Purina Friskies' video "Dear Kitten" presented by BuzzFeed, contains some sound advice from one cat to another.

Photographer Michael Dyrland, in collaboration with Mike Marshall, imagines how the art of surfing and beach life will look like in a couple of decades from now, due to our man made pollution, in the photo series "HAZMAT Surfing":

When Washington-based photographer Michael Dyrland visited Los Angeles for a shoot, he anticipated surfing the open sea and riding the waves beneath the sunny sky. What he found, he admits, was not what he had hoped; after an evening of heavy rains, he was confined to the shore for days, the ocean contaminated with ten billion gallons of runoff composed of— as the photographer puts it— “sewage, garbage, oil, and shit (literally, human fecal matter).” Had he paddled into the water, Dyrland would have been vulnerable to staph infections, respiratory illness, MRSA, and Hepatitis C.

That fateful autumn trip laid the seeds for what would become HAZMAT Surfing, a series by which the photographer imagines what life might be like twenty or twenty-five years into the future, when our waters become so poisoned that we might only enter them in full biohazard gear. The more he dug into the issue of polluted seas, the more alarmed Dyrland became. He mentions the the Great Pacific garbage patch, a literal island of waste that stretches across the ocean.

Lauren Lyster from The Daily Ticker on Yahoo! Finance, meets up with Transcendental Meditation teacher, and the Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, Bob Roth to find out why it's a good thing for stockbrokers on Wall Street to start practicing TM.

Featured image: Don Draper meditating at a California retreat in the final scene of Mad Men (season 7).

"Ishtar X Tussilago" is a short film directed by Maceo Frost, centered around longboarding through the majestic nature of Norway. The music is a perfect match for this film, made by the band Tussilago and their track "Waltz", taken from their debute album "Holy Train" (2015). You can listen to the full album over at Soundcloud.

Via Devour.

Want your very own 3D replica of graphic designer Peter Saville's iconic album design for Unknown Pleasures (1979) by Joy Division? Look no further! Michael Zöllner, Interaction Design Professor at Hof University, has successfully made one, and now you can too, by downloading Michael's file over at MakerBot's Thingiverse. Happy printing!

Michael's 3D print:

Featured image: The original record sleeve for "Unknown Pleasures". Courtesy of Mark Briggs via art gallery Tate's album article "Out of the blue".

Via @RadekSzwarc.

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Here, a 74 minutes long chillout mix for Dazed Magazine by Tycho.

Lauren Herda has created a Spotify playlist of the mix, and Craig Robert Smith has done the same for Rdio.

Featured image: Cover of Tycho's studio album "Dive" (2011). Via Do512.

The UK-based printing agency Printsome wondered what the beer bottles of some of the biggest corporate brands in the world would look like, if they were designed with the corporate identity. Design student and intern Meredith Hebert and her team, came up with some ideas in their series entitled "#Beertualising".

Facebrew – A beer to connect everyone:

Nike – Just Drink It:

BrewBerry – The most expensive beer on the market:

Arsenal – Go Drunnkers!:

Via Creative Bloq. H/t Adweek.

Upon listening to the voice of Bart from the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" this morning, it hit me that I still after all these years still don't know who the actors are, that bring these lovely characters into life by giving them voices. Here they are, visiting one of my favorite shows, "Inside the Actors Studio" in 2003.

Full show:

Featured image: The Simpsons family via The Telegraph's article "25 things you never knew about The Simpsons".

By Jacob Swinney, an edit of the opening and closing shots of 55 films, all accompanied by one of my favorite tracks, Thomas Newman's "Any Other Name". Well done Jacob!

Featured image: The final frames in "Taxi Driver" (1976).

Via Attitude @ Rome.

In conjunction with his work as a director of the documentary "Linotype: The Film", Doug Wilson received a box of 16mm Linotype promotional films by Dave Seat, a Linotype repairman, for digitization. This was the upstart of PrintingFilms.com, a growing collection of vintage films related to typography, print and journalism, and the work and processes involved.

The collection started when Doug was given a box of 16mm Linotype promotional films by Dave Seat for digitization. In 2013, Carl Schlesinger (a former Linotype operator at The New York Times) donated his extensive collection of films to The Museum of Printing which assisted in the preservation of these films in 2015.

Along with donations from other archives and collections, this website will grow with content to preserve these films for future generations and curious people alike.

If you haven't seen Doug's documentary yet, a good start is to watch the following film from the archive, "Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu" (1978), documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times and their leap into the world of computerization:

Via @luketonge.