the Common Place

I’m a sucker for them.

electrical apocalypse by melissamaples

H5N1 relapse by wishy

Streetcleaner, Čečovje, Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenija) by r.marin

more: Textures and Layers Group on Flickr

one of my own recent efforts can be seen here.

Some activity on the internets related to GP Surfboards and the Surface show:

Cococello design

The show is a collaboration between Brown and surfboard designers, Bruce Gordon and Nick Palandrani of GP Surfboards in a combined effort to raise ocean awareness and responsbility. Brilliant.

I’m eager to see the boards (Brown promised to send some images my way and I’ll be sure to share them with you as soon as they come in.) as I bet they are stunning. I know nothing about surfboards but what I’ve seen on GP Surfboards’s website looks impeccably crafted. Just check out those fins!

This is from artbusiness.com, a site that reviews art openings in SF, kudos not only for the art but also for attracting “an atypically active, attractive, and fit crowd.” There are some great pics of the opening but unfortunately you have to scroll to the bottom of the page to see them.

A stunning display of surfing-related art includes a raft of exceptional atmospheric oceanic photographs by Brown W. Cannon III, and amazing hand crafted pictorial all-wood surfboards with inlays built by GP Surfboards of Capitola, California. These surfboards are so good, as far as I’m concerned, they’re sculpture. The good news? You can surf on ‘em too. Plus special added bonus– an atypically active, attractive, and fit crowd (for an art show, that is). The event is being held in part to support The Baum Foundation, The Marine Mammal Center, and Surfrider Foundation.

Interview with Brown Cannon III at rawtake.net:

Cannon: Two years ago, I started a creative collaboration with two surfboard designers from GP Surfboards in Santa Cruz bringing fine art images to classic surfboard designs. The images are of water texture, ocean life, and coastal environments – the full scope of a person’s relationship to the ocean. I am excited about these boards because they are beautiful, usable, and innovative. I have come to feel a personal and constantly increasing sense of responsibility to the ocean and hope that this project will raise ocean awareness.As a photographer I spend a lot of time alone, which is why this collaboration became so appealing. It has enabled me to bring an idea to fruition and to get the best results by entrusting and working with other specialists. Sure I could have completed this show on my own, but the opening reception would be in 2015. It is fantastic to combine efforts with other talents and to see what can happen. Just in the simple act of reaching out and getting people involved, I have made many new friends in the creative field. That is inspiring.

Jon Kersey’s Photo A Day Journal is alive. He has a great eye for what makes this place what it is.

“Have a fling with Comic Sans, just be sure to trash the files in the morning.”

Why isn’t there an Academy Award for “best typography”? If there was, we probably wouldn’t be subjected to horrors like Helvetica in a 1950’s tv studio. There should at least be an award for best title/credits sequences. Sometimes these are better than the movie itself: “Nanny McPhee” and “A Series of Unfortunate Events” are 2 examples that come to mind. Of course it’s great when both are outstanding, like “Monsoon Wedding.”

I’m going to feature some of my clients when they do (or pay me to do) something particularly cool. Here’s a video by Gary Irving that we put on the GP Surfboards site.

Working for these guys has been cool, particularly when the whole team (7 guys) showed up to preview the new web site design. There has never been so much testosterone in the John Malkovich Suite here at the ID Building Mezzanine.