Fantastic retro International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters by Simon Page.

Apparently, what started as Page’s personal project got the attention of the IYA2009 and ended up becoming official promotional work for the organization. Well played!

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TimeTuner is the sharp and savvy alarm clock radio iPhone app by Ammunition Group and DreamSurface. Wake up to classy alarm tones, iPod tracks, or one of 14,000 international streaming radio stations; all within an elegant Dieter Ramsesque interface.

Certainly, the most fleshed out and beautiful app I’ve seen in this category. Love it.

Digging this photo by Octavian Dogariu.

Frozen In Time, Switzerland is an absolutely gorgeous project by roving photographer Nathalie Daoust. These surreal, dreamlike images began as black and white photographs, taken with a pinhole camera, then hand-colored.

In this altered state of reality, stillness and silence permeate each image, each is a moment frozen in time. Here memory and introspection create a labyrinth of illusion, mystery and fantasy. Although the images are part of a series, each is unique and non-sequential. The narrative that evolves throughout the works is a personal one, a journey, steeped in self-scrutiny, towards coming to terms with one’s identity through life experiences, loss and sorrow as well as pleasure.

The series won grand prize in the 2009 Banff Mountain Photography Competition. Serko photographer Matthieu Paley was another participant.

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While Deerhoof was owning my ears today, I realized that I had bookmarked some videos from their appearance on Pitchfork.tv earlier this year. I would post one here for you, but as they are all so wrought full of badassery, I will instead link to each excellent one below:

Tears and Music of Love / Fresh Born / Dummy Discards A Heart / Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain / Snoopy Waves / Milk Man

Also, check out their complete set from the Great American Music Hall, August 9th, 2009.

Ipung Kurniawan of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, does such elaborately detailed work. I love his wayang-inspired pieces, I’m Gods, The Bagong, The Petruk, and The Gereng.

The Gyrofocus fireplace has been voted the World’s Most Beautiful Object 2008–2009 in the Pulchra design competition, which considers itself the first ‘beauty contest’ exclusively reserved for objects.

Gyrofocus is by fireplace maker Focus, a French company. It can pivot 360° and has been exhibited in several contemporary museums, including the Guggenheim.

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