Like-Love is up!
You're thrilled. I know. I know. But contain yourself. Focus.
Took a walk last night. I have always admired the way the street lights hit their neighboring trees and have been threatening to shoot them for years now. It was not an empty threat!
"Simple is never easy when the result must be quality."-Gina Kay
"The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
-W.B. Yeats "The Second Coming"
Thanks James
And if you are looking for something to wiki, the entry for this poem is excellent.
& Thanks Jeannius
So I have a pantone book that gives the hex formula. More importantly it hightlights the most vivid colors for for web(hex formula). Usually when I am choosing colors for a print piece, I take the PANTONE book to the window to view. The natural light reveals the actually color intented. I wonder, now, how much this matters. How many people are going to pull your business card out to call you while they are outside versus inside...with flourecent lighting to boot?! Not many.
Anyway, I almost took the PANTONE color bridge coated™ book over to the window. Silly me. I mean, some of you probably get a little natural light in your work space but I am guessing that for most of you its a least a mix.
The bottom line is that there is no certainty in web colors. Everyones got different monitors, different resolutions settings and different lighting sources.
This really bothers me because I love color and I want to control it to some extent. Even if you don't like my chosen colors, I'd like to know that you don't like the exact colors that I chose. That way we can be sure that you have bad taste ;)
Anyway, I watched Eraserhead by David Lynch this weekend. The DVD guides you through television brightness and contrast corrections before you even get to the menu. I loved this and followed the instructions to a T. It was very much like calibrating your monitor under Mac supervision. Brightness turned all the way down. Max contrast. Bring brightness back up until you can "barely see" the provided image on screen.
The little sprouts are basil... I think. I don't know what the tall one is.
This weekend was fairly relaxing. I will be posting the fruits of my labor soon. Otherwise, I took it easy.
For those of you who don't know about the Giglio Boy estate, allow me to explain. This is their club house is near my subway stop in Brooklyn. The house itself looks Floridian and the inside, my peek into the foyer at least, is hunter green with sport memorabilia and framed photos on the walls.
The men sit outside with their lawn chairs on the sidewalk during the summer and smoke cigars. They are always polite and sound just like the characters on the Sapronos.
Every holiday they decorate. I mean, they really go all out. Its pretty impressive.
I walked by this morning and saw this:
You guyyyyys *shaking my head*
Sherilyn Fenn as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks
Rachel Weisz stars in Wong Kar-Wai's "My Blueberry Nights
Don't be fooled. That is the look of shame not cuteness.
Reference Library.
I want to repost everything I see on there and tell you how interesting I think it is but that is quite lame. Andy has a mighty culling power that is of its own. Respect.
Delightful. This is true design. Functional. Elegant.
Dainippon Type Organization makes letter fragments that construct both English and Japanese letter forms.
Thanks to Libby via Everyone Forever via Design Tide
O-0-0-kA-a-aeee, they are starting to poke through. I had to plant more thyme and basil because the original sprouts didn't take. A week or so ago I threw in some caraway seeds and sweet potato spuds. So now I really don't know what's what in all the pots. I guess we will just have to wait to find out!
I do know that this is mint.
... and this is chives.
It is this truism, and countless others, that I base my life upon.
For instance, yesterday I did not try to make a large pot for my friend's birthday.
I did, however, make.... this:
The tiny hanging pot which now contains caraway seeds survived.
Speaking of doing, Kristan Horton just finished a series of photographs called Dr. Stangelove Dr. Strangelove. He watch the Kubric movie over 700 times before completing the project, where he recreates scenes from the movie using everyday materials.
The radar stove is my favorite but they are all so good.... no wait! ok. its the popcorn explosion. Found out about this via The Morning News.
So if I haven't mentioned this already,
Hollywood gets on my nerves for two reasons.
I really enjoying seeing work that blurs the line between art and design(typography).
On Kawara.
Diligent, Good craft. I admire that.
Ed Ruscha. The poet painter of pop art. My favorite of his typography is the style below found in Lisp. You can see a few more here.
And my new crush...
Tauba Auerbach.
She is nothing short of amazing.
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I just lifted the following from here:
Tauba Auerbach’s work deals with the shortcomings and possibilities of language. Her work approaches language as a technology, a system of symbols by which the internal complexities of a person’s mind, body and general self are converted into an external, transmittable form. Implied in her work is the notion that this conversion process is inexact. Her focus on language is a focus on the space between individuals, the gap they attempt to cross to meet one another intellectually and emotionally, and the nature of the tools they use to do so. Her analysis includes a substantive examination of words, and a deep formal meditation on individual letters. “I feel as though I know each letter intimately—its shortcomings and its tendencies. I feel close to them.” Overall, her work attempts to present a more complicated and flexible version of reality than language customarily allows. In her first ever solo show, Auerbach’s musings on language and letters will take the form of large-scale, ink on paper drawings, as well as a chandelier and wall painting in the gallery’s smaller project space.
Twenty-three year old Auerbach lives in San Francisco and works as a sign painter. While she is a native to the Bay Area, her work represents a break from the Mission School with its sparse precision and a clean, Zen-like quality that sets her apart from the rest.
