Bob Truby loves pencils. Only brand names pencils, mind you.

Swedish designer Sebastian Ramn’s portfolio is as diverse as it is impressive. Unsurprisingly, he’s ex-Hyper Island.

Illustrator Amy Eastland’s portfolio boasts a lovely collection of artwork. A selection of her work is currently being exhibited as part of the Biennale 08.

Which? Magazine boasted some great covers in the 1970s.

Check out the fruits of our endeavours at www.jonathanansell.com

Those fine folks over at the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group have done a rather excellent job of recreating the Beijing Olympic Village with 300,000 blocks of Lego.

A write up can be found on the official HKLUG’s blog.

Amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman travelled extensively from 1938 through to the late 60s, taking snapshots wherever he went. His entire collection of photographs has been scanned and put online. There are some real gems in there, especially the pictures taken in London, Paris, Munich, Dublin, Istanbul, New York and Edinburgh.

Click here to see a full list of locations visited by Cushman on his travels.

The Hand Drawn Map Association is an invaluable resource (ahem!). Nice idea mind you, and they’ll even pay you for any maps you post to them to cover postage.

The legendary Isaac Hayes has passed away at the age of 65. May his Hot Buttered Soul rest in peace.

Jeremy Mayer may well be the world’s only typewriter artist. His website is a bit annoying, so you’re better off viewing his work directly: mask, cat, bust, body, dead cat.

Now this is just silly…

Badder than evil scans of “classic” movie posters. Well, OK, one man’s classic is another man’s unwatchable cack, but hey, anyone that doesn’t dig Three The Hard Way or Black Caesar can go suck a brown one.

The sleeveface Flickr photo pool is a work of genius! Please, somebody do a Don Blackman!

Outstandingly original advertising for a sickeningly ugly vehicle. The “Bushman & Eskimo” ad in this series is equally compelling.

The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin has a new exhibition focusing on the “classic” period of paparrazi photography. “Pigozzi and the Paparazzi” has over 350 photos from a host of legendary photographers including Salomon, Weegee, Galella and Newton.

The Original 1940s Photos pool on Flickr boasts over 1,000 photographs, including a limited number in colour.

John Ivers loves roller coasters. So much so that he built one in his back garden. Judging by the video, it looks like his whole family will die of broken necks, but until they do it looks like great fun!

Fräuleinwunder Hildegard Knef’s über hip, neo-kitsch masterpiece “Holiday Time” is light-years ahead of its early 70s contemporaries. Remarkably, this was a B-side upon release!

Darth Vader’s skills with a golf putter are enough to make a grown man weep.

The ingenious mowerbike is undoubtedly the greatest invention of the 21st century to date.