Most of the time google-ing oneself is a gratuitous time waster, but sometimes it proves to be fruitful.
Take this as an example. I googled myself to see what came up in the image section and found my beautiful business cards done by MICA soon–to–be senior Aron Fay featured on a few blogs, one of them being Card Nerd.
Take a gander:
A friend from graduate school sent this out this morning. Great read.
“The real culprit, originating in the 19th century, is bourgeois propriety. As respectability became the central middle-class value, censorship and repression became the norm. Victorian prudery ended the humorous sexual candor of both men and women during the agrarian era, a ribaldry chronicled from Shakespeare’s plays to the 18th-century novel. The priggish 1950s, which erased the liberated flappers of the Jazz Age from cultural memory, were simply a return to the norm.
Only the diffuse New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices, has preserved the radical vision of the modern sexual revolution. But concrete power resides in America’s careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.”
I still hate the name, but I’m coming around to the idea.
This interview with Wired’s Creative Director, Scott Dadich shows great insight into why printed publications need to begin designing for the tablet device.
welcome to the future.
http://nytimes-roulette.appspot.com/
Chat roulette for the newsie in all of us.
I have no method-to-my-madness for reading online news, but it usually involves a four year old mentality of clicking on the nearest shiny object. I would like to think of myself as an intrigued reader of the various political issues and I do my fair share of duty-reading (ie the latest on health care reform, Afghanistan, etc.), but without the tactile paper artifact in my hand I fall victim to my ADD.
Enter news roulette. The ultimate way to satisfy the four year old and seeker of knowledge in all of us. It’s so nice to get out of the rhythm of going straight to the art+design section or feeling guilty about clicking on the fun image just to the right of the article about the new asshole stealing our money.
Sometimes timing is perfect. I was driving home last night and pulled up along the above downtown Baltimore (now defunct) club “Bedrock” when my favorite guilty pleasure song came on my favorite guilty pleasure radio station. Awesome.
I think this graphical breakdown of Baltimore is extremely informative as well as beeeeutiful.
Having just worked with the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance on their new website, I can appreciate the concise informative solution these maps and charts offer to the viewer.
See a larger view of the chart here.
It seems that Obama is seeking the visual skillzz (that’s right, i put two) of Edward Tufte to help us idiots visualize the way the stimulus money is being spent. Smart move.
Then I came across this 2008-ish diagram. Tufte dissected the iphone interface and if his own experience is in any way congruent with how the next few weeks of my life will be spent then I am, well, screwed.
Read the Newsweek article here and check out smashing for great infographics inspiration.
Not my only project going on at the moment, but one of importance.
The website is going to have several stages, but due to my current schedule it will take a little bit to get it there. Eventually it will provide videos and photo galleries for each exhibition and the content will be managed by the entire gallery and not a select one (me).
Exciting and very fun! Check it out here.
New Article by Bret McCabe in this weeks CityPaper.
“The problem is that in that space between the sink and the tub where a traditional commode should be is a more upright, jet-engine-looking silvery blue contraption lined with something that distressingly looks fleshy and human. Is it a some newfangled kind of washing machine? Or a bidet on steroids?”
song for good weather.
