April 2010
“I love Red Vines. They’re delicious. Everybody’s red licorice, but I...”
– Andy Warhol
Bobulate: The whooshing sound →
There’s a whooshing sound around the studio. Today marks the last day of the first year of the inaugural class in SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program. Seventeen students have learned, prototyped, researched, ridden, toasted, whiteboarded, presented, stretched, and designed their way through the first year of the new program. Final presentations are this evening that will culminate the year’s...
Hebrew Translations of Latin Logos - Brand New... →
What’s fascinating about this is it just proves that Hebrew (and Arabic, etc) CAN look awesome. But if you go to Israel you will see that pretty much all typography looks the same. Bring on the new Israeli type designers!
Cory Doctorow Verbally Abuses 99-Year-Old iPad... →
“Apparently Ms. Campbell is happy inside Apple’s walled garden,” Doctorow said after being ejected from the Mary’s Woods Retirement Community for haranguing the nonagenarian for a full 45 minutes on the moral imperative of open systems, digital rights and steampunk subculture.
“After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.”
– Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer.” Heavy album.
“When did curate stop meaning, as the OED says, “to look after and preserve” and...”
– The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete)
Kevin Van Aelst →
“The United Nations Gang or Global United Nations Syndicate (GUNS) is a criminal...”
– Aw, how cute.
WatchLovely style, quite unlike anything I’ve seen. Can see a definite Aeon Flux influence here.
“Often I am unsure of the relationship between ‘being’ (or existance)...”
– Mechanical turk worker I paid 10 cents to ponder his mortality
“Contrary to the popular image of the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers of the...”
– List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Gentiles don’t know how to worry.”
– Stanley Kubrick
“Let Stefan Sagmeister publicly share the passages he’s highlighted in the new...”
– Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod
Not really, no.
Summer in Fairfield County, CT 1948-9 →
Waspy people doing waspy things in Connecticut.
Michael C. Maronna →
The older brother from Pete & Pete now works as an electrician on movies. Wait wut?
“Strange? No doubt. Weird to the point of perversity? Absolutely. Tragic...”
– “Sly Stone at Coachella: Train wreck of the year?”
“It is widely believed in popular culture that Red Vines were originally...”
