the platform's functionality as Noby Noby Boy.

All novels should start with maps and floor plans

Fed by Birds is reading old detective novels and particularly enjoying the maps and diagrams that always accompany the text. Why imagine the space in the novel when the author can lay it out for you? (I personally just like that I can flip back to the front of the book whenever I need that visual reminder).

I don't have much to add besides a strong endorsement - if your book deals with space, why not consider mapping it out for us?

Saying goodbye to Da Cake Spott

Ever since Megan and I moved to Flatbush Avenue, this cryptic storefront sat empty across the street. Who built it? What was its purpose?
 As far as I can gather, it was rumored to be a bakery from the owner of 'Snice, but I don't think it was confirmed. The sign went up in 2007, and besides workers visiting from time to time, the place never opened.
Now it looks like a spa is opening there, and the afternoon after I took this photo, those big red letters were gone. So goodbye, Da Cake Spott, your name brought a smile to my face and bafflement to my mind every morning.

View of Sighthill Cemetery (2008)

Cyprien Gaillard, in what looks to be a really interesting group show.

Update: Owen Hatherly writes a good critique.

Olafur Eliasson, Your House, 2006

The artist's house in Copenhagen, split into vertical cross-sections and bound in a book. 908 pages, each page corresponding to a 2.2 cm slice.
Saw this weekend at the Museum of Arts and Design. Their show on paper art is worth visiting.

Close up here.

food doodles

I love Laura Park's work. Until her website is up, her illustration and comic work is available on Flickr.