I was doing research for another post a while back, and found something a bit…unusual. It was an old Japanese scroll about farting. No, you didn’t misread that last sentence. I’d make a crack* about my own historical research being far less interesting, but I did once read Gargantua and Pantagruel, so I’d be lying. […]
Category Archives: Arts
Poetriffiti
I’m no tailor of portmanteaux, sadly, but I love this idea enough to attempt one. (And fail badly.) Scottish artist Robert Montgomery goes about at night illegally plastering over advertisements with posters covered in his poetry. His very pleasing verse is presented in white typography on a black background, screaming out ideas about beauty, consumerism […]
Classic Transit Posters
Salon offers a feature on classic transit posters from Illinois. Some wag with better design skills than I needs to do a modern twist on these for big city subway systems. http://www.salon.com/2012/01/27/posters_that_rival_the_london_underground/singleton/
Lost Type Foundry
This is a great little website for anyone looking for fonts: It’s a pay site with the option for free downloads, but the designers get profits from each sale of their fonts. http://www.losttype.com/browse/
Casey at the Bat
It’s been years since I’d heard or seen the famous Thayer poem, but watching Ken Burns’ Baseball series the other week, I was reminded of it. It’s quite an adorable piece, really. The sneer is gone from Casey’s lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. […]
Dot Dot Dot
These remixed album covers fail more often than they win, but the wins are pretty spectacular.
Nikon Hallowe’en Costume
Some guy made a “fully functional” Nikon camera Hallowe’en costume. Holy crap, this thing is awesome, but for his sake I hope he doesn’t have to go to the bathroom on the 31st – it doesn’t look all that easy to wriggle out of. /practicality http://vimeo.com/31062460 Fully Functional Camera Costume from Tyler Card on Vimeo.
Toronto Nostalgia: The Mad Hatter
This Toronto-based webzine writes about the infamous “Mad Hatter” parties, which were the ultimate birthday party outing when I was a tween. I was never cool enough to be invited to one, but even at the time I was somewhat thankful for that – anarchy and menace has never been my style. I remember listening […]
Rhizome | General Web Content
http://rhizome.org/editorial/3739 CAPTCHArt. While the cartoons are hit and miss, the idea is hilarious in and of itself. I wish I’d thought of it first, but then, CAPTCHAs fill me with so much rage thought isn’t an option…
Can you believe that all of these are paintings? & This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere?
http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/07/can-you-believe-that-all-of-these-are-paintings.html I find it telling that photorealistic painters pick such mundane subjects. I’d rather look at the world through Picasso’s eyes.