I never thought I'd go back to MT but after getting so frustrated with Wordpress and Textpattern it was my only recourse. It seems that Wordpress likes to add p-tags arbitrarily and no one seems to care except those who complain about it in the forums and no one responds. I'm sure there is a fix for it, hiding in some crazy-ass php file, but quite honestly it's not worth my time. I know it's a small thing to give up on a whole platform for, I could have just worked around it in css, but I didn't want to have to. Textpattern was even stranger, it's css was a php file!! I understand this sort of, but it makes it damned difficult to use a css editor like cssedit 2. So I came back to MT, I used to run it back in version 2.6 and found it to be to much trouble, though now 3.3 seems a lot easier to deal with and has some new features, the Quickpost thing looks pretty slick. No if I can just find a plug-in that emulates the Stylehive.com method of post I'll be in nirvana.

Jeremy Cole

Aloe range is inspired by the Agave plant, a tropical cactus with distinctive fleshy-leaved flowers that lend themselves perfectly to sculptural lighting. The designs are in three forms: the Shoot, Blossom, and Bud.

I found this over at D*S guest blog, there's an interview with him too.

You're not still keeping your cash in a leather wallet, are you? How incredibly naff! That's the 21st century equivalent of dressing your fivers in flares and putting gold medallions on your credit cards. And you wouldn't want that, would you?

Tyvek Wallets
No, what you want is a Tyvek Wallet. And we should know, because as self-appointed arbiters of cool we know a thing or two about how best to hold ones folding - and that thing you've got stuffed down the back of trousers most definitely ain't it.

Sounds good to me, I've been thinking about getting a new wallet. And since I've got a huge roll of Tyvek work…

Great technique for image display, the trick I 'spose is getting enough density in the print.

Found over at MocoLoco

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At least 1000 great examples of the best album art of all time.

Posterman: Original, Rare & Vintage Film Poster Sales

An eclectic, international collection of posters and rare collectables. The remarkable and unique images on this site include silent movie posters, sexploitation, classic movie posters and much more.

snow

our brand new release ‘snow’ consists of 40 snow crystal eps illustrations.

each illustration is on a separate layer and can be overlayed with one or more of the others to create endless variations of unique snowflakes.

They also have a great selection of vector outline fonts of people, flowers and furry cute things

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1201am | paper goods design

PALMS NOTES DECORATIV
Notes Decorativ™ brings the lively 1201am designs to flat notecards. Front of card features bold, white palm fronds against orange and red circles pattern. Back of card is blank for message writing. Cards are encouraged to be displayed or framed for decor while sender's message stays personal and hidden. Packaged with coordinating red envelopes.

Quoted from Poppy:

whilst uploading my christmas cards to flickr today and adding them to the gocco pool i found this super cute holiday card by willo. so cool to see her fun illo's in gocco form.

she and her friend kevin took some great shots of the gocco process and packaged it into a gocco photo tutorial which i am definitely adding to my tutorials links!

thanks willo!

The Honda Step Bus concept looks like a Japanese kei car that took a wrong turn in Tokyo and wound up in L.A. The tiny bus is all about making the most of its minimum space. The concept features sliding front doors so that entering and exiting the vehicle can be accomplished in even the tightest of spaces, and the seats inside (two captains, one rear bench) can be folded in various configurations to fit large and awkwardly shaped items. The Step Bus is also mid-engined and rear-wheel drive to boot, although the motor is a "small displacement power plant" according to the press release. No other mechanical details were released unfortunately.

The Step Bus does a good job of drawing on Honda's expertise with kei and other micro mini motors that make the most out of very little, while still managing evokes memories of jamming a buddy's VW Bus with your drum set. Like we said, it's a little kei in the USA. Whether the Step Bus would actually meet kei criteria is unknown (probably not, looks a bit too large), but we were still surprised and delighted Honda would debut such a diminutive vehicle in the U.S. rather than its home market.