A few pages from a book I’m working on:

Considering loads of you hairstyle enthusiasts visited to check out the 70s Ebony Ad Hairstyle Names post from a few days back, I thought I’d share a few more scans that I had laying around. This time please enjoy these 3 ads from 1970s “gentleman’s” magazines. They are each painful in their own way. I [...]

I was looking for some photo-reference for soldiers fighting in Iraq. All I could find were really blurry little photographs, until I stumbled onto this site, which sells these amazingly hyper-detailed little soldier models. Not only are they great reference, but they’re really cool just to look at. There’s dozens of ‘em.

NYC has been seeing a lot of local coverage of this story, and now the developer who has added to his Coney Island holdings through the purchase of Astroland has recently premiered the website The Future of Coney Island. Job growth, community revitalization and new opportunities for people are all good things. Building a new [...]

Justin B Williams has a blog on which he has been posting incredible things.

Noted today on Boing-Boing for his print of the highway system, Chris Yates also produces tons of little one-of-a-kind sculptures and toys that are jig-sawed out of MDF and painted. My favorite is the sculpt of Hawaii’s Big Island above. Chris has also created over 800 Minighosts over the years and says he usually throws [...]

Here are some pictures of hairstyles with awesome names that I scanned from one of my 1970s Ebony magazines. These are from an ad for hair products, not from an article. All good haircuts should have an equally good name.

Gustavo wrote us from Argentina to share his work. I especially like the Ramp of Death series of drawings. check them out on his website.

I have always loved stop-motion and experimented with it as a kid and then again in art school, but until recently I hadn’t come across any tools designed specifically for the job. In college, they had these Lunchbox systems which were great for pencil tests and could be used for stop-motion, but at that point [...]

Drawn! blog posted a nice write up of the latest issue of Meathaus last week located here.