Archive for February, 2008
Don’t buy into the myth that preaching is out. Preaching is only out for those who suck at it.
— Mark Driscoll, Preaching the Mission
Chip Kidd is officially insane (while examining form vs. content.)
Quote, “Here’s a heads up that I’m giving America my 12-month notice and effectively I’m a free agent — that’s right, I’m accepting best offers from any nation soliciting new citizens.”
I’m absolutely (delightfully) enjoying the full album stream of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago on Virb. It’s fantastic office hours headphones music.
In an effort to make my digital life even more portable and accessible, I have a question faithful readers: Bloglines or Google Reader? 1, 2, 3, go!
[Proprietary web content formats are] like writing in sand. You might as well be building sand castles. [Because] the sand castle gets wiped out by the next wave and that’s exactly what will happen to your content when there’s a next wave in devices. [Your content] will get wiped out and just stop working.
— Tantek Çelik discussing the open web in easy-to-understand language
Writer/director David Mamet gave us Glengarry Glen Ross, Spartan, and The Spanish Prisoner — all personal favorites. His gruff, brutal, cynical, stilted-though-perfectly-crafted-and-intentional dialogue is incredibly unique writing. Quote, “In [the Mamet family], in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That’s probably where my ability was honed.”
Mamet’s latest film, the upcoming Red Belt, is on my radar in a big way. Watch the trailer here (I can’t seem to get the embed to work.) Limited release on April 28th.
Updated works from Nessim Higson at I Am Always Hungry.
The CD Cover Meme:
1. quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
3. flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Here’s the original photo by Kent Mercurio.
VaryWell has an incredibly engaging interactive experience (love that 3D feel in 2D space) as well as nice work (love the name, too!)
1. Slipping through sidewalk grates
2. Being found out (yes, it’s that ambiguous)
3. Falling while ice skating, then having multiple digits severed by passing skaters
4. Being fired (I’m just saying that you get gun-shy eventually)
5. Appearing in a public place sans pants
Fullscreen Google Maps from programmer Bret Taylor.
This is the first message series I’ve worked on since coming back on staff at NewSpring. I think our team pulled together a stellar communications package for print and screen. All five bulletins were in circulation at once in the auditorium, which was fun to watch (and hopefully added to the magazine publication feel I was envisioning.)
I handled art direction, copywriting, and design/layout. The photography is courtesy of one of our production designers Will Rodes. Ken Wilson put together the video opener to set it all up nicely (utilizing the haunting Gary Jules cover of Mad World by Tears For Fears). And of course our models were all perfectly morose. Ben Coleman recorded some behind-the-scenes footage during the photoshoot, if you’re into that sort of thing.
For the typography nerds out there, the articles titles are mixed weights of ITC Officina Sans and ITC Officina Serif, highly usable font families for display and body text. All the numbers are set in Stefan’s wonderfully quirky Armchair Modern.
Virb has released an update to VirbTunes that is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard. You can download the newest version here. Thanks, fellas!
The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer makes me giddy. I miss having that theme as my ringtone.
It is amazing how much you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
— Harry S. Truman
Peter Baker continues to take photos I dream of taking in my wildest fantasies. Gorgeous!
Lee McDerment is the #2 musical artist on Virb right now. I have a suspicion that no one else on the list is rocking a Dr. Z Maz 18 Combo. Just a guess.
“Let’s take a trip to Dubai…”
Manmade islands you can see from space? Check. The tallest building on the planet? Affirmative. Sheikh Mohammed and crew are building a modern day Babylon (religious connotations aside) right in the middle of the desert. It’s incredible.
And now they’ve unveiled architectural renderings of the world’s largest, tallest arch bridge. Coming in at $817mil, the one mile long, 670′ tall, 12 lane (+metro rail) bridge should be completed in 2012.
