November 2010
1 post
April 2010
5 posts
Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design →
Great summary and photos.
March 2010
6 posts
Len Deighton on the writing process
I’ve put aside two or three books when they were almost complete. Others I’ve started over again. SS-GB was originally written in the first person, then rewritten in the third person from page one. Goodbye Mickey Mouse was restructured because technical problems came up…I scrapped what I’d written, and started again. -from The Len Deighton Companion. 1987. London: Grafton...
Data Visualisation References from CrisisMaven →
Comprehensive list of data viz pages.
February 2010
2 posts
Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts from LIFE →
An anti-inspirational look at historical bingers.
April 2009
3 posts
January 2009
1 post
December 2008
7 posts
Hypnotizing short films designed by fashionistas. →
Great set of photographs of Camus from the new... →
Especially this one and this one.
Typography of the NYC Subway (from New York Times) →
Describes the cage-match between Standard Medium and Helvetica through the latter half of the century.
November 2008
11 posts
Facial Hair and Presidential Elections →
It’s articles like this that stoke my beard fires once again. 1904 was a good year for the American Moustache (is that a Guess Who song?).
“A writer cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he...”
– Albert Camus
Brilliant Vidal-Stevens dialogue from "The Left...
Tunstall: You might say it's the way some people see things--like looking through a piece of coloured glass--all dark and twisted up.
Billy: Like a whiskey bottle?
Tunstall: Aye...or it might mean a mystery... or something you see that you can't quite make out.
Billy: An enemy.
Tunstall: Or a friend.
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A Long Time Coming
Obama’s election to the most powerful political office in the world marks a sea change in both global and personal politics. It has realized and renewed the potential of the American project.
Obama’s visionary and intelligent campaign refused to devolve into scurrilous arguments and mud-slinging. His victory has transformed the American political climate—the speeches of McCain...
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“Avoid making a commotion, just as you wouldn’t stir up the water before fishing....”
– Henri-Cartier Bresson
October 2008
9 posts
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Sweet Sabbath kicks →
Volume 4 literally at your feet.
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Woodward's gutsy atrium art →
Kudos to the Woodward’s folks for the gutsy choice of atrium art: a Stan Douglas recreation of the 1971 riot in Gastown that saw the police acting like thugs.
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done... →
Looking for a good visual representation of the US Election for a Safari web clip - found it on the FiveThirtyEight site in the left sidebar.
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Audio excerpts from below-mentioned comp →
From the Guardian site.
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The Spoken Word: British Writers and American... →
Looks like an excellent collection of recorded readings and interviews from many authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle and Virginia Wolfe.