Handpaintedtype.com

Discovered this great site/project about preserving hand painted signs in India.

HandpaintedType is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (Desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business with many of them switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether.
The project involves documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India and digitizing it so that it serves as a resource for present and future generations.

Also, this is a sign I painted recently for someone as part of a trade.

Pizza Metal

Rob Hornstra

This VBS piece on Rob Hortnstra is really great, and I especially liked what he had to say about self publishing.

Summer

Farm Life

I went to my friend Leland's  farm in Campbellford over the weekend, played with goats and chickens, rode the skatepark in town, and drove to Bellville to eat pizza and ride a bump. This is my first time editing and I tried to sum up the weekend in less than a minute.

Blind Spot Conversations

Conversation about photographic print making. Found at Post Teenage Wasteland

Scerbo

MF

Vandal Squad

"This was originally a radio interview on NPR's "This American Life" entitled 'Cat and Mouse'. With interviews with Earsnot, NYPD vandal squad DT Mona, and a mention of Revs tunnel paintings."

Summer Footage

I forgot that this went online last week.

Biz's Beat of the Day

Between Two Fans

Adult Braces

This has likely been blogged a million times over elsewhere already, but I still wanted to put it up on here. Anyone that has struggled with back problems, or any kind of pain that has kept them from something they enjoy doing, can appreciate this. Ruben Alcantara discusses how he overcame his troubled back after years of searching, and draws parallels between riding bikes and surfing.

Rooftops

This video...

Reminds me of this photo...

photo by Harley Haskett

Skateistan

When you have nine minutes to spare you should watch this short film that shows and explains the Skateistan project in Afghanistan. It's pretty brief, but there is also an interesting interview with the founders of the project on McSweeney's a while back. You can read that here.