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Daily Eye Liu Bolin

In Plain Sight

Liu Bolin goes to great lengths to keep from being seen, even while posing for and composing photographs of himself. "Concealment is no place to hide." Check his shows "Camouflage and "Hiding in the City" and also the Designboom post. Of course, as we all know, there are other ways to not be seen

A single thing and a couple sentences each weekday morning, that's The Daily Eye.

Walleye For Thanksgiving

Nothing Says the Holidays Like a Big Family Fight About
a Fish

An annual tradition. It's never too early to start planning what your family is going to argue about at this year's Thanksgiving dinner party. Enjoy your turkey and remember, our Albert Einstein's Fish Puzzle is available as a nice-looking, free, printable PDF file. It's perfect for proving to your Uncle George that he's not all that, brain-power wise, and it's certainly more enjoyable that talking about health care.

Daily Eye Abigail Uhteg

Making Book

It took Abigail Uhteg two months to make 35 intaglio and letterpress books and during the process she took 3000 photos. Here they are, set to music. It's a mesmerizing five minutes that leaves you wondering what the heck you're doing mousing around all day. Carolyn Kellogg of the LA Times called this "the opposite of an e-book." This description of The Complex of All of These includes full specifications, text and images.

Vox Vocis

Poetry After the Beep

On a whim, we asked people to read their favorite short poems into our answering machine for a project we called Verse By Voice. And they did, creating maybe the first-ever poetry meme. Make sure to listen to novelist Zadie Smith reading Frank O'Hara's Animals and Laura Demanski reading Gerard Manley Hopkins' Spring and Fall. Note: we didn't include what is surely not Christopher Walken reading EE Cummings, but that's worth a listen too. Jim talked about this project during his appearance on Public Radio's Hello Beautiful! and the photos are courtesy of Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery.

Daily Eye Kane Young

Illuminati

As part of the Lumiere art event this past weekend, Durham Catherdral in the UK's northeast was used as a giant projection screen for still and motion images. Kane Young caught this beautiful shot which gives new meaning to the term "illuminated windows." Check out lots of other images from the festival and Young's photostream too.

It All Started In the Washroom

The Old Man and the Sea and Cake

A while ago we hosted a quick contest called Booking Bands in which we asked people to combine the name of a book with the name of a band. We received thousands of entries, posted a ton of them and then randomly selected three and sent those people the book and a CD from the band that they mashed together. The process of coming up with funny or unexpected associations in this contest became a central part of JC's presentation at SXSW, A General Theory of Creative Relativity.

Museum Of Online Museums

Collections Department

One of the most popular parts of our site, The MoOM includes exhibtions like the The Gallery of Vintage Matchbooks and a Collection of Adult Movie Posters from the 60s and 70s. The Museum of Online Museums has been featured on All Things Considered, in the NY Times and Time Magazine and was discussed at length on an episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Please consider joining the MoOM Board of Directors. A subscription comes with a handsome coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of old-school cultural institutions.

CP Labs: Shift Option Rinse

Shift Option Rinse

Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out.

a short film that seems longer

Long Day’s Journey Out of Iowa

Our Steve Delahoyde is a man with an iron will. An iron will, a subcompact, a girlfriend and an idea on how to make a regular drive more, er, interesting. Note: All the driving worked. Claire and Steve are now Mr. and Mrs..

November Guest Antonio Carusone

Popular Polymath

Antonio Carusone (ac) is more than a renaissance man, in that he knows far more than just a little about a lot of different things. A designer, typographer, and photographer all rolled into one, Carusone spends his days moving between all three in his role as an Associate Art Director at Ogilvy in New York. Whatever additional time he has left he dedicates to his other outlets, AisleOne, a great design blog you should bookmark immediately, and The Grid System, a very valuable compendium of all things grid (ditto on the bookmarking), both of which live under the banner of the Thinking for a Living Network, a collaborative group of design-focused sites.

A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

The iconic Coke bottle has taken many shapes since its creation in 1915. Great article detailing the history of it. ac-today

"Though I like the lunchbag-brown they typically come in, Field Notes's recent foray into polychromatics has paid big dividends." Dwell Mag of Field Notes Winter Colors Series. Thanks a million to Aaron Britt for that. jc-today

Stereoviews of late 19th and early 20th century Japan. animated. jc-today

Geoff on Support Structures (dig that cover type) and "a social philosophy of buttresses." jc-today

Internet Vices. ms-today

rAndom International's You Fade To Light, an installation that captures the qualities of Royal Phillips new OLEDs, with mirror finishes and natural light temperatures. Check the video. jc-yesterday

"Be brutal about wedding invitations: there are only so many Saturdays in your life." 50 practical tips to save you half a lifetime. ms-yesterday

Afri Cola. jc-yesterday

Archives. jc-yesterday

Perfect. jc-yesterday

Booze. jc-yesterday

Kevin has just released his CHIRP Fall 2009 mix. It's your new soundtrack for the season. sd-yesterday

Seems like it fits into the Friday Drink Link category, given how prevalent booze seems to be in most of the posts: Sorry I Missed Your Party, "pictures of other people's parties from Flickr." DW, don't miss "So...How Was Your Lady Gaga Costume?" sd-yesterday

This Ain't No Disco. Ad and design firm spaces around the world. jc-yesterday

"Just about every inch of those walls is covered with delicate ornate decorations, looking much like applied frosting." The Sugar House in El Paso, TX. Would makes a nice companion to Mr. Lee's house in Phoenix, don't you think, MS? Via I Like. sd-yesterday

Barbar Kruger and Brand New School collaborated on an installation for "Silent Scriptures," in the rotunda of the Louis Vuitton store in Paris. jc-yesterday

Cute stop motion short film/commercial for Orbit: Clean It Up. BB, you'll like the music they picked for it. sd-yesterday

For KG, a Simpsons fan built his very own real-life Simpsons home. ms-yesterday

Picasso Superheroes. ms-yesterday

The Dieline chooses their 50 favorite liquor package designs. ms-yesterday

Cruel nicknames for overweight vampires. jc-yesterday

"For Butler the greatest form of strength is openness. For his model of vulnerability, Luke Butler looks to a most stout and reliable figure. He didn't have to make one up- if you have watched enough TV, you know this to be true." Thanks Mike. jc-yesterday

Friday starter. The Magnificent Seven. jc-yesterday

The Cloud, "an entirely new form of observation deck" for London 2012. Just wow. Lots more from Dan Hill at City of Sound who is working on this amazing and ambitious project. jc-yesterday

A collection of the best of Hubble's shots. ms-yesterday

Trailer for the Romanian film Police, Adjective. ms-yesterday

Anders has an ongoing project where he takes pictures of his hometown at sunrise, Good Morning Malmo. ms-yesterday

Music vid of the moment, Ramona Falls I Say Fever. Via Made in England. ms-yesterday

Perfect addition to the MoOM, a collection of Singing Science records. ms-yesterday

Passages from the short list for this year's Literary Review's 2009 bad sex in fiction award. ms-yesterday

A short film that takes a look at the life of one Elvis impersonator, Living the Life. ms-yesterday

For BB: Mmmvelopes, bacon flavored envelopes. Via Beer or Kid. sd-11.19

The US Forest Service from the always stylish A Continuous Lean. Via The DDC. jc-11.19

Meep! bb-11.19

Creepy. In order to try and get up-and-coming directors to attend their horror film festival, the organizers secretly stalked and filmed them, later sending a DVD of the footage with an invitation to attend. sd-11.19

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