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No Posts Today
(Illustration by Dr.Seuss, found here) Sorry folks, but due to some massive uber storm that’s currently approaching NYC I won’t be able to feed the blog today and most probably tomorrow. I am busy...
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Matte Stephens Selected Works
Through his whimsical gouche paintings, Matte Stephens has created a world filled with friendly characters and warm moments that are flavored with nostalgia. Dapper foxes, chirping birds, pipe smoking...
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Sense and Sensibility
"Sometimes it seems as if her creatures were born merely to give Jane Austen the supreme delight of slicing their heads off." Sense and Sensibility was published ob this date in 1811.
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Never Mind
Did you ever have one of those weeks where you have a bunch of stuff to do and you have no problem starting anything but then after a little while, either because you're unhappy with the progress you...
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Owning Up
"I am going to own up in advance to all the wickedness I have done, and if any congressional committee is disposed to prowl around my biography in the hope of discovering any dark and deadly deed that...
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Cityscape Chicago
Cityscape Chicago by Eric Hines is a spectacular visual love-letter to our fair city. Via Gapers Block.
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Joe Queenan's 6,128 Favorite Books
Joe Queenan's "My 6,128 Favorite Books," an excerpt in the WSJ from his new book about the joys and perils of being a reader, One for the Books.
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Typecast joins Monotype
Last week, my friends at Front celebrated the public beta launch of their excellent Typecast app — a browser-based web-typesetting tool that I’ve been going on about during every event I’ve spoken at...
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Big stars in their early horror roles
Look out behind you, Steve McQueen! A supercut of big stars in their early horror roles. Via Flavorwire
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50 years with Francoise Hardy
Fifty years ago today, French television aired a song by an 18-year-old chanteuse during a break in an election referendum. That was France's first encounter with Francoise Hardy, and it turned her and...
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Hands Across Your Face
If anyone's looking for a theme song for the rebuilding of NYC, the Ramones have it covered. Won't you please lend a hand?
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The Case Against Sending TV Reporters Out in Hurricanes
The Atlantic makes "The Case Against Sending TV Reporters Out in Hurricanes." But to play devil's advocate, how else then would we know that there is rain and powerful wind?
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Vintage Japanese Ads
A fascinating collection of hundreds of vintage Japanese ads. Via WFMU.
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Making Shining
"Hacking down the door with an axe was easy - all Jack had to do was make the wood crack well." Kate Abbott interviews Jan Harlan and Joe Turkel who played Lloyd, on the making of The Shining.
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Staircases to Nowhere
Related to the last, Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining features interviews with crew members. Via The Overlook Hotel, of course.
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Ecstasy of the Angels
Music video of the moment (if the moment is 1972 Tokyo) Kôji Wakamatsu's Tenshi no kôkotsu (Ecstasy of the Angels)
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Gerhard Richter Painting
Watched Gerhard Richter Painting last night. Highly recommended.
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