taking a creative break right now

A brilliant new keyboard shortcut skins by the forward thinking folks at Photojojo allows anyone to become endowed with the digital wisdom you possess.

For all book nerds, please register. I did.

My brand new MacBook Pro was stolen several weeks back. The thief was caught on camera but we have yet to nab him.

My brother sent me an interesting article: Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects.

One of the laptops was a Macintosh belonging to Kait Duplaga, who works at the Apple store in the Westchester mall and thus knows how to use all its bells and whistles. While the police were coming up dry, Ms. Duplaga exploited the latest software applications installed on her laptop to track down the culprits and even get their photographs.

The Back to My Mac feature, which runs on Leopard-based Macintoshes, requires a $99 subscription to the .Mac online service.

I’ve asked my employer to pay for this service for my new MacBook. To which they’ve replied, “Take your damn laptop with you every night. Kbye.”

The symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero are explored in this compelling exhibition. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it reveals how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects are organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers are catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.

The Metropolitan Museum
May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

Yoshitomo Nara has released his first children’s book, The Lonesome Puppy.  A charming story of a puppy so large that no one notices him—until a determined little girl climbs high enough to meet him and become his friend. You’ll find a few excerpts here.

Good article found on the Wall Street Journal regarding How To sites. eHow didn’t come on top due to popup ads but the writer did like the color palette:

EHow.com uses its database of articles to encourage people to watch videos, when they’re relevant. This site uses calm, pastel colors to give a relaxed feeling — especially compared with WonderHowTo, where banner ads surround the page.

I’m pretty happy with the overall color scheme myself.

Artist Melanie Coles has released this photograph of the 55ft Wally taken from a helicopter. She is now encouraging fans to create their own figures in cities across the world — (Daily Mail UK)

Photo by Marita Aguilar, reposted from we are dreamers.

(Artist unkown)

This is almost heartbreaking.

(Nanako)

A fun flickr set by abakesflickr of people’s arms creating Japanese characters.