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Instructions: 1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds. 2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall). 3. Blink repeatedly and quickly. 4. WTF!

Famous photographers pose with their favorite or most iconic photo in the “Behind Photographs” portrait series by Tim Mantoani (see the behind-the-scenes video). The series is available as a photo book.

[via Wired Raw File and laughingsquid]

The Magnus Magnetic Stand by Ten One Design is a clean, minimal stand for the iPad 2. Magnus uses a strong magnetic link to hold the iPad, the front of the iPad shows no visible support.

A documentary by Bart Saric, chronicling his son’s introduction to skateboarding from when he was a baby.

I have to try this. Thanks Terje for sending

Modern Pictograms is a typeface made for interface designers and programmers. Designed to work on-screen at sizes down to 18 pixels. Install the OpenType file for Photoshop mockups and drop in the @font-face code into your CSS to use right in your Web page. We’re offering it free, but donations accepted. Please do comment with your URL if you use it. New images added frequently.

For the past 10 years, Molly Moodward has been photographing environmental typography and organized her images by place and category onVernacularTypography.com. As of now, the website has over 5,000 images of urban typography from 10 different countries, including Argentina, The Bahamas, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the US.

Molly just started a Vernacular Typography Kickstarter Campaign to help build up her digital archive. It’s a beautiful projects which helps preserve, and promote the vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment.

[via tina]

[via tina]