Recent Highlights 87

+ 'Psychogeographic illustrations' of Rotterdam
+ Why is the web so irresistible?
+ Spanish Civil War posters
+ Hey, use the stairs! (now that they're nice and all)
+ It folds! it rides! it looks super-cool!: the urban bike
+ Bicycle superhighways for London
+ Aus TV: too much Anglocentric programming
+ Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
+ The world's worst intersections and traffic jams
+ Brambuk Late Summer
+ The 'Game On' game and 'Doof'

Frank Dresmé's 'psychogeographic illustrations' of Rotterdam. Frank's own site is here. Psychogeographic? I guess 'interpretive collage/assemblage' means similar? Psychogeographic sounds like Anthony Perkins is somehow involved. But interesting work nonetheless.

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"Coming across ... new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it." Why the web is so irresistible. Works for me. Via Boing Boing.

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A collection of Spanish Civil War posters. Via Barista.

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Hey, use the stairs! – and get fit – (now that they're nice and all).

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Cannondale may have designed the urban (and folding) bicycle. Announcing the Cannondale ON. Beautiful (and it's a Cannondale – excellent build and ride quality assured). Not that I'm biased (I am a very happy hand-crafted 'Dale owner).

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"London is likely to become one of the most cycle-friendly places in the world, with a series of two-wheeler superhighways cutting a swath through traffic and congestion." Now if they only had some sun over there (joke)...

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"It's getting better but it's still very 'blondist'. Look at McLeod's Daughters. I mean, hello, how many blondes can you get on the screen at one time? It's hilarious." Australian TV: there's too much Anglocentric programming. (Channel 9, or, the Aryan Network, please take note).

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"Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art." Beautiful.

(Love how the Brooklyn Museum's 'B' identity changes playfully through the site too).

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The world's worst intersections and traffic jams. Eek!

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These are the days of boxing kangaroos and eel trapping: Brambuk Late Summer.

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The 'Game On' game: play and learn about video game history. "After you play through the levels, it offers you a free 2-for-1 pass to Game On"... currently at ACMI at Federation Square.

"Doof combines the best elements of casual gaming with the best of social networking and wraps the entire experience in a visually stunning package". Online gamers – this could be just what you've been looking for.