February 2009
16 posts
“The series was the brainchild of Topps consultant and Pulitzer Prize-winning...”
– Wikipedia, talking about the trading card/sticker series “Garbage Pail Kids”. I was a huge fan of those cards when I was a kid in the mid- to late-eighties. I’m currently a huge fan of Maus, having read it for the first time in the last year or so. I had no idea until now that they were created by...
“That WALL-E is for children does not mean it is only for children. It is a...”
– John Gruber sums it up best. Daring Fireball: Best Picture
WatchEven though everybody has probably already seen this, it’s worth linking to here as well. Watch this if you haven’t already! The Crisis of Credit, by Jonathon Jarvis, via @anho
WatchThis is very intriguing. A man (team?) plans and executes a global-scale spelling of “Are You Watching America?” across Manhattan. The journal/teaser that is (hopefully) still developing, along with the long-form version of the video shown above, only adding to the confusion, can be found at http://www.areyouwatching.tv/. via The Inspiration Room
WatchWay creepy video of “When I Grow Up” by Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson’s (from The Knife) new solo project. The other video (linked at the end of this one) is creepy, too. I like dark, eerie music, and this fits the bill very nicely. via @itterog.
“Words do matter.”
– Especially when those words are whiskey and whisky. For Whiskey, Everything in Its Place from the NYTimes.com. via Daring Fireball (again. Some day I should meet the man I keep reblogging.)
“It’s like a deep-tissue massage for your brain”
– I’m going to have to add a few of these to the Netflix roster to remind myself how crazy they are. Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning News, via Daring Fireball
WatchIf you follow my twitter feed @royalbacon then you’ve already seen this. But I just watched it again. SO great. How great this was is directly proportional to how bad the other performances were at this year’s Grammys.
“Fairey did not do anything wrong.”
– Hmmm. I’m not so sure. But still, it feels pretty smarmy for the A.P. to now want a little piece of the pie. NYTimes.com
New site design →
All appears to be in its right place in the new design. It’s worth saying that this site design probably doesn’t look quite right if you’re looking at it on a PC in Internet Explorer. It‘s not that it isn’t readable on a PC — I don’t think there’s anything here that will be broken when viewed on a PC. I just didn’t do any testing on a PC before launching it.
The archive feature seems to be...
New site template coming
Seems like everybody’s doing it. First Peeta and then Swiss Miss. With my back on the fritz today, it was the perfect time for me to start the transition process.
After my last heavily-formatted site, I’m due for something much more simple. I think I’ve got the template where I like it, and I’m going to pull the trigger here in the next half hour.
Cross your fingers.
I love the High Life guy. →
Say what you will about their beer, but Miller High Life has some amazing advertising. Not sure who’s behind it, but it’s great. First there were the Errol Morris directed ads and now their new spokesperson, Windell Middlebrooks totally cracks me up.
“What were the findings? In essence, zilch, nada, zip.”
– Acupuncture: merely a placebo. But so what? Placebo’s have their place in medicine, too. The penultimate paragraph is great: Big Contrarian → Just because it’s old.