.: Above The Aether :.

A love letter to plywood (10min) – by Tom Sachs This is a clever video about…you guessed it…plywood. – Dave

From artist, Landon Meier, these baby masks are pretty weird.  There is video of them as well. $250 seems a little expensive. (via Laughing Squid) Dave

Via the Comics Alliance: Since their original publication in the 1920s, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft have endured and grown into an entire subset of the horror genre unto themselves, with themes of the unavoidable insanity that comes with knowledge and cosmic insignificance that are far more subtle and ultimately terrifying than the average ghost [...]

Link to the original larger image. Also…my rap name is Big E. Fries. – Dave

WINNIE SMASH PUNY HUMAN! Art of Andrew Harkins (via BoingBoing) – Dave

video link (via Hell for Leather) Shinya Kimura started building custom motorcycles from the ground up in Japan. He doesn’t plan anything. He just starts cutting metal. The quote that gets me is this one: “It feels nothing like how violent it looks from the outside. It’s very serene. The ground and the sky are [...]

Video link This is an interesting 20 year old British interview with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (the creators of the Watchmen). This episode of Prisoners of Gravity was broadcast in 1991 and it is a half hour documentary about Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ genre twisting series Watchmen. Contained within this video is the [...]

I can’t decide if this is genius, or cruel. Either way, it’s interesting. (via Yanko Designs) – Dave

I love stumbling across good industrial design.  And when the industrial design involves a tool, it’s even better.  I follow several tool/gadget blogs and stumbled into this while reading one of my favorite tool blogs, Toolmonger. It’s pretty amazing how much planning and effort goes into a little tool like this.  You may see a [...]

Be honest, you just lost 3 minutes staring at this thing, didn’t you? – Dave