cityofsound: Monocle: design notes Awesome article by Dan Hill on his design/architecture for Monocle’s website. A genuinely inspiring document. (tags: monocle design information-architecture) RIP John Archibald Wheeler A remarkable physicist and, as one of his students said, one of physics’ last superheroes. (tags: science obituary physics) 6,557 Miles To Nowhere | Spin Magazine Online Chuck […]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Another Form Of Networked Backup
I’m currently downloading the first Violent Femmes record off Bittorrent. I’m downloading it (or at least, mentioning that I’m downloading it) because I’ve bought it at least once on cassette and twice on CD and it keeps disappearing. The same is true of The Cure’s Disintegration, which I’ve actually bought at least four times and […]
Quote Of The Day
We seek the teeth to match our wounds. —Kenneth Tynan, quoted by Peter Gabriel in an interview
S+R out in the world!
My friend Kiva was at an art fair yesterday and “Scatterlings + Refugees” came on the sound system! Which one of y’all did this? You have my gratitude — hearing about this made my day!
Wristcutters
Wristcutters: A Love Story is, as of tonight, one of my new favorite films. It’s about a guy named Zia (Patrick Fugit) who commits suicide because his girlfriend left him. He finds himself in a sort of Purgatory, a broke-down, trashy afterlife for suicides. He makes friends with Eugene (Shea Whigham), a Russian singer who […]
Album Cover Comp 1
This is my first comp design for the album cover. I dig this, but I’m going to explore other ideas. (The text is more readable when it’s printed.)
New Track – "Terminal Island"
Here’s a new instrumental track for your background listening pleasure, “Terminal Island”. It’s kind of me trying to do Trentemoller/Burial sort of ambient stuff. The melody lines are algorithmically generated and then looped. It’s a nice little atmospheric piece, named after the island in Long Beach Harbor near where I used to live. I have […]
Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere
I friggin’ love Improv Everywhere. This is hilarious and sweet and amazing.
Sweeney Todd
Capsule review: I fuckin’ hate musicals, but I really liked this one. Reminded me of Brecht. Helena Bonham Carter is still goth hot after all these years. Johnny Depp singing in a Cockney accent is rad. Extremely bloody. Worth watching.
Me and Seana @ First Friday
God, I hate pictures of myself. My head always looks six times larger than in real life. (picture from Mojo Republik)