The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don’t blame Patrick Hickey if it isn’t. The Scottish mycologist recently led a team that used living bacteria and fungi to create two sinister-looking billboards meant to lure, or scare, people into seeing the movie.
via Don’t Call It Viral Marketing: The Story Behind Contagion’s Microbial Billboard – ScienceInsider.
To that end, the graphic design firm Muller has created an awesome guide to the favored actors in the Coen orbit, which shows what they’ve been in through the years. There’s even a little tally on the left-hand margin, showing the awards that the Coens have won — six Oscars to date, as a matter of fact. Here’s to hoping for a couple more.
via Infographic of the Day: The Coen Brothers’ Menagerie of Actors | Co.Design.
Photojournalist Lyle Owerko has collected shots of some of the most iconic portable stereos from a genre of street culture that began as early as 1983. His book, The Boombox Project, The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a beautiful catalog of that culture–from its people to their accessories.
“Sweet” Lou Snyder, Nye’s Polonaise Room, Minneapolis, MN, February 5, 2011
What do you get when you combine the potential of HTML5 with Massimo Vignelli’s famous subway map? Thanks to Alexander Chen, you arrive with MTA.ME.
