I’ve been meaning to write about this one for a long time. The Superest is an ongoing drawing game between Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter. Kevin once drew a superhero called The Unopposinator, and Matthew responded with Someone. (Someone: He’s Not No one)

Kevin drew a hero to defeat Someone, and the madness has continued ever since. There are now dozen upon dozens of heroes. Visit, get the feed, and enjoy.

Much applause goes to Axel Peemoeller, who design this painted signage for the parking garage in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower. Trompe l’oeil, indeed!

The second post in my car exterior-themed series is this: a Porsche covered in gold leaf. A gold-plated car would be cool, but gold leafing is an old world craft I enjoy practicing and reading about.

Gold leaf is only a few microns thick, so a little goes a long way. One booklet of 100 sheets of 3.5″ x 3.5″ gold leaf (23 carat) currently costs about $50, and a pack of 20 books is around $600. Assuming it takes 100 sheets to coat one fender, and assuming one fender equals approximately 10% of the surface area of the car, it may have taken no more than $1000 to finish this car surface with gold leaf.

Of course the edges are visible, as with any flat surface gilding.

Okay, the main reason I haven’t posted in some time is that restoring my ‘63 Falcon takes lots of time. But it’s currently at the body shop for paint, so I have some free time again. Now for a couple of car paint-themed posts.

First, I thought this was pretty neat: someone had a full vehicle wrap done on their BMW 3-series; not completely unheard of, except that the wrap contains no graphics. That’s right, this was done simply to change the car’s color. Brilliant, until you factor in the 2-4k cost of such a labor-intensive job. I still think it’s a neat idea, and could lead the way to instant color changes for your car.

Found on cardomain.com.

This is holy amazing. The imagery is pretty disturbing, but anything that takes as long to produce as this must’ve is worth a peek. I’m floored.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

From designer Marion Bataille comes this fantastic alphabet pop-up book that belongs in your library. Young children need to be exposed to this book!

Buy your copy today on amazon.com.

Yeondoo Jung is a Korean artist who reinterprets childrens’ crayon drawings as live-action tableaus, then photographs them. His website is currently down, so I’ve compiled some of his work here for your enjoyment.

The Sitepoint Photoshop anthology is a great reference book, containing many tricks it tooks me years to discover. It contains lots of meat, and very little fluff. Of course there any many such books out there, invaluable resources all, but this one happens to be a limited-time free download.

The press-quality PDF is a whopping 278 pages, and contains great information for young grasshoppers and Grand Viziers alike. It’s available until mid-June, so act quickly and save 30 bucks.

Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded Wordpress to v. 2.5.1. I received a warning from my hosting company yesterday that I’d reached my CPU usage limit. Curious, I checked my access logs and discovered that a spammer has gained access to my root’s .htaccess file. It interestingly would redirect you from any file within certain virtual directories (via, pharm, etc.) to a page containing an iframe with a spam page’s content. I’m probably completely misstating this, but whatever. Anyway, I bumped up security and reinstalled Wordpress, which was surprisingly easy. Bonus: my issue with posting video is now fixed. Hurray!

Jet-powered wings! This is just beautiful.