Today I officially went from bike to ski mode. Most likely due to the fact that I gotta screaming deal on some new sticks courtesy of Surface Skis and The Clymb. While there’s sure to be some good 2-wheeled adventures yet to be had this fall, I’m counting down the days til I’m swooshin’ through the Wasatch on some fine Utah powder. I’m by no means a park skier, however the above edit from Bank Gilberti just looks like too much damn fun.

1. Sera Cahoone, Deer Creek Canyon – The sound of changing leaves. Lots of Gillian Welch present in Sera.
2. Shovels & Rope, Birmingham – Suck on this Toby Keith.
3. The Velvet Underground, Some Kind of Love – Great track off one of the best albums around.
4. Lee Fields & The Expressions, My World is Empty Without You – Neo-psychedelic soul cover of the Supremes’ original.
5. Chris Cohen, Optimist High – This song reminds me of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and specifically the song Kamera. Always a good thing.
6. Crosby, Still, & Nash, Long Time Gone – Some hippy shit.
7. Father John Misty, I’m Writing a Novel – Former Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman’s latest effort. Some funny lyrics in there.
8. Townes Van Zandt, White Freightliner Blues – “Like Bob Dylan for smart people” – anonymous. TVZ and Fall go together like pork chops and apple sauce.
9. Bob Dylan, Country Pie – “Bob Dylan smiling on this record cover like he just ate a free ham dinner.” – Dan Cassaro.
10. Iron & Wine, Freedom Hangs Like Heaven – Contemporary American roots music at it’s finest.
11. Nick Drake, From The Morning – The most haunted voice in music.
12. First Aid Kit, Emmylou – Nashville meets Sweden.

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There was a guy called Link Wray. And he had a group called the Wraymen and they played a song called Rumble. In about the early 60’s, and that was like a very distorted sounding guitar that was just hairy. I mean it was great. I heard that… and I wanted to play like that.

Neil Young on Fresh Air talking about the influence surf-guitar legend Link Wray had on his sound. Great example of a young Neil stealing like an artist until he found his own voice. So stoked that Young and Crazyhorse are back together in the studio and will be releasing their latest album, Psychedelic Pill at the end of October.

Living in Park City, we have incredible access to the mountains, which makes it all too easy to get stuck riding the same trails all summer (FML). However, this weekend Kassie and I ventured a little farther out to explore some new terrain in Provo Canyon. Needless to say, it was an epic day to be on a bike in the Wasatch Mountains. The aspens were fluorescent, the trails sparse and loamy, and the cool crisp smell of falling leaves was in the air. Today was the epitome of Utah fall mountain biking.

View more fall mountain biking biking photos on Flickr or Instagram.

Make sure people can see your work online, but even more importantly: write! Make sure people can read evidence of your thought process. It’s not enough to show the work; you need to describe the problem at hand and how you went about solving it. When I’m interviewing designers, the work gets you in the door, but it’s your mouth that gets you hired.

Designer and author Mike Monteiro from .Net Magazine. Via Austin Kleon.

A little something I made this weekend. Visit Romney Ipsum to generate your own Mitt-sense.

Humans want to create lots of cool stuff. Then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

MailChimp co-founder Ben Chestnut from Creative Mornings.

Instagram is not just for hipsters anymore. It’s remarkably user-friendly, lightening-quick, (essential for mobile-experiences) and offers a candid glance into our daily routines and habits. Shitty, retro-grain photo-filters aside, Instagram is one of my favorite apps, and as such, incorporating my Instagram feed into my WordPress site was a must. Like most things WordPress, there’s a plugin for that, and with the Instagrate for WordPress plugin, importing my photo-feed was painless and easy.

Instagrate’s developer offers both a free, as well as a premium version of the plugin, Instagrate Pro. After initially using the free version, I decided to upgrade to Instagrate Pro for $35 which adds some advanced functionality. For instance, with the pro version you can set the plugin to post hourly, daily, or weekly, as well as import images from multiple feeds and hashtags. There are still a few kinks to be worked out, but if you’re looking for a relatively foolproof way to display your Instagram feed on your WordPress blog, I’d highly recommend the Instagrate for WordPress plugin.

Hank Williams would have turned 89 today. Most don’t realize the impact Williams had on popular music in his brief life before an untimely death. As a child, my grandma used to sing me Hank Williams on her lap.

Above is an excellent video of letterer and designer Jon Contino at work. Jon’s been killing it for a while now, and here he unveils his secret – an unrelenting work ethic.

Fall is in the air which means the snow will by flying before you know it. Take this moment to support your favorite ski-bum designer and buy some Church of Powder Day Saints merch. In celebration of the cooler temps, use coupon code “FALLSPECIAL” to take 15% off your order. Order here >

Lastly, Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala have a single out off their upcoming release, Lonerism. The track is titled Elephant and is heavily bathed in some sun-soaked, 60’s psychedelia. Lonerism is scheduled for release on October 5, 2012.