Category Archives: art & design

Micah Hahn, on Typography

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.

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‘Work No. 16 (2011): Stories’, Season 1

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Part of the art collaborative Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, the ‘Stories’ project is an ongoing series of true short stories, told on camera by fascinating people around the world. You can watch all of Season 1 here on the Vimeo … Continue reading →

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LA

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

And now for something even more awesome: ‘Los Angeles: A Love Poem‘, by Dylan King (featuring a poem by Sandra Beasley)

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Hey Pachuco!

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

Zoot-suiters in Los Angeles, and the girls who loved them. Sources: a. http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL272/8157143/15269508/231094190.jpg b. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/356743212 c. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HCcB7IDJQ6Q/0.jpg

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‘Tree of Codes’ by Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Visual Editions, started in 2009 in London,  publishes books that are very aware of their materiality. As they put it “books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell”. On Nov 15th they will publish their second book, … Continue reading →

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Pete Dougherty is a more coherent e.e. cummings

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Here’s a section of a poem Pete Dougherty wrote when he was 17: “I knew she wasn’t English, Because she spoke it far too well. The grammar was goodly, the verbs as they should be, And the slang was bang … Continue reading →

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Cacophony Society

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Stemming from San Francisco’s now-defunct ‘Suicide Club‘, The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.” They claim … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bottle

Posted on October 8, 2010 by

Made for Diptyque for a limited edition concentrated version of L’Ombre Dans L’eau and Philosykos, these are made out of  Saint Louis Crystal (whatever the hell that is), and will be  packaged in a black laquer box. These new bottles are … Continue reading →

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I Love Alaska

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

‘I Love Alaska’ — by Dutch directors Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts – is 13 short episodes chronicling the life of AOL user #71139 through her search queries, which were inadvertently released on the internet when AOL mistakenly published the private … Continue reading →

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Film: Circulo Uno

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Circulo Uno (or Circle One) Written/directed by César Pesquera. Looks amazing. Check out preview here. (This comes to me, like many things, thanks to AutumnSeventy.)

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