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11:40 PM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 |
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These all lead to far better visuals:

Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design at WebUrbanist. Shaped like a gun, books, a torus, swan or snail, changing color when hot, transparent, trapping tea leaves, making toast too -- these aren't the porcelain pots of Zen they used to be.


Leaf through! Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967. Via MeFi, which has more detail:

Between 1961, when the 25-year-old Hopper married the actress Brooke Hayward, until 1967, when he made Easy Rider, he took thousands of black-and-white photographs. He seemed to have his Nikon with him all the time, on sets, in galleries, at recording sessions. Now a selection of those wonderful, evocative photographs, many of them never seen before, is to be published in a limited-edition book, Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967.


Daily Drop Cap: an illustrative initial every day A drop cap is the large decorative first letter of the first word of text in a book, magazine story or, occasionally, newspaper story. Type design can be the elevation of the mundane into the rococo.


Weird Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures. Much nicer than you would expect, especially when stained.

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