I finally got some lights that fit and wired up the K. Originally I was going to hook up a raspberry pie but came across Ikea’s light set – DIODER – which was on sale and does the trick? You think?

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had a wes anderson fest during the season of festivities, seemed appropriate. ever since I’ve been channeling bill murray.
a very interesting data driven documentary on the human cost of wars, world war 2 particularly, by Neil Hallron. his interactive stuff at http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ is very clever too.

check this lovely cute plane straight out of a Moebius cartoon – and it flies!
The Stipa-Caproni was an experimental Italian aircraft designed in 1932 by Luigi Stipa (1900–1992) and built by Caproni. It featured a hollow, barrel-shaped fuselage with the engine and propeller completely enclosed by the fuselage—in essence, the whole fuselage was a single ducted fan. Although the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) was not interested in pursuing development of the Stipa-Caproni, its design was an important step in the development of jet propulsion.
with only 2 days to finish the thing, the background stencil is done, and looks OK. in the middle of re-doing one eye so hopefully will hit the deadline – still a little wet.
image is of my mommy when she was younger and lived in Saudi, which was taken from an old skool black and white passport photo (which I can’t seem to find now).
it is crazy the volume, or glut, of photos we all produce now compared to our parents generation. I can hardly find any photos of me growing up but my daughter – I could create a stop motion movie of her entire life so far. The sharing, but not so caring, generation.
a poignant little movie confirming the importance of “story” in our mad dash to automate and computerize everything we loose something wonderful, bookshops.

woke up to these guys this morning – as I do every morning and so do you it seems. got a subject for this afternoon drawing at least.
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/your-face-is-covered-in-mites-with-secrets-to-tell/

who would have thought I could churn that much crap out – more to come 😉