Thursday, 24 April 2025
quote [ ?This is such a hard city to live in if you?re an artist,? said Lambright, a former artist himself. Pausing a minute, he remembered an old art professor who used to instruct his students to go to SCRAP for their materials, with just $10 in their pocket. His motto was, ?Just give them 10 bucks and send them to SCRAP,? he recalled, laughing. ]
Looks good, sad to see it go, high rents shitty everywhere, culture, donations, funding, etc.
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Wednesday, 16 April 2025
quote [ people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control ? or just for fun ? ]
The Guardian goes Buzzfeed iisticle. Interesting though ? thumb is famous Yves Klein jump.
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Monday, 14 April 2025
quote [ One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy celebrations of domestic life.
[?] Tove Jansson is not the first writer to fall out with her characters. [?] What distinguishes Jansson is that she detested her readers even more than her characters. ] Great accounts on the artist behind these comics. For a more wholesome contemporary experience, there's also a game.
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Saturday, 12 April 2025
quote [ ?Rather than referencing the past, designers are stripping it for parts.? ]
thumb via New Old Stock
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Wednesday, 9 April 2025
quote [ Alfred Kubin wanted to share the terrible things that filled his head with nightmares ]
Ma ho baratri bui come Kubin
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Thursday, 3 April 2025
quote [ this jumper celebrates a variety of digital storage formats ? each one a small but important part of digital history. The design features a USB stick, a 5.25-inch floppy disk, a 3.5-inch floppy disk, and an optical disc. The inspiration for this one came from the Munro pattern by Susan Crawford, which itself is based on an old Shetland vest ]
Yay for floppy sweaters! via Retrocomputing Mastodon
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
quote [ The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app. To subscribe, select the app you use below and follow the instructions. ]
This seemed like an interesting project.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025
quote [ When Max Ernst saw this series of 19th Century wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms in Paris, he rushed to share them with Man Ray ]
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025
quote [ A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of ? and one you probably saw earlier today. ]
Making my life a different style of font
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Monday, 3 March 2025
quote [ Created by microscopic artist David A. Lindon, the record-breaking sculpture measures just 0.00099 by 0.00086 inches and can?t be seen with the human eye ]
Time to build, LEGO
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