Feb 17, 2010 0
Alice is in the title, but the Mad Hatter is getting all the press. The Mad Hatter may be forever known as Johnny Depp. I’ve been watching the trailers and my anticipation for this film is at 18 on a scale of ten. Tim Burton creates the wonderland of my dreams.
Jan 20, 2010 0
Patti Smith makes art in whatever way she can. I wanna sing like Patti Smith. I wanna be like Patti Smith, sorta.
Dec 11, 2009 0
The campaign by John and Yoko Lennon continues again this year with new tools. You can head over to Flickr and find a War is Over (if you want it) poster. There are as many languages as they have been able to manage. If you can help to translate into any of the additional languages give them a hand at www.imaginepeace.com
Or sendin your contributions & refinements to admin [at] IMAGINEPEACE [dot] com
I choose to show Burmese for Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle in Burma.
Peace.
Jul 11, 2009 0
The screen door slams
Mary’s dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that’s me and I want you only
Don’t turn me home again
I just can’t face myself alone again
Don’t run back inside
darling you know just what I’m here for
So you’re scared and you’re thinking
That maybe we ain’t that young anymore
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night
You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright
Oh and that’s alright with me
You can hide ‘neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I’m no hero
That’s understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night’s busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven’s waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it’s late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold
Thunder Road
Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car’s out back
If you’re ready to take that long walk
>From your front porch to my front seat
The door’s open but the ride it ain’t free
And I know you’re lonely
For words that I ain’t spoken
But tonight we’ll be free
All the promises’ll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they’re gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It’s a town full of losers
And I’m pulling out of here to win.
Apr 20, 2009 4
Haven’t you always wanted to walk on water?
I have admired Maya Lin’s work for two decades. The thoughtfulness, the scale, and the amazing balance of the discipline of architecture and the emotional vocabulary are controlled yet create both visceral reactions that then trigger intellectual responses.
Her investigation of water/waves and their distinct states have created internal conversations that have manifest themselves in my hieroglyphics that have come after Egyptian Waters.
I dream of walking on the waters, floating in the space between the waves.
Now I will make the equivalent of a pilgrimage to the Wave Field at Storm King. I will walk on the waves, I will lie and stand between the waves unable to see beyond the lead wave or the following one. I will photograph my point of view. I will capture video of the changing light. I will stand on the waters suspended in time.
THE ARTIST : Maya Lin
THE SPACE : Storm King
EXHIBITION : Wave Field
Tags: art, Storm King, NY, Maya Lin, Sculpture, installation, wave field, water
Apr 7, 2009 0
I knew it, someone would notice this amazing project by Exquisite Letterpress, the shop of my longtime co-conspirator Peter Fraterdeus. Peter and I have known each other since the beginning of time. From his Micetype newsletters in the early days of laser printing Postscript™ technologies, first third party type house to create multiple master fonts, the first online community for designers designonline, first AIGA community online, and his Alphabets foundry — we have experimented with offline and online technologies together.
Ya need to go over and BUY a pack of these cards or better yet print a set of your own design. These are luscious. Amazing amounts of ink coverage on cotton paper. Pleeze! Show some love for letterpress.
Big kudos to Peter! Now he can get ready for our Spring Fling an all-out sprint to print a set of my ink drawings, egyptian waters as a fullsize limited edition and a set of blank notecards. I think he can handle it.
We’re planning an open house event around the printing of these drawings. Details to come.
Please note trademarks on Micetype, Postscript, designonline, Alphabets and any others we may have forgotten to mention.
Tags: letterpress, exquisite letterpress, nytimes, lettra, Igor Kopelnitsky, AIGA, crane paper
Mar 28, 2009 0
Almost tea time.
Really hot for two big pots.
Sometimes ya just have to be lazy. It’s been one heck of a week.
Mar 22, 2009 0
Ok. Soon I will go crazy if I don’t take a trip to friend Peter Fraterdeus’ printshop. Been talking about making letterpress prints of Egyptian Waters for months now. Time to stop talking and head out there on a ROAD TRIP. Will be taking sheets of Rives BFK but will look at printing on some handcrafted sheets too.
About Exquisite Letterpress :
Founder, type director and printer Peter Fraterdeus has been working with letterpress since 7th grade at Nichols Junior High School in Evanston Illinois. “Print Shop” teacher Mr. Huebner would surely never have imagined that forty years later, Peter would be inking up these old Chandler and Price platen presses to produce not just “business cards” but exquisite typography.
Maybe we’ll make some limited edition note cards.
This is a shot of some work Peter did that intrigues me. It has some large areas of color that are exciting.
website:
exquisiteletterpress.com
Tags: letterpress, printing, trip, Exquisite Letterpress, Dubuque
Mar 4, 2009 0
Esa Noche - (Cafe Tacuba)
You shouldn’t have left me that night.
Because that night i found a new love.
you shouldn’t have left me that night.
Because that night i found a new love.
it seemed she was waiting the moment of your departure.
it seemed to have observed my moments with you.
you shouldn’t have left me that night.
Because that night i found a new love.
you shouldn’t have left me that night.
Because that night i found a new love,
who embraced me tightly
as soon as you said good bye to me
It wasn´t a big sadness…
Was a change from less to more
I was waiting for your return, but i saw you so happy
in your lover’s arms you forgot about me.
But now you think about me,
Come back into my arms
I´ll be your lover for ever,
your girlfriend the loneliness.
… and if someday you return to
the One who loves you
You know, will not be the same
because she knew me too
You shouldn’t have left me that night.
Because that night i found a new love
My loneliness I always have belonged to you
My loneliness I always have belonged to you
Oh, my loneliness, I always have belonged to you.
You might want to take a look at this video at the heavybubble blog.
Tags: music, poetry, Frida Kahlo, art
Dec 20, 2008 0
Timbuk2 Bags – Hacker Daypack – Hemp/PET Fabric
Ok, I just had to post this onto my wish list. I need a pack that serves all my needs now that I’m walking to work. The other bags that I have server specific needs. I need a new architecture.
I’m looking for a bag that starts off light when it’s empty. I’m not sure if this fits the bill. Why don’t sites tell you how much the bags weighs empty?
Anyone have any suggestions for a slim backpack with plenty of pen storage space too? I carry lots of writing implements with me all the time.
Tags: backpack, wishlist, perfectbag, laptop
Dec 8, 2008 0
Cookie Recipes | smitten kitchen
This site is so tasty you don’t even have to bake. Just look at these cookies. You can imagine munching each and every one. Even the green tea cookies which look a little bit like a science experiment.
I’m planning on the ice box cookies. I love one basic dough that you add different in nuts or berries and such to make wondrous little nibbles. Cold weather is such an excuse to bake. Turn the oven on and bake for hours with my iPod playing my favorites and a pot of fresh brewed coffee.
Tags: cookies, indulgences, baking, recipes
Oct 3, 2008 0
OK Then. This is Chris Lehmann he is the principal of Science Leadership Academy a PUBLIC school in Philadelphia. He is a friend and an inspiration. At IgnitePhilly you have 5 minutes and 20 slides to tell your story. Chris talks so fast he only needed 4. Watch this video he says it best.
This is the same way we think at Stellarvisions our work is life long kindergarten. Discovery through play that answers the problems we want to solve.
Don’t you wish every school had Chris at the helm? It could if we take his lead and change our system.
Why isn’t every school an MIT media lab?
Tags: education, ignitephilly, philladelphia, schools, school reform” “education 2.0
Aug 24, 2008 0
The first time that the people that made the Bernoulli Box became iomega with removable drives that were all about YOUR STUFF I thought their was some very savvy thinking about the desires or consumers. Then the CD burner came into being and smashed their success in the portable storage marketspace. Well, It looks like Iomega is returning to its old smart self creating a very desirable, very sexy new ego 320 GB hard drive. The reviews I’ve read are very good and the drive is exceptionally good looking.
It reminds me of a flask with something warm inside for when the cold winds blow. Or maybe a cigarette/cigar case — something very personal. The kind of gift you give to someone you are very fond of, something to inscribe.
This is a product with a very interesting emotional connection.
Tags: hardware, hard drive, fire wire, iomega, usb, design, red, desirable
