Archive for November 2006
day 21: more graphic design wankery (as promised)
If you want to be privy to the equivalent of an graphic designer-old-boys club, where we sit around in our leather chairs, smoking cigars and talking about the war, this discussion thread on UnderConsideration.com is priceless. A designer poses this question: Hey, old guys: How has technology actually changed what you do? We hear from…
Read Moreday 20: there’s a plate of homemade wishes on the kitchen window sill
Last night, I went to see my friends Buddy and Gary in Ojai Art Center‘s production of The Crucible. Perfect time for a heartwarming Thanksgiving tale. I have never been prouder to share ancestral blood with these fellow Americans. Oh, quite a play. Quite an intense, histrionic, freakout of a play. I enjoyed this production,…
Read Moreday 19: the dark ages into the renaissance
I do, I do, I do feel so old! I guess it’s a sort of privilege to have fully known graphic design before the advent of the Macintosh. This way, I will be surrounded by adoring youngsters in my dotage, thrilling them with stories of Linotype, Letraset, Bestine, Bernoulli drives and Rubylith! It was a…
Read Moreday 18: lorem ipsum, y’all
Graphic designers (particularly those extra-extra special ones who live on an elevated plane than the rest of us, the ones who are so hip that Communication Arts is toilet paper to their precious asses) are generally full of hot air, and, out of necessity, will perpetuate the mystique of “true design”. Well, hell: good for…
Read MoreProtected: devil’s cake: post 06
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Read Moreday 17: a heartwarming show of unadulterated evil
I must descend from my pink puffy cloud of lists and memes and blankies of love to draw your attention to something queasy. Sorry! There is a show on The Learning Channel called Ten Years Younger. It’s a makeover show where a group of Hollywood exhibitionists called the Glam Squad overhaul a dumpy man or…
Read Moreday 16: yes, i’ve stooped to a meme. YOU try to post every day.
C’mon people! Rally ’round! Add your own! Feign excitement! [thanks to hula 70 for this] if your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be? here’s how it works: open your music library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod) put it on shuffle press play for every question, type the song that’s playing new question–…
Read Moreday 15: show me some love [you can read & you think blogging is nice]
I am halfway through this daily posting project, NaBloPoMo. It hasn’t been too horribly hard, posting every day. It proves I have a lot of pathetic-loner time on my hands. From independently compiled statistics, it looks as though there is a hefty percentage of participants that have failed to post daily. Losers! Ah, ha ha!…
Read Moreday 14: i’m not the only multi-personality who does it
Evany just posted about the the Three Evanys, where she divides her selves into Past, Present and Future Evany. For anyone that has known me and my babble for long enough, you’ll know I often employ this method, too. As in “the tomorrow-me is going to be really happy with the now-me for doing the…
Read Moreday 13: like amuse bouche for the brain
When I was little (3? 4? 5?), when I discovered a new word, I was fond of saying it over and over (while running through the house), feeling the world in my mouth and head. I remember several of those words; you can see I had a preference for DA-duh-duh or duh-DA-duh-duh rhythms: timpani ranunculus…
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