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I just got a touchdown

A gay storm is brewing

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What would you do if I sang out of tune?

Okie dokie my friends have been busy. If you are:

in Vancouver, BC check out Feed & Seeder Lloyd Wyatt on Friday, April 3. More info here.

in Athens, GA check out Feed & Seeder DJ Other Voices, Other Rooms along with Kevin Lane of Possibilities fame with his new band The Arcs – it's also a 7" release party – as well as another Athens DJ, the inimitable Kurt Wood. Here's an article about the whole shebang.

If you're anywhere at all and are upset by the blatant misuse of our beautiful language then head on over to The P & A Patrol website and get your sticker on. It'll all make sense once you're on the site. All the guys in the patrol do great work so check out their bios at the bottom of the page too.

More to come I do believe.

Maybe they'll send it to you, who knows?

Nice Work by Jonathan Jarvis

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

V-Day? for greeting card companies maybe

Maybe you've participated in the "25 Things" meme on Facebook or maybe you just want to know some random, interesting things about graphic design. 25 Random Things About Graphic Design.

I know it's hard to give a shit about baseball these days and it's really hard to give a shit about juiced millionaires in our current economic times but if you do care about baseball and you happen to detest Bud Selig – these two things go hand in hand in my opinion – then you should read Allen Barra's article about how little power the commissioner really has over "A-Fraud".

"Innovation" is the hot, trendy word in design right now and like sustainability and greenness there's a lot of great stuff going on as well as a lot of empty lip service. Fast Company weighs in: "The 50 Most Innovative Companies".

If you don't know the website Fecal Face then you should. Mike Stilkey's book sculptures are a good place to start too.

I just stumbled upon the full text of this interview with Raymond Pettibon from The Believer.

If you repeat it enough it will become true. Death to print, long live print! Michael Josefowicz's maiden voyage into "how new print technology can help untangle some of the problems facing newspaper companies and the future of journalism." Print is the Next Big Thing.

And last but not least, some pen to paper inspiration... Craig Frazier's sketchbook.

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"One dominating factor in human traffic is egoism," said University of Zoln traffic flow theorist Andreas Schadschneider. "Drivers optimize their own travel time, without taking much care about others. This leads to phantom traffic jams which occur without any obvious reason. Ants, on the other hand, are not egoistic." Taking Traffic Control Lessons from Ants
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On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower on the Austin campus and shot 46 people. Whitman, an engineering student and a former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, was the last person anyone expected to go on a killing spree. After Brown was assigned as the state’s consulting psychiatrist to investigate the incident and later, when he interviewed 26 convicted Texas murderers for a small pilot study, he discovered that most of the killers, including Whitman, shared two things in common: they were from abusive families, and they never played as kids. The Serious Need for Play
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Overall, the concept of using reference images in the context of modern art seems to have eluded Vallen completely in regards to Fairey’s art. When he claims that Shepard strips away historical meaning and context in his artworks, he’s missing the entire point of referencing: By taking precisely the elements of an image that speak of its historical meaning and original context and incorporating them into a new image, an artist creates a visual comparison, juxtaposing new and old. A defense of Shepard Fairey in response to this.

Winterhouse Interview

My interview with Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel is up at the Portfolio Center website.

"New Boss" not so "Same as the Old Boss"