Archive for September, 2007
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
September 28th, 2007Gonna be taking a small break here. Posting will resume later next week.
Book Review: Uncovered
September 27th, 2007You might have seen the work of photographer Thomas Allen floating around the weblogs a few months back — he’s the guy who cuts out and arranges pulpy paperback books from the ’50s in surprising and delightful ways. Now some of his work has been collected in a new monograph, Uncovered: Photographs by Thomas Allen. […]
Manga Carta
September 26th, 2007I had a bit of a deja vu moment while paging through the Geekipedia supplement of the latest Wired magazine. To illustrate the section on manga comics, they scanned a detail from the cover of the 28th and final Rurouni Kenshin volume — which I designed! I am so intimately acquainted with that artwork that […]
Two VERY Lovely Girls
September 24th, 2007Holy pork chops and applesauce! Apparently there was a scorching internet rumor going around last week that, in her forthcoming memoir, Maureen McCormick revealed that she had a brief lesbian tryst with her Brady Bunch co-star Eve Plumb during the show’s production. The story (of a lovely lady) was picked up by such esteemed outlets […]
Horse Mosaic Finished, Yay
September 22nd, 2007Here’s to art projects — even the ones that turn out differently than expected. The ambitious bead mosaic of a horse’s head which I first started last spring is finally finished! Head over to my flickr set to see how the project went along, step by step. Now the big question is how does one […]
Best of Times, Worst of Times
September 22nd, 2007By now you’ve probably heard that the New York Times is discontinuing its Times Select subscription service and opening up their digital archives. The coolest part is the free online access to all of the copyright-free articles the paper published between 1851 and 1922. Although Jason Kottke recently posted links to some of the Times’ […]
Collage Course
September 19th, 2007Artist Brian Dettmer carves into old books, creating wild and complex three dimensional sculptures around the illustrations (via Design Observer). These are gorgeous, although the bottom two closely resemble some of the termite-ridden stuff we’ve fished out of our garage.
Ernö Rubik’s Breakfast Nook
September 18th, 2007I kind of like this multicolored floor — real kicky! And you can’t go wrong with Eero Saarinen furnishings. This is actually one of the more subtle interiors from the Your Swingin’ Pad set, assembled by flickr user Miss Retro Modern (via Eye of the Goof).
Book Review: Taking Things Seriously
September 16th, 2007Back when I worked at the local newspaper, one of the things I confiscated for myself was this ancient metal Swingline stapler which appeared to date from the Kennedy/Johnson era. Streamlined in design, heavy as a rock, painted Industrial Tan and covered in years of grime and scotch tape detritus, the stapler was so out […]
Revisiting Twice Upon a Time
September 14th, 2007Looks like our pal Ward Jenkins has done it again with a lengthy examination on the forgotten 1983 animated feature Twice Upon a Time in which he interviews animation expert and Twice superfan Taylor Jenssen. Like Ward, I first came across this movie long ago on VHS after reading something about it somewhere (Premiere magazine […]
Me Japanese Toy I Love You
September 13th, 2007The preview for Japanese videogame Beautiful Katamari (coming to the Xbox and Wii) is so bizarre that I had to watch it three times in a row. Far as I can tell, the game has something to do with rolling a giant ball onto various objects — but I’m too distracted by the Japanese child […]
Peel Me a Grape
September 11th, 2007Another weird thing: every time I hear the name “General Petraeus” on the news it reminds me of Rome, the TV series.
It Made Me Chuckle
September 10th, 2007The Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8.
Things to Watch While Sick
September 5th, 2007Yesterday I came down with a bout of sickness — runs, fever, headaches, icky feelings in my gut. I’m feeling much better now, but have you ever noticed that whenever you’re sick and stuck in front of the TV you’ll pretty much watch anything? Well, almost anything — old episodes of Sesame Street were too […]
So Close, Yet So Far
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Princess Molecule, originally uploaded by agitprop.
Okay, I’m in a bit of a tizzy since I narrowly missed getting a Tim Biskup “Princess Molecule” signed print like the one seen here. One was listed on eBay, but the auction […]
