Obama watercolor by David Choe

via The World's Best Ever

Cry For Help: 36 Scam-Emails from Africa

Cry for Help: 36 Scam-Emails from Africa

Henning Wagenbreth takes those elaborate money scam email from "Africa" to the next level with his amazing illustrations. The scam emails are the narrative text to each image.

Gingko Press

International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest 2007

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Aqua Forest Aquarium
via things mag

Mars as art

Mars as Art
by NASA

buttons

Don't drive into the water

a "must" in a city full of canals!
Kopenhagen, Denmark

Rynkeby

Rynkeby Apple juice
Copenhagen, Denmark

A Year in Japan

A Year in Japan
Kate T. Williamson
Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
190 pages

Through drawings and little notes, Kate leads us through a poetic journey of observations and lessons in Japan.

I saw this at Book Soup when they were closing down and knew it would be the perfect gift for my sister. She will be studying for a year in Japan, starting July 1st.

1. Friday, Long Beach- Matt and Sarah's wedding
2. Saturday, Berkeley- EAP Sweden reunion
   
3. Sunday-Wed, Washington D.C. for Campus Progress award

So no new posts till thursday!

Viruses in Plant Hosts

Viruses in Plant Hosts:
Form, Distribution, and Pathological Effects
by Katherine Esau

The person who gave me this gift saw that it was more than just
a plant biology book published in 1968.
It contains over 50 full pages of superb electron micrographs.
Aesthetically, it is actually really fun to look at. You can get lost looking at the micro detail,
various line quality, density, interesting compositions,
and organic shapes.
They are very much like drawings.

Great Leap Forward

farming population conversion

"Unity/Disunity" ending with the green box, utopia of golf.

Great Leap Forward
Published by Taschen, 2001
This is the first book of the series, "Project on the City"
by Harvard Design School
(721 pages)


I can't even begin to gush about this book/tome.
This is the future of academic research and book design.
Interesting, rigorous, and relevant research on urban planning and politics in
five major districts in China with tons of visual aid.

The table of contents is organized as follows:
Introduction, chronology, ideology, architecture, money, landscape, policy, infrastructure and glossary.

They also answer every question you can possibly have about development in China (except about the Olympics). For example they have an essay titled, "The industrial park: public/private partnerships in a socialist market economy."

This book project is by the graduate students at Harvard studying Urban Planning and Design.
Their second book is about shopping (!) and it is called
Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. They basically investigate the impact of shopping on the city in, you know, 800 pages or less.

Forno Magazine

Forno Magazine
#1 Issue Cunnilingus
10 euros
based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
It is like porno but with only females.
I got this magazine last year at a comic store/library in Berlin.