Here's my Movember effort. Its a bit wonky and needs a tidy up
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
7th wave doing well, still need more votes!
My design "7th wave" is doing pretty well over at DBH. I'd really like a win at DBH as they are an excellent apparel site doing good work to promote up and coming artists and sell great shirts. Please go here and vote. If it goes to print I'm going to run a competition here to win one for those that voted, so leave a comment here and on the voting page so I can add you to the comp.♥
Monday, November 17, 2008
Oxford University Top Ten irritating phrases
"The top ten most irritating phrases:
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science "
via telegraph.co.uk
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It's a nightmare
8 - Shouldn't of
9 - 24/7
10 - It's not rocket science "
via telegraph.co.uk
Saturday, November 15, 2008
7th wave - New T-shirt Design
Latest T-shirt Design. Submitted to DBH, awaiting your votes
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"We are all spiraling toward the center of a galaxy of our own creation" - Craig Aeon Macdonald. 2008.
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"We are all spiraling toward the center of a galaxy of our own creation" - Craig Aeon Macdonald. 2008.
About me
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity;
therefore, I shall be short.
-David Hume (1777)
therefore, I shall be short.
-David Hume (1777)
Lucid Decapitation
"...Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds … I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased.
The face relaxed, the lids half closed on the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day in the exercise of our profession, or as in those just dead.
It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: 'Languille!' I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions … Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves … After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out..."
via damninteresting
Thursday, November 13, 2008
More Otzi
"Among Otzi's possessions were two species of polypore mushrooms. One of these (the birch fungus) is known to have antibacterial properties, and was likely used for medical purposes. The other was a type of tinder fungus, included with part of what appeared to be a complex firestarting kit. The kit featured pieces of over a dozen different plants, in addition to flint and pyrite for creating sparks."
-via Crystallinks
more:
National Geographic
BBC
Wired
Otzi's shoes
Heres an interesting article on the shoes from everyones favorite copper-age Rambo, Ötzi.
"...The shoes were complex. The leather on the bottom was from a bear. It'd been cured in a mixture of bears brains and fat from its liver. Deer leather formed the top. All this was mounted on a mesh of braided linden bark. The bindings were made of calf leather. Straw was used for insulation, and moss as lining..."
"...Hlavacek and a colleague set out to make three exact replicas of Ötzi's shoes, and five additional pairs, each fitted to a specific living person. They used flint to cut the material and bone needles to sew it...."
"...The shoes serve remarkably well. When they have to wade through snowmelt water, they feel an initial sting of cold. But the inside immediately warms up again. Traction is excellent. And the shoes offer no opportunity at all for blisters..."
Full Text at Engines of our ingenuity
Kid Creatures
I "stumbled" these some time ago and they have shown up again. I really dig this concept, and have been meaning to render some of my own kids drawings.
via drawergeeks
via drawergeeks
Snowchange 08 Registration Brochure
Registration booklet/brochure designed for the Snowchange Aotearoa 08 symposium.
View the full brochure here (1.4Mb PDF)
More Information on Snowchange here
Husband's coffin kills woman on way to cemetery
(11-11) 13:03 PST SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) --
Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck. Police said 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Barcelos died instantly.
Her 76-year-old husband Josi Silveira Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.
The driver of hearse and Barcelos' son suffered minor injuries.
via Associated Press
Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck. Police said 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Barcelos died instantly.
Her 76-year-old husband Josi Silveira Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.
The driver of hearse and Barcelos' son suffered minor injuries.
via Associated Press
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hike 12 Oct 2008
atop_pouakai 12 Oct 2008
Originally uploaded by c_macdonald
On 12 oct 2008, myself, my friends Ric, Jeff, his son Danny and his dad Ian, hiked up the Pouakai ranges in Taranaki. We hiked from Carrington road up over Pouakai across the swamp and around to North Egmont.
DOC info
Urban Knitting
"urban knitting: the world's most inoffensive graffiti
there's a new form of graffiti in town, and it's extremely pleasant. so pleasant that i can't imagine even the harshest critics of regular graffiti getting wound up. i mean, who in their right mind would come face to face with a sweater-wearing tree and do anything but smile?"
Via deputydog
The drain pipes are very cool also
there's a new form of graffiti in town, and it's extremely pleasant. so pleasant that i can't imagine even the harshest critics of regular graffiti getting wound up. i mean, who in their right mind would come face to face with a sweater-wearing tree and do anything but smile?"
Via deputydog
The drain pipes are very cool also
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Dive into the deep
Deep Web
From Wikipedia-"The deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed by search engines. It is estimated that the deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web."
From DeepWeb.com -
"Also known as the 'invisible web', the 'deep web' is a vast repository of web pages, usually generated by database-driven websites, that are available to web users yet hidden from traditional search engines. The 'spiders' used by these search engines to crawl the web cannot reach most of the pages created on-the-fly in dynamic sites such as ecommerce, news and major content sites."
From internettutorials.net-
"The deep Web has gotten a lot of press in recent years. The Web is becoming a complex entity that contains information from a variety of source types. It is much more than fixed Web pages. In fact, the part of the Web that is not fixed, and is served dynamically "on the fly," is far larger than the fixed documents that many associate with the Web. Some people incorrectly refer to this content as the "invisible Web," for reasons that will be explained below.
Oedb
Copernic inc.
Northern Light search
science.gov
closer look search
Google Scholar
Happy birthday mum!
Today in History for 1943
events : US air raid on Rabaul
births : Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
Top baby names: Barbara, Patricia, Linda, Carol, Judith, James, Robert, John, William, Richard
Wicked Mustang!
"Created specifically for Carroll Shelby from a stock 1968 Mustang, the Shelby Black Hornet (starts at $100,000) is now being auctioned off to benefit the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation. Identical to the Green Hornet Shelby GT500, this masterpiece offers a Cobra Jet 428 V8 engine producing 335 hp, Edelbrook aluminum heads, a top-loader 4-speed transmission, power steering, power brakes, Shelby 10-spoke wheels, and instant classic car cred."
- Via Uncrate
More here
- Via Uncrate
More here
Insectoid robot with router bit head
Insectoid robot with router bit head carves a human face in high density foam
Via Boingboing
Via Boingboing
Snowchange Aotearoa 08
Logo for the Snowchange Aotearoa 08 Symposium being held here in Taranaki. New Zealand.
Link to Snowchange
Monday, November 10, 2008
Legendary Landscapes DVD print
Label print for the DVD proof of concept teaser of the sacred mountains project
For more information on this project, email me.
For more information on this project, email me.
Pioneer woman cooks
The Pioneer Woman Cooks!
Heart stopping, epicurean delights
Delicious homestead recipes, nice photographs and excellent instructions.
Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce.
Heart stopping, epicurean delights
Delicious homestead recipes, nice photographs and excellent instructions.
Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce.
Shorpy. History in HD
Shorpy.com
Excellent collection of high quality historical photographs. Some of the images are stunning. Worth spending some time looking through the archives.
Excellent collection of high quality historical photographs. Some of the images are stunning. Worth spending some time looking through the archives.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Tesla - Genius, Unsung Hero. A man who's time has now come.
Nikola Tesla.
Heres a link to a good summary of one of my hero's
Nikola Tesla - The man who invented the modern world
Pirate Deck T-shirt
fp_m_pirateD_tshirts
My first profitable internet product.
This has been a good seller and returned me a good amount of cash for the hour or so it took me to throw it together.
Its still for sale at uneetee, use the link below to purchase one
http://www.uneetee.com/?uneeteam=macra
Thats my referal link, If you buy anything from uneetee using that link I get a residual. If I can get enough people buying gear using that link I'm going to run a competition here to win some designer apparel
VZ Alice placement
aliceplacement
This is my preferred placement for this design. Unfortunately you can't change the graphic for the placement once it had been submitted at DBH.
Vote Here
Graphic for Alice shirt design
von_alice800x640
Originally uploaded by c_macdonald
New shirt design for the VonZipper comp at DBH. Hopefully i will get the time to work this concept up fully before the comp closes, I have a few ideas to extend it. I do quite like the simplicity tho.
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