The presidents were to be depicted from head to waist, but the sculpture was scaled back due to insufficient funding.

-Via Kottke

http://jgilman.net/

-Via Notcot

“I’m for real. Designer Joey Roth made a Felt Mouse. I first heard about it last year and instantly loved the idea. It isn’t until now that Joey is showing the world the first prototype. It took that long to overcome the limitations of felt but from the looks of it, this prototype is pretty much ready for production. I LOVE Joey’s disciplined execution of minimalism. See it May 13th in the “USE ME” exhibit by the American Design Club which coincides with this year’s ICFF show in New York.”

-Via Yankodesign

Check out these awsome Line O.O wallets from DB Clay. I’ve never owned a wallet from that company myself but I’ve literally only heard good things.

They’re trying to get some funding for their new line on Kickstarter so if you want to help them out (aka preorder) then you should click through!

Thanks for sending this in Brian Reeder!

Go to his official site

-Via Photodonuts

p.s. Thanks for sending this in Monique Vincent :)

-Via Jillthomasphotography

If you like this piece, you should very definitely go to Ryan’s blog and read much more. It’s quite good.

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You were standing beside the road just like yesterday or maybe a week ago. Hands at your side and not looking my way. With a sigh I pulled over slow. Your head just as quick, eyes glazing over me in that “gray or blue” I can’t tell which, kind of way. Opening the door you climbed in and I devoured every detail. Your hair tied up, fingernails unpainted, lips pulled tight in a grim line. It wasn’t the first time that I wondered what type of kiss it would take. To soften them, not seduce. I noticed a new wound in your jeans and wondered who you were escaping the night it appeared.

We drove in silence, as ever before. Unlike our first trip when I flooded you with questions and comments, I had slowly subsided into silent altruism. Though I’m not sure which you preferred. The truck bounced with every change in the road. You held on tightly, staring straight ahead. Nothing was different, this trip was the same as every one before. But I felt it, the tension. Even in your silence I could tell that this would be the last time I stopped for you.

We pulled into the gas station. The abandoned one across from the grain elevator in town. You opened the door, grabbed your bag (which I had always admired for its colourful needlework) and stepped down out of the truck. You hesitated then, and I braced myself.

“This will be the last time”, you mumbled, looking down at your feet.

You probably knew me by then. That I would do anything in a heartbeat. That I was ready for the late nights and the tears and the failed attempts only to try and try again until everything was finally ok. You only had to climb back in.

I wanted to scream, to shout, to ask you why and where and who and when, but most of all hold you tight, a shield from all the heartache. Giving peace and destroying pain in one single surge of emotion completely dedicated to you.

But instead I just nodded, my lips tightened, imitating yours. A strange thing happened then. I half expected you to look up at me and explain it all. Indecision, maybe, flashed through your mind. However fate prevailed and you walked off. Turning the corner of the building without another word.

I knew that I would never see you again. And it was awhile before I would be ok with that.

-Via Ryan Avery

Awesome mashup of rain and The National’s Exile Vilify by reader James Birss.

Visit by going to http://rain.nxe7.com/ or clicking the image.

brussels based practice 51N4E has created ‘vault room’, a row house refurbishment in bruges, belgium. positioned along the reien in the historical center of the city, the design looks to reinterpret the typical cramped back garden as a spacious continuation of the existing vernacular structure.

-Via Designboom

“When you’re cutting wood with a power jigsaw, sometimes the up-down motion of the fast-moving blade becomes so blurry that you start to lose sight of the line you’re trying to cut. I never considered this a solveable problem, which is probably why I don’t work at Festool.

Festool’s super-engineers have added a “Stroboscopic LED”—essentially a strobe light—to the front of their Carvex jigsaw. The light is timed with the motion of the blade, freeze-framing it in the same position at each cycle, so once you get going it looks like the blade’s not moving at all:”

-Via Core77