Robinson Crusoe

ROBINSON CRUSOE. Una novela en imágenes inspirada en la obra de Daniel Defoe de Ajubel. Estupendo.

De la colección Libros para niños de la editorial valenciana Media Vaca. Como para gastarse una pequeña fortuna.

Som àngels!

Visca el majara que ha enganxat unes ales de cartulina a la parada d'autobús i ens ha fet riure abans d'anar a l'escola!

Keep hopes up (textual street art)

More brilliant street art enjoyed today while sitting at home...

• An artist called TRUE replaced some NYC subway security signs with some of his own with less mundane advice: Riding with despair prohibitrd, Have fun, Do not hurt people, Do not accept defeat, Strive to be happy, Do not hold grudges
  
  • The stickers scanned: http://www.candychang.com/2008/04/04/riding-with-despair-prohibited/
    
  • A recreation of one of the stickers: http://glass.typepad.com/journal/2007/06/making_happy.html
  • A nice TED Talk by Stefan Sagmeister that mentions this an other interesting projects: Yes, design can make you happy
    
• Ji Lee's Bubble Project: 50,000 bubble stickers have been printed. They have been continually placed on top of ads on the streets of New York. They are left blank, inviting passersby to fill them in. I photograph and archive the results. This project instantly transforms the intrusive and dull corporate monologues into a public dialogue. Our public spaces are returned back to the public.
  The project is also mentioned in Sagmeister's talk, and watching/reading some of the pictures in the project's site is well worth.
  
  
• Sidewalk Psychiatry, by Candy Chang
  
  
  

The Loch Ness Monster in NYC

Some brilliant street art by Joshua Allen Harris made emerge some months ago an inflatable Nessy in the streets of New York City.

• MSNBC video of the sighting. (37 seconds)
  
• New York Magazine video with more inflatable sculptures and an interview with the author. (2 and half minutes)

Humans

In case that your computer addiction have made you forget how humans look like, you could use three minutes watching people from 1 to 100 years of age, in a lovely video made by Lenka Clayton and James Price (via Kellypuffs).

If that hasn't been an overexposure to human looks, the humancalendar.com is and the humanclock.com are also very cool (and the later is a nice TV-Wii-powered screensaver).

Procrastineering

Someone that names his blog Procrastineering has to be brilliant. And Johnny Chung Lee proves it by using a Wiimote to let you have low cost interactive whiteboard in a LCD or any surface where you can project your screen.

But not everything is about gadgets: check out the Community Splash project, co-authored by Johnny, that used a giant slingshot to throw paint filled ballons against a 18-story building in Pittsburgh. Do not miss the project's image gallery.