— The Millions: Deckle Edge in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Interesting.
— Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives : The man sounds like the most interesting packrat you’ll ever meet. I hope I see him in good health one day.
Subtraction.com: Personal References : Khoi Vinh interviews Armin Vit about his new book, “Graphic Design, Referenced,” which looks fantastic.
My favorite bit of the interview is actually less about the book and more about the problem of authority:
Had this been a Web site, I am certain we would have not made the same effort as we did with a printed book that bears our names on the cover. There is something much more official and authoritative (emphasis mine) in a book that a publisher put in thousands of dollars to produce, market and distribute than in a Web site that, even if took the same amount of dollars (it wouldn’t), would be too “flimsy.”
When everything you see is on a screen, nothing is believable. What is digital can lie easier than anything ever before. There are tremendous social, moral, ethical, and philosophical implications.
A Journey Round My Skull: Thirty Book Covers from Poland : I’m fascinated by things that look foreign to my eyes. Some of these Polish book covers are disturbing, or at least visually off-kilter, but I imagine some of that is partially attributable to my eye not being accustomed to such abstract and discordant illustration. It interests me because it’s a signal that my brain is experiencing something new—I get a weird sensation when I see things like this.
felix - books • melville: moby dick • wiedler.ch - “this 1942 büchergilde edition of the herman melville (1819-1891) classic “moby dick” from 1851 was illustrated by otto tschumi (1904-1985), a bern-based surrealist painter and graphic designer who was a member of the allianz group of swiss modern artists.”
Fellini.
Steak n’ Shake shuffle
There are some movies that are so bad that they feel like a vacuum of everything that’s right in the world, or they’re so lifeless and cliched that...
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Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky taken in Italy and Russia between 1979 and 1984.
that awkward moment when you realise you might not be the coolest dude in the room
