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September 23, 2009
We Didn't Have A Penny
Javier Mariscal's exhibition at the Design Museum features notes by him written on the walls. This one resonated with me completely. I wouldn't be anywhere today without the photocopier, after all. Not to mention making black marks on small sheets of white paper.
Twenty years from now, someone's going to be assembling an installation and saying exactly the same thing about web pages.
September 22, 2009
Night Music: Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
The new collaborative project by Broadcast and The Focus Group.
COILHOUSE Indie Ad Offer Extended
COILHOUSE are extending their deadline for their Small Business Ads section to September 30.
Which means you can advertise your stuff in my favourite magazine for as little as 99 US dollars.
Links for 2009-09-21
"The program for airport terminals is becoming so demanding and complex that we are experiencing a phenomenon of a select few architectural firms designing nearly all of the new terminals around the world. It is hard to come by a more clear and striking image of globalisation than seeing airports in Philadelphia, Abu Dhabi, and Tianjin all designed by the same company"
(tags:design architecture culture monoculture )Muslims mass-producing children to take over Africa, says...
Unaired PlayStation Ad
I wonder why I never saw this before. Just turned it up on the end of a chain of search links. An unaired ad for Playstation. Apparently it was very expensive. Pulled for fairly obvious reasons. The music is an Alphaville song, "Forever Young," remixed by V/Vm. Interesting. Must find out more about it sometime.
DO ANYTHING 017
A thousand words sketching connections between two dozen people, and half a dozen different terms for "comic," and probably only this bit makes sense:
(1976 soundtrack: "Anarchy In The UK"; "The Boys Are Back In Town"; "Oxygene": Bowie's STATION TO STATION. Joy Division have formed. Black Flag have formed. Throbbing Gristle have formed. Brian Eno's all over the place, recording, producing, collaborating. Eno on his art education in Ipswich, sixty miles northeast of me: "Everybody thought...
September 21, 2009
MagCloud Magazines
I would like to spend more money buying magazines at MagCloud, but, even with previews, I often feel like I'm buying blind. If you're publishing a magazine at MagCloud (like my friend Kat Foisy and her CONSTELLATION), maybe you could mention it in the comments?
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