Favorite Records of 2007 (so far…)
May 29, 2007 // Life + Music

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how great of a year this has been for music. I kind of feel like in 20 years people historians will look back and be amazed at all the greatness. So I decided to write all of my favorites artists who had amazing albums so far in 2007. A list of 21 bands, only halfway through the year, is pretty damn remarkable. If you don’t know what they’ve put out this year, then wiki it, it’s worth the trouble.
Still coming up there’s the new Rilo Kiley, Beirut, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, and I’m sure many more that I can’t think of right now. It’s gonna’ be an exciting year.

Bobby

P.S. The new Modest Mouse is shit, I didn’t forget it, and you can keep your Icky Thump, I don’t want it.
P.P.S. I forgot the new Shins album, which was amazing, definitely top 10 material.

Stroom Den Haag
May 29, 2007 // Architecture + Design

Stroom Den Haag is a Netherlands based design, visual arts and architecture activity center. This is the best way I can seem to describe what they actually do. What I know for sure is that they do a lot of really amazing art and architectural projects for their community.
Above are pictures from an intervention done for the De Paradijsvogel elementary school. The project was completed by Marleen Kaptein and Stijn Roodnat (also known as KapteinRoodnat). The intervention consisted of hundreds of meters of bright green tubes that occupied not only the schoolyard, but the assembly hall as well.
Be sure to check out all of the amazing projects Stroom has at their website, definitely not something to miss!

Bobby

Bits and Bobs About Buckminster Fuller
May 29, 2007 // Blogs + Design + Technology

Boicozine has a really great post about Buckminster Fuller and a lot of the really rad things he did. And honestly, I posted this entry because I was so amazed by the image above.
Go check out his awesome blog for all sorts of informative goodness!

Bobby

Confederate Motorcycles
May 28, 2007 // Technology

I’d heard of these guys a while ago and just recently stumbled upon them again.
Confederate Motor Company was started in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sadly, in autumn 2005 the entire company was destroyed due to Hurricane Katrina, like so many others. Unable to find any place around New Orleans to settle down, they decided upon Birmingham, Alabama. But despite this huge drawback, it made the company more focused, reevaluating and rethinking the entire architecture and production of the bikes.

I’m not a huge motorcycle fan, but these things are works of art. The first picture above, the B120 Wraith, is almost steam punk looking, with it’s Swiss army knife-esque front end and huge exposed pipes. The form is absolutely beautiful in my opinion, I would buy a bike like this.
The second bike pictured above is the F131 Hellcat, which has more of a traditional look, but still extremely exotic looking.
Definitely check out their site for much more info about these awesome bikes!

Bobby

Brian Finke
May 28, 2007 // Photography

Brian Finke is a New York based photographer who likes to shoots all sorts of sports stuff. That is an entirely inadequate description, and truly fails to describe how awesome his photos are, catching behind the scene glances of life.
Be sure to also check out his rad paintball story he just shot for Wired.

Bobby