December 2009
22 posts
Avett Brothers, Ten Thousand Words
Listened to...
There are times when planning is bad. College, careers, writing, phone calls, dates, family & old-friend gatherings are all over-planned.
But one cannot plan enough for groceries. This is why I have only Skippy peanut butter and really good olives for lunch.
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Some thoughts on Avatar
Yes, the story is mostly crap (Disney’s Pocahontas in space, I think has been said) but the visuals are excellent. I’m interested in the potential of 3D — especially now that it appears more and more of it will be shoved in front of us film goers — and I noticed the following:
Wide-angle shots work well.
I predicted this back when I saw My Bloody Valentine in 3D, in...
No more dust jackets.
Wikipedia:
Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all dust jackets were discarded at or soon after purchase. Many were probably discarded in bookstores as the books were put out for display, or when they were sold; there is evidence that this was common practice in England until World War I.
It is flimsy, cheap, often ugly and littered with useless or possibly malicious copy. Just now,...
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I’ve been playing with Typekit, and marveling at the beautiful fonts available. (FF Meta Web, for instance.) If you’re interested, the pros and cons of Typekit are discussed in detail at i love typography’s review.
But wow — there’s a huge difference in rendering across browsers and platforms. And no wonder: take Tim Brown’s essay at A List Apart and his...
Elizabeth Cotten, I’m Going Away
Love her...
“At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn’t imagine...”
– David Sedaris (via bobulate)
“Paragraphs do not occur in nature.”
– Ellen Lupton
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“Being asked to give my favorite ten photographers is about as difficult as...”
– Nobuyoshi Araki. A bit of an extraterrestrial.
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“The boundary between Self and Environment is a social con[struct]. In Western...”
– From Charlene’s beard thesis.
“In earlier days it was kings and deities whose agents demanded that their names...”
– The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
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