Updates!Tumblr (3.0; @mattkirkland)http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="180" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3977937&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3977937&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3977937&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="180"></embed></object><br/><br/>A recent <a href="http://www.curatormagazine.com/jennisimmons/sigur-ros-redeems-the-music-video/">article from The Curator</a> reminded me about this video, which I’ve probably posted about before.  I still find it astonishing.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/134808125http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/134808125Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:16 -0700<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/origamu/sets/72157616626425732/">figures from OrigaMu</a>: This is some stellar paper-folding here, people - action-figure-style figures created from paper. Don’t miss the General Robert E. Lee!http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/133656077http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/133656077Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:12:04 -0700<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/wL2mTR0OJpcocn0dnoJADkEKo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jocolibrary/sets/72157619164999933/detail/">Johnson County Library’s delivery trucks</a> are decorated with imaginary book-themed companies.  This is from the same bunch of book-loving nuts that gave us <a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/some_books_that_you_cant_put_down_because_you_cant_lift_them_in_the_first_place_12622.asp">this awesome-but-garish facade</a>.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/133133012http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/133133012Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:27:00 -0700<a href="http://hongkong-life.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-outlaw-outdoor-dining.html">Why Outlaw Outdoor Dining?</a>: Hong Kong is trying to ban outdoor dining on the island. Tragic!http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/132998139http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/132998139Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:40:57 -0700<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/">The blue and the green</a>: This is just bonkers.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129826654http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129826654Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:10:30 -0700<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i39/39ferguson.htm">Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius</a>: “The theory of multiple intelligences fundamentally conflates intelligence and motivation. It’s a fatal flaw.”http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129478953http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129478953Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:04:57 -0700<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5295319&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5295319&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5295319&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><a href="http://vimeo.com/5295319">a day at foodbank</a>http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129053868http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/129053868Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:39 -0700<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/06/23/kinkade%E2%80%99s-cottage-fantasy/">First Things takes on Thomas Kincaide</a>: The way he renders the trees is the big giveaway, in my opinion.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/128854378http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/128854378Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:10:16 -0700<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/wL2mTR0OJp1ogkeePcEaWj1Uo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>How tough is my nephew?   This tough.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/128533025http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/128533025Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:45:08 -0700<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eooXNd0heM&fmt=18">Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings.</a>: Maybe I’m in the mood for saturday morning cartoons, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. Katie Couric is such a good singer!http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/127093966http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/127093966Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:33:36 -0700<a href="http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/lincolnredesign/index.cfm?action=lincolnPenny&Aspect=1">Lincoln One-Cent Redesign</a>: Are you KIDDING me? It’s like we’re trying to have the ugliest money on the planet. And succeeding.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/126506384http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/126506384Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:54:16 -0700<a href="http://www.lettercult.com/archives/740">CUSTOM LETTERS - FIRST HALF 2009 — LetterCult</a>: “… the good, the great, and the notable stuff we’ve seen so far in 2009.” Inspiration for my little Catechism Project.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125943064http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125943064Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:47:58 -0700<a href="http://mattkirkland.com/exlibris/2009/06/june-17-2009-peasants-refrain.html">June 17, 2009: The peasants' refrain</a>: <p>I absolutely love this. At first it seemed awkward, but as it repeats throughout the poem it becomes quite lovely - a beautiful, chorus-like refrain. It’s almost incantatory.<br/><br/></p> <blockquote>“We argued and argued,<br/> </blockquote>http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125703195http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125703195Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:20:10 -0700<a href="http://www.latinvulgate.com/">Latin Vulgate Bible with Douay-Rheims Side-by-Side</a>: Book Nerd Alert! This is a parallel translation of the Latin Vulgate (the translation British people were reading from, say, the seventh century to 1604). It’s all online, and yet I still feel the…http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125597493http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/125597493Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:21:55 -0700<a href="http://motionographer.com/theater/marco-brambilla-civilization/">Marco Brambilla: Civilization</a>: An astoundingly complex video installation in an elevator. Elevator goes up, the video pans along with it, from hello to heaven. Beautiful and disturbing. I’d love to see this in person!http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124810246http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124810246Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:01:20 -0700<a href="http://metalmother.com/motherboard/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/invite_scan_fnl.gif">Best wedding invitation ever?</a>: Maybe.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124382322http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124382322Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:38:24 -0700<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/wL2mTR0OJore7gixBzXloxe1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>The giraffe-proof fence has its first friend!http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124240644http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/124240644Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:59:54 -0700<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/wL2mTR0OJoqc2mvhlly3MNcCo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Check out the wild costumes created by Estelle Hanania (<a href="http://morepaper.free.fr/pageworks/jdcworks.html">follow the link</a> and then click ‘Demoniac Babble’).  These strike a very similar note to the insane african tribal costumes that we saw at the Natural History Museum last fall.   I’m fascinated and disturbed.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/123802548http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/123802548Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:12:54 -0700<a href="http://mattkirkland.com/exlibris/2009/06/june-2-2009-trueman-on-blog-attacks.html">June 2, 2009: Trueman on blog attacks</a>: <blockquote>“The gung-ho ferocity of blog attacks is often matched only by the oleaginous fawning of the webwarriors when encountered in the flesh, something which I confess has been, on occasion, a source of…</blockquote>http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/116976033http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/116976033Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:12:27 -0700<a href="http://louromano.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-of-up_3697.html">LOU ROMANO: ART of UP</a>: Fantastic viz work for Pixar’s UP. These are all great, but I’m really impressed with the ‘color script’ at the end here.http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/116104228http://mattkirkland.tumblr.com/post/116104228Sun, 31 May 2009 22:20:37 -0700