Dear Adobe, we have some problems and a group of us have been kind enough to compile them all for you. 0 Comments
Wanted: Person willing to be arch-nemesis over next six months, will pay $350 up front for services (via) 0 Comments
Repo Man: “This Is A Great Economy”
BY Joshua Hynes ON Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Scott O’Brien, who hales from Harrisburg, PA — yes the very same one yours truly works in as well — was featured last night on Comedy Central‘s The Colbert Report, talking about how this economy is great. When talking about Bush, O’Brien stated “I’m going to miss Bush when Bush gets out of office. I don’t know what we’re going to do. But I’m speaking for all Repo Men: Bush, we’re going to miss you, buddy. For real.” You can read more here or you can watch the clip yourself below.
Bravo Scott. Bravo. I feel so much better now about living in Harrisburg.
It appears that recently Jay-Z took offense to Brit-Rock's Oasis' disapproving comments on the rap icon headlining the "rock-oriented" Glastonbury Festival. In retaliation Jay-Z mocked Oasis' song "Wonderwall" by singing off-key and mimicking the guitar solo according to reports. So how do you resolve this? You let the DJs duke it out with your mixes, which they have, and we're left with the mashup OJayZis: Jay-Z Vs. Oasis. 0 Comments
Burj Dubai Is Reaching To The Sky
BY Joshua Hynes ON Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 9:14 am
I thought about just posting a link to the image below, but the Burj Dubai skyscraper is just so mind-boggling I thought I’d go ahead and post the image here. The tower, expected to be completed by this time next year, was started in 2005; and even in its current incomplete status, according to Wikipedia, is the tallest man-made structure in the world. The expected height of the tower is unknown, but guesses range from 2,297 to 2,684 ft with 162 inhabitable floors. The top floor will be at least 2,087 ft up. Think about that. Almost half a mile above ground and the earth’s atmosphere is only between 5-11 miles thick. Crazy.
The Slow and Self-Obsessed Are Our Artists Now (Banksy)
BY Joshua Hynes ON Wednesday, August 27, 2008 @ 9:18 am
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Banksy
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Danny Jones Updates YouAreSoLastYear With Amazing Design Goodness
BY Joshua Hynes ON Tuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
Danny Jones just updated his website YouAreSoLastYear, with some amazing work, illustrations and excellent type choices. Seriously Danny - I commend you on a job well done. I can only hope there’s an actual physical book that corresponds with this and is even more amazing in its perfect-bound self. Cheers. (via)
Yearbook Yourself
BY Joshua Hynes ON Tuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Friend J.R. Caines pointed me toward a humorous little website this morning that is in the vein of Elf Yourself, just without all the dancing. So if you’re in the mood for some self-depreciating humor, check out Yearbook Yourself, and let laughter ensue as you take a look at what your yearbook photo might have looked like in 1958, 1964 or 1978 (among other evenly spaced years). Above you’ll find yearbook photos for years 1974, 1984, 1988 and 2000 respectively.
A Texas-Sized Upgrade
BY Joshua Hynes ON Tuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 9:11 am
I love the many infographics that Wired puts together every month and this month’s issue on the new Dallas Cowboys stadium is quite fascinating. Check it out for yourself.
The Dark Side of New Stadium Deals
BY Joshua Hynes ON Tuesday, August 26, 2008 @ 8:57 am
The Giants’ Mara offered a blunt lesson in market-driven economics on WFAN radio this month. “We have 130,000 people on our waiting list,” he said. “We could charge anything and still fill the stadium.”
Richard Sandomir
New Stadiums: Prices, and Outrage, Escalate (August 25, 2008, NYTimes.com)
Setting Goals Is A Dangerous Business
BY Joshua Hynes ON Monday, August 25, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
Setting goals is a common action among most people in the world today. Some of our goals could be short like paying this bill or making it through this time period today. Others still could be loftier ones such as reading so many books or watching so many movies within, again, a certain time period. Some goals though are abandoned. They aren’t placed on the back-burner for any particular reason sometimes, though there are definitely moments when certainly they must be abandoned for a number of reasons. No, the goals I’ve thinking about are the ones we abandon because we lacked the courage to carry them out a certain moment in our lives and then are paralyzed in fear to ever act in the way we should to meet our goal for fear of the unknown. Eventually time wears on and for a time the memory of our goal dulls in our mind; yet there are moments when something small, an insignificant thing, causes it to come back singularly to the forefront.
And we stand there and think to ourselves, ‘Hello goal. My… I thought I had forgotten about you.’ And we turn the goal once again over in our minds, picking it back up, weighing out the possibility of possibly taking it up once again. Yet there’s hesitation. The doubts you left around that goal are still there, just as vivid. The questions start once again; only now—now there’s more to think about. You have a sense of stability now. Do you want to throw that away? Your position is known now and you’ve worked so long to get where you’re at, do you really want to start over? You’ve established yourself within a certain area, near family and friends. Do you want to move away from that? Slowly the goal loses its luster within a cloud of “what-if’s”, hesitations and fears that lurk ever around this thought.
Still though, you consider your goal and you wonder what your life would be like if you finally went after this one goal you had all along? You realize that maybe all your searching for purpose within the various activities you do might just be an underlying desire to do that which you wanted to do from the beginning, but were afraid of doing. What should you do?
What will you do?
To the person who created a weblog totally dedicated to cake decorating wrecks: thank you. That was 30 minutes of absolute delight. Hilarity ensues with posts like this, this, this and this. 0 Comments
Think you know movie posters? Then try out this quiz where you're given only one letter to guess the proper movie. I was only able to get 14 of the 46. 1 Comment
Farhad Manjoo offers a humorous, but informative, look at thwarting those pesky inkjet and laser printer ink cartridge warnings. 0 Comments
A pair of grammar vigilantes have been recently sentenced to probation and banned from all national parks for a year for defacing a hand-painted sign in the Grand Canyon National Park that had a few grammar and misspelling errors. How did they get caught? They wrote about it online. Whoops. 0 Comments
Abrams’ Newcomer Fringe Looks Interesting
BY Joshua Hynes ON Thursday, August 21, 2008 @ 9:50 am
With Labor Day weekend less two weeks away, the fall TV season is just around the corner. Most of this year’s shows I will more than likely pass on, yet one show has piqued my interest: J.J. Abrams‘ Fringe on FOX. Seeing that we’ll have to wait until February before we can start enjoying new episodes of Lost again, this new show might fill that “Abrams’-suspense-drama” void in the interim. All of the show promos that I’ve seen remind me of the The X-Files, yet I’m hoping that Abrams’ takes that idea and pushes it into new territory vs. the trodden Cris Carter pathways of yesteryear. With the success of Cloverfield recently and a resurgence in the Lost story-line, I’m optimistic. Above is one of the many recently issued promo posters for the show, focusing on the cast versus the premise this time.
It's already the end of August, but yesterday's post on Functional Landscapes: Planting for Purpose & Function over at Re-Nest should give you plenty ideas as you begin to plan your growing plans for next year. As a side-note, I'm loving this newly discovered blog of Re-Nest as well as its sister site Apartment Therapy. 0 Comments
Insulting People Never Looked So Good
BY Joshua Hynes ON Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
For the passive aggressive person out there who wants to let people know what they’re thinking, but in a properly illustrated manner, then Shine Box Print has this amazing booklet called Unmentionables. And only clocking in at $6, it might be something I grab next month. Maybe. If I remember. Generally I’m really bad about remembering things like this.
Anyone who's interested in designing UI and Apps for Apple's iPhone, then here's a pre-built Photoshop file. 0 Comments
Magnum Photos has the best team of photographers ever assembled. Period. So when Cameron sent me a link to "Today's Pictures" - a new set of photos each day from Magnum photographers with a different theme - I was hooked. This will easily be a daily habit. 0 Comments
Steven Heller On The Lasting Icon of Mao
BY Joshua Hynes ON Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
When Germany was defeated in 1945, the Allies declared Nazi graphics to be contraband. But in China, the Communists remained in charge, and the logo, flag, and heroic icons remained in place after Mao’s death. Despite attempts to desecrate the famous Tiananmen placard — in 1989, three men were jailed for throwing black paint during pro-democracy protests, and in 2007, another man attempted to set it ablaze — Mao’s status as a graphic icon has outlasted the leading early- and mid-20th century dictators, continuing into the 21st century if only as a branding alternative to the Chinese panda.
Steven Heller
Designs On Power (August 10, 2008, LATimes.com)
The New York Times has released a great olympic medal interactive map, allowing you to not all see this year's Olympics but all previous 28 as well. I heart NY Times infographics. (via) 0 Comments
Marvin Gaye Sings The National Anthem
BY Joshua Hynes ON Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
This has to be one of the coolest national anthem renditions I’ve ever heard. Leave it to Marvin to bring it.
China Harasses and Detains Those Who Seek Protest Approval
BY Joshua Hynes ON Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Indeed, a few Chinese who followed the process to apply for a protest permit are now either missing or detained. Others have been harassed by authorities and sent home without getting approval.
Jill Drew and Ariana Eunjung Cha
No Permits, No Protests In Beijing's Special 'Pens' (August 15, 2008, Washington Post, Page A14)
Stumbled across an amazing blog this morning from Matthew Buchanan, who hails from Auchland, New Zealand (yes it is that country where they filmed The Lord of the Rings trilogy). If you have a moment, check it out. UPDATE: Also be sure to check out the blog A Print A Day. It's another fascinating weblog where someone puts out some amazing work. 0 Comments