In Grass Stain Green

Another season, another limited Field Notes Colors edition.

Layer Tennis The Finals

End Game

We hosted two great, live Semi-Finals Friday as a part of our first ever Single-Elimination Layer Tennis Post-Season Tournament, featuring Aaron Draplin versus Greg Hubacek and Scott Hansen versus Shaun Inman. Winners have been announced for The Finals of July 10th.

Department of Collections

The Museum of
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One of the most popular parts of our site, The MoOM 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.

A Cathedral Of Sorts

Crown Jewel

On the night of June 11th, we spent a few late hours enjoying the collaborative project, Lighting Crown Hall, which turned Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece into a giant light box onto which video and still images were projected at random. We brought along the video camera and made a short film documenting the one-night-only experience. For more film and photos about our favorite building anywhere, check our report on the opening of Crown Hall after extensive renovation.

Who Doesn't Like Surprises?

Eight Blind Boxes

Just for fun on a lazy summer Thursday, we're offering eight boxes, each jam-packed with all kinds of stuff from our various brands and from the CP Shop. You won't know what you're getting until it gets delivered but we guarantee you'll totally dig it. Each box might include posters, tees, books, music, prints and/or something else entirely. Each box will also include a disposable camera and a postage-paid return envelope. Do what you want with that and then send it back to us and then we'll think of something fun to do with that. The retail value of the goods will be well over $400. Buy one now for just $135. Postage is included to anywhere and when they are gone, they are gone. Ready. Steady. Go.

Update: SOLD OUT!

I Read That Somewhere

A Certain Book in a Certain Place

It debuted last summer but it's just as essential today, check out hundreds of books Field-Tested online for planning your summer holiday reading. For portability and ease of use pool-side, you can't beat paperback Field Tested Books Book which is available now for just nine bucks.

It All Started In the Washroom

The Lionel, The Richie and the Wardrobe

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 recent presentation at SXSW, A General Theory of Creative Relativity.

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 (above) 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.

Sidewalks of New York

Field Notes Field Trip

This the first of an occasional series in which we'll visit some of the smart people who are carrying our Field Notes Brand products in their retail stores. Michele was recently in New York City for the National Stationery Show, checking things out but the most important thing she did was take a walk.

Puzzler: Einstein’s Fish

Whose Fish?

One of our most popular projects ever was Michele's Einstein Fish Puzzle and it seems to be getting yet another round of links, so we're featuring it yet again. See if you're in the two percent of the population that Albert Einstein purportedly said could figure it out. More puzzlers: School of Government, Da Vinci's Other Code and One With Everything, which asks the question, "Which porn star ate the most hot dogs?"

July Guest Henry Cline

Smooth Operator

Henry Cline (hcl) is a Los Angeles-based director of photography and camera operator who has likely worked on at least one of your favorite films if not many. Among his lengthy IMDB listing, you'll note that he's worked with Errol Morris on Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, Sam Raimi on Spider-Man 3, and on numerous films with David Mamet. And as if that weren't enough, he's also a heck of a nice guy whose great blog, Interactive Hank, you may have visited from our site due to the many vias we've attached to all the interesting links he's been kind enough to send us over the years. In the interest of cutting out the middle man in that process, at least for a month, Henry will be our Guest Editor for July.

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

"If they need high resolution images, make sure you send them 72 dpi thumbnails." Salt Publishing's advice on how to take a bad author photo. sd-today

Start your Field Notes COLORS subscription with letterpressed Grass Stain Green. jc-today

"Robert Buelteman works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. This bizarre union of Dr. Frankenstein and Georgia O'Keeffe spawns photos that seem to portray the life force of his subjects as the very process destroys them." dw-today

A Lego combination safe. dw-today

Searchable collection of thousands of rare photographs chronicling Europe's colonization of East Africa. hcl-today

An annual MoOM link. Museum of Firecracker Label Art. Light fuse and get away. jc-today

Watched The Jonny Quest Documentary (previously on Coudal) and had to write about it. What really got me excited was the return of P.F. Flyers. hcl-today

Pretty fresh Neil Young & Paul McCartney performing A Day in the Life, live from Hyde Park, 27th June 2009. They do look a bit old. hcl-today

Laurent Champoussin's Cardiovascular Paper. dw-today

So you know, 10 fascinating last pictures taken. ms-today

Trailer for the film Five Minutes of Heaven. ms-today

Um, not so much for me, thanks. ms-today

Fab, Characters for an Epic Tale. ms-today

Ever wonder why there are not more options for watching high quality streams of like The Criterion Collection? Check out The Auteurs. hcl-today

Film Noir Foundation's upcoming NOIR CITY Chicago festival. Can't wait! Get your Noir of the Week now! hcl-yesterday

Information on and photos/footage of Buro Happold and Hoberman Associates' 50 ton expanding video screen, currently being used at U2 concerts. sd-yesterday

One time in high school I went to see a band and this really cute goth chick invited me back to her rich, out-of-town parents' house. Things were going pretty well until I lost interest because Rock and Roll High School was on Night Flight on her parents' huge TV. So yeah, I'm excited about Night Flight: Born Again. Thanks, Jeff! bb-yesterday

"...from office window on my new iPhone 3G S." Thanks for that Steffan. jc-yesterday

Weegee talks about the hows and whys of news photography (mp3). Via sjp. hcl-yesterday

The elusive and horribly disfigured Wilhelm Staehle and his perennial beauty, T.D.Rio, have finally launched an online store, The Bazaarium, to sell their Victorian-inspired goods and wares. Via bblinks. sd-yesterday

Information on artist Zoe Beloff's stereoscopic surround sound installation, The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C., wherein "phantoms reenact a series of ten seances held in Algeria and Paris from 1904 to 1912 with the French medium Eva C." sd-yesterday

Qapture ranks the links being shared right now by some of the most interesting folks on Twitter. Via sjp hcl-yesterday

Over at scribd: a Letter from Edie Beale. Via RKC. hcl-yesterday

The 20 Most beautiful libraries in the world. hcl-yesterday

An ant. Via DF bb-yesterday

The Scratch DJ coffee table. dw-yesterday

Hey you! Don't watch that, watch this! (but skip to :45). Or just listen to the original.. bb-yesterday

Related to MS' post below: one of the best This American Life episodes, featuring Kurt Eichenwald who talks about the ADM price fixing scandal. The Informant, the book, is also comes highly recommended. sd-yesterday

I love TED and have been a fan since engorging myself in Richard Saul Wurman's Access travel books. I have a bunch of TED stuff to lay out, but why not start with the TED Ten Commandments hcl-yesterday

A big thanks to Fuzzy Gerdes (fg) for serving as our Guest Editor in June. Up next for July is Henry Cline (hcl), the Los Angeles-based director of photography and camera operator who has worked with the likes of Sam Raimi, David Mamet, and Errol Morris (so expect some great filmmaking links this month). A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here. sd-yesterday

I've worn out several pairs of Vans hi-tops and my battered "Death to the Pixies" t-shirt hasn't fit in fifteen years, but do I really need these? bb-yesterday

Gah! A huge collection of gorgeous photos of food from fab restaurants. ms-yesterday

For all the tea drinkers in the office, a collection of modern teapots and kettle designs. ms-yesterday

For Hump Day, a Hoedown. Via Fubiz. ms-yesterday

Music vid of the moment, Fever Ray's Triangle Walks. ms-yesterday

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