Archive for June 2005

Seven Taos

In General on 28 June 2005

God, I used to love using arpeggiators (MP3), didn’t I?

CSS: Yes!

In General on 28 June 2005

Whenever I get sick of website development, I roll-up my sleeves and fudge around with Cascading Style Sheets. There’s something satisfying about seeing the layout and content change with each reload of the hacked-up code — “it’s a kind of magic!” That is, until I remember all the cross-browser bugs and incompatibilities which break it [...]

"All Lincoln, all the time"

In General on 23 June 2005

The quarterly magazine I design at work, Lincoln Lore, was named today by the Chicago Tribune as one of the 50 best magazines in the United States (#47, actually). It is listed among such greats as Wired, Time, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly and many more. I have been doing its design [...]

I'm like a bird…

In General on 21 June 2005

I read recently that the effectiveness of a metaphor resides in the gap between what it says (the literal) and what it means (the figurative). I’ve long thought of this as the place where poetry resides — not poems per se, but the poetic element in language and thought.

The Power of Nightmares

In General on 20 June 2005

The Power of Nightmares is an astounding and intelligent BBC documentary on the history of modern American Neoconservatism and radical Islamist Fundamentalism. It traces the progression of these conflicted yet strikingly similar philosophies from their origins to the current ‘War on Terrorism’. I highly recommend all three episodes.

Short Bits

In Reviews on 13 June 2005 tagged Music, recommended

Yes yes, y’all:

Emiliana Torrini – Fisherman’s Woman
Lali Puna – I Thought I Was Over That
Louis XIV – The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Meat Beat Manifesto – At the Center
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Stereolab – Oscillons from the Anti-Sun
Tosca – J.A.C.
Prefuse 73 – Surrounded by Silence

In General on 9 June 2005

Okay, he’s my favorite contemporary directory again. And I’ve only seen the trailer.

In General on 9 June 2005

I have enjoyed playing tennis the last few evenings after work. My job is so sedentary, I forget how much I like physical activity. Plus, there’s nothin’ like some good sweatin’ from cardio activity to counteract the sweatin’ from heat and humidity.

In General on 2 June 2005

I was, like, all ready to enjoy Domino Magazine, but so far the trial issue I received misses the mark for me. I thought it’d be more gender-neutral, design-boutique-oriented, D.I.Y. and thrifty, but it’s way too girly (how to turn an outfit into a room, for example), trendy, glamour-and-status-oriented and expensive. Lucky, Cargo and now [...]

In General on 2 June 2005

This morning, I had to stop to avoid hitting a Canadian goose crossing the road — a common occurrence where two man-made lakes straddle the busy highway on the way to work. I looked in my rear view mirror to make sure any car behind me saw what was going on. A woman in a [...]

In General on 1 June 2005

I have long believed the late 1980s and early 1990s was a magical era in my life — art, cinema, literature and music all seemed promising and new; everywhere I turned there was something to learn about, devour and be consumed by; this city and even the world were at my disposal to explore and [...]