1. Handtrucks and furniture dollies are God’s gift to man.
2. Moving at a leisurely pace is non-stressful, especially with a strong breeze.
3. Moving to a new apartment in Boston on Friday, August 31 is most likely infinitely more desirable than moving to a new apartment in Boston on Saturday, September 1.
4. My wife is a packing/cleaning genius.
5. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are still the best mid-move snack.

London landmarks illustrated with type from designer/illustrator Oscar Wilson for the Visit London advertising campaign.

Advancement is a cultural condition in which an Advanced individual—i.e., a true genius—creates a piece of art that 99 percent of the population perceives to be bad. However, this is not because the work itself is flawed; this is because most consumers are not Advanced.

Now, don’t assume this means that everything terrible is awesome, or vice versa; that contrarianism has no place in Advancement theory. The key to Advancement is that Advanced artists a) do not do what is expected of them but also b) do not do the opposite of what is expected of them.
— Chuck Klosterman, Real Genius: An introduction to the highly advanced theory of Advancement

This is the best article/essay I’ve read on the internet in six months.

Zach Klein and his lady friend Courtney have a Vimeo-based cooking show called Copy & Taste (clever domain naming). The Blankenships are currently learning to cook, too, so new recipes are always welcomed.

Do not be fooled by the first 40 seconds. This video is an amazing feat of human ingenuity, practice, timing, and awesomeness. It is harder, better, faster, and stronger.

Trucker lingo. Atlanta’s nickname is so wrong only truckers could get away with it. Why does language fascinate me so?

So someone has written a WordPress plugin that detects Mobile Safari and then serves up a iPhone-specific style theme. Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose of the fact that Mobile Safari is a full browser?

Drummer Jojo Mayer pulls in styles like jazz and electronica’s drum and bass to create something technically-proficient and really fascinating. He describes it as an “endeavor in reverse engineering the textures and rhythms of the current stream of computer generated music into a live performed, improvisational format.” I just like watching him play.

Tip of the hat to Caleb for introducing me to Jojo.

If you’re a Costco member, you can get a $50 iTunes gift card for $45. For those of you who might be bad at math, that’s 10% off your music purchasing. (And for the math geniuses, it’s still 10% off.)

Lovely portfolio of illustration and design from Adam Cruickskank. I really like the variety of styles, typography, and, of course, yetis.

Illustrator Steven Harrington has a store called You & I with a few screen-printed posters and goodies. I love his style. It’s whimsical and feels like the 70′s, but still fresh.

I just got wind of the upcoming book Seven Hundred Penguins, a collection of book jacket designs from the famed book publisher spanning 1935 to present.

[ba-cn] — noun

1. notifications, newsletters, updates, etc. that you sign up to receive via email
2. email you want, but not right now
3. email notifications that are somewhere between spam and personal email: Between Twitter, Flickr, and Virb, my inbox is full of bacn.

[Origin: 2007, coined via PodCamp Pittsburgh conversations]

Pretty illustration work from Evgeny Kiselev.

Fantastic motion graphics reel from Onesize. The audio/sound design is equally impressive from Run Silent. (via avclub on Twitter)

Speaking of Threadless, they’re having a $10 t-shirt back to school sale through next Monday. Clothe yourself.

The SkinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness (and other cool stuff) 45 minute presentation from the Threadless founders. Stellar, and without a hint of cynicism. I love this company.

How to fold an origmai t-shirt from a dollar bill. This might save your life one day. (I have no paperwork to back up that claim.)

You can explore the sky in Google Earth now.

I walked around with my camera waiting for things to happen – cliches, incidents – I leave it open. I am only partly conscious of what’s going on – there’s always more than what I expect, or less than what I hope. The instant where things occur is serendipity.

The main exhibit at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art right now is a massive collection of Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s photography. I was struck by his fantastic use of lighting in most of his work, especially the series of street photographs where “DiCorcia attached an elaborate system of strobe lights to construction scaffolding, and aimed them and his camera toward a fixed point on the the sidewalk [and] from 20 feet away, he operated the camera’s shutter and the lights, collecting images of passers-by.” The subjects are thus lit against a mostly black backdrop, which makes for fascinating portraits of daily street life.

Some conversation ensued while we were viewing the images about the laws governing the use of a person’s likeness in such photographs without their permission/knowledge. And oddly enough, one of DiCorcia’s subjects sued him for exactly that reason.

2005′s Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia pitted the photographer against retired diamond merchant Erno Nussenzweig with Nussenzweig claiming the photo violated his privacy rights under New York’s Civil Rights Law, which prohibits the use of a person’s likeness, without consent, “for advertising or for purposes of trade.”

Despite the fact that DiCorcia sold ten original edition prints of the photograph for $20,000-30,000 each, the court ruled in favor of DiCorcia and the gallery that initially showed the photographs, saying that the defendants’ uses of Nussenzweig’s likeness were not commercial – this was artistic expression (and therefor protected by the 1st Amendment.)

It’s interesting to me that the court is deciding/defining what constitutes “art.”

The fine print: many thanks to the ICA, Joseph, Mrs. Blankenship, and Wikipedia for helping me think through this.

Miss Teen South Carolina is representing my home state so well.