February 2012
34 posts
Mika Vainio - Teutons
I really like how...
“I’ve lived my whole life in New York City, so I’ve always been obsessed with why...”
– Kevin Slavin
“In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on...”
Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It
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“I always say [queer] pride is like a lesson unlearned. It is about power sharing...”
– Terre Theamiltz at The Fox Is Black
This part sums it up: “queer pride … [is] a complete contradiction that only shows our capitulation to models of power shitting on us endlessly”. So good. The notion of highly normative, sanctioned queer expression disguised as transgressive...
“She became interested in the curious phenomenon of mirror-touch synaesthesia: a...”
– Brian Dillon
Victoria Wang on the ‘software design philosophy’ she formulated while making her Twitter app, Hibari:
Almost all animations are clutter. Animations provide realism and sometimes entertainment, but for a minimalist app, they serve almost no purpose other than to force your attention to them and momentarily make your eye twitch. Readability suffers greatly when there are little...
“In surrendering the totality of oneself to a professional role, you give up...”
– Clement Greenberg
Hardformat →
Hardformat is one of my favourite blogs, it’s a collection of well-designed album covers and packaging. The crucial feature is the volume of information provided along with each item—it pushes the site from being an image repository into the realms of the informative and documentary.
Top to bottom: Gill Arno + Ben Owen, Designers Republic, Toby Paterson, Irving Penn, Raster Norton
The Society Pages, This Blog is Not a Fungus:
Kurt Anderson contends that the past 20 years have seen a total stagnation in the production of new cultural aesthetics. In other words, the end of the 50s looked nothing like the end of the 70s, but 1989 looks remarkably similar to 2009. Anderson concludes:
We seem to have trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle-economic progress and innovation...
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turns out I came top of new zealand in my english exam! acceptable.
January 2012
42 posts
Belle Isle, 1949 Philip Levine
We stripped in the first warm spring night and ran down into the Detroit River to baptize ourselves in the brine of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles, melted snow. I remember going under hand in hand with a Polish highschool girl I’d never seen before, and the cries our breath made caught at the same time on the cold, and rising through the layers of darkness...
“It is essential that a design is imbued with visual strength and unique presence...”
– Massimo Vignelli
(He has a biblically conceited way of talking but I guess he is Vignelli. Anyway: this is true even if it’s stated rather unequivocally.)
