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February 6, 2010

Procrastination by Johnny Kelly

This is really amazing.  Love the mix of hand-drawn, digital, and stop-motion animation.  Also, it’s way more colorful than the thumbnail would lead you to believe.

(via rgrjnr)

Nice Nice “Everything Falling Apart” (buy  me)

Video by Yoshi Sodeoka. I wrote a bunch of stuff about how much I love Nice Nice here.

(via yacht)

February 5, 2010

“This week, we invite you to bring an article of bad news from a newspaper near you. They are not hard to find, I’m sure you can quickly find one about the economy, health care, hunger, food security, etc. We’re going to take that bad news and after sheet mulching it into soil it will become good news.”

Chris Burley, Hayes Valley Farm

So yeah, pretty stoked about this new urban farm starting up two blocks from my apartment.  Seems like they’ve got the right idea.

Vanishing Point by Bonsajo

Really nice.

Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Some very right-on thoughts on the iPad, geeks, and everyone else.

Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Failure of Empathy

As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access.

Some very right-on thoughts on the iPad, geeks, and everyone else.

February 4, 2010

Paul Octavious - Same Hill, Different Day For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play. This is wonderful.  Paul is also guest designer for this foodie set on Pictory, which, yes, will totally make you hungry.

Paul Octavious - Same Hill, Different Day

For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.

This is wonderful.  Paul is also guest designer for this foodie set on Pictory, which, yes, will totally make you hungry.

February 3, 2010

Studio Visit →

Welcome to Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios.

Very cool idea, and I’m liking the clean, simple implementation.

January 29, 2010

Stuff We Really Like by Music (via Creative Review)

Stuff We Really Like by Music (via Creative Review)

“If anything you could argue we’re better A&R people than journalists, but it’s possible that’s all readers want from a pub these days anyway.”

Scott Plagenhoef

Assuming you care about Pitchfork and/or the kind of music Pitchfork covers (I’ll avoid stepping into the “indie” semantic dog poo), I highly recommend clicking through on the link above.  Scott is considered and thoughtful, as always.

January 26, 2010

Animated clip by Andy Rementer, made for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon.  I always enjoy this guy.  Especially love the broccoli pits. And speaking of Mr. Rementer, if you haven’t gotten into Techno Tuesday, you totally should.  Some of the most on point (and, er, slightly depressing) commentary on digital living I’ve seen, regardless of medium, period. (via Creative Review)

January 22, 2010

“It seems like each medium has a different degree of refinement, and the trick is to honor that. Fiction is the most refined; it’s like working with a watchmaker’s tiny tools. Then I switch over to a script, and it feels like I have big clumsy gloves on, but clumsy gloves are good for symbolic movement. And then art—that’s like no hands at all—is just letting mystery stay inarticulate. Which is its own kind of precision when it works.”

Miranda July

January 17, 2010

This will brighten your day. In honor of Los Angeles and Southern California, where I’m currently hanging out for the weekend.

January 16, 2010

Just hanging with Will Oldham at the Getty.

Just hanging with Will Oldham at the Getty.

January 13, 2010

“You cannot not communicate. Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because behaviour does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behaviour), it is not possible not to communicate.”

Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of Communication

(via 52 Weeks of UX)