
We liked Coraline for a bevy of reasons, not the least of which was teeny-tiny mixed-media sculpture that deserves it’s own NICHE SPECTACULAR post. But nothing made me as happy as the completely unexpected appearance of a 30 second John Linell song. I once joked that They Might Be Giants’ greatest hits was all the [...]
Settings>EQ>Bass BoostThe only thing I had in mind when I sat own to code a Wordpress template was a little box that’d read off my Last.FM stream. That was it, everything else sort of tucked in around it. The reason we started this blog in the first place was because we are eternally awful at keeping [...]
The Year in (Bad) IdeasI want to punch the New York Times in it’s E-FACE forpublishing one of it’s most shared and most interesting annual pieces in an UNLINKABLE FORMAT. Here’s an idea for 2008: Accessiblity.
Still, it’s no less tremendous: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/magazine/2008_IDEAS.html
I’ve been working on a new post about video games and auteur-ship and spectator/spectacle relationships, but in the meanwhile the Book Design Review crew has their list of favorite book covers from the year 2008. I have to disagree with a handful of these. Some are just goofy or cute in an illustrative sense. And [...]