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September 12, 2014
Mac Conner, Mid-Century Illustrator
Now on exhibit at The Museum of the City of New York: “Mac Conner: A New York Life,” a retrospective of artwork from—sigh—“one of the original ‘Mad Men’.” Conner was a commercial artist working in Manhattan in the 1950s and 60s, doing illustrations for ad agencies as well as magazines. His style was deft, competent,…
September 11, 2014
The Faces on Your Products
Here’s a little bit of poking fun at Apple’s product marketing from Twitter: It’s not just Photoshop-savvy pranksters who notice this stuff; so do highly respected industry analysts. Don’t let this happen to your product. Get high quality photographs of real users with Facebox, my pack of fifty royalty-free stock avatars. As it happens, it’s…
Jason Santa Maria on Jason Santa Maria’s “On Web Typography”
The latest in A Book Apart’s indispensable guides to the art and science of Web design and development is Jason Santa Maria’s “On Web Typography.” It clocks in at less than 150 pages but it nevertheless offers a comprehensive, thoughtful and highly readable primer on how to approach typography in today’s browsers. Jason, an old…
September 10, 2014
Macworld Staff Laid Off
In some ways it’s a triumph that this day didn’t come sooner. Defying tremendous odds by surviving as a thoroughly respectable computer magazine up until now, Macworld Magazine was effectively shuttered today when its longtime publisher, IDG, abruptly laid off virtually its entire staff—just one day after they dutifully covered Apple’s iPhone 6 and Apple…
Olbermann on Rice Scandal
Lest everyone gets so carried away with this watch, I feel that it’s worth turning our attention back to this absolutely horrific Ray Rice scandal. Keith Olbermann offers the most clear-headed, incisive appraisal of the situation. +
September 9, 2014
Apple Watch
Just some quick reactions to Apple’s finally announced wearables product. As first sight, the look of the Apple Watch struck me as boxy and inelegant. Its vaguely space age-y curves seemed like the antithesis of what I personally favor in watch fashion, which is something more conservative. But I was surprised to find that the…
September 8, 2014
Facebox On Sale
My friend Matt and I put Facebox on sale earlier in the year and it was a big hit, so we’re doing it again. Here’s the deal: the full pack is usually US$35, but today only you can get it for US$15. Tomorrow, the price goes up by five dollars to US$20 and stays that…
Slow Motion in a New York Minute
I initially thought this video was just a demonstration reel for Freefly Systems’ camera movement equipment, and was prepared to dismiss it as technological showboating. But as its four-plus minutes of slow-motion footage shot on the streets of New York City rolled by, I came to realize that it was capturing details that I hadn’t…
September 7, 2014
The Adam West Comeback
Here’s something I’ve been eagerly anticipating for years: the home video release of the 1960s “Batman” television series. Long tied up in legal wrangling, all 120 episodes of the show (plus special features) are now, finally due for release this November. This show was my introduction to the character as a kid; I’d hunt the…
September 5, 2014
Drone over Burning Man 2014
There’s almost nothing surprising to the idea that someone at this year’s Burning Man Festival brought along a drone and took plenty of aerial footage of the craziness—it’s the sort of thing we expect nowadays, and it would be more shocking if that hadn’t happened. All the same, this video is beautiful. +
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