We keep working through them, and they keep coming. Next up 2010. This year has been a strange one for me, it was filled with some brilliant moments and people that I’ll remember forever but I also spent a lot of time struggling to find regular work, stewing in my own thoughts. 2010 has more direction, I know exactly where I am, I know what I have to do, I’m feeling more positive and more sociable. It’s all good. Below are a few end-of-year links, and for anyone who actually ever reads this, I hope you enjoy the first year of the new decade!

- Ingenious glass design

- It’s still a while off but this asteroid pass is going to be awesome (I heard a rumour that the Russians want to hit it with a rocket!).

- Proof that there is and never will be ‘A perfect job’

- 15 reasons to live for the next 10 years

-  2009 in photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

- The Alps at night timelapse. Incredibly soothing.

- Lastly my favourite album of 2009: xx

The creative review blog featured a piece of work by an artist named Nedko Solakov the other day. The work looked interesting so I went to his website to view his other projects, and I found many of them to be extremely clever and engaging. In particular I enjoyed the photographs of the projects that involved writing and drawing comments, such as ‘Good News, Bad News’, ‘Toilettes’, and ‘A Pass-Controlled Story’. Even the homepage itself has an amusing little note for the user who has a large enough monitor! This type of annotation also reminded me of the (temporary) graffiti that I created for one of my final year University projects.

A couple of other arty subjects that caught my attention recently were Julia Mariscal’s ‘Writing Spoon‘, a really simple and elegant object, and Bruno Taylor’s ‘Playful Spaces‘ which, amongst other things, makes waiting for a bus a bit more enjoyable.