SURPLUS-PLUS

I already have a twitter and a facebook and a portfolio and a flickr and accounts on countless other unused social networks. I might as well have a damn tumblr, too. I'm an Interaction Designer living in Seattle, and I do more serious writing at Humans in Design

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The Art of Ray Morimura

Ray Morimura is a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, where he studied oil painting. Originally his works were geometric-style abstractions. But later he was inspired by Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, and began to study woodblock techniques. Unlike most other Japanese woodblock printmakers, he uses oil-based inks to create these detailed images.

His technique is to carve both 6mm thick plywood blocks and 3mm thick blocks laminated with P-tile, a flooring material. The “linocut” process permits quite complex designs, which are printed on mulberry bark kozo paper. Essentially each color requires a separate block, and separate inking. Some blocks are printed with solid colors, while others include bokashi or a gradation of color. Of his work, Morimura says “printing demands total concentration as a single hair or dust can ruin a print. I usually clean my studio thoroughly and wait to begin the printing process until after midnight when it is quiet. With prints one can never be certain of the outcome until the final print is completed. There is always the unexpected, which makes it all the more intriguing. As with Zen and ink paintings, I hope something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, can be expressed in these landscape works.”

Learn more about Ray Morimura here.

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Debbie Reynolds, 1977.

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Robert Ayton’s illustrations The Story of Furniture, 1971 via dirtymodernscoundrel

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The only Westworld plot line I would participate in.

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Omg Hilary’s so white she was struggling to clap on beat ahhaha

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This episode is great because almost every sentence in the script contains the name "Cutter McGee."

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MY America, not yours.

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Aretha Franklin, 1968 

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Stacks of lumber drying, Seattle, 1919

The Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill, located just west of the Ballard Bridge, was the largest in Ballard. At the mill, logs were cut into lumber which was then dried for at least nine months before being sold. The stacks of drying lumber were over 50 feet high. In 1958, these stacks caught fire and burned. Ballard residents remembered the huge blaze for many years.