This is an amazing ad. Make sure you watch it until the end. (Via VSL.)
There’s something strangely alluring about these paintings of chairs. Same thing that makes these bicycle portraits so interesting. It’s all about quantity I guess.
Some of this Early Computer Art looks amazingly similar to another early technology’s experiments: Rayographs.
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Les Savy Fav at the Warsaw last Friday.
It just so happens that a band I’m listening to a lot right now is playing soon in NYC. Thur 9th Feb — Knitting Factory Fri 10th Feb — Fixed Sat 11th Feb — Southpaw Shark-Fin-Blues.mp3 Pitchfork (8.3) Official Web Site Buy CD from InSound (As usual, iTunes and eMusic don’t seem to have it.)
Rick Valicenti is speaking this Wednesday, and you don’t want to miss it. No you don’t. Speaking of things you don’t want to miss, AIGA NY Holiday Sale is this Sunday. It’s time to start your holiday shopping. Boxes-and-Arrows is giving some editorial control to it’s users. Sounds like a great idea to me. Pitchfork has long interview […]
My response to a recent post on Crit blog: The great thing about art is that it shows how completely arbitrary capitalism is. Ed Kienholz (one of my favorite artists) bartered watercolor paintings to make ends meet. If he wanted to buy something for $4 he would paint the words “four dollars” on a sheet of […]
Pitchfork is dead on. I mean, they had me at “Frog Eyes,” but the Arcade Fire/Modest Mouse connection does sound a little too much like an indie rock red giant about to implode into a black hole of hipster backlash. But, to paraphrase, don’t believe the anti-hype. This is a great album. Yes, it could be […]
We saw Sufjan Stevens tonight at the TLA in Philly. The show was pretty much what I expected, but what I wasn’t expecting was the way he pronounced his name. I’ve always assumed it was “Suff-On,” but he definitely said “Soofy-on” which adds a whole syllable and is much more cumbersome. The TLA is a decent […]
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. I am a graphic designer specializing in interactive design, information architecture, user-interface design, and front-end development. I’m currently employed full time as the lead designer for BuzzFeed in New York City.
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