I love the part of my job involving color selection.
Eye Colour Test/Gay by Daniel Eatock
I just got Contemporary Graphic Design by Taschen which has a terrible cover design and seems to be perfect bound via glue stick but whatevs, its a good reference of designers and was only 15 bucks.
visually pleasing
Went to see Joan River: A Piece of Work last night. Its good, not great. Not as funny as I thought it would be but she def a character.
aaaahaha good stuff.
Read it here at McSweeney's
"Enough of this bullshit. I'm gonna go get hammered with Papyrus. " -Comic Sans
That's right. David Byrne's talk on how architecture helped music evolve from last February was posted on TED today
Based on the life and work of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima (pen name)
Directed by Paul Schrader and written by Paul and his brother Leonard Schrader. The film features original music by Philip Glass and performances by the Kronos Quartet. (1985) You can watch it instantly on Netflix. More stills here
I am going to Eye Candy: Science, Sight & Art at the World Science Festival tomorrow which will examine biological principles that drive art appeal.
I also might try to go to Icarus at the Edge of Time which is a 40 min film accompanied by a 62 piece orchestral work (one original piece by Philip Glass). Narrated by Liev Schreiber
New for me at least. And some gratuitous cat shots. I've been trying to spruce up the joint. Its been fun. More photos here
Last Weeks Interestings recently posted about Lucky Me Mixtapes. Go download the podcast. Its funky.
Speaking of funky, I am reading Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante. In a short story called I Thought I Heard Buddy Boldon Say, Sante describes how the word funky came to be popular - eventually leading to a type of music. Highly recommend. The way he uses words describes more than the words themselves or maybe its just his command of the language....
INT also posted about The Mixtape Club
The past year has been a little hectic, hence the lack of posts. I am currently doing some much needed recharging. There is so much that I want to talk to you about but we're going to take some baby steps. I recently went up near Montpelier, Vermont to visit a friend who is building a self-sustainable home. He has built an outhouse, revitalized an old cabin you'll see below, made gorgeous wooden lawn chairs, planted an orchard, preserved a bog.... you get the point. After my own year of balls-out work to rebrand a somewhat massive computer company(obvious not alone), this visit really put things in perspective. I don't really know what this means but I hope the impact will be significant.
4 of us stayed in this wonderful little cabin
This last photo is sadly out of focus but I didn't feel like taking it again. These are various mosses and fungi I collected from the trip. They will nicely compliment the collection from my visit to Ashland, Oregon.
