The Mysterious Creatures of Max Ernst

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My favorite type designers, House Industries, have a new set of fonts called Studio Lettering. The description is intriguing:

Before the era of digital publishing, highly-trained artists in lettering shops plied their talents to give personality to advertisements, editorials and package designs. While the eye-catching beauty of hand-drawn lettering is still relevant in today’s visual landscape, this bygone skill has sadly fallen to the wayside. Designer Ken Barber brings the lettering artist’s sensibilities back to the modern designer’s desktop with our new Studio Lettering collection. More than three years in development, these fonts use advanced programming to create living and breathing lines of text that escape the rigid constraints of traditional type to flow as they would from an experienced letterer’s hand. The first 200 purchasers receive a free 64-page hardbound Studio Lettering book!

Price is $160. House Industries "Studio Lettering" font collection

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/346175640/monster-corner-vinta.html

Coop alerted my to this amazing photo of "The Monster Korner" in a New Jersey hobby shop from 1964. Every square inch is a treat to the eyeballs.

The only place a shop like this could exist today is Tokyo.

The text from the photo reads:

Rich Palmer ran the nation's largest volume hobby shop in Parsippany, New Jersey. Aurora hired him to organize its Monster Customizing Contest in 1964. Aurora received national television attention when the CBS Evening News visited his shop. Walter Cronkite and Palmer held a conversation in the "Monster Korner" of the store. Big Frankie occupies the top shelf in the Monster Korner.

Monster Corner vintage hobby shop (toyranch's photostream)

I got some pics of John and Gareth at the Holzheimer Booth at Comic-Con. I tried not to take too many as I didn't want to look like a stalker (meh) - just enough to tide me over for, well, ever. So enjoy these bits and pieces.

LOL warning: Jack and Captain America, Gareth in Tinkerbell wings.

Again, if you post these anywhere, please credit Anna Altheide!

( Click for teh pretty! )

Tags: cast: gareth david-lloyd, cast: john barrowman, cons: comic con

Christopher: A clown appears on the plane. And then it explodes.
Me: A clown appears on the plane? And then it explodes?
Christopher: Yeah. It's a Jack in the Box.

Jackie: Why don't we have a copy of Blade Runner?
Me: We do.
Jackie: Why are we not watching it more often then?
Me: Because you suck?

Alex: Wiggle and learn!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/346099946/sneak-preview-of-the.html

Here's a short video of the Martin Jetpack that's going to be unveiled at the Oshkosh Airshow next week.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/346095853/more-on-moonwalker-e.html

Irene Klotz of the Discovery Space website interviewed Edgar Mitchell about his claims that intelligent space creatures have landed on Earth and that the US government has been covering it up.

EM: My major knowledge comes from what I call the old-timers, people who were at Roswell and subsequent who wanted to clear the things up and tell somebody credible even though they were under severe threats and things -- this was back in the Roswell days. Having gone to the moon and being a local citizen out in the Roswell area some of them thought I would be a safe choice to tell their story to, which they did. Even though the government put real clamps on everybody, it got out anyhow.

Subsequent to that, I did take my story to the Pentagon -- not NASA, but the Pentagon -- and asked for a meeting with the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and got it. And told them my story and what I know and eventually had that confirmed by the admiral that I spoke with, that indeed what I was saying was true.

IK: You mean what had been told to you was true?

EM: Yup, in other words. There was a UFO crash. There was an alien spacecraft. This gentleman tried his damndest to get me in and like so many others in the administration over the last 60 years, since JFK's time, was unable to. He was told 'Admiral, you don't have a need to know, and therefore go get lost,' essentially.

Apollo Astronaut Chats About UFO, Alien Belief (Discovery Space. Thanks, Chris!)

http://www.hackaday.com/2008/07/25/surveillance-as-art/

Filed under: digital cameras hacks, news, security hacks

The Target Project is a graduate project from the Royal College of Arts in London. It is designed to make us question our relationship with surveillance technology and CCTV. This is a particularly meaningful demonstration for a country like Britain which is said to contain up to 4.2 million CCTV cameras or roughly 1 for every 14 people.

This project has two demonstrations on their site. The first is dubbed the RTS-2 (Racial Targeting System). This system is essentially a camera which follows faces and is able to analyze and interpret the person's race. The second is SOLA. This system is able to quickly scan someone and calculate their body mass index then publish this information to the web. Both systems achieve their goal by blatantly pointing out a line in which more surveillance does not equate to more security. They also show the wealth of personal data that can be obtained about a person by a simple camera.

[via we make money not art]

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But how to ensure that the connections are neatly stacked? I'm sure there's some algorithm that can automatically solve this problem.. but it escapes me for the moment. If you like then you can play with it to see if you can get a solution here.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/346065537/logic-gates-out-of-d.html

Software engineer Neil Fraser made a video that uses domino falls to simulate logic gates, the basic building blocks of digital circuits. Domino Domino Logic (neil.fraser.name, thanks Michelle Hlubinka and Robert Cook!)

Can you please have sex more often? And louder?

I'm not kidding. It's hot.

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/007229.html

Suit #1: We have to make sure they get laid in our system.
Suit #2 (concentrating): Right...

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: ...and what exactly would that system be, now?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/346051661/painting-with-rc-car.html

Ian Cook puts paints on the wheels of his R/C cars and then drives them to paint pictures. Of cars. (And more abstract pieces too.) Rob has more details and a video over at Boing Boing Gadgets. R/C car painting (BB Gadgets)