entries Tagged as [cool finds]

Charlotte Gainsbourg, with Beck

Video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Heaven Can Wait, featuring Beck. Directed by Keith Schofield.

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album IRM dropped this week, find it here. Official website here. Blog here.

Below, live performance of Trick Pony on Letterman from last week:

And
Her work for Balenciaga and Vogue Paris.

Greasy spoon

I like a good greasy spoon.

A few weeks back I went in search of a good old school diner joint. Haven’t found many good local ones, often food plated up is basic food service quality. Found a small gem though: I ended up at at the Lodge Coffee Shop in Citrus Heights.

Open since 1958, the Lodge is a mix of interesting interior styles. Some original mid-century ski lodge touches (A-frame building), some googie (a little bit), some 1970s ‘harvest-theme’ updates, a splash of 1990s country – and a fish tank where all the fish are named ‘Dave.’ To avoid confusion.

What hooked me was an authentic Chicken Fried Steak with a really good sausage/bulldog gravy. Not a deep-fried burger, but a breaded cube steak, grilled to order. Like it’s supposed to be done. The owner works the kitchen.

Had a few quiet breakfusts there recently. Ate and organized ideas/projects in my sketchbook. Nice start to my day.

Lodge opens at 6 a.m. [map]

Poaching salmon in the dishwasher

‘The idea of poaching salmon in a dishwasher has been around for a long time  . . .  and gourmet cook Vincent Price is said to have once cooked it on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show’ –Tom Scott

Helvetica Monopoly

Designer Florent Guerlain’s Swiss take on the Monopoly game board.

Found via Doobybrain

Another local tower

Sutro Tower shirt, San Francisco.

Found via Thomas Hawk

Local Towers

Things in Sacramento are named Tower.

After the bridge, after the theatre (both below). Tower Records (as a walk in store) started  . . .  and finished here. I’m convinced the local auto museum, the Towe was actually supposed to be the Tower but they forgot to add the r.

Pictured: Sacramento Cityscapes by Paul Guyer. More here.

(Shakey’s Pizza started here too)

Towers


Nicola López, woodcut and silkscreen on paper

Ten visions of towers, over at PRINTERESTING.


Vladimir Tatlin, letterpress book cover


Michael Dal Cerro, woodcut


Anne-Maree Hunter, book arts, intaglio, silkscreen

Aerial

Some great aerial photos here.

Covering walls

Here’s an incredible collection of wall decals.

LEGO in the kitchen

‘a basic IKEA kitchen island bar  . . .  a full week covering it with more than 20,000 Lego pieces’

Designed by Munchausen. Details here.

Wordle

Type image generated by Wordle from my blog’s tags. Try it out here.

Found via Martin Klasch


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