Simple Simon

You might have seen Paper Jam Press’s simple, black & white posters featuring rap lyrics across the internetz at some point. Now, Arianna Orland (of Paper Jam Press) is the latest to partner with moo.com on The Luxe Project. The Luxe Project is an initiative that works with designers and showcases their moo.com designs for a month with 100% of the net proceeds going to the designer’s charity of choice. (Remember the ones that Sagmeister & Walsh did?) Well, Paper Jam is the current project and it takes 10 different phrases inspired by rap songs and prints them on a set of 50 customizable business cards.

The cards are what Arianna describes as, “simple meditations to remind us all to keep being awesome.” The phrases are not only catchy, they’re nice little catchphrases we should all keep in mind, right?

Since the collection was inspired by music, Arianna chose VH1 Save the Music Foundation as her charity of choice.

It wall all a dream

Everyday I’m hustlin

Do whatcha like

I wanna rock right now

Keep ya head up

Something like a phenomenon

Thinkin of a master plan

The world is yours

Today was a good day

Don’t call it a comeback

It is a dream home like any other of its era, with brick walls, sliding doors, stock windows and shingle roofs as well as a lawn, garden, trees and pool. The difference? It is set two stories underground in Las Vegas, Nevada, where the faux flora never wilts nor does it grow, and it is for sale.

If this real-life 1970s home seems like something out of a science-fiction movie, you may be remembering the film Blast from the Past, in which the protagonist spends decades underground in vintage fallout shelter styled after a mid-century suburban home and garden.

Listed at 1.7 million dollars, this foreclosed property looks conventional at street level, but hides a stunning set of secret spaces below, including two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen and every other space you would expect inside and outside of a single-family house on the surface.

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This just in from the crew at Dosnoventa:

“We proudly present the Barcelona Lugs, our new frame inspired in the japanese keirin competitions. Made of Spirit Columbus steel in black color with all details handpainted in gold.”

Check out more photos and purchasing information at Dosnoventa.

I’m one of those people that still listens to vinyl and I’m not ashamed to admit it. There’s something about the crackling, lo-fi sound that only comes from playing a record and it totally reminds me of my childhood (ok, I’m old). One of my favorite things growing up was my parent’s stereo console that had all the audio components fit into a piece of furniture, including the record player. So seeing the Folded Record Bureau made me want to bust out my vinyl, sit back, and listen all afternoon. Designed by UK-based Hugh Miller of HM HandMade, the piece combines the compact beauty of the old console units with storage for your collection, all in one modern package.

The piece mixes Miller’s three favorite things – wood, vinyl, and 80′s styling. He uses solid Iroko wood that appears to be folded to form the low bureau. Set within the top is a 1985 Bang and Olufsen turntable that’s built right into the wood seamlessly.

The folded planks of wood punch through the top to help form an angled shelf underneath for record storage.

Photo by Jeremy Dunn

Ummmm. You think this guy’s a sprinter? Head to the Athletic to read up on this insane photo.

Motion pictures aside, the nature of photographic representation implies freezing space in time – a moment captured and preserved, independent of what comes before or after.

Yet, as photographer Fong Qi Wei points out, “we do know that time is also a dimension, like length, breadth and width. In fact, physicists have a model called space-time: suggesting that time is part of a continuum with the 3 dimensions that we are familiar with. But the print is still an instance. Most paintings and photographs are an instance of time. That’s not the way the world works. We experience a sequence of time.”

His solution is this photo series, Time is a Dimension, in composed mostly of “landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes,” which “are a single composite made from sequences that span 2-4 hours, mostly of sunrises and sunsets. The basic structure of a landscape is present in every piece[, but] each panel or concentric layer shows a different slice of time, which is related to the adjacent panel/layer. The transition from daytime to night is gradual and noticeable in every piece, but would not be something you expect to see in a still image.”

There is a playful and experimental quality to the variety of approaches found within this set of images. Sometimes a series of casually-drawn circles spread out from a focal point. In other cases, rays like a child’s drawing of sunshine span from some implied but out-of-frame source. Each has at least one surprise upon inspection, like the changing reflections in glass over the course of a day, or the differences in artificial illumination going into the night. Overall, the results are rich in colors and shades but also do tell a story of time elapsing, quite by design.

[ch]air, designed by Alexander O.D. Lorimer, is a chair made from laser-cut ‘zig zag’ strips of cast acrylic that are assembled together to form the delicate looking frame. The geometric base of acrylic was inspired by the geometry of soap bubbles and how they cluster into formation. The structure appears so lightweight and fragile, yet the way each piece is designed and placed together, it’s able to support the weight of a person.

A single bubble encloses the maximum volume of space with the least possible surface area of soap bubble film, forming a near perfect sphere. As bubbles merge together to form clusters they reorganise their geometries immediately, sharing partitions to ensure maximum efficiency in terms of the ratio between bubble cell volume and total surface area. In these clusters all bubble cell edges meet at a vertex, four at a time, at 109.5 degree angles.

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Evening stroll, evening clouds.

Cromarty Gloaming

Le Bain - NYC - 2012

… and I’m not bringing my laptop. See you late Friday afternoon! If I have a signal, I’ll update on Instagram, but it’s not likely. Don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll manage to take a few good photos and have a few stories to tell post-ride!

Previously:
The Mission Workshop Acre Alps MTB Tour – Day 02
The Mission Workshop Acre Alps MTB Tour – Day 01

The snow-flecked Isis Temple rock formation rises from the Grand Canyon, 1969.Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards, National Geographic

When a free-standing building is razed there is often little left to tell its story, but in places where structures directly abut one another there are sometimes amazing traces of not just buildings but floor plans, wall placements, staircases and even room contents.

Like architectural section drawings, remnant spaces can be extrapolated from two-dimensional clues, like material transitions, degree of weathering, surface shapes and color shifts. Occasionally, there are even three-dimensional fixtures still hanging on, like the showers, sinks and toilets in one of the pictures above.

The Unconscious Art of Demolition is a Flickr photography group that focuses on these accidental works of ghost architecture – leftover structural voids and the spaces they imply.

In the process of observing and photographing, these passers by and onlookers are turned into amateur documentarians and de facto archaeologists, discerning and (at least subconsciously) projecting patterns into ambiguous urban decay.

Some take an abstract approach, zooming in on the rich materials where parts of walls were left and other pieces ripped away. Others take a broader focus, highlighting building outlines and implied interiors. Still others capture works of street art placed within the flat landscapes one can imagine inside of these non-buildings.

Images included here are by Steven Kunstler, Merrick Brown, Daniel Lobo, Thomas Hobbs, Dave Meyer and Xenmate, but many more can be found in the aforementioned Flickr group with over 500 images and members.

China is set to get yet another quarry-turned-resort in an ambitious project by Coop Himmelb(l)au architecture, transforming an abandoned mining pit into an artificial icy landscape with an indoor skiing center and a cantilevered outdoor swimming pool. The Deep Pit Ice and Snow World at Dawang Mountain Resort near Changsha, China will also include a 100-meter-tall hotel with over 300 rooms looking out over Tongxi Lake and Dawang Mountain.

Spanning 170 meters cliff-to-cliff of what is currently an abandoned cement quarry, the resort will offer both cold-weather and warm-weather recreational opportunities, with the icy and snowy attractions inside a sculpted shell. Beneath this volume will be a sunken garden featuring cliffside pathways, ponds and islands. A central glass cone will cut through the building to bring natural daylight into this subterranean space.

A 60-meter (196 feet) waterfall will crash from the cantilevered outdoor swimming pool on the edge of the quarry, deep into the pit. From inside the Snow and Ice World, visitors can peer through large glass facades onto the watery landscape filled with greenery.

The project is very similar to the Shimao Intercontinental Hotel (pictured above), a 19-story, 5-star hotel located deep within a 328-foot abandoned quarry near the base of Tianmashan Mountain near Shanghai. Though the concept seemed too crazy to be true, construction has already begun. That resort will include an aquarium, restaurants, and recreational activities taking advantage of the unique landscape, like rock climbing and water-based sports.

As you can imagine, it’s tough to find somewhat original Merckx Mondays content. Not saying this is by no means original, but these excerpts from a photo album haven’t been posted all over the internet… yet.

Roleur posted an extract from L’Album d’Eddy (issue 8) on their blog and I highly suggest you check it out.

bonsang posted a photo:

Steel Magazine 06 is here! Here’s the scoop:

“The new issue of Steel Magazine will be available in kiosks and specialized retailers on August 29th 2013 in France and abroad. In this fall-winter 2013 issue, Steel continues to discover urban cycling trends and meets with its actors through portraits, interviews, portfolios and reports.

Summary:
Report on the Bicycle Architecture, a meeting with the co-founder of the brand KitsunéMasaya Kuroki, a portfolio of french artist Jean Jullien, an illustrated text by Artus de Lavilléon, an interview of cyclist and photographer Massan Fluker of Macaframa, a city guide of Singapore by art director Thomas Yang, the portrait of designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, a visit of Japanese frame builder Rew10Works’ workshop (text in japanese), etc.”

Available now on www.steelmagazine.fr

There are just three short days until the Red Hook Crit Barcelona goes down. Personally, I’m very pumped on this race and I wish I could be there to see it in person. To commemorate the event, Rockstar Games designed a poster for Red Hook Crit and it looks so good!

Thanks for sending this over, Dave!

Impostor Syndrome is feeling like you’re not worthy of whatever success you’ve had. You feel that you’ll be “found out” at any second.

Students don’t just feel this. Everyone encounters this at some points. But why? Why do we feel like this? Dr. Valerie Young says that, “The thing about ‘impostors’ is they have unsustainably high standards for everything they do. The thinking here is, If I don’t know everything, then I know nothing. If it’s not absolutely perfect, it’s woefully deficient. If I’m not operating at the top of my game 24/7, then I’m incompetent.”

Cyclone Life has some tips on how to break out of the cycle. 

The Japanese store Map Camera has a listing for a Nikon Nanocrystal set that contains the D4 and 20 different Nikkor N lenses for  ¥8,000,000 incl. taxes ($82,700) which equals to a saving of ¥769,100 (almost $8,000). For comparison, the same kit in the US would cost $89,800.40:

Nikon D4 ($5,996.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm F2.8G ED ($1,996.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm F4G ED VR ($1,256.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm F2.8G ED ($1,886.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm F4G ED VR ($1,296.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm F2.8G ED VR II ($2,396.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm F4G ED VR ($1,396.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm F4.5-5.6G ED VR ($2,696.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 200-400mm F4G ED VR II ($6,749.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 24mm F1.4G ED ($1,999.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 28mm F1.8G ($696.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 35mm F1.4G ($1,619.00)
AF-S Micro NIKKOR 60mm F2.8G ED ($549.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 85mm F1.4G ($1,649.00)
AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm F2.8G IF-ED ($899.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 200mm F2G ED VR II ($5,819.95)
AF-S NIKKOR 300mm F2.8G ED VR II ($5,799.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 400mm F2.8G ED VR ($8,999.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 500mm F4G ED VR ($8,399.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 600mm F4G ED VR ($9,799.00)
AF-S NIKKOR 800mm F5.6E FL ED VR ($17,896.95)
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Total: $89,800.40

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Iron and manganese seepage creates streaks on a sandstone wall on Lake Powell in Utah, July 1967.Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards, National Geographic

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