March 2011
2 posts
“I’m right more often than I’m wrong, but I’m not wrong...”
February 2011
3 posts
MBTA Aural Geography
While riding the T yesterday I had this idea for a project when the, assumably, automatic recording came on to inform me I was pulling into Harvard Station, although since I was on the T it would then stop in the tunnel, wait for five minutes, and then travel the only one-hundred more feet to the actual platform.
This announcement reminded me of the heraldic one I heard before the train arrived...
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
1 post
“Think about the best restaurant meal you’ve ever eaten. Who should you thank for...”
– Doug Muder, The Weekly Sift (via kevin)
August 2010
1 post
“The posthuman is merely the subhuman that results whenever people aspire to the...”
– Garret Keizer, ’Why dogs go after mail carriers”, Harpers September 2010.
July 2010
1 post
ubuwaits: Who's interested in startups in the... →
On any given day, a quick glance at Techcrunch will be proof enough that a large number of entrepreneurs are eager to replicate the success of sites like Twitter, Foursquare, and Groupon by copying their business models and making slight alterations. Not that there is anything wrong with that….
June 2010
2 posts
Pretty Sweet →
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
I consider this a failure for the lack of home... →
May 2010
1 post
This is interesting →
The new Google WebFont API.
April 2010
8 posts
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan. Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed...
“[Design] is not a 10-step recipe for creating a “Super-Awesome Laser Beam...”
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Micheal Kuch - Bookmaker
A few years back I briefly worked with a bookmaker, Micheal Kuch, and his printer/studio mate, Art Larson.
Kuch was a protege of Leonard Baskin’s, a mid-century realist of some acclaim, and the influence certainly shows in his work. While I was helping him we produced a book called “A Sphinx’s Field Guide To Questionable Answers”, which was quite fun, and contained a...
March 2010
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February 2010
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