I don’t care how many coffee mugs I already cram in my cabinets, I need this Octopus Mug from Blue Witch.

At the National Portrait Gallery.

Baseball, America’s national pastime, is an arena in which players behave remarkably like Malinowski’s Trobriand fishermen. To professional baseball players, baseball is more than just a game. It is an occupation. Since their livelihoods depend on how well they perform, many use magic to try to control or eliminate the chance and uncertainty built into baseball.

Monotype has released a sort of Spotify for fonts with their master subscription service over at Fonts.com. The plan delivers “7,000 desktop fonts (delivered automatically on up to five workstations via SkyFonts), access to more than 20,000 web fonts (with 2.5 million page views per month over unlimited sites), and browser-based design tool Typecast.” Pretty cool. Read more, including thoughts on the service from Chris Roberts, over at .net magazine.

On the secrecy and challenges around producing and releasing the Salinger documentary:

Mr. Weinstein snapped up “Salinger” quickly after Mr. Salerno showed it to him at an unusual 7:30 a.m. screening on Feb. 24, the day of the Academy Awards, according to people familiar with the film, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. On his way to the ceremony he sealed a deal for the film that is part of a three-prong strategy, including an “American Masters” TV segment on PBS in January and an oral history in book form that Simon & Schuster is to publish in September in tandem with the film’s theatrical release.

It should be noted that Matthew Salinger, J.D.’s son, claims no one in the inner circle for the last 40 years has cooperated with the film. Should be interesting to watch how this unfolds. Read more at the NYT.

Can someone else really talented make one of these so I can buy it please?

Balmorhea – Pyrakantha [official] from Colin Kennedy on Vimeo.

Really good Tortoise vibes from these Austin friends.

I’ve seen this illustration a few places, most recently this morning on Pinterest. And it’s kind of why I mostly hate Pinterest. Someone shared this with no attribution (fine, they didn’t know who it was by), but did include a URL. The problem? The URL went here, which also doesn’t tell you who actually produced the work. It’s an inspiration site, so I guess that means we don’t care about who actually does anything (ugh), and their attribution URL is simply this. I finally searched for the file name I’d seen (“rapture”) and the word elephant and found it featured in Eye Magazine with Stuart Patience’s name associated. From there, I was able to find his portfolio site, which is amazing, and you should go look at all his work because holy crap that’s an annoying experience if you’re him (I assume).