Playlist 2

I’m bringing quite a few of the favorites to the table with this playlist. We start with possibly the most funk fueled making-love-in-the-summer-with-a-case-of-Colt-45 song, Party Down by Little Beaver. Dabble in a BoC remix of a track from Anticon co-founder, Why?. Another bay area favorite, Tycho. The best track from the new LCD Soundsystem album. Ghostly International’s School of seven bells, featuring a member of The Secret Machines (they have a new album dropping soon). One of the dreamiest dream-pop songs that I’ve heard in a long time, from A Sunny Day in Glasgow. One of my all time favs, Tortoise, which I will be seeing this month at the Casbah San Diego! And who can forget Milosh, Yeasayer and Subtle!? Not I. They’re on there too.

Enjoy!

Iceland LIVE!

This is an example of one of the better websites out there. I know it’s now top 10 for me.

“Inspired by Iceland” is a lovely visual chillout website (which I presume was created by or paid for by the Tourism Board of Iceland) that allows you to gaze through various high-speed webcams throughout the land. Included vistas: glacial lakes (complete with icebergs), the famed blue lagoon, and downtown Reykjavík.

(Thanks, Alex Zamora, BoingBoing * Alas, Flash required, so you won’t be enjoying this on your iPad any time soon.)

Yes, please.

Designed to evoke the spirit of the lean, powerful motorcycles of the 1950s, Hammarhead Motorcycles ($9,500-$18,500) are affordable, hand-built, rugged rides. Available in three models — the Royal Enfield Electra X-based Woodsman, the Triumph Scrambler-based Jack Pine (pictured), and the Royal Enfield Bullet-based Volta — these simple, sleek machines are quieter than your average chopper, making them perfectly suited to modern urban environments. In other words, chances of waking up neighbors with your late-night Taco Bell runs go way, way down. [Thanks, Uncrate & Jeremy]

House Industries Presents…

I just received the new House Industries catalog for the Eames Centry Modern collection. This is a very exciting day! Read more about this new font released in collaboration with House Ind. and the Eames Company.

Eames Century Modern is a typographic workhorse that honors the Eames aesthetic while offering unprecedented functionality. An eighteen-style serif typeface family strikes an unprecedented balance between distinctive idiosyncrasies, readability and space economy. Its 18 styles include gracefully complementary italics and a virtually endless supply of deep text handling features. Carefully-weighted small caps, nine different figure styles, ligatures, contextual alternate forms and thousands of lines of computer code give Eames Century Modern a significant edge in contemporary design environments. A stencil font on the heaviest weight of Eames Century Modern takes the curvature of bent plywood and abstracts the shapes into type.

In a nod to Charles and Ray’s infatuation with circus imagery, we penned three elephantine numeral fonts whose woodcut-inspired forms leave a tastefully pachydermic impact on any layout. Fanciful figures from Ray’s January and December 1943 Arts and Architecture® covers were the impetus for a more delicate set of numbers. All four figure sets boast a rich array of currency symbols, punctuation and a sophisticated fraction feature.

The Eames’ pragmatism was always tempered with their love of adornment, so this collection would not be complete without a host of carefully drawn ornaments and a galley of frames. These elements are sure to provide dignified directional stability and exquisitely cultivated closure to any design project.