one day I happened upon my friend johna’s flickr photosteam and noticed these incredible images. beautifully situated inside a curved frame, with some interesting artifacts and weathering, some soft focus around the edges: what are these images? turns out, it is a brilliant method: through the viewfinder photography! take an old press camera (mine is [...]
while on the topic of contests, I am belatedly challenging the precinct to the this american life tshirt contest. I may be submitting something very similar to my corelle plate concept. ha! or might try using this as inspiration for an impulsive photoshoot tomorrow while on a run on old route 10.
Here are the guidelines. [...]
My current commute to visit the nice folks at Modernista! a few days a week has me walking past this at least twice a day. A nice way to not look at the temporary wall of green plywood at 460 Harrison Ave, miniaturized posters of the work sell to benefit ARTcetera (for AIDS Action) at [...]
Is it a new fad, or is it a solution for the reference or morgue file clippings that I have scattered all over my work area (and desktop)? Hello, image bookmarking! Hopefully, this will be the answer to my inquiry two years from now about the great info graphic in the Sunday times magazine (right [...]
At FITC this year I attended a presentation by Patrick Keenan and Alan Smith from The Movement. The presentation was titled “Think Globally, Design Locally” and it was for people who care about design, beauty and functionality but who are also globally aware and want to make a difference.
The presentation as a whole really resonated with me [...]
There are usually only seven or eight people in the world who hear about things after I do, and three of them are in jail. It follows, then, that you have probably already heard about this man who drew a self portrait on the earth by sending a GPS device on a world tour using [...]
new brilliant insights from malcolm gladwell:
video from the New Yorker Conference, talking about hiring difficulties in the modern age.
And in the New Yorker In the Air all about big ideas and where invention comes from. In the history of science, there are innumerable cases of people coming up with the same inventions at the same [...]
I get really excited when I see paper fold patterns, whether or not it is the new open source sewing patterns from burda (which, amazingly enough, print brilliantly on 8.5×11 paper) or the readyMechs from fwis or the mock iPhone on John’s desk. Hermes has jumped into the fun with a free paper fold pattern of their iconic [...]
we made sure to get to new york before design and the elastic mind closed… some of our favorite things:
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fervent spring is making my “research” a bit slapdash, but a nice cushion of time makes for lots to look at (plus, studio mates make good recommendations)! hence, in no particular order:
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looking at the plethora of zines at Quimby’s, it was [...]