Michael Gillette did these killer illustrations for a new series of James Bond books for Penguin, and has just started selling limited-edition prints of them.

Love his work.

A cool series of photographs by Stephan Tillmans. They were taken at the moment a tube television is switched off. “The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography.” Via Today and Tomorrow.     [...]

Man, I thought I had some oddly specific blogs. This one is great. Wish there were more pics! Some faves:

From Hobbes313, via ffffound.

Love this one by Sonnenzimmer. Though I doubt I could bring myself to draw on it! And it’s on sale right now—all their small ones are $15 when you buy two. Click here to get the deal.

Portions of this great abstract graphic video come close to what I “see” when I listening to music with eyes closed. Snake by Acid Washed. From Anthony Burrill on Vimeo.

I just discovered

  Chris Turnham, Kevin Dart (Fleet Street Scandal, and Elizabeth Ito painting a mural at Q Pop in LA. (Via Grain Edit’s Twitter feed.)

I pulled this classic ’80s VCJ (Vernon Courtlandt Johnson) art from LifeLounge awhile back:   In looking for more, I stumbled across Spider’s Flickr page with a huge repository of Powell stuff. Including some oldies (click to see ’em bigger):   A 1978 illo by VCJ:   And a 1979 one by VCJ:   The [...]