Brilliant. Thanks to the pretty and talented Annette Slade for the link.

Headless figures are surprisingly non-erotic. Very interesting, though.

Also look at his other stuff, especially “addresses“. Strong stuff. He’s very good at forcing you to imagine the rest of the story. Spend some time with this stuff, it’s well worth it. Note: A more comprehensive post about Durgin’s art is in the works. Watch this space.

You know who you are.

Too much work to do today to hang around here posting, so you get the raw linky goodness:

The Dieline: package design watch

Lovely Package: nice packages

The Grid System: how why & when

Spacebears. Science is cool again.

Dina Goldstein. Looks like she has a thing for 1965. It’s a good thing!

See the HD version at Vimeo

* According to my pal Jeff Curry

The Matchbox® toy look of these trucks and the simplified colors had me gawping and I kept wondering how they managed to get so much detail into the tiny set, even as I fully understood that this was a fake miniature.

If my Canon 5d MkII ever arrives (I ordered it three months ago), I’m going to have to try shooting some tilt-shift footage, perhaps at an SCCA race, perhaps at a horse show…

“Less than 500 people live in the town of Rutland, OH, but hundreds more migrate in and out of its borders every year to visit one 88-acre farm called Skatopia. Aside from being one of the most well known backyard skate parks in the world, Skatopia is a somewhat warped version of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland, with people of all ages coming to “experience” the fringe culture that has developed there, fueled by binge drinking, light drug use, casual sex, and rampant destruction of cars or property of any kind. Although “88 acres of anarchy” is the skate park slogan, it functions more like a cooperative dictatorship, according to farm owner, Brewce Martin. The gates are open all of the time as people generally filter in and out at their own will. Some camp out for a weekend, others build cabins from scraps and stay for a year; just about everyone raises hell.”

Excellent documentary photography by Travis Dove.

and it’s the best-written review I’ve read all year.