In Tribute to the Beatle's White Album 40th anniversary, PopMatters is celebrating the milestone with a five day, song-by-song, side-by-LP side breakdown of what Tony Palmer, in The Observer, summed up at the time of its release by stating: "if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then...[The White Album]...should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making. . . ."
Monday, November 10, 2008
Lost In Glimmering Shadows
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
By the content of his character
""With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."
-MLK
"It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America."
-Barack Obama
""With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."
-MLK
"It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America."
-Barack Obama
Labels: Signs of Our Time, Sixties
Friday, October 31, 2008
Of All Ordinary Human Life
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life it would be like hearing the grass grow and squirrel's heartbeat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
Posted with LifeCast
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
Posted with LifeCast
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
.謀
Started following .謀's photostream on Flickr when he started following me but I have been obsessed with his work ever since with its strange bleached out nostalgia-like feel. Enjoy.
Started following .謀's photostream on Flickr when he started following me but I have been obsessed with his work ever since with its strange bleached out nostalgia-like feel. Enjoy.
Labels: Photography
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Mad Men Ripple
Mark Simonson's critical analysis of Mad Men typography.
Mad Men illustrated by Dyna Moe.
The Mad Men Guide to New York.
I'm being followed by Betty Draper: Mad Men on Twitter.
Real Mad Men at Wired, Business Week, and the New York Post.
Anachronisms.
Imaginary Forces' Mark Gardner and Steve Fuller on the title sequence design and its homage to Saul Bass.
The drinks...
and the Draper's kitchen.
Mark Simonson's critical analysis of Mad Men typography.
Mad Men illustrated by Dyna Moe.
The Mad Men Guide to New York.
I'm being followed by Betty Draper: Mad Men on Twitter.
Real Mad Men at Wired, Business Week, and the New York Post.
Anachronisms.
Imaginary Forces' Mark Gardner and Steve Fuller on the title sequence design and its homage to Saul Bass.
The drinks...
and the Draper's kitchen.
Labels: Sixties, Television
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Field Research: Rockin' Jelly Bean
I would suggest that the following links were NSFW if it weren't for the fact that I've been spending my day at work researching this stuff. Check out the hyper-retro work of Japanese artist Rockin Jelly Bean.
Here, here & here.
I would suggest that the following links were NSFW if it weren't for the fact that I've been spending my day at work researching this stuff. Check out the hyper-retro work of Japanese artist Rockin Jelly Bean.
Here, here & here.
Labels: Field Research, illustration
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Field Research: Hot Rods
I've been working on a project for the past two weeks that has found me immersed in the graphic language of rockabilly, burlesque, punk rock, chopper bikes and hot rod cultures. I can't reveal much more than this at the moment but thought I would share with you two of the more unapologetically cooler websites that have crossed my path in the course of my research, both of them harkening back to a simpler time when a woman's place was on the pinup calendar and men were measured by the muscle under their hoods: 60's & 70's Funny Cars.
(Now if I only knew where my old Hot Wheels collection got to...)
I've been working on a project for the past two weeks that has found me immersed in the graphic language of rockabilly, burlesque, punk rock, chopper bikes and hot rod cultures. I can't reveal much more than this at the moment but thought I would share with you two of the more unapologetically cooler websites that have crossed my path in the course of my research, both of them harkening back to a simpler time when a woman's place was on the pinup calendar and men were measured by the muscle under their hoods: 60's & 70's Funny Cars.
(Now if I only knew where my old Hot Wheels collection got to...)
Labels: Field Research, Photography
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Synecdoche New York
Brilliant poster for the highly anticipated new film by Charlie Kaufman – writing and directing this time around – Synecdoche New York.
David Ehrenstein had this to say about the film:
"This film is a masterpeice. I am in awe. Charlie Kaufman's previous screenplays indicated a very original and eccentric talent. Now directing his own screnplay for the first time he has upped the ante. It's three times the size of all his other films put together and infinitely more complex. Imagine a jam session between Philp K. Dick and Raul Ruiz. I don't know what this film's chances are in an increasingly -- proudly -- stupid world. Not good, I expect. Therefore -- for the happy few."
Brilliant poster for the highly anticipated new film by Charlie Kaufman – writing and directing this time around – Synecdoche New York.
David Ehrenstein had this to say about the film:
"This film is a masterpeice. I am in awe. Charlie Kaufman's previous screenplays indicated a very original and eccentric talent. Now directing his own screnplay for the first time he has upped the ante. It's three times the size of all his other films put together and infinitely more complex. Imagine a jam session between Philp K. Dick and Raul Ruiz. I don't know what this film's chances are in an increasingly -- proudly -- stupid world. Not good, I expect. Therefore -- for the happy few."
Labels: Film
