some ideas

I'm at school waiting on a massive lineup for the plotter so I thought I'd write out a few random ideas I've had floating around that I personally just don't want to forget

-- calendar calendar
-- Something dealing with the way different languages are translated to english, and the ideas that are lost. (think that artist earlier in blog-have to look up-- and david shrigley russian post in "lets wrestle"

--something dealing with xerox transfers and etching medium I learned the other day
--instant books
--printed matter photocopy book proposal--- Max
--book Hilary made with fashion imagery-- remember the size
--what happens to dreams once you stop dreaming
--michael's place in lIC that does cheap offset on newsprint

other stuff too--and I want to flesh things out and find matching imagery. I need to start jotting down everything I keep having good ideas and completely forgetting them.

since

"Since my house burned down, I have had a better view of the sun rising over the horizon"

HIPSTERS

The dead end of Western Civilization





"This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.

Lovers of apathy and irony, hipsters are connected through a global network of blogs and shops that push forth a global vision of fashion-informed aesthetics. Loosely associated with some form of creative output, they attend art parties, take lo-fi pictures with analog cameras, ride their bikes to night clubs and sweat it up at nouveau disco-coke parties. The hipster tends to religiously blog about their daily exploits, usually while leafing through generation-defining magazines like Vice, Another Magazine and Wallpaper. This cursory and stylized lifestyle has made the hipster almost universally loathed. "

for more: here

Personal Views

This is really interesting, I somehow stumbled on it.




Its taking me forever to load anything because of my ridiculously slow connection... but it interviews so many great designers, its awesome.

personal views

Notice

Two funny things I saw today:

On the subway the guy sitting across from me (maybe 27 -33yrs) was completely outfitted in like 1930's 1950's (i'm not sure the era) train conductor gear. His pants, his hat, vest, the works, contrasting with full length tattooed arms. What really made me laugh, was that he sneezed, and pulled out a handkerchief from his upper right vest pocket that looked pretty era specific. He blew his nose into it, then proceeded to immaculately refold the soil cloth and place it back into his pocket. Way to completely invest in your look, man.

Walking back from class, a big disgusting corporate truck roared down 13th street. I hate listening to them, looking at them, whatever. Trucks scare me. This one however, was blasting The Postal Service. Probably as loud as the speakers could get, this dirty ass truck was exploding with one of their most uplifting, tweedle-dee electronica whimsical songs. I literally cracked up.

Fabrica

This is fucking amazing.
How have I never heard of this before?

"Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, was set up in 1994. The fruit of the Group’s cultural legacy, is based in Treviso, Italy in a complex restored and enlarged by Tadao Ando.

Fabrica is not a school, advertising agency or university. It is an applied creativity laboratory, a talent incubator, a studio of sorts in which young, modern artists come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, from design, music and film to photography, publishing and the Internet. These artist-experimenters are accompanied along their research path by leading figures in art and communication, blurring the boundaries of culture and language and transgressing the traditional borders between a diverse range of communication mediums."

David Byrne & Brian Eno

"Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. The name of the new record is Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited.

The album is available exclusively from this Web site. You can stream all of the songs for free and purchase it in a variety of digital and physical formats, including a limited edition Deluxe Package designed by Sagmeister Inc. All formats can be downloaded immediately and physical CDs will be shipped in the Fall.

David Byrne"
everything that happens








Also-- Talking Heads- Nothing but Flowers. Old school type motion

LONDON LONDON

IM IN LONDON, BUGGAHS.

ive been here one day and already so many funny/random things

1. airport: "gum that replaces toothpaste! Chew on piece, and will clean your mouth!"
-- Child on a leash.
2. kid blasting eminem music on his phone to entertain an infant
3. i think "I wish there were promoters to get me in free" 30 second later it happens
--i think "i really need a hair iron after mine sizzled in the outlet" 30 s later "iron half off!"
--I think "i need a cell phone" 30 s later, virgin mobile appears.
4. ate dinner at "go sushi!" where they have a rotating conveyer belt that you take your food of off
5. boys.
7. lauren accidentally told an 70 year old man to fuck off since apparently a backwards peace sign means fuck you.

all in all, enjoying myself immensely.

Aw

I went into Aerosole in the city the other day to get some shoes, and this cool looking guy apparently follows me inside, stops me and goes "I'm sorry, I had to come in here to tell you that you are absolutely beautiful" and walks out of the store. How sweet!

I've been preparing for London-- I can't wait. really tho. I'm so nervous. I don't whats going to happen while I'm there... I feel like I'm been slapped with the "go crazy" stick. FIVE DAYS. AHHHHHH

but anyways: some print work from English design firm, Tomato

New York, New York

I realized I haven't been taking pictures of my summer in New York at all. But its been SO FUN.

I just saw Death Cab for Cutie live in Mccaren Park Pool.... which was AMAZING! it was really one of the best times i've seen them, except that before it ended the scariest fucking thunderstorm of my entire life ensued. I couldnt decide which doom was worse-- walking in two inches of water on a concrete sidewalk next to giant trees or walking in 2 inches of water through a wide open giant park to get home.

I just realized thats there's nothing else I can mention on my very public blog. But I remember thinking that I'm going to want to die when I get back from London because it'll be 10x better than my life in NY, But really-- I feel I have a great August to look forward to when I get back. And it'll be wonderful.

Neat-

So my friend just taught me this nifty little trick on macs.

hold down the three buttons next to the space bar and then click 8.

WHOA!


before





after!!