December 2010
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“We believe truth can be broken down with the following formula: Truth = Love x...”
– Janelle Monae, a proper old-fashioned bonkers popstar.
Dec 19th
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An open letter to Tom Gauld and Duncan Jones
Tom, Duncan, I don’t know if you’re aware of each other’s work, but an insistent voice in the back of my head keeps telling me that it imperative that you collaborate on a small but perfectly formed Moon comic. Duncan, you already have the story and the tone and the look sorted out. You can pretty much get on with editing Source Code, or whatever it is you’re up to at...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Things
It’s a world of black rectangles / “Magazines don’t deliver ads that pop up out of nowhere … you can’t play games on them”  – yes they do and yes you can / Introducing play DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing LP live / “If you talked to people the way advertising talked to people, they’d punch you in the face” / How iTunes beat out file sharing: “It turns out that there is...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Having an end makes things better. Movies end. Symphonies have a final note....”
– Frank Chimero
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“It dawned on me in the nineties, that cities are a lot like magazines. They...”
– Paula Scher, Make It Bigger
Dec 13th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration,...”
– J. G. Ballard interviewed by Heavy Metal, 1971.
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Ruscha vs Kerouac
One to add to the unfeasible wishlist methinks: the Ed Ruscha-illustrated edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, published and exhibited by the Gagosian Gallery last year. Yours for a mere £6,250.
Dec 2nd
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“I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then...”
– Ed Ruscha, lecture at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 17 July 1998.
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“I want to be the Henry Ford of book making … It is almost worth the money to...”
– Ed Ruscha interviewed by Allan Porter in Camera no. 6, June 1972.
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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On printing and the nature of evil
With Apple’s new iOS 4.2 (which, if their was any poetry in the world, should be called Tabby or Manx or something to mirror their big cat-named OSX) they’ve introduced a little thing called AirPrint, which means you can wirelessly print straight from your iPhone or iPad. Sounds good, simple. Except that the printer at the other end of that process is quite probably EVIL. I’m...
Dec 2nd
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An unfeasible wishlist
Holidays are coming, and I understand some of you are having difficulty picking out a gift for me, so here are a few suggestions: Olivetti Valentine portable typewriter (grey) / Vitsoe 606 Universal Shelving System / Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman / Penguin Donkey II / Colin Firth’s spectacles from A Single Man / Best Made Company Axe and Axe Sling / Braun SK6 turntable /...
Dec 1st
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