The Factory Records logo by Peter Saville.

“I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car is moving really quickly, all the lines and colors are blurred.” -Andy Warhol

From “the art of losing love, pt.1″ by Stacy Oborn:
masahisa fukase’s best known work was made while reeling from loss of love. after thirteen years of marriage, his wife yoko left him. while on a train returning to his hometown of hokkaido, perhaps feeling unlucky and ominous, fukase got off at stops and began to photograph something which in his culture and in others represents inauspicious feeling: ravens. he became obsessed with them, with their darkness and loneliness. his photographs capture them midflight; crouched in trees at dusk with glowing …

A really exciting new art project has gone up on the exterior wall of Moda Hotel along Smithe Street, in downtown Vancouver. Working with curator Indigo of Becker Galleries, Moda Hotel commissioned four internationally renowned artists–Augustine Kofie (LA), Jerry Inscoe (PDX), Remi/Rough (LON) and Scott Sueme (VAN)–known as Unintended Calculations to paint two collaborative murals on its exterior walls.

From the Publishers:
“Neil Krug’s stylized photos of his girlfriend [now wife], the model Joni Harbeck, were taken with Polaroid film years past its sell-by date. They have the kind of grainy, sun-scorched feel of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. And ever since the couple began posting the photos on Flickr early this year, they’ve drawn a blaze of attention.” – The New York Times.

A sample of what I was listening to tonight:

Photos by Masataka Nakano:

“What if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’…

A beautiful project by the folks over at Barbarian Group for GE. Composite video of planes taking off at various West Coast airports over the course of the day that reveals patterns otherwise lost to the stretch of time.

From Jong Kim’s Flickr stream. I love everything about this: the image, the poem, but even more so, the wonderful detail of the process: